Okay I just read C*H*A*R*M1's story so now im kinda makin one! So um, review please! HEY as a note, the new Dashboard Confessional CD comes out in 1 day, the 12th! (There u go, Emily lol)
Chapter 1, The day we met
Finally. Alone, I thought. All the guys had left me in the tent. They went to go have dinner. I said I wasn't hungry. Truth was, I was thinking about her. I couldn't stop.
See, this girl back home. Her name was Kelsey. She didn't know it, but I had loved her since the day we met, back in 5th grade. I fell in love with everything about her that day in September. He personality, her laugh, the way she called me Ricky, with that tone like she could care less about a guy like me. But especially her eyes. Yeah, her eyes. They seemed so endless. They were captivating. It felt like when I looked into their dark ocean blue depths I was spiraling down a deep hole, and my heart melted.
I closed my eyes. If I thought hard enough, I could almost see her. I could almost replay that sacred day in my head…
September 5th Grade.
I was walking in to school on the first day of 5th grade with my buddy Jerry. We were coming up the driveway when he spotted this guy Mark, so he went over to meet him, but I stayed. I was looking at this girl. She was standing around the cement steps with a few other girls. She had long black hair and blue eyes and thin rimmed rectangular wire glasses. She was wearing a pink sundress that sort of swished when the wind blew. She seemed popular, the way the girls were hanging on her every word, the way some other boys punched each other when they walked by her and her group.
I'll never forget it. I started walking up the steps when she looked over at me. The other girls turned around to look at what she was staring at. I gave a small, nervous smile as she looked my way. She sat down on the rail, holding a pile of books. She smirked a bit. Then I heard a few giggles and someone say "Eiw, who's that kid looking at you Kelsey?" My temper flared as I clenched my fists. My face reddened and I started walking up more, leaving the laughing girls behind me. I was kind of paranoid that they were gonna say bad things about me when I got inside. I didn't know that the girl with those eyes raised her head to look at me as I walked away.
I was startled all of a sudden when the warning bell rang. Jerry ran over to me and said he'd save me a seat in class. I nodded and moved aside as the girl's friends rushed past me. I looked back to see the girl chasing after a book that had fallen down the steps. All of her papers were flying around in the breeze. She screeched and ran after them. We were the only ones out in the courtyard now. Everyone had herded inside like cattle, not wanting to be late on the first day of school.
I laughed a bit then set my backpack down by the railing. She looked so helpless, running around, catching flying paper. I ran down the steps.
"Hey!" I called out to her. Then I got closer to where she was kneeling at the bottom step. She was clutching her knees.
I sat down, catching a piece of paper as it flew by her head. "Um, here, I've got you're book." I held out a pink notebook I picked up off the ground, blushing slightly as she looked into my eyes and sniffled. She was so pretty.
"Thanks," she whispered. She had a slight lisp on her s, and had a high milky smooth voice. I noticed a small tear tracing her cheekbone. I tried to wipe it away but she turned from me.
I sighed. There were two battles going on inside me. One saying I was 10 and girls had icky cooties, the other fighting me to admit I liked her, even though I had never seen her before. "What's the matter?" I said, standing up. She stood up, too.
"Im gonna be late to class and I lost a few folders when that wind blew. Now I wont be prepared and ill get a slash in the attendance book and," her voice warbled on. "And my father will be so angry." She finished. She grabbed her backpack and burst through the glass doors.
"Wait!" I yelled. She turned around, avoiding my eyes. "Im uh, Im Ricky."
I looked at her. She looked down at her watch. "I've got to get to class," she said. I nodded. "My name is Kelsey. Kelsey Millen." I watched her turn and run down the hall. She slipped in a door right before the bell rang.
I couldn't understand what I felt that day. IT felt like I was blushing. My heart was warm, and I felt like screaming. I didn't understand it that day, but I did in a few years.
Now, at Camp Green Lake
I lie awake,
It's a quarter past 3.
Im screaming inside
Like I thought you'd here me
Now my heart is calling you
And nobody knows it but me.
I sighed. I was only 10. Most boys thought love was icky back then. But I knew. I had fallen for Kelsey.
I jumped a little as I heard the tent flap shut. I saw Caveman coming in. "Hey, ZigZag," he said. He sat on his cot, taking off his shoes. I silently groaned. I really didn't feel like talking. I didn't want to loose that picture of Kelsey I had formed in my mind.
I opened my eyes. "Hey man. Dinner over? Where are the other guys?" I asked.
He lay back on his cot. "Oh, yeah. They went to go watch the pool tournament."
"Oh really?" I faked interest. "Who's playin tonight?"
"Lump and Porky. From C-Tent."
"Cool," I muttered, lying back also. I closed my eyes, trying to picture Kelsey Millen one more time before I slipped into a dreamless sleep, thinking about how it used to be before I came here.
The nights are lonelyThe days are so sad
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And im missing you
And nobody knows it but
Me.
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