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At the ripe age of fourteen, the summer after eighth grade, I fell madly in love. And not just luv, or lust, but true love, the kind of love that you read about in books or possibly a Shakespearian play and never ever forget. It was around the time that the boys at school started to call me a slut. I wasn't one, but it was the way they reasoned things. I no longer wanted to date guys at my school, and when a beautiful girl is single, males will always think that there is something wrong with her. I think this is why I fell so hard for Sean. He didn't try to pigeon hole me. He was in the same year as me, but at Stoneybrook Community High, which is kind of a rough school but he was polite and spoke properly, unlike so many other people at his school. SCH was renowned for its drugs and promiscuous girls, but he wasn't into all that. He was into me.

We first met through one of Mom's friend's sons, Chris. He and Sean were best friends, Chris had once gone to SCH but him and his older sister, Katie was moved to SDS. Chris and I were good friends, mainly because we had one thing in common: Claudia. He absolutely idolised her, she was everything he had ever wanted in a girl, but she barely even noticed him. All she saw was the short and puppy fat exterior, not the great person that I had come to know and love. So I would listen to him as he bitched about her and how badly she treated him, while he would listen to my own problems with Claudia.

A little while before this, Claudia and I let the unthinkable happen; we let a boy get between us. The problem was, Claudia felt that I had stolen him from her. I went out with him, but after a while we realised it wasn't going to work and he ended up with Claudia anyway, but ever since then, we weren't as close. Not even near. I think it's because neither of us trusted each other back then. Never the less, we hung out with each other, mostly at my house, because we were the only ones in our group with the same sort of interests. Those mainly being boys.

Claudia was to meet Sean before me, Chris had invited her to swim in his pool one hot summer day and Sean was over. The minute Claudia met Sean, she became very shy, not the normal exhibitionist who wears dots with stripes or patterns with floral. In fact, she even had to borrow one of Katie's shirts to wear over the top of her bikini. Claudia never told me about Sean. I don't blame her. He was gorgeous. Dark, shaggy hair and naturally darkly tanned skin with stunning green eyes. His body was strong and muscled and his face was not unlike the Ralph Lauren Polo model. I wouldn't have told anyone either, especially since she felt that they had a connection. Of course, she only told me this afterwards. After everything went down.

I still remember the exact day that I met him. I was sitting at a bus stop, waiting for Chris to turn up, we were off to see a movie, when Sean came and sat next to me. He smiled at me, revealing perfect white teeth, and I smiled back.

He was the first to speak.

"Hello." He said, in a deep voice, reminiscent to a sex god.

"Hey." I replied shyly.

We sat like that for a few more minutes in a lingering silence before I gathered the nerve to say, "Do I know you?"

He laughed, "Nope."

I frowned thoughtfully, "Do you know me?"

He smiled shyly, "Kind of."

I nodded, "Oh."

That's when Chris appeared. He later told me that he had shown Sean a photo of me and he was apparently desperate to meet me, so Chris had brought him along and let him go introduce Sean introduce himself to me. I don't think it was a set up kind of thing, more about Chris teasing me because I was blonde, a not uncommon topic of conversation for him.

Sean was amazingly shy to begin with, considering how attractive he was. I always wondered how he had gathered the courage to come sit with me that day. The three of us headed off to the movies where Chris told Sean how Claudia and I were best friends. It was funny how we had begun calling each other best friends again. We really did like each others company, and had missed each other terribly when we were fighting, but we didn't have the same relationship. I think it was the comfort of being able to say we had a best friend.

You see, the funny thing was I, Stacey McGill, have never been the shy type, when I like someone, I'm not coy about it, I'm open, I let them know. Hell, I even let my maths teacher know when I liked him. It's safe to say, it didn't work it though. With Sean it was different; I felt that kind of comfort you can only feel with someone you've known for a very long time. I didn't have to be the flirtatious Stacey. Sure we flirted a lot, but not with that promiscuous, sexual innuendo. That's not to say it wasn't there. Every time I touched him, it felt like my whole body was on fire.

Chris paid for my movie ticket, which was kind of a tradition of ours, so I never actually had to bring money when I knew we were going to the cinema. Chris asked if I wanted popcorn and went of to pay for that, after I had reminded him that I couldn't have butter on it, which left Sean and I alone together.

"My girlfriend doesn't get butter either, she's on one of those diet things." He told me.

My heart sank. Girlfriend. I don't know why I assumed he would be single.

"Oh, I…" I stumbled over my words, trying to think of something to say.

He looked questioningly at me.

"I'm diabetic." I'm not sure why I told him. I think it could be because even though he was seeing someone, I still wanted to spend time with him.

"Really? So is my Dad." He told me. I was stunned; most people make a big fuss over my diabetes and treat me differently, but he already knew all about it. I was convinced then and there, girlfriend or not, we were made for each other.

Finally Chris returned and we searched for our seats. We didn't talk for the whole movie, even though I was sitting between the two of them, though Sean did let me hide my face in his shoulder when this girl in the movie started to barf. I hate seeing people throw up, it makes me feel like I'm going too myself.

Once the movie was over, Chris's Mom picked us up. Unfortunately they dropped me off first. I was worried that maybe I wouldn't see Sean again. Though that night, all my fears were put aside when I turned on my computer to check my email. And instant message popped up.

seano says:

hello blondie

I almost shivered with excitement. I didn't reply for another minute, not wanting him to think I was too eager, even though there were only a couple of other people online that I was talking to.

stace says:

oh hey sean

I mentally abused myself over that for a while, believing that I could have said something cooler, until I realised, what else do you say as a greeting?

seano says:

it was great meeting u 2day

stace says:

yer u 2

seano says:

it's so funny i hardly even no anything about you

stace says:

well all u hav 2 do is ask

seano says:

do u hav a bf

I paused before typing. Should I say yes or no? I decided on no, because if I said yes, Chris might tell him that I didn't really and then Sean would think I was desperate or something like that.

stace says:

nah not at the moment

seano says:

that really surprises me

stace says:

how cum

seano says:

cuz ur really pretty

I couldn't believe he'd said that. Guys didn't usually say pretty, they said 'hot' or 'sexy'. Pretty was different.

stace says:

aww thanks, but nah im not really

seano says:

hah! watever ur gorjus!

stace says:

ok then, i g2g, moms just made dinner

seano says:

ok, ill catchya later

stace says:

bibi

I switched off the computer lent back in my chair and almost laughed out loud. So what if he had a girlfriend, we could still be friends, he was fun to talk to and he thought I was pretty! Besides, he couldn't be with her forever.

A/N: Don't worry! This isn't going to be just about Stacey's love life, though that's the main theme, but it's going to get better each chapter. I hope…