AN: Hi. This is a new story I'm writing, hope you like it. It's a little confusing to understand everyone's age, and what grade they're going to, there might be some mistakes with the timing or whatever. Bu don't take any notice of that. Right now Ace and his gang and Georgie are in the last grade of high scool. And Chris and his gang are, well, let them be a year younger than Ace and his gang. And it's the 60's!!! Hope you like it.

When's it Gonna End

"I'm ready. I'm ready," I thought to myself. "I can do this," I thought as I closed my eyes and kissed the boy who was eagerly waiting for his goodbye kiss. My lips touched his, alright. But not for long. I quickly opened my eyes and moved away from him. Without saying anything I turned back, and got into my house. He just stood there, not knowing what had just happened.

We never spoke again...

The extract above is what has been happening to me for the last year and a half. Everytime I think I'm ready, turns out I'm not. Let me explain why this has been happening.

We started out as friends. We were friends since the second grade, when I first moved here. I was a year younger than them, but I was moved up a grade because I was smart. We went to the same school, we always hung out together; but, we were only friends. I had absolutely no intention of becoming his girlfriend. It happened in the eighth grade. I switched schools and went to a private school, because my parents were rich. He still went to his old school. But we always hung out after school at the local diner. We sat on a table all together; me, him, Richie, Billy and Charlie. Those few hours everyday, after school were some of the best times I'd had in my life. They were stupid, but they were the funniest kids I'd ever met. And I like funny. But he was also smart. You could tell just by the way he spoke. When he was with his friends he acted stupid, because his friends were stupid. But around me, he was smart and funny. I love those two combinations. But at that time, like I told you, he was just my friend.

One day, we were sitting at the diner. It was a normal day. We were talking about music, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and mainly Marilyn Monroe. The guys said she was a dumb blonde. But she was my favourite singer and actress. So I always got mad at them for making fun of her stupidity. Here's the conversation that took place. The conversation that changed my whole life.

"Come on, she always acts as dumb blondes!" Charlie said, leaning back in his seat.

"I suppose you've only seen one movie from her. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." And her character was not dumb in that movie. She only acted dumb. At the end she explains her actions in a perfectly smart way. Go watch more films and then come back."

"No, I saw "Some Like it Hot" the other day," Charlie protested. "She was totally dumb in that one."

"Well, yeah, but that was totally the way her character was supposed to be. She's acting, for god's sake!"

"Shut up Charlie. The girl is right." Ace said and smiled at me. I laughed.

"Hey, Georgie?" Ace asked.

"Hmm?" I replied as I was drinking my milkshake.

"You know that song Marilyn Monroe sang in 'Ladies of the Chorus'? The famous one."

" 'Anyone Can See I Love You?' " I asked looking at him.

"Yeah," he just said, looking at me. I went back to drinking my milkshake.

"And the song she sings in 'Some Like it Hot.' The famous one."

"Um, 'I Wanna Be Loved By You'? I said.

"Yeah," he said, never taking his eyes off me. I went back to drinking my milkshake.

"You know the song Nat King Cole sang once. It goes something like: 'I spread my wings and then I'll fly, all around the city, the world's my sweet potato pie...."

"Uh, yeah, 'Crazy, But I'm in Love'. " I said looking up at him, confused.

"Yeah, that's it," he said, looking out of the window.

I looked at Charlie, Billy, and Richie and gave them a confused look. We all laughed. Then Ace turned to me suddenly.

"Will you go out with me?" he said, looking at me straight in the face. I laughed out loud.

"Yeah right, sure I will," I said still laughing.

"Georgina, I'm serious. Go out with me." I stopped laughing for a second, but then I laughed again.

"Okay, Ace," I said laughing. Billy, Charlie and Richie all laughed as well.

"Georgie, I love you," he said. Then we all stopped laughing. "Will you go out with me?" he asked again.

"Sure Ace," I said seriously. "I'll go out with you."

"I now pronounce you, officially dating," Richie said. Everyone laughed. I laughed a nervous laugh. And Ace, well, he didn't laugh at all.

That day, I went home and I thought about what happened. It'll only last a week, I thought. Ace changes girlfriends every week, I thought. Boy, was I wrong. It lasted almost 2 years. I was so in love with him. When we first started, I still thought of him as a friend. But in a month, I loved Ace more than anyone could ever imagine. But we had problems. He was a guy, and he wanted what any guy wanted from a girl. But I always had an excuse. Sure, we made love, but we didn't go any further than that. And Ace hated it, I could tell. But I knew he still loved me. I just knew. After a year or so, Ace started to cheat on me, with other girls from his school. I knew, because I had a friend in his school and she told me everything about it. And the ironic thing is that, a month later, she also had a thing with him. So I decided to do something about it.

When I first found out of his cheatings, I was furious. That little bastard, I thought. So, I went up to him and said:

"Look Ace, it's ok. I don't wanna break up with you over a little thing. I love you." And Ace always came back to me. This happened for three times. He cheated on me, and I always forgave him. But I didn't care. I just wanted Ace to be with me, so I didn't dump him. Because I knew he didn't really love those girls he fucked. He just needed a body. He really loved me.

But, one day, everything changed. Jess. Ace fell in love with Jess. Jess fell in love with Ace. I was in love with Ace. But now, I wasn't sure if Ace still loved me. Ace and Jess were sitting in the diner, talking. I came along and just sat with them. I looked at Ace, and he looked at me. Jess looked confused.

"I love you," I said to Ace.

"I'm with Jess now," Ace said.

"No, no. You love me too. Jess is just some girl who's gonna break up with you in a week. But I'll always love you Ace. Please," I pleaded.

"Who's she?" Jess asked Ace.

"You don't love him!" I screamed at her.

"Yeah I do. You don't know what you're talking about," she said and rolled her eyes.

"I love him more than you!" I screamed. I was acting like a baby that day. I don't know what came over me. But I was very much in love. So that explains it.

"Ace, choose between us. Is it me or her?" I asked.

He thought for a second and then answered. "I choose Jess."

My mouth dropped wide open, and I started to cry. All the kids in the diner were looking over at our table. I got up and tried walking to the door as proudly as I could. But I couldn't. It was only a couple of steps away from the door. If only I kept walking proudly, I could have saved my reputation of being a rich proud bitch, but I couldn't keep walking so I ran. I ran out of there sobbing. It was over.

Or, at least I thought it was.

A week later, Ace came back to me. And, naturally, I just opened my arms fo him. I was so happy he was back. I never wanted him to go again. So, we did it. We had sex. It was my first time, and it was good. But we didn't do it again. It was just this once, so he wouldn't leave me.

A month later, the girl I told you about before, my friend from Ace's school, Sarah, who always told me what Ace was up to, well, Ace fell in love with her. I was furious. She was my friend! And I was furious with Ace as well! But I still didn't want him to go.

But my friend, Sarah, did something unbelievable. She told Ace that she couldn't be with him. Because of me. She couldn't do this to me. I was very happy. But apparently, Ace wasn't. One day, he came up to me and screamed "I hate you, you stupid bitch!" in my face and turned around, and went away laughing with his friends. Charlie, Richie and Billy were there too, and they followed Ace and just looked at me and shrugged. I was shocked. But I didn't do anything about it.

One day, I saw Sarah and Ace together. I watched them and I saw something. I saw Ace really happy. He really loved Sarah. It was hard for me, but at the end, I let him go. Or, he let me go. I don't know. Here's what happened:

"Ace, I love you," I said.

"Get the hell out of my life Georgie!" Ace screamed.

"Please, don't do this," I pleaded. I hugged him. He pushed me away.

"I love Sarah! Not you! I love Sarah!" he said. I started crying. "Go back to your worthless life without me, you stupid bitch!" he screamed and walked away.

This time, it was over. For real. But a week later, I heard that Sarah dumped Ace. And Ace had nobody. I thought of talking to him, and I did, but on the phone.

"It's Georgie," I said when he answered the phone.

"Georgie? Uh, what's up?" he said awkwardly.

"Nothing. How are you?" I asked him.

"Fine," he said. Both of us just paused for 5 seconds. Then he said: "I'm not going out with you again Georgie." I was surprised at this remark. This wasn't the reason why I called him, but still, it broke my heart.

"Ok," I managed to say.

"Do you want to remain friends?" he asked.

"Yes!" I said a little too excited. Then I thought about it. And I said: "No!"

"Why the sudden change of heart?" he laughed. Oh, I loved him so much. But I just couldn't see him as a normal friend again. I loved him.

"I have to go," I said and hang up.

That was the last time we spoke. Ever. I still saw him around. And it broke my heart not speaking to him. Not being next to him. I still loved him.

It'd been a year and a half since our last telephone conversation, and as you can see from the first paragraph, I wasn't over Ace. Yet.

AN: Review if ya want to. Tell me what you think.