Karma was the most popular girl in school; she had everything, a loving family, and supportive best friend. She was living every girl's dream but she always felt like something was missing, as if nothing would ever fill this void, she carried around in her heart.
"What are you thinking about?" Shane asked, as he and Karma at lunch at school that day.
"Oh nothing, I'm blank." Karma said.
"Come on, there's something." Shane said.
"I was just thinking about how.. how I should be the happiest person in school, but I'm not." Karma said, shocked by how honest she was suddenly being.
"Why aren't you?" Shane asked.
"Because something's missing." Karma said.
"What do you mean?" Shane asked.
"I don't know what I mean, maybe I'm just.." Karma said.
A small blonde walking up to their table interrupted their conversation.
"Hey guys!" Lauren said.
Shane and Karma had no idea who the girl was.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" Lauren asked.
Both Shane and Karma exchanged confused looks but didn't say anything.
Lauren really wanted to sit with them but looking at their disinterested faces, she decided to go back to her usual table.
Amy and Liam shook their heads as Lauren walked toward their table. Amy and Lauren were sisters and had been best friends with Liam, since they were in kindergarten.
"Oh stop you guys." Lauren said, taking a seat at the table.
"What were you thinking?" Liam asked, still shaking his head.
"I was thinking, this was my chance to get an in with the cool kids." Lauren said.
Liam and Amy gave Lauren disapproving looks.
"Oh come on! Liam, you want the same thing, but you're too chicken to do anything about it and Amy is too busy being in love with Karma." Lauren said.
"Wait a second, who said I'm in love with Karma?" Amy asked, defensively.
"No one needs to say it, it's the most obvious thing in the whole world." Lauren asked.
"No its not! Is it?" Amy asked, a little embarrassed.
"Oh come, all you do is stare at her but you're too scared to even talk to her." Lauren said.
"That's because she doesn't know I exist." Amy said.
"I was trying to change that." Lauren said.
"Well, you did a really great job of it." Amy said, sarcastically.
Amy had been in love with Karma for as long as she could remember. They'd been in the same school since kindergarten and while it seemed like all Amy could see was Karma, Karma never saw Amy at all.
Amy realized she was gay in her sophomore year of high school and while coming out to her parents had been the hardest thing she'd ever had to do, Liam and Lauren had been unconditionally supportive. That was part of the reason why, Amy didn't care about popularity the way Lauren and Liam did.
She felt like she had everything she need, well almost everything. The only thing keeping her life, from becoming perfect was Karma; she'd always been the missing piece.
Karma had been one of the first out and proud students of Hester High and that was part of the reason why she was so popular. It was when she'd first come out to her friends that she befriended Shane, he'd always wanted another friend who'd experienced what it was like to be true to yourself, no matter what people or society said.
Amy'd tried to talk to Karma on numerous occasions but it was as if every time they came face to face, Amy was left tongue-tied. Her feelings were reaching a culmination point and she didn't think she'd be able to hold them in any longer but she was sure, there was no way she was ready to confess her love to Karma.
"You could pass her a note in class." Liam said.
"And say what, when she asked me who the hell I am?" Amy asked.
"You can tell her you've been in love with her since like the fourth grade and that you know everything about her but not in a stalkerish way." Liam said.
"Yeah because why wouldn't she want to date a complete stranger, who knows everything about her but not in a stalkerish way." Amy said.
"Why don't you text her?" Liam asked.
Amy shot Liam a look. But that was when it struck her, she wasn't ready to tell Karma face to face but she also wasn't ready to keep these feelings bottled up. She could do both those things by texting Karma.. Anonymously.
"That's not a bad idea." Amy said.
"Really?" Liam and Lauren asked at the same time.
"I could text her anonymously." Amy said.
"What?" Lauren asked.
"Look, she has no idea who I am and I could text her but just not tell her who I am. Maybe that way, I can make her fall in love with me." Amy said.
"That is the dumbest idea, I have ever heard." Lauren said.
"Why?" Amy asked.
"Because, you'd have a better chance of her falling in love with you, if she actually knew who you were." Lauren said.
"Lauren, she has no idea I exist, I don't even think she knows I'm in her classes. And plus, do you really think, I'm the only girl at Hester High, whose in love with her? She gets asked out, like five times a day." Amy said.
"You're not every girl who asks her out, you're you." Lauren said.
"That's really not enough." Amy said.
"Amy.." Lauren began.
"Look, I have been in love with this girl for as long as I can remember and this feels like the only way, she would ever feel the same way about me." Amy said.
"Fine, if you're so sure about this, then you should do it." Liam said.
"Lauren?" Amy asked.
"If you've made up you're mind, then what can I say?" Lauren said.
Amy smiled.
"Okay, give me her number." Amy asked Lauren.
"What do I say?" Amy asked, staring at the blank text.
"Why don't you start with a hi?" Liam said.
"Good idea." Amy said.
Amy typed the text with a smile on her face.
Karma was sitting in bed, watching TV, when her phone buzzed. It was a text from an unknown number.
"Hey beautiful." The text read.