Cherry Slushie
It started after the heartbreak with Thorn, I would sneak peeks of Thorn at lunch and ask "whos that kid next to him?" I asked Thorn , he said that it was his best friend cherry.
Now, ive gotten my heartbroken a lot of times, so i wasn't that surprised after Thorn broke it. And of course i would find somebody new to like, I always did, they would just break it again. so i thought "ok, cherry, i might just like you, and you'll end up just breaking my heart". So today in social studies, cherry got up to present a project, for the first time his face made me happy, so i smiled, which just made thorn who was sitting next to me (we were now friends) say "oh, somebody has a crush" i told him to shut up. he knows who i might like, wow. now i attempt to look for cherry's face in the hallways. it might just be a waste of time.
when i got home from school, i looked in the bathroom mirrior, yup, same freckles, same amber eyes, same short and curly black hair. i frowned, "who could like that", "maybe cherry" was the response my mind gave me, i didn't like it, so i pushed it to the back of my mind. i got to the piano and played my favorite song wind flame, a famous singer/songwriter.i sang to, i liked to sing, i just didn't know if i was good or not. i flopped onto my bed, again, thinking of Thorn. I keep telling myself i'll probably never be completley over him, it was probably true, his brown eyes and hair, and his overall personality was just like me, maybe thats why i thought it would ever happen between us. My friend Carrot had told me that me and Thorn would be perfect together, and i actually belived him! now i think more carefully about everything anybody says to make sure it can actually happen before i believe it. Ive always been careful about who i let in, only a lucky few have ever been actually let in. my best friend Leaf, Carrot, and Thorn.
My thoughts float to Cherry, his light brown hair and brown eyes, and that goes along with a person who has a great personality. a minor setback is that he's best friends with Thorn, it would just be awkard. so now i listen to music, and attempt to sort out my feelings and weigh me and Cherrys chances. soon i go to bed. i woke up around 3, "woah, that was a weird dream" i thought. it had me,Cherry and Thorn in it. me and cherry had been together a few days, we were sitting together at lunch when Thorn had come up and told cherry that i still loved him and that i was using him to make Thorn jealous. when i told cherry that i loved him and that it wasn't true he didn't believe me, and he ended up, just breaking my heart, wierd. i look at that clock, "great, 2 hours till i have to get up", i soon fall back asleep.
I woke up to a radio, ughh, school. when my bus got to school, i went in for breakfast, well, to talk with my friends when i was supposed to buy breakfast. but today, the principal was making sure everysingle person who came in bought breakfast. Carrot got past and got to hang out with his friends. i had to stand in line with a 7th grader and pretend that i was their friend buying breakfast with him. so long to that plan. ha, i havent seen cherry yet today, "wait why, would i care if ive seen cherry yet, weird"today in 4th hour, i smiled and waved at cherry, and i got a confused look back. hey at least i tried. today at lunch they had cherry slushies, and of course cherry had to get one, i laughed out loud, and some people looked at me strange. "great" i thought "people think im crazy". as i was sitting there, thorn came and sat next to me, "oh god, this cant be good", and he started talking.
thorn: ice
me:yeah thorn
thorn:have you noticed, my friend cherry?
me:yeah, i know cherry, why?
thorn:well, he kinda likes you.
me:wow, uhhh, ok
thorn:well!
me:what?
thorn:do u like him to?
me: i guess, sure.
thorn:well im gona go now, bye.
me:bye
well, i guess what he had to say was good. but i wasn't sure if he was serious or not, comon someone liking me?, thats hard to believe. as i was walking out of the school, someone tapped me on the shoulder, it was cherry and he looked nervous.
cherry:hey ice, can i ask you something
me:sure what is it?
cherry:would you mind going out with me.
me: no, yes that sounds great
cherry: ok
We stood there in awkard silence, until he hugged me and said he had to go, so we said goodbyes and went to our buses.
I walked onto the bus in half shock, "had that really just happend, i guess it was, it seemed real enough". guess im taken now. when i told everybody the next day, leaf freaked, carrot didnt care, and blue was jealous that she didnt have a bf yet, and night just laughed. well, my amazing life was cut short on wednesday, at lunch. me and cherry were sitting together at a table when suddenly thorn said something that shocked :hey, ice i know what game your playing.
me: i dont know what your talking about?
"oh god, its happening" i tought.
thorn:comon, you think you can steal my best friend, u still love me, your using cherry to make me jealous
me: wah, no i really am over you and i like cherry, and would never do something like that.
cherry: ice! were through! i really thought that for once a girl would like me, guess not.
me: cherry, dont listen to him, hes lying!
thorn:haha, like i would lie, he believes me.
cherry walked away, i was almost crying, and i wanted my fist to meet thorns face. thorn put his arm around me, and said now that cherrys gone we can be together. i couldn't hold in my anger any longer. "hey thorn,it's time for your face to meet a new friend" i said, he turned to look at me "wha-" he was cut short as my fist rammed square into his nose, he fell to the ground. i ran and hid in the bathroom until lunch was over, i can't believe that had just happend.
"I don't think i'll ever be able to face, look, or talk to cherry ever again". I had told leaf everything, she had felt sorry,and when i had told carrot, he felt sorry to, he knew what a heartbreak felt like though. that night in bed, i was really starting to miss cherry, it had been all thorns fault, why did he have to do that?, why had he said he didn't like me, when he aviously had a lot?. well, thorn was always hard to understand. i wasn't looking forward to school tomorrow.I woke up to my alarm, "oh god" i thought "schools gona be interesting today!". The first person i talked to was my friend blue, she got mad at me for punching thorn because she liked him, she didn't seem to care about what he had done to me. oh well. cherry and some of his friends, including thorn, walked past, me and cherrys eyes met, but he just glared. now i felt like it was my fault for what had happend. even though it wasn't.
4th hour i hung out with carrot, i couldnt look at thorn or cherry, well, they looked like they were in a deep conversation, and at lunch i heard that they had gotten in a fight, i felt bad, they had been such good friends.
late that night, as i was almost alseep, i got a text from thorn, "great, what does he want, hasn't he done enough alerady" i opened it and it said "im sorry" i said ok,than he explained how he didnt realize how much me and cherry had liked eachother, and how heartbroken cherry is. than he asked if he forgave me and if we could be friends again. my heart pounded, should i let him in again?. i decided to give him a second chance.
well, now i had to talk to cherry, he had basketball on tuesdays, so i convinced my mom to let me stay after school on tuesday. as cherry was walking out of the gym, i grabbed his hand and pulled him aside...
cherry:oh, ice
me:look, about what thorn said-
cherry:yeah, he told me that he had lied
me:oh, and, well thats it than..
cherry:so, can we be friends...
me:oh, yeah that sounds good.
well at that question, he aviously didn't like me anymore, and why would i think he ever would?. he smiled, i did too, but mine was fake. the next day was horrible, being friends with your ex, when you still like them, it sucks.
that night i got a text from an unknown number...
unknown: hey
me:and who is this?
unknown:its cherry!
me: oh, hi
cherry:hello, hey i want to get to back together...u game.
me: yeah, that sounds great. :)
cherry:cool, well i'l see u tomorrow, bye.
me: yeah, bye
the next morning as i was walking in to school, somebody came up and gave me a hug from behind. i spun around, it was cherry, we said hi, hugged, and than went off to seperate groups of people. at lunch, we decided to make names for eachother, he came up with icecream for me, he was my cherry slushie, he loved it. than he whispered in my ear "well, i guess were an official thing now" "yeah, i guess" that was my reply. he looked me in the eyes and we both smiled and then and we hugged. suprisingly, my mom let me go to cherrys house after school, we just did homework.
when we were done with homework we just went up to his room and sat next to eachother on the bed. it was just silence until he said "ice, i think i love you" my breath caught in my throat, had he really just said he might love me. "i just might love you to" he leaned toward me, i leaned to, we met in the middle. when we pulled away, he smiled and put his arm around me. "was that really that my first kiss?" i thought, guess it was. i smiled back.
now, we just layed next to eachother on his bed, holding hands. ok, i had to force the next words out of my mouth, i just had to ask..
me: hey, have you had any other girlfriends?
cherry: no, ur my first girlfriend. u?
me: your the first guy that has ever liked me, and my first boyfriend.
he now sits up and looks down at me, confused.
cherry: i just don't get it though..
now i sit up
me: excuse me, what?
cherry: why you haven't had any other bf's, ur funny, nice, and really pretty. your everything i've ever wanted, you have a perfect laugh and smile, your like a sister were so alike. and your not a girly-girl, ive always wanted a tomboyish gf that i could talk videogames and sports with, and just hang and not be all mushy all the time.
me: well, im to shy for any boy to notice me so..
cherry:shy? you!
me:well i'm not shy around you, and thanks for saying im pretty, i don't think i am. and about all the other things you said, it means a lot.
cherry: well you are and always will be mine.
me: i agree with that.
we layed back down and just as he was gona say something, we heard footsteps. we sat up and acted like we had been looking at a book. it was his mom telling us that my mom would be here in a few moments.
cherry: whew! that was close, hey can we say this was our first date
he was holding back laughter
me:yeah, that was close. and you know what, that can be our first date.
we hugged, both of us cracking up. than i had to leave, so we said good-byes and i left.
The next day was friday, because cherry didnt play football, i just wore one of his sweatshirts that had his last name on it. so whenever we would see eachother in the hallway, he would say "theres my girl", and i would smile and agree. In social studies, the teacher decided that we were going to change seats. so now instead of cherry sitting diagnol behind me, he sits on the other side of the row im in, and thorn sits in one of the front rows, and carrot sat behind me, at least i had carrot, for i didn't have any of my friends that were girls in that class. than carrot decided that he would yell across the room "HI CHERRY" i cracked up, so did carrot, cherry looked at us and laughed and waved back at carrot, and mouthed the words "i love you" to me, i just made a heart with my hands and laughed. were gona laugh about that for a while.
it's been 2 weeks since me and cherry got back together, my heart pounded every time i would see him, i hope it was the same for him. by now every 8th grader knew we were together, that meant some people would say "awww, they're so cute, and they're perfect for eachother", others were haters, girls, they must have liked cherry to, they would say "wow, i cant believe their going out, they're so wrong for eachother, he'd be way better off with me!" the haters would sometimes bother us, but than cherry would squeeze my hand or put his arm around me to say that he didn't care about what they said, and it actually made me feel better.
i thought that for this being cherrys first relationship, that we was doing amazing, and i thought i was doing good too. he made me feel lighter and more happier every time i saw him, and it would bring a smile to my face, and i must have been doing the same thing, because every time he saw me he would smile. that night around 1:oo in the morning, i got a text from cherry, of course it didn't bother me, i loved him.
cherry: hey, i got some bad news..
me: what is it :(
cherry: im so sorry...
me: what is it...you know you can tell me :(
cherry: it wasn't my decision, i just found out, but were moving to Alabama...
me: WHAT WHEN ALABAMA!
cherry: were moving to alabama, on tuesday, and yes, alabama.
me: but, but, just no... :(
cherry: im so sorry ice, i don't want to go, but they don't care cause they don't know were together, and even if they did, i doubt that would stop them. im sorry :(
me: i understand, but, i can't believe your just leaving me and everybody, just like that...
cherry: yeah, me to, well im gona go now, i'll see you on monday, love you...
me: bye, love ya to..i almost started crying, but my heart of stone kinda wouldn't allow it. after all the tears that had been shed my whole life...my heart had become like stone and right now, it wouldn't let me cry, in a way.
on monday when i walked into school, cherry was there waiting for me, i ran up to him and we hugged, i said "lifes getting in the way" but it was muffled by his shoulder, he must have heard me cause he pushed me away and held me by my shoulders and looked at me, hie eyes were filled with tears, now mine were. "i know, but it wasn't my decision and i just found out last night" he said, his voice was breaking, "no, it's ok i understand" i fake smiled, he saw that it was fake and that i had to force it, which just made him pull me into another big hug. when we were done, we said bye and went to talk with our friends.
that day, in the hallway we would hug and say"see ya later", we tried to make the best of the time we had left together, and it just made us sadder. at the end of the day, when we hugged before we departed to get on the bus, i felt like i was loosing him, but i wasn't loosing yet, tomorrow i would loose him. when i was about to walkj away he whispered just so i could hear it "it feels like im never gona see you again, but i will tomorrow" i couldn't believe it, he feels the same way i do, i hugged him again, and said "i feel the same way" and got on my bus.
the next night, my mom had let me go to cherrys house to say goodbye, our parents were talking outside, while me and cherry were standing alone in his empty room, we just stood there until he started talking...
cherry:so...this is it
me:i wish it wasn't
cherry: me to
his mom yelled for him to hurry up that they were gona leave in a few, as i turned to walk away he grabbed my shoulder and i turned around, and i saw him cry for the first time. and that made me cry to, we hugged for what seemed like forever until he pulled away and said
cherry: i guess, i'm breaking up with you now...
me: oh, ok than
he now whispered
cherry: i love you and i will never love anybody else, just you, and i will never forget you.
me: i love you to, and don't worry, you'll be my first and last bf
he kinda laughed at that and hugged me again, his mom called to come down and that it was time to leave. again, i turned to leave and he jumped in front of me and grabbed my shoulders and kissed me, it was the happiest and the saddest 5 seconds of my life. when we were done we held hands and walked to the front door, we unlatched hands as he opened the door, he said "i love you, bye" and i almost started crying again "i love you too, and i hope we see eachother again, bye" i choked the words out and we walked out, him into his car, and me into mine, and they drove off seperate ways, each carrying a person whos life had been changed and heart had been broken, again.
but that wouldn't be the last time they saw eachother.
this is really the first story i've ever wrote, please comment and your gona have to read part 2 to find out what happens. that is coming out soon.