Shane Gray was walking in the woods to Nate's cabin and was mulling over the current state of his mind. He had just broken up with his on again-off again girlfriend. Even to himself, he refused to acknowledge that she just wanted someone to make out with occasionally at parties, and he would still refer to it as if it were a valid relationship. Apparently, Rosaline had found a new person to make out with and she let Shane know that his services were no longer needed.
Shane felt devastated. He had liked this girl for some time and had hoped to build a real relationship with her. Sure she was shallow and self-serving on the outside, but surely there must be more to her on the inside. Years later, Shane would realize that, no, there was nothing more to her, and that she lacked the patience & understanding to build a real relationship with anyone besides herself.
It was with a busy mind and unfocused eyes that he unceremoniously crashed into another body.
"Watch where you're going, will ya?" he heard a miffed female voice yell.
Lying on the ground was a blue-eyed brunette, and a very attractive brunette at that. Reaching down to lend a hand to this young lady, he was most surprised when it was quickly slapped away. She rose to her feet unaided and gave him a stare that would make a lesser man run for cover.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, I was just-"
"I don't care what you were just doing. Don't let it happen again!" she exclaimed with flailing hands.
"Alexis, he just apologized. Be nice." He heard another voice say.
'Thank you other voice' he thought.
"Yeah, I'll be nice. I'll nicely put my foot up his ass" the girl named Alexis muttered. And with one last withering stare to Shane, she stomped off.
He turned towards the other girl to thank her properly for intervening when he found himself unable to do much of anything but stare. During the brief conversation with Alexis, he had not been able to look at this girl properly. But now that he did, he never wanted to do anything else but look at this girl.
The first thing he noticed was her smile which seemed to be a permanent fixture upon her face. He would do everything he could for this girl to always smile like this. Her eyes still held the laughter of the situation, and it was while gazing at her that he knew that he was done for.
"Hi, I'm Mitchie," she said.
"I'm Shane."
Shane looked at the heartbreak that was taking over Mitchie's face and he was reminded of the promise he made to himself the first time he met her. All he wanted was her happiness and he resolved to make her happy again once more, whether it was with him or with someone else. Because he knew that true love means doing anything for that other person, no matter how much it breaks your own heart.
Hey readers! Hope you enjoy this chapter. I wanted to give you a look at how Shane starts falling for Mitchie. There are references to another work of literature in this (If you picked up on it, good for you for paying attention in high school English class). Do you guys prefer the many little chapters or would you prefer longer chapters but updated less often? The reason I do it short and often is that I like changing the POV often, but if it's too annoying, I'll change it.
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