I was walking down the hall when I saw Leslie's parents including Leslie in the school office I raised an eyebrow and walked into the Office where Leslie sat with her parents. "Hey, what are you guys doing here?" I shook Leslie's adoptive fathers hand and then lightly shook her mothers and hers. Leslie looked at me then spoke. "Well my dad bought the house next to yours, and he got a job offer right here in this town before that, and they are going to have to put me in a school thats near here." I gave a surprising a smile. "What about Jonas?" Leslie squinted her eyes slightly and looked at him. "Were keeping a relationship he's going to come over as much as he can using the bridge you built."
Her parents looked at him with intrigue and her mother spoke. "You built a bridge?" I scratched the back of my head and looked at her. "Uh… yeah when was 10." they looked impressed by my building skills at suck a young age. "Oh don't thinks its SO amazing, I had a bit of help with a fallen tree, i just nailed some wood and stuff." I smiled a little awkward as they looked at me. Leslie then spoke in a cocky manner. "No need to worry about me and Jonas, Jess were still going to be together." I clenched my jaw slightly and shrugged gently. "In fact I hope to be the best man at your wedding some day." I smiled slightly as he parents looked from back and forth from both of us as we spoke, when I mentioned a wedding i saw leslie make a face, the bell rang for us to sit our asses down in our desks, so I just waved to them and I walked away with a wide smile on my face and chuckled on my way out.
At the end of the day I was laying on the ground on the field thats near the bridge and then a presence of someone looking at me from the near by tire that hung from the tree, I opened my eyes and then sat up to look at the tree and their she was the rays of the sun hitting her golden locks as she swung leaning back on the tire as she smiled, and remembered the first time we swung on the rope that let us cross the river, thats exactly how she looked. I stood up and went over to her. "Some how I feel like your stalking me." she came to a stop and looked at me. "You wish I was stalking you lover boy." I raised my eyebrow "Lover boy? Really?" She smiled, that smile that I will never get tired of seeing. "Yeah because, you love me…. Some how for all these years…" I shrugged slightly looking at the blue sky. "Its hard to let go of someone you love especially when they died without you knowing…"
She had stood up and stood next to me. "But I'm not dead." I looked at her with my big blues that shined in the sun. "But all these years I could never let you go, and now that I have you, I really can't let you go…" My face was pretty serious I imagine as I loosed at her because her face was soft and in shock, she then wrapped her arms around me and held me tightly. "Why do you always say thing like that?" I wrapped my arms around her also. "Why? Because I say what I think when I'm around you. Not only because I care about you, but because I love you." Leslie buried her face into my chest and I kissed the top of her head.
I heard the grass behind me and I turned my head slightly and saw Janice, she smiled at me, half hearted smile. "Leslie, I want you to meet the first person you recognized." Leslie looked up at me then where my head faced, she let go of me and went over to her. "So your Janice…" Janice smiled and nodded, she didn't speak of course because she was very confused she looked at me as if waiting for an explanation. I began explaining what happened and how Leslie found me. Janice noted and stood next to me holding my arm. "So why did you say 'Nice feet' to me?" said Janice squinting her eyes at her, Leslie's face was concentrated on how Janice held me and then they trailed back to look at Janice, I chuckled slightly as Leslie looked at me knowing I had known what she was thinking. "Well, I'm sorry I just remembered you from when you stopped me from using the bathroom when we were in school." She shrugged slightly and looked at me again squinting her eyes at me.
"So, Janice her name isn't Leslie now, her name is Annabelle" Janice nodded looking up at me, Leslie's pocket rang and she read through the screen and sighed slightly. "I have to go help my parents pack, I'll be back tomorrow alright?" I smiled brightly. "I will always be waiting at our bridge for you…" She hid a smile, a victorious one for Janice, out of jealousy, and walked off waving good bye at Janice. I looked down at Janice. "Now you and I need to have a talk." Janice looked down, not at me, I sat down on the ground looking at her and paying the space next to me. "Take a seat." Janice slowly sat next to me as she looked at the sky then back at me, then I just followed up with a simple,"Why?"
Janice looked over to meet my eyes. "Why what?" I took a deep breath. "Why would you fall in love with me?" she then removed her eyes from mine and looked down at her hands and played with her fingers fiddling around with her thumbs. "I don't know, when we were ten you were so un attractive, and younger than me. I couldn't like you because you were so young, then you lost Leslie, and your face changed you were serious and so different and matured so quickly. Then you started growing up and your face got in tuned and so… hot and then I realized I liked you. Not just because your attractive because you were so much more mature than Hoager or anyone else in your grade." She looked up from her hands and looked at me.
I took a deep breath and looked away from her when she looked at me. "I'm sorry… I know I couldn't respond to you're feelings, but I don't want to lose you as my friend, you are my only friend." Janice leaned over to me and grabbed my hand. "Can't you try? We can make this work, I mean we have been friends for ye-" I cut her off by removing my hands from hers and grabbing her shoulders. "Janice, don't make this harder than it already is… I don't love you like that, you are like a sister to me, a good one, one that puts me before herself, I can never love you more than that, not just because your my best friend, but because I have never gotten over Leslie." Janice's face hardened and her eyes floded with tears and they just threaten to fall out of her eyes. "Why?! Why?! JUST BECAUSE SHES PRETTIER! AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
I didn't speak I didn't want to hurt her more, I didn't know what to do, I just wanted her to be quite, I just wanted her to chill out, I just wanted her to stay with me, I couldn't let my only friend slip away then I made the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life, I grabbed her by the face and pulled her in for a kiss, but I wan't thinking it was her I was thinking of Leslie I kissed her as if it was her, she kissed me back and there I felt it it wasn't Leslie. I parted my lips from hers and looked at her breathing in deeply. Then my second biggest mistake right here when I spoke. "I'll try to be with you…." her face lit up and she hugged me tightly, I knew I was going to regret this but I couldn't lose my best friend...