I Didn't Know You Loved Me…

~James's POV~

I stood in the doorway. There she was, lying dead and almost lifeless on the hospital bed.

It was hard to see.

I sat down on the chair where probably Logan and Carlos sat too. I grabbed her hand and held it between mine. Maybe Logan and Carlos did that also…

"Hey, Aria. It's me, James, and all my awesomeness." I chuckled a little bit. "I know you'd be laughing along right now if you were awake. You and I always like to goof off!"

I brushed a stray piece of hair away from her face. Suddenly, a whole bunch of memories came back to me.

"Aria do you remember in first grade? When you and I kissed?" I asked her.

Aria Drew was different than most first grade girls. She mostly had guy friends and she never played with Barbie dolls or anything like that. One of her best guy friends was James Diamond. Even for a first grader, James was attractive and all the girls had minor little crushes on him.

Aria, James, Kendall, Logan, and Carlos were playing down by the trees. They were throwing the ball at each others' heads and were running around, tackling each other.

James and Kendall tag-teamed Aria and James tackled her to the ground.

"Ha! I got you Aria!" He said in triumph.

"No fair James! You can't do that!" Aria complained.

They bickered back and forth for a little while until they both leaned in. Their lips weren't supposed to meet but they did.

After three seconds, Aria and James pulled away. They really didn't have an idea what happened.

"Ew! They kissed!" Carlos yelled really loud.

"They both have cooties!" Logan added.

Logan, Kendall, and Carlos took off, running away from James and Aria. Aria and James nodded and took off after their friends.

"Just remembering that is funny. Who knew that would happen in first grade?" I said aloud.

I thought about some more memories, and this one was one memory I loved.

"Aria, remember truth-or-dare at Gina's party in fourth grade?"

Gina Cavinah's party was one of the best fourth grade parties. One big party game was truth-or-dare. Everyone loved the outrageous dares and they loved to see people squirm under the power of truth.

A group of twenty people were in a big circle. Gina was in the middle. She looked around at her 'victims' as she liked to call them.

Her eyes stopped on Aria and then at James. She knew that Aria and James almost always picked dare.

"Hm… I choose… Aria!" Gina said. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare!" Aria said.

Gina grinned. "Okay, I dare you to kiss James for 10 seconds!"

A chorus of "Ooohs" ran through the group.

Aria looked over at James and she saw he was blushing, just as was she.

"Are you going to do the dare or not?" Gina asked, mischievously.

'Of course I am!" Aria exclaimed.

Aria scooted over to James. She looked up at him and her eyes grew wide. Aria always knew that James was kind of cute but she never noticed how cute he really was.

Aria leaned in and so did James… and their lips met.

"Okay, 10 seconds are up… Aria? James? Yoo-hoo!" Gina said.

Aria and James broke apart. Both of them were embarrassed. Not because they kissed, but because everyone was there… and it was more than 10 seconds.

"Aria, I think that day was one of the best days of my life." I told her, stroking her cheek.

Then a painful memory rushed back to me. One when I hurt Aria.

"Aria… I'm sorry about what happened in 8th grade… the incident between you, me, and Lorrah."

It was a week and a half before the eighth grade dance. Every girl was hoping the one and only James Diamond would ask them to go with him. They all knew though, that only one person could.

Aria Drew believed that girl was her. After all, they kissed in fourth grade and in first, and she was his closest girlfriend.

Aria walked up to the boys in the lunch room, and she sat across from James.

"So who's the special someone you're taking to the dance?" She teased.

"Well… I did a lot of thinking…" James trailed off.

"And?" Aria, Logan, Kendall, and Carlos asked.

James flashed his grin at them. "Lorrah Myers."

Aria's face dropped. "W-what? Why her?"

"Well, I heard she likes me… and she's hot!" James exclaimed.

"Oh, well… that's great, James. I hope you have fun."Aria walked off, with her head down.

'She seemed… upset?" James was confused.

"Well, of course she was!" Kendall said.

"She thought you were going to ask her." Logan added.

"Why?" James was still confused.

'Because she liked you," Carlos said in a sing-song voice.

"I had never meant to hurt you." James said.

I felt bad, but I still went with Lorrah. Sometimes, I wish I hadn't though.

"Aria, you need to get better. I… I think I love you."

I kissed her softly on the lips.

~Aria's POV~

Oh, d*mn. That's not good. James liked me, I liked Kendall, and who knew who Kendall liked. Not. Good.

"James! Don't leave! Dang it! Come on! Why me?" I yelled.

I flopped down on the couch, exhaustedly. I watched my body breath raspy, like I had no breath left.

I had a feeling I was going to fade away soon… for good.

~Kendall's POV~

James came back and sat down quietly. Who knew what he would have said to Aria.

"Well, Kendall, it looks like you're up!" Officer Kendra said.

She patted me on the back. "Good luck, son."

I walked back to the girl I loved. Hoping she would wake up at the touch of my lips.