First Impression(Short Story)

You somtimes meet someone and things just kind of click. Everything seems kind of easy and your even kind of happy. Its nice having someone to go see movies with. Guys wouldnt be caught dead watching romantic comedies but when your dating someone its just beeing a good boyfriend. But eventualy you are at the point where you ask yourself "What am I doing? How do I realy feel about her?" Ofcourse when your a guy that dosnt register above the endless amount of hormones. Men are controled by there two most important organs. One is the brain and two is...Well you can figure out what two is. Mabey the answer was there all along but I guess it just hit me that day. Mabey you should think with your heart idiot!

Like any story it has a begining and the begining of the story should obviously be the begining of my day. I woke up that morning in my by then common mixture of tiredness from text fighting my girlfriend and depression from text fighting my girlfriend ALL NIGHT! I was so tired I put my white t on insideout. I didnt even notice at the time. I trudged down the stairs and into the kitchen. Our kitchen was a good size with marble counter tops on each side, a table at the farthest end, and an island in the middle directly across from the fridge. I grabed a poptart out of the cabinet and tossed it into the toaster. I didnt like waking up at five thirty in the morning but I did like running in the mornings. Running is somthing my dad had me do with him before him and my Mom got divorced. I thought about that now while I was eating my poptart. Did my dad get that clarity from running? Did he think about breaking up with Mom the way I thought of breaking up with Lea?

I decided not to run this morning. It didnt seem like a good idea to run when I was this tired. I wondered if Lea was this tired. She never seemed tired, she was always talking even when we were watching movies or the other thing you do at the movies. I grabed my bookbag and keys then walked out the door. I threw my bookbag in the back of my Jeep. Lea hated my Jeep, mabey because it was family sized instead of a convertable made for the beach. Lea was a typical blond cheerleader type girl and she was so easy to read that I knew when she was about to blow up. Despite everything I pulled into the school's empty parking lot at around six fifteen. Lea would pull into the parking lot a few minutes before the bell then be excused from first period like always.

I didnt see anybody in the hall when I walked up which was good because I realy didnt want to talk to anybody. The office was right next to the entrance so the second I walked in miss Jacobs walked out of the office. I could tell she was in a good mood. I had her every year for art class and she liked me for some strange reason. Behind her was a girl I had never seen before. I was compelled to stare for a few seconds seeing her insanely white teeth attached to an amazing smile. Normaly I would have the thought "Wow this girl has a beautiful smile." but I had spent all night being angry at Lea and missed my morning run so I just turned to miss Jacobs kind of hopeing to explain why I was there so early. Also kind of hopeing for an introduction. Half of it happened atleast.

She motioned towards the girl with the beautiful smile who I had then realized had black frizzy hair about shoulder length pushed back behind her ears. "This is my niece Jenna. She is transfering here" I remember it mainly because it was followed by somthing not easly forgoten. Jenna never stoped smileing, In fact it might have become even brighter if that was possible when she said "Your shirts on inside out?" I might normaly look surprised or look worried about it but today I just sighed. Miss Jacobs knew what the cause of my pained expression was. She had seen it almost every time I had a fight with Lea and she wouldnt hesitate to push one of her favorite female students on me as "A better alternative to the girl I was dating." Well thats how she would say it. Miss Jacobs always disliked Lea. Lea was late to the first day of her class freshman year and walked in with a giant breakfast muffin which she then ate. I wondered if she would even try to set me up with her niece. I kind of wished she would.

Just like I had jokingly thought she said "I have to get my classwork ready. Can you show Jenna around the school?" I had seen miss Jacobs actualy create a lesson plan only once. So I knew that couldnt be the real reason but I was kind of hopeing for it so I just agreed. Besides I had about an hour and a half to kill before school started. I looked at Jenna not quite meeting her dark eyes that were probably sizeing me up. I played it off as normaly as possible "Have you gotten your scedual yet?" She looked disapointed with my choice of questions but answered all the same "Yes. I have Advanced Physics first period. Do you know where that is?"

I was surprised for a second and that gave her time to follow up with "Its fine if you dont" I guess my tired and depressed look didnt show my usual intelect but I wasnt offended. I just responded with a smile and a "We have first period together then." She didnt seem surprised at all and she kept smileing back. I had all advanced classes excecpt electives. That was somthing Lea and I would always fight about. Lea wanted me to take normal classes with her and didnt understand that I liked being in advanced classes. I pointed to the left hallway at the end of the room and said "Its this way come on"

We had just started walking down the hallway that lead to the Adv. Physics lab when Jenna started talking "Why did you agree to show me around? My aunt is always like that but she wouldnt have been mad if you had said no. I mean.... Im sure you are here this early for a reason?" I started to smile again. It was odd I had just met this girl and already she had made me smile more times that day then I would have normaly. I waited for a second to respond so I could take in her facial expression "Im not realy sure why im here but I dont have anything better to do anyways. Besides your aunts pretty cool." We were just passing the library so I pointed it out. She looked so intrested I asked "We can stop to check it out if you want?" She seemed to like that idea "Lests check it out on the way back then." We didnt spend much time in the lab probably because she was excited to see the library.

When we walked in you could see the surprise at how big it was written on her face. I probably had a mild surprised face also since that was the first time I could realy read her expression. She was smileing now making me wonder if she was smileing the whole time but I would have noticed something like that before if she was. Seeing her smileing made me smile "Our schools big and our library is even bigger than the average library for our size school. Plus the students make sure its stocked with all the best books." Her eyes were beaming around as if taking it all in. We started talking about books and her face showed all of the emotions to fit her words, instead of just using her dazzling smile to freeze me in place. I just couldnt help but smile while listening to her talk.

We kept up the conversation untill after I had showed her all of her classes and by that time people had already started to show up. The people who showed up where staring at us. Probably friends of Lea and would be texting her about it as soon as we walked away. I realy didnt care besides I had all but two classes with Jenna anyways so I would get the chance to talk to her durring the day anyways. We had made our way back to the entrance when the thing I most dreaded happened.

Lea walked in with her two friends like always which I always wondered how they managed to show up at the same time every morning. I wondered why they were here before the bell when they were usualy late. They walked straight towards us I began to try to stutter out somthing but they just walked past making Jenna side step there red rover walk. I realized that they were here on time simply to do that as I glanced at there backs. Jenna starred at me and asks "Girlfriend?" I just shrugged and gave a "Mabey" Then she asked the million dollar question.

"So do you like her?" I sighed and answerd honestly the question I didnt even know the answer to untill that moment "Thats the problem I dont like her. I dont like her attitude, The way she does childish things like walk away instead of talking, and most of all I dont like how I act around her." She smiled kind of knowingly and said "That last line was a little cheesy" I smiled back "agreed" then she said somthing kind of cool "You should probably figure that out while I go see my aunt."

I walked into the Adv. Physics lab thinking about what Jenna said but the thought just kind of left my mind when I got there. My friend Jay was sitting at the back of the room reading. I went over and set my stuff down by the seat next to him. Jay had this personal rule where he wouldnt stop reading untill he was done with a page no matter what the concequence. I once saw him ignore a teacher and keep reading... but now teachers just left him alone. Jay looked up from his book to say "I heard you and Lea had a huge fight." I wasnt even surrprised that he knew. Lea liked to tell who ever would listen about any problems with our relationship. That was another thing that we would always fight about. I shrugged "Where did you hear that?" He gave me a sideways glance "I have my sources." I gave him a simmilar glance " I bet you do." then I through my bag on the lab table and sat down. He put his hands behind his head and looked up at the cieling "Everytime this happens it makes the school go wild. So is the other rumor true?"

I was a little curious as to what he ment avout the other rumor so I asked "What other rumor?" He looked at me like I was somehow out of the loop "If the rumors are true then you found another girl and you where with her all morning?" I was a little shocked about how things like that could spread so quickly and I was worried that Lea would be pissed about it then I quickly wondered why I cared if Lea would be mad. "You mean Jenna? Shes not my type." That was a lie for sure but I couldnt realy explain how I felt about a girl I just met even to my bestfriend. Jay looked at me with an almost pitying expression when he said "Lea is not your type but this girl must be extremely your type since you smiled when you said her name." Jay was realy observant, especialy for someone who spent most of there time in a book. He was right though, Just thinking about her black eyes and her amazing smile made me smile so big my face muscles hurt. But even if I felt that way I had just met her so I said "It dosnt matter I have a girlfriend." Jay went back to his book and sighed.

Jenna walked in a few minutes before the bell smiling like an angel of course. I guess because I was the only person she knew she came to the back and tossed her stuff in the seat beside me. I looked over at her and said with the calmest tone I could manage "Did you get the chance to talk to your aunt?" She looked at me like somthing funny had happened "Yeah but she did most of the talking." She smiled at me and I smile back like it was an inside joke. Jay looked up from his book, streatched his free hand out, and said "You must be the famous Jenna. I have heard so much about you." I turned a little red. Jay being as observant as he was atempted to repare the situation "Your the rumored new girl that everyone is talking about." She shook his hand and said in her usual happy manner "I guess I am."

The rest of the class was uneventful. Well except for Jenna mumbling funny comments that only Jay and I could hear. She had us busting out laughing so much that we were called out more than once. Jay and Jenna realy hit it off mabey becouse they both liked books so much. I was a little jelous of how easly there conversation came. I thought Jay might have a better shot than me with Jenna but then I was mad at myself for being jelous of my friend. I thought he might have gone for it to except in second period wich was one of the two clases I didnt have Jenna he said in an unusual joking manner that he normaly wouldnt use "You marry that girl. You marry her right now." It was so old of a line and so unusual for Jay that I just bust out laughing even though I was actualy relieved.

Third period was math with both Jay and Jenna. I was still getting funny looks but nobody said anything. The good thing about having advanced classes was that most of the kids in those classes didnt like Lea anyways. I wasnt worried about any of them telling Lea how much fun I was having when I should have been stressing over our fight. Math class went the same as Physics except I was able to follow this conversation better this time. Fourth period was my other no Jenna class and it was also my art class with miss Jacobs.

I loved the class and I liked miss Jacobs but I knew she would hastle me the whole time to find out what I thought of Jenna. I wasnt sure what to tell her when she asked though cause Jenna was realy amazing but I had a girlfriend no matter how screwed up our relationship was. She acted just like I had expected "So what did you two do this morning?" I could tell that there were a couple people waiting for my answer, not just miss Jacobs. I took a few deep breaths then answered with a smile "I showed her to her classrooms and we checked out the library. She realy likes books." She looked at me with her most questiong gaze "Max, Is that all?" I was surprised to hear my name but not surrprised at her acusation. She had never cared who heard or if it was the middle of class she would just casualy bring up personal discussions. I looked around to see who was paying attention then I said in a low voice that only the people around me and miss Jacobs could answer "What do you want me to say?" She looked at me as if she was disapointed "You know what I want you to say. The question is will you actually say it Max?"

I doodled the rest of the class with little comunication with anybody including miss Jacobs. Lunch was after fourth period so I grabbed my stuff and headed for the lunch room as quickly as I could. I saw Jay up ahead of me so I spead up to walk next to him. He looked at me with a small grin like he had heard a good joke that he wasnt going to share. I went straight to the point "Do you mind if I sit with you guys today?" I usualy sat with Lea and her friends, also Lea's friend's boyfriends but with us fighting I didnt want to sit there today. Actually I didnt want to sit there ever. We were about to walk into the lunch room when we were cut off by Lea and her two friends and some how it made me think of cinderella's evil step mother and two step sisters instead of three snobby cheerleaders. Lea had her usual superior look and began to talk first "I think you should just hurry up and apologize. I will even forgive you for flirting with that new girl all morning."

I was pissed the night before when we talked about college and she sugested I should just go wherever she does but somehow the idea that I apologize for getting mad at such an idiotic idea was worse. She just continued to stare at me as if waiting for my apology and I just kept getting madder at how stuppid the whole idea was. She then somehow said somthing that calmed me down enough to say what was on my mind that I think was "Im waiting" or something "Im not going to apologize because the subject isnt important" She looked at me confused and I realized nobody would understand what I meant so I tryed better to explain "What I mean is that im breaking up with you so going to what ever college has nothing to do with you." Now she looked even more confused and I was a little surprised at how easy that was to say. She didnt sound anything like she usually did her superior tone was gone. "but...But!" I looked at Jay who was grinning from ear to ear and we both walked away from the group of shallow girls.

The rest of the day went smoothly. We ate lunch with Jenna and she made us laugh so much it wasnt safe to drink our milk. I also made her laugh telling her about my break up and Jay would cut in and explain about the problems we had for so long. I didnt realize how funny the stories about our fights were untill Jay explained it from a non envolved point of view and now I WAS being a little flirty. Can you blame me? The rest of the day went like that I made her laugh and she made me laugh. I was happy, REALY HAPPY so much so that I forgot Lea was in my last period class and just ignored her. Jenna realy opened up and she told me about how her parents where having problems and thats why she moved in with her aunt and changed schools. It was the first time I saw her not smiling and it made me realized that it wasnt just her smile that was beautiful it was all of her.

I realized that I liked her and despite the fact that I just got out of a relationship with someone Litteraly a few hours before. I walked with her to her aunts classroom after school. Her aunt was her ride home so I was realy conscious of the fact that I should ask her out. Of course I didnt because I am a compleat idiot. Its true just ask anybody but luckily for me miss Jacobs gave me another chance to ask her. When we got ther she was doing her best to look busy. Jenna looked tired like she knew what was about to happen. Miss Jacobs looked at us and said "Sorry I have a meeting so I cant take you home right away." She paused for a second and looked at me with a fake surprised face "Oh Max, Can you give her a ride!? You still have that family sized Jeep dont you?" Now Jenna was looking at me and of course she was smileing like an angel or mabey a devil I cant decide which is hotter so I can explain it "You have a family sized Jeep? I bet you just like the spacious back seat." She made me laugh like she had been all day and I agreed. When we were walking out I saw miss Jacobs wink at me.

We didnt have along drive from the school but it felt even shorter since were in a heated conversation about how good the band Vampire Weekend is. I pulled into the drivewayd of the house next to hers and we kept talking for about another half hour until she said somthing I wanted to prolong as possible. "I had better go before the neighbors show up." That comment made me smile though. She hopped out of the Jeep and I hopped out to. She looked at me curious and I pointed to the house where my Jeep was parked "Actualy I live here." That probably would have been the perfect moment to ask her but I didnt and we both went inside our houses takeing turns glancing back and forth at each other mabey she was hopeing I would ask but again I chickened out.

 I was in my room beating myself up for not asking her when my cell phone rang. Oxford Comma was the ringtone which was ironic since its by Vampire Weekend and it was the ringtone I had set for Jay. I picked it up on the first ring ready to talk but Jay beat me to it "Did you ask her?" I was shocked there was no way he could know I planned to ask her out so I kind of mumbled "what?" I could hear the heavy sigh over the phone "Did you ask her out!? Fool!" I was caught off gaurd so my words stumbled out "n-n..No I didnt." Again there was a loud sigh over the phone "Is there somthing wrong with you?" He said slowly the continued "That girl is awsome and for some reason she is into you." I was still under the metaphorical bus in a manner of speaking "Realy? She Likes me?" I said with genuine surprise. Another sigh even heavier than the others then he said "Listen, She lives right next door, Correct?" I stuttered an answer "Ye..Yeah" he started again "You hang up this phone, walk over there, knock on the door, and ask her out or the next time I see you I will slap you!" I didnt respond I just followed his orders instead.

I hung up th phone sprinted down the stairs and out the door. My mind was blanking on what to say but I kept going untill I was in front of her door with my hand ready to knock. I breathed slowly to keep myself fom hiperventilating. I had never been this nervous when asking a girl out. I knocked akwardly after that came some hurried footsteps behind the door then it opened to show her beautiful face and I said what came naturaly before I could screw it up again "You are awsome and you have the same odd taste in music that I do. Thats rare enough as is!" She was smileing at that. "Im sorry if this is a little sudden but will you please go on a date with me some time?" She was still looking at me smileing with a relieved expression and said "Yes! Of Course!" and we went on that date. It was the best first date of my life, that came with the best first kiss of my life at the end of the night in the same spot I had asked her out. Then there was the best second date of my life followed by the best second, third, fourth and WELL YOU GET THE POINT!

Not Looking For Love

Im always talking about love. In fact it is implied in everything I talk about. I have said im a hopeless romantic right? What I havent said is that im not looking for love. Yeah thats confusing right? I am one of those people who believe you dont find love, it finds you. Dont take that wrong becouse you should always have your eyes open. There are just so many things that I want to do with my life. I guess what im saying is that right now im kind of empty and how can I expect to find someone who will love an empty me? If you havent noticed both of my short stories end before the dating faze. There is a reason for that. Im not used to dating and I wouldnt even know how to begin that process. Yes I have dated before but obviously things didnt work out. The main disadvantage is that I have known most of the girls around me my whole life. Dating someone you have known for a long time can be great in the long run but its hard to get your rythm so to speak when you dont have to get to know the person.

Most highschool relationships eather go nowhere or end in heart break. Why put yourslef through that when you will probably have to go your seprate ways sooner than later. I probably wont be liveing where im liveing a year from now. Mabey I will want to go to MIT or study abroad mabey even NYU. What im saying is I dont know where my life is going so I cant take sombody and there feelings with me. Theres no future and barely a present for any relationship I would have. Besides I dont think I have found that girl yet someday I will but it wont be untill I have a right to look. Do You Understand?

Love Stories and Just Stories(short story)

What do we ever learn from love? Love is a simple fuel that powers us intead of other aspirations. The geniuses and Philosophers through out time have lived with there work as there love. Love Requires nothing and frees you from the burden of other expectations. Not everyone can be Enstine or Socrates because if they were there would be no future generation to learn from them. Love is a need and a very strong one at that but what of loves concequences? Yes love makes us ignorant of aspiration, so that when love is lost so to is that protection from our own Aspiration.

I had never truly thought of my future because it seem almost as if it belonged to someone else. Now after the major heartbreak by she-who-will-not-be-named I face my fate with the same unchanging expersion in my brown eyes, my matching brown hair pulled back so it would not get into them. My hair was almost pinned between my head an the pillow. It wasnt long so much as shaggy, the way I liked it to draw attention from my slightly large ears. I just layed there streaching out across my queen sized bed that was pushed into the corner of my room. My room looked empty almost naked now with nothing but my bed on the left and my computer desk and tv on the right. The only thing not depressing about the room where the blue sheets on my bed that where now made that way by my sad figure laying on them.

Once upon a time that room had lots of personal photos and items from she-who-will-not-be-named but I had taken all of that and put it in a box labled you guessed it She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named. It was a bad break up and I cant even see how it happened. We had been dating since freshmen year and we did everything together or Mabey we had done everything together. Well except for that. Then mabey thats the problem or I wasnt paying enough attention to her? I stopped tha process before it could start. I had never been the kind of guy that looks back because whats done is done but now thats just what I was doing looking back.

I laid there looking at the cieling and feeling stupid for both looking back and not having anything else to do. I was ofcourse the one to get hurt this time around because I am so frigin emotionaly fragile. I couldnt be the guy that gives just chocolates or flowers on valentines or the guy who dosnt do somthing stupidly big for her birthday. I always listened when she wanted to talk and I asked what was wrong when she seemed troubled. I am the kind of guy who couldnt be two inches from her without thinking about kissing her. What could it be? Again I stopped myself but added a distraction to the mix. I poped off my bed and grabed my wireless keyboard from my desk, turned the computer on and sat back on my bead. I watched as the fifty four inch tv connected to my monitor came to life. My parents did two things right work and buy presents. This gift was a great christmass present and certainly wouldnt sit by the guitar I had wanted so bad two years ago. With all the free time I was spending staring at the wall I could learn to play that guitar.

The computer was already on and I had started up Word Document and named the file Reasons to Never Fall In Love and Tips To Avoid it. Now this was probably the worst idea I would ever have but dang if it didnt feel right at the time. I typed away reason after reason starting with Broken Heart and ending with she-who-will-not-be-named with a few hundred words inbetween. Our First Love is the thing that sets all of our future relationships up for failure and at the rate I was going I would be doomed for life. I even realized that while typing but I just couldnt stop. That list became an idea and an odd one at that, given that it was not somthing that I would have usualy done but I hadnt done anything that was like me in years. Well except for being the hopeless romantic I was. Believe it or not that list of reasons became a rather long short story about a rather odd domino effect.

I wrote about heartbreakers one would break anothers heart making them break anothers and it went in a circle until someone broke the heart of the origional heartbreaker. I was so impressed with the work that I had been doing that I emailed it to a big short stories contest that I had looked up on google at three in the morning. It was a good feeling geting all the crap that was my relationship out of my system even if the story would probably never be read.

I guess its true that time heals all wounds but it happened surprisingly quick. I started jokeing with my friends about all the old things, even the stuff I couldnt when I was dating she-who-will-not-be-named. I never told my friends about my new writing hobby mostly becouse they wouldnt relate and partly becouse they wouldnt understand. My ideas were flowing and after a month of akwardness around she-who-will-not-be-named I began to not notice the fact that we had every class together. Sometimes I would see her glancing my dirrection and a few times she looked like she was going to say somthing but my facial expression probably had a "Dont Even Try" look that dissuaded her.

After another week or two I recieved an email from the book publisher in charge of the writing contest I had entered. and to my surprise they wanted to meet with the top eight writers and I am one of those people. I sent the reply back with a yes with out even telling my parents about it, not that they would have much of an opinion on it eather way. The meeting was set for two weeks after my reply and I was realy excited about it. I was so excited that my friends even took note of it and I almost told them about the whole thing but I liked the secret part of it so I couldnt explain it.

As the time got closser I started writing more and more. I even started paying atention in english class, well when I wasnt writing that is. It wasnt a well kept secret by then I was writing in class all the time, though I never explained what I was Writing but my friends and even the classmates I didnt normaly talk to would ask me what I was writing. I would always look at them, smile, and then go back to writing. My writing must have also gotten better because all of my essays recieved higher scores and notes on how good they where. Usualy when I recieved notes it was to comment on the sarcastic remarks I added for humor. When the day finnaly arived for the contest meeting I had memorized the location and planned how I was getting there and back. I was excited to see what the inside of a book publishers office looks like and I was also preaty excited to hear about my story. Even if I was the worst of the eight authors I would still get the thousand dollar award for it.

When I walked in there was a lady waiting at the counter for the short story contest winners. Since I had my invotation printed out in my had she knew who I was. She introduced herself as Mrs Sadie and gave me a firm hand shake with a warm smile. She seemed like a realy intresting person and because of her age I couldnt believe she was already an editor. When you think editor you think gray haired gentlemen not a twenty three year old (my asumption) red head with pink lipstick and hazel eyes. Meeting such a beautiful young editor would normaly be the highlight of anyones day, week, or month but just like me a girl came stumbling in carrying a printed out letter in her left hand.

The note was the first thing I noticed, then the odd assortment of braclets on that hand. and slowly I had a picture of the girl from head to toe. She had long brown hair that hung down , shinning brown eyes that werent hidden behind her glasses. She also had pink lipstick but you couldnt notice it becouse of her amazingly perfect white teeth that showed with her large smile. She wasnt so much beautiful as just perfect. She was what my brain would come up with as the most possibly my type a girl could be. More than any actress, model, or she-who-will-not-be-named could ever be. I was about to introduce my self or try because it would have mostly come out in "ugh's and um's" when Mrs. Sadie cut me off(thankfully) and gave her the same greating she gave me. We recieved badges with our names on them. Mine had my full name posted first and last but I couldnt see her badge without looking down and there are risks to looking down.

We walked to a small room where there were already six more people sitting in classic school desks and facing a smartboard. I was surprised at how young everyone was in the room. There was only one person who looked older than Mrs. Sadie and he could have been more than thirty. I just chalked it up to being that mostly smart college kids intering these contests. I sat down behind the older guy who I knew was Tom Warsaw from his name badge. The girl with the bracelets sat up front before I could read her name badge. Mrs. Sadie went to the front, hit a few keys on the computer conected to the smartboard, and began to talk to the eight person crowd.

I kind of spaced out when she talked about the history of the contest but I was probably the most attentive when she started talking about the short stories themselves. The braclets girl was apperantly a writing genius and she was the winner, closely followed by Tom and a half asian college girl. To my surprise I was number four despite my lack of literary techniques. It felt odd when they were making plans on how to publish are stories. Since my story was about hearbreak it would be displayed next to braclet girl's. Her story was the exact opposite of mine, even the names were diffrent. My story was called "The Karma Of Heartbreak" and hers was" Meeting That Special Someone" I didnt realy like the name of her story but I could tell why she won when they let us read each others stories. Tom's story was more my type though. His story was about rebellion and the founding fathers, It was like James Bond set durring the Revolution. I wanted to talk to him about it but I wanted to talk to braclets girl more, for a diffrent reason though.

We had the option to stay or we could take a tour of the company. Both Tom and bracelets girl were staying so I decided to stay aswell. Also I realy wanted to see the inside of a book publishing office. Only four of us were left but there was a tall guy who joined Mrs. Sadie in giving the tour. While we were walking down the hall I moved over next to bracelets girl and in a whispered tone said "Hi, Im Jasper" she didnt seem surprised that I talked to her and she responded with "I know".

I wasnt sure what to say after that so we walked in silence stoping ocasionaly to listen to the tour guide. After a long and quite five minutes I began to talk again "MarryLou is a preaty name" It was a dumb comment but I had caught a glance of her name tag during the silence. She smiled as if what I said had been funny and sighed like she was going to give a long speech next "It is my pin name. Its from a character in one of my favorite books". I now had a good idea of what book it was too but she was still talking in her sighed explanation voice "The book is On The Road by Jack Kerouack. It is one of my favorite books and I doubt you would like it".

I was right about the book and It was also one of my faovites. I had read it last summer when she-who-will-not-be-named went on a cruise with her family and when I tried to bring it up she would just talk about Nicolas Sparks books which looking back I hated. I ofcourse jumped in automaticly "I loved On The Road!" We spent the next thirty minutes talking about our favorite parts of the book and only stopped to listen to occasional things that the tour guide said.

We sat down at the buildings cafeteria and she said what I had expected to hear since the begining "I didnt think we would have anything in common becouse of how diffrent our stories are." I tensed up a bit thinking about how she-who-will-not-be-named used to joke about how we had nothing in common and that was why we made such a good couple. she continued but I eased up at the next words "I mean your story seems so love cynical". Now it was my turn to smile like she said somthing funny. I opened the bag I had been carrying and pulled out a five subject spiral bound notebook and handed it to her saying "I am most certainly not a love cynic". She opened it read a few pages and obviously got what I ment. My latest stories were in that notebook and they were all just as romanticly sappy as hers(but probably not as good). She looked at me and a confused expression spread across her face "Then why is your story like that?"

I looked at her almost trying to explain it with my eyes since my mouth and brain couldnt find the words. I paused and then started again with a question "Do you remember the character Sam in my story?" she nodded "Do you remember how she broke up with the guy using the classic its not you its me line? she noded again. "Well that is how my ex-girlfriend Samantha dumped me" I looked at her trying to read her expression before I asked another question to clear the topic "So what is your real name or do I have to keep refering to you as braclet girl, MaryLou, or She-Who-Will-Not-Give-Me-Her-Name in my head?" She smiled and leaned back in her chair leaving me feeling kind of foolish. The smile appeared again and she started talking in a way so sweet that it can only be described as milk chocolatey "Its Abby and What your saying is that you dont have a girlfriend?"

Not Quite Yet. Mabey Next Time

So you guys probably know that im writing a short story right now. I could explain the short story in a long or short way but I dont think I will do eather. The problem with that is simply I dont want to ruin it. I realy do hope you read it and more so I hope you like it. There are a few reasons I havent put it up yet one: Its not finnished yet but hopefully will be by tonight, two: It is realy long and will take a while to type out and fix the grammerical errors that I usualy dont worry about. Its about broken hearts, new beginings, and being smarter than most of the people you know. There might be my typical love intrest going on but dont worry about that for now.Sighn off line "We only listen to LRB(Little River Band) in the Prius!"