All great fiction has some truth.

I was just an above average person in what I thought was a below average high school (My name’s Lucas by the way). Sure I had great friends, and I was thought to be cool by most of the people, but I just felt like that this school did not challenge me whatsoever. I started to lose inspiration to even go to school, and I started to hate the people I was around. I just felt like I was surrounded by the sea of stupidity. Most of you know what I mean, what it feels like to be the only genius, but no one to share it with. But enough of my sad story, I’ll tell you a bit more about me.

I was 6’1 with dark, dark brown hair and black eyes. On a scale of 1-10, I guess most girls would call me a 7. Not a person they would go after, but definitely somebody to think about. I’m on the football team, which I love, and play safety. I haven’t had my run with the girls. I’ve had 2 girlfriends, a girlfriend in elementary (your first love is always cute) and another during freshman. Oh ya! I’m a junior too. I’m still a virgin, as you can probably guess. But little did I know that my “girl experience” was all going to change.

So as you know, I am starting to hate school (don’t we all) and everybody in it. And that girlfriend during freshman? We broke up during the summer. I don’t want to get into the details, but let’s just say she “didn’t want to waste her time on me”. I think its ‘cuz I just got boring to her, even though I took her out every week. But, shes in the past now. I had my eyes on this one girl. Her name is Tori. She was perfect in every way to me. But we’ve been friends for two years. I don’t want to ruin the friendship that we had, but that is every guy’s excuse. She is a cheerleader with light brown hair and cute freckles on her cheeks. But what really made me love her is her blue eyes, her amazing blue eyes. Some days I fought with my ex-girlfriend, she always made me feel better, just by giving me a hug and staring me right in the eyes. And those piercing, sea-blue eyes, I could never resist their beckoning. I always melted when she was in my arms.

One time, we were walking home from school in the light snow when a runaway dog with his owner behind him ran into Tori and pushed her into the nearby lake. Obviously I jumped in after her, with the owner just panicking about what to do, but when he saw that I went after Tori, he kept running for his dog. Tori was shivering so much, so I threw my jacket over her and walked with my arm around her the rest of the way home. During the walk, she just kept smiling and looking at me with those bright, blue eyes that I always get lost in. She just kept smiling at me and cuddling up to my chest. At first I thought something was up, but I just nodded it off, since I had a girlfriend already at the time. But she just kept staring at me and when I asked if she was ok, she replied she was, and so I just laughed it off with her. I just couldn’t help but notice those piercing blue eyes staring at me the whole time. When we got to her home, she just said thanks and gave me a peck on the cheek while hugging me as tight as she could and went inside, leaving me with my mouth open. But I shrugged it all off. This all happened a year ago, last winter.

So now I have a crush on her, and have had a crush ever since that day. I was just too scared to move forward with it. I always thought “better a friend than not”, but that’s what they all think. She was just about the best thing that happened in my life, and I was too blind to see this before. I just don’t know what might happen if she is gone. I might become depressed, go into a nervous wreck, who knows. I just hoped that she will still be part of my life.

So Tori is a cheerleader, I think I’ve said that before. One day after our football game, we all headed back to Josh’s place, the quarterback of our team.