The school bell can be heard ringing from the classroom hall, and John releases a weary sigh at his desk. He knows the imminent is coming—or rather, he knows that a certain girl will be here any minute. But the sophomore isn’t exactly sure what to think about the situation.
While debating on whether to leave before she arrives, John turns his attention to a few girls gossiping near his desk. They’re thin, average, and the type of teenagers that a normal sophomore would try dating. Each girl is wearing her uniform skirt and school blazer in the appropriate way, and John knows that any of these perfectly normal girls would b
Tom Downing couldn't believe his luck. Amidst the drone of their English teacher's introductory lecture, he discreetly glanced to his right, pretending to be looking at something at the wall.
Sitting there in the desk right next to him was probably the best seatmate he'd ever had in all his years at Summer Highhis long time crush and (Tom admitted) fantasy, Gretel Humphrey. He had never once been her classmate since she transferred here in their freshman year, and now in their senior year here she was, and right next to him too! She was beautiful as ever, probably even more so. Her slightly fly-away blonde hair reached past her shoulde
I sat in a mild daze from the moist heat of a midday summer sun; the cool bench beneath me was quickly warming as the trees shadows slowly moved away in the passing hours. I suppose it was a little out of character that I end up sitting in a park all day; no particular reason, really. I couldnt even remember when or why I come here in the first place. But, for some reason, I couldnt manage to keep my mind on...well, on much of anything. As a matter of fact, the first thing that was able to snap me out of my comatose reminiscence also happened to be the best thing that could have happened to me.
Upon realizing what it was,