The Unfolding

2013

As a teen you think you have everything figured out. You think that you have all the world in the time to figure out your life and what you want to make of it. That’s what I thought at least. Until I met him. I was 14 at the time. Little did I know that I was going to meet the love of my life. The thing is, no matter how old you get and no matter how organized you are, life always seems to take unexpected turns. This is one of those stories. 

It was another normal day at school. Teen drama, loud hallways, announcements going off every 10 minutes. Oh I haven’t introduced myself yet! Hi! I’m Makayla. I'm 23 years old and still live at my mom's house and have no idea what I’m doing with my life. This isn’t the story about that though. This is the story about how I met my true love. Or at least I think I did. So rewinding it back to 2013, I was a freshman in high school. I was such a happy person, very outgoing, and got along with mostly everyone! I have two older sisters. My life revolves around being a mirror image of them. I got stuck doing Girl Scouts since they did it when they were my age. Luckily I had the advantage and started late so I didn’t have to go through as many years of hell as they did. 

Growing up with my mom wanting to be apart of every waking second of my life, I think you can guess what I’m about to say. Yes she was the group leader for my Girl Scout troop. The troop that had about 10 girls in it which dwindled down to 4. This year specifically we hit that number of 4 girls in the troop. My mom held on desperately to keep it together. I saw it for what it was, basically the titanic. Me and the 3 other girls would meet up every week and work on our projects. One of the girls in my group, Diana had recently just gotten a new boyfriend. Now me, I am very experienced in love at this point in my life. In middle school I had at least 10 boyfriends in which I held every single one of their hands. Kissing though, yeah not that experienced in that field. Diana would talk about how her and her boyfriend axel would try different things and experiment. Like come on! We were only freshmen in high school. What can you be doing at that age? 

5th period rolled around, Diana, Rebecca, and I always sat at the same table during lunch. This time Diana brought her boyfriend. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t find him attractive. He was a really cute guy. And the crazy part, he was a senior! Every 5th period he would come with Diana to eat lunch with us. It started becoming unhealthy for me. I would crave seeing him there and when he didn’t show up, I would be disappointed. But why? He wasn’t my boyfriend. And I would never do anything to get in the way of any of my friends' relationships. 

One day he came and sat across from me during 5th period. Diana looked upset as if they had been fighting. Diana went on the lunch line to grab the chicken patties that were for lunch that day. The line was pretty long so I knew I had some time to talk to Axel without it seeming weird. I asked him what was wrong with her. He responded with “We haven’t been getting along that well lately. I just feel like she doesn’t listen to me or understand me.” I tried to give him my best advice I had at the time. The days following were not better. They seemed to be getting worse and worse. I couldn’t help but gravitate towards him more and more. I knew it was wrong but I craved him.