Sarah's Journey to Love

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TINA’S POV

            “Hello, you should have kissed him, it is time to stop being so shy and have fun, for once in your life.” I look at Sarah who is blushing after telling us about what happened at lunch.

            “You know how Sarah is she would rather live in her books than in real life.” Karen says as she swings her arm around Sarah’s waist, Karen being the shortest of all of us, she can never reach our shoulders, so she always puts her arm around a waist, she is maybe five foot. Sarah on the other hand is about 5’ 6” and I am the tallest not by much I am 5’ 8”.

            “That is not true. I just didn’t um… feel like kissing me.”

            Karen and I look at her and know that she is lying.

            “Who would want to kiss you anyways.” We hear behind us, we don’t need to look we know who it is, it is hard to believe that we were all close friends with Isabella. She walks ahead of use in the hallway, and into a door on the right just pass a row of lockers. I see Sarah’s face.

            “Just let it go Sarah she doesn’t matter.” Karen says pulling her a little close into her. We keep walking until we make it into English. We take are sitting and pull out of laptops sitting them on our desk. Mrs. Moore, was standing at the front on the class, talking and carrying on about something, the three of us turn on our hotspot so we don’t have to use the school WIFI meaning we can get on and look at whatever we want or do whatever we want without having to worry about being blocked. Not like we ever did anything back, we just used it to get on f*******: messenger, so we can chat with each other, Mrs. Moore bliss her soul was a nice enough teacher but when we had papers that were due, she didn’t like us talking, she would put on claiming music and have lavender oil going and she set a quit claiming classroom, she said it helps us write better.

            Dude why are you so shy, do you ever want to kiss someone?

            Tina leave her alone, when she is ready, she will be ready.

            Okay mother.

I know Karen hates when I call her that but to be honest she is the mother of our group, Sarah is the shy one until you make her mad, she never been in a fight, but when you make her mad, she can’t stop whatever comes out of her mouth, and she does hit walls, and lockers, never anyone, she has never hit anyone out of hate or anger. She was proud of that fact. I was nice to people I know, I don’t go out of my way to say hi to people most of the time and have been told that I have resting b***h face which I was fine with.   

            Tina just because you have a boyfriend that you spend every other weekend with does not mean that Sarah wants or needs a boyfriend, she is focused on her school work and her books…. Wow I really do sound like a mom  

            Hello, can I talk for myself. I did want to kiss him, but I was scared I have never kissed a boy before, and I have only ever had one boyfriend.

            What’s his face from middle school does not count sorry dear, and yes Karen you really do sound like a mom but that is why we love you.

            And I was right some guy that she dated in middle school for not even a month who broke up with her for Isabella was not a boyfriend. We chat back and forth for the rest of our class while working on our papers, the three of us are almost done, with them, we are writing about where we want to be in ten years. I look over at Sarah and can tell that she I frustrated, I know that she wants to leave this place we get it, but she is having a hard time know what she wants to go to school for. She has been fighting with it for a while, it doesn’t help that we tell she would be good at both. Which she would I think that she was be best at being a social worker, she is great with kids, and even though she can seem cold hearted and mean when she opens up and really lets you in, she is a great person, with the biggest heart of any person I have ever known. My life it was easy I’m going to community college for business, and one day I will run my dad’s business as the only child it was not hard for my dad to pick who would one day take of the family business, every other weekend when I was not spending time with my boyfriend I was helping my dad out with book keeping and interview questions and even looking over resumes. My dad owns a design company in the next town over. His company was the go-to company if you wanted anything designed house, business, school, whatever you could think of. My boyfriend even works for him part time, in the mail room after school, Adam graduated last year and was not taking college classes, he wants to be a designer, we have been together for almost two years now. Karen and her boyfriend broke up over the summer when he went off on vacation and he cheated on her. She was still heart broken and it take a lot for us to talk Sarah out of flatting his tires and keying his car.

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            Walking out of school finally happy to be down with the day, we see that Evan is working on Sarah’s car we giggle, and I give her a playful push as she rolls her eyes.

            “So, are you going to kiss him or chicken out?” I ask her.

            “Nope she is going to hide in her books.”

            “Come on guys stop he is going to hear you.” Her face turning red.

            “Do you want us to wait with you?”

            “I think that we should leave them alone for a little while and if she needs a ride, she can call me.”

            As we get closer, she doesn’t talk. I open my car door and put my backpack in the back seat of the car, I can tell she doesn’t know what to do or say.

            “Hey Evan.” I say closing the car door.

            He looks up with a smirk on his face and some grease on his forehead, “Hey ladies.”

            “So, Sarah are you sure that you don’t want us to wait? We don’t mind do we Karen.”

            She looks at me catching on to what I am doing. “Tina, she said that she was good and that she would call us later.” She says opening the car door and sliding into the seat. I give her a head nod, as she stands there unsure what she wants to do. I open the driver side door and smile.

            “Okay Sarah we love you.” I get in before she could say anything with a smile on my face. She is giving us the evil eye. As we pull out of the parking spot.