One More Minute With Him

This isn't Good

**Arianna P.O.V.**

I finished off my coffee as I hit the doors to the school. The bell was going to ring in about five minutes to start the day off. I walked into the school to see Michelle coming my way.  And I mean my way. I looked around for a way out but found none. Oh boy this should be fun. She came to a stop in front of me. I head a smile. She looked pissed.

“I heard that you were studying with Brandon last night. Is that right?” Man she was a b***h times ten.

“Yes its right we are math partners after all. “ I looked when I talked to her because of the fact she thought she was all that but she wasn’t. I wanted to laugh at her because of it.

“Okay well you may be his partner but he is still my boyfriend.” She said.

“I understand that.” And with that I walked off.

A few kids looked at me as I walked past her. No one ever did that but me and that a reason why she didn’t like me.

I walked to the second floor. Today was going to be different with Kaylee not being here. I got to my locker. I opened it and a piece of paper well out of it.  I unfolded it. It was a poem from Brandon.

Have I told you yet…

How much you mean to me!

Have I told you yet…

How much happiness you bring!

Have I told you yet…

That you mean the world to me!

Just in case I haven’t I want you to know that…

You mean everything to me.

You’re the best thing that has happened to me!

I love you so much!

I smiled to myself. Wait. I looked at the last line. ‘I love you so much!’ he doesn’t just go around writing I love you. Or even thinking about it to say it. I know him he write was is true, what is from his heart. So that means he really does love me. Today is going to be a good day. I got my books for math and headed that way.

Brandon was sitting down in his seat when I walked in. I smiled. I had the poem in hand and sat down next to him.

“Hey.” I said.

“Hello, Ari. I see that you got my poem I wrote?” it wasn’t a question but he made it sound that way.

“Yes I did and might I say, I love it. But are you sure about the last line?” I asked.

“Yes I’m very sure about the last line. You see I’ve been wanting to tell you that line for a very and I mean a very long time now. I wanted to tell you face to face this morning but when I went to get you for school John said that you weren’t there when he got up.

“Yeah I walked to school because Kaylee not in town. She is with Cody. Where, well I don’t really care to know.” I said. But I was having a hard time getting my head around the fact that he was in love with me.

The thing is I was in love with him when we were kids. And the day I sat there and told him that I didn’t care for him anymore and I wanted him out of my life was the day I learned that he meant a lot to me.

“Brandon?” I said.

“Yeah?”

“I’m sorry about what I said our eighth grade year. I didn’t mean it. I was just tired of people judging you because you were hanging out with a girl that wasn’t into volleyball and basketball and well sports. But into band and singing and well dorky stuff. I’m sorry that I sat there for so long and let that happen to you. You know what I mean. The facts that for the whole year of eighth grade you were looked down on because of me.” I was feeling the same feelings I felt when I walked home after that day. The thought of his face well I told him he meant nothing to me and that I never wanted to talk or see him again.

“Ari.  Don’t worry about it. All that matters now is that I have you. I know what you’re talking about and after about a year I learned what you really did. I tried so hard to get you back but in the end everything I did I lost you even more. I hated that I didn’t have you in my life. You meant everything to me. I mean everything. You were my light, my angel. I did hate you for a time but I got over it. But one thing I didn’t tell you is that when I went to call you and you didn’t answer all those times, I thought well maybe it was because of me. Of what you said. How I was treating my best friend that I was in love with at the time. Even though I didn’t know.”

“Everything I said that day was a lie. I didn’t mean a word I said. I did it because I was told to do it. I had kids come up to me telling me that I wasn’t good to have you or be around you.”

 “I hated that I picked them over you. I hate myself that it ended up me losing my best friend. And not get you back tell the end of high school. I killed me to see you in the halls with Kaylee and then when saw you with that new kid when we were in tenth grade. I wanted to hit him when he kissed you at the games.”