Love is not only Romance

Chapter 1

As this story begins, I am a 14-year-old girl, named Keehara Smith. Wallflower, not entirely lost yet.

I always noticed her. It was hard not to. She was quite a loud girl, but not as loud as her best friend, Alexa. I always felt like there was a need for me to dislike her. Why? Maybe I was too influenced by my friends. They didn't like her. They seemed to dislike the way she was always so loud, friendly, and how her kindness would seem like flirting. Were they threatened? I don’t have the answer but maybe just maybe they were scared. Scared that she might become involved with me. She might become a friend of mine and we would all lose who we are in our group. If they did feel that way, I understand why they were afraid, all the possibilities became unknown after fate came to play.

Next to me in maths class was one of the most annoying guys ever, sorry but I am not sorry. He would take any chance he got to work on my last nerve and mind you I am a very calm person. At the time, I loved math, sounds nerdish but I really did. My average ranged between 75-85% and it was my pride. This boy, Sean, was a distraction, a nuisance to me. Luck was on my side and my teacher noticed this. She was having none of it, after all, I was one of her best students. She finally decided to change the seating plan of the class. My classmates were now unhappily jumping from one seat to the next, and I stayed seated. I was in the back of the class, second last seat against the wall. I liked it better, people didn't bother me as much and no one noticed if I ever zoned out; that happened a lot. Sean was told to move, and relief washed over my entire body and I thanked the heavens while praying that I don't get someone like him. I may sound mean, but I can promise it's not all the time.

“Elle” The teacher speaks but there was no reply.

“Elle!?” she speaks louder, now catching the girl's attention, it seemed like she was zoned out, staring at the sky through the classroom windows.

“Yes mam?” from her voice I could tell she was a bit embarrassed.

“I need Sean right in front, so if you could please swap with him” my teacher smiled at her and she nodded. She slowly got her stuff and made her way to the seat next to me. “Keehara can you move to the seat next to you and Elle move against the wall?”

Well way to be specific. I held in a groan and moved over. Elle made her way to my previous seat and awkwardly say down.

“Hi. I'm Elle” I wanted to laugh and say yeah I know, Madam Waynes just said your name like 4 times, but I held it in. I am not a mean person. Maybe it's their influence on me.

“Keehara” I gave her one of my shy, awkward smiles.

She fidgeted for a while before the lesson started, I didn't blame her. I always made things awkward.

I've heard about her before. I've heard the rumors. I silently looked at her and wondered how could she be a man-stealer, or in this case a boy-stealer? Well I understand why she would do it, she was beautiful, she probably got any guy she wanted. A small amount of jealousy rose in me, but I pushed it down.

You have other things to worry about. Being jealous of someone isn't going to help you in any way.

The lesson went on and she mumbled her complaints about the subject. It made me smile. She was funny, my type of funny if it makes sense. Once we got our activity I started and flew through the questions. She was stuck, it seemed. I turned to her and offered help. She accepted. I spend the rest of the lesson helping her understand the beauty of plotting on a graph and finding the co-ordinates. I would say I'm a good teacher because she didn't have any complaints.

Now that I look back at this moment, I thank every person I can think of. I thank my mum and dad for giving me this life. I thank her mum and dad for giving her this life. I thank god for giving everyone life. I thank my teacher for placing her next to me. I thank myself for trying to be social. I thank her, for being her.

This moment is the start of change. The start of a journey. I would never have thought that. Never in a million years. But it really was and if I could, I would go back and relive this day exactly how it played out the first time, a thousand and two times over.