A Different Kind of Love

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    I get to the street corner and I hear a car coming down the road. Instinctively I put my head down in order to not make eye contact with the person coming down the road, I see it as weird. The music is loud about a football field length, geez the person's ears must be on fire. I get closer to the building on the sidewalk, as the car gets closer. Car keeps getting closer and I'm hoping it just keeps going straight, but as it gets next to me it screeches to a stop. Making a ringing sound in my ears. The music is lowered and my anxiety shoots up to the roof, I'm getting ready to break into a run when I hear. "Leigh!" Turning around to see that it was Hazel. Making my nightmare shoot through my head again and making my heart twinge. "Hey Hazel!" I saw, never the less excited to see her. She is my crush after all. "I was just coming to pick you up!" She says which makes me surprised, she's makes it seem like we've known each other longer than we really have. Gosh I love her, I don't know how she does it. It takes me forever to get to know people, and I don't think I was ever really close to people. I think she's the first one that I'm sort of close to, at least she makes it feel like we are close. I start to walk over to Hazel's car, how can I say no! Hazel smiles when she sees me walking to her car. Then she jumps out making me jump. I watch as she goes to the passenger side, I hope she doesn't want me to drive. "Here we go!" She says opening the door and waiting. She opened the door for me, just this thought makes me blush. 

    I get in and she closes the door, walks around and gets in the driver side. Hazel turns the radio back on making me jump, dang my ears. How does she stand it that loud? "Oh sorry!" She says. "Oh, it's fine!" I say with a smile, recognizing the song. It's by a lesbian singer, hey if it's this music I'll get used to the volume. She goes to turn it down but I put my hand in the way and shake my head in an 'it's okay, I like it like this' and she seems to understand as she puts the car in drive. I can't tell if she's singing or lip syncing but she's still looks so beautiful, I don't know how she does it! This song ends and my favorite song turns on right after, usually I don't sing in other peoples vehicles (I feel too awkward) but I can't stop myself for this song. This song is also sung by a lesbian singer. I'm just singing when suddenly Hazel turns down the music, which of course I didn't know she was going to do that so she heard me sing. "I love heeeerrrr~..." It was a part with moving of vocal. I look out the window blushing, I don't really sing in front of people. "Hey, wait that was really good Leigh! How did you do that?!" She says with amazement clear in her voice. "I, .... I don't know." I say honestly. "That was so good! You should join the talent show that's happening in a month from now!" "I don't know Hazel.... That was only barely a sentence." "I can tell a good voice when I hear one." "I'll see..." "If you do, I can sing with you if you'd like!" "I'd like that.." "Awesome!" "We get to hang out more!" We both say at the same time, I said it without thinking. "When did I say we couldn't hang out often?!" We say together again and we burst out laughing. 

    We get to the school about 20 minutes early, oops she must have been speeding a bit. Whatever, I won't tell! Grabbing my things from the car, I start thinking about what we should do in our free/extra time. "Here, come on!" Hazel says grabbing my hand and leading me somewhere. All I can focus on is the feel of her hand, and the tingling sensation I get from the contact of hers and mine. We don't go in the school but the woods to the side of the school building. The woods look the woods from my nightmare. I might just be hallucinating but I don't know they look pretty fricking similar. We go a bit farther into the woods and there it is, the cliff from my nightmare. "Leigh, would you like to come out here with me sometime?" She's says looking away with a shy expression on her face, leaving me speechless and scared. What if my nightmare comes to life.... "Uh, sure. When, and what would you like to do when we come back to here?" I say sounding enthusiastic, more then I thought it would have come out. "Thank goodness, I was really nervous asking that. Maybe we could come out here on Friday? And I'd like to watch the sunset again like we did over by the Ice Cream Parlor? Maybe we could go get dinner together first..?" She says stuttering here and there. This isn't like my nightmare! Feeling relieved and happy I say. "Okay, I'd like that!" With a smile we both walk back to the school and it was a good thing we did because we were almost late to our first class. Whoops! "Glad you could make it Leigh and Hazel." Mrs. Stones says in a not so pleased voice that we were almost late. 

    I go through all of my classes, I was able to finish all the given homework in the classes. So I'm excited as I walk towards History. I'm weary of the doors. I walk into the class and Hazels already here. She waves me over. "Hi." I say sitting in my seat next to her. "Hey! I got the forms for the talent show if you wanna sign up." She says handing one to me. I look over at hers and she has it all filled out, and I really want to sing with her so I go ahead and sign the sheet.