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By Jenny Thomas
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I had been walking along, minding my own buisness, doing what I do best. Keeping away from people. I ran into someone and I recognized them as someone I met when I was younger. Her name was Emily. In a way we appeared to be sisters. We looked alot alike. Let alone all the questions when most people first met us being, "Are you guys sisters?" After a time we just said we were. We felt like it. SHe introduced me to the group she hung out with and I got along well enough with them.
Then came the day that He appeared. At the time all I could think of was he was big. Twice my size in fact. His name was Matt. We became great friends. As school progressed through the year, we went through hell and back together. He protected me lik he thought I needed it. Of course, I was quite capable myself. If I got into fights, he backed me up. He was there when i needed him the most. Then one day he asked me out. Course I said no. He had asked two others before me and that kind of went rough on me. After all, I had been third choice. Then he threatened to kill himself. I panicked but still refused to be his girlfriend. I really wish I had said yes.
One night at Emily's I finally discovered something new. He had saved me once again and was comforting me. He was talking to me, trying to stop me from crying but I couldn't. He had then said something that had tore my heart from my chest. He said, "I love you like a sister." I didn't know why it did but it stopped my tears. I am so certain he would have said something else but Emily came out to look for me.
As the year closed, Emily went on homestudies. She didn't like the school. I hated it myself. Myself and Matt remained good friends. He came over during the summer once or twice and we had a ball. It was fun. During the middle of my sophmore year was when I beleive I made my mistake. I decided to go on homestudies as well. He didn't try to stop me as I pulled away from everyone and everything.
About a few months later he came over to my house and we hung out during the summer for about a few days. After that, I never heard anything from him. When I heard from Emily a year after I went on Homestudies, I discovered that Matt had gone and done the things that he had told me to never do. It shattered me inside. I refused it at first but then I called a few other people and they confirmed it. He had betrayed me in the worst way possible. It was then that I had realized that I loved him. Of course, I hadn't allowed myself to lean on anyone for years and I didn't then. i slowly rotted away inside. The final blow to my heart came about 8 months later. A month before going back into my senior year, my grandmother died. The only one I felt connected to. I went back to school heavy in heart and discovered another death. Another of my friends Chris had died in a skateboarding accident.
Even still, Matt always lingered at the edge of my mind, killing me inside. Even now I think of him and what it could have been. But things can't be changed now. All I can say is Bon Voyage to my friendship and my heart. I know that I am at least able to get one of them back. I'm just not sure witch one.
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