True Love <3 by Brittany Richards (best books for 7th graders TXT) 📕

school one day, not knowing what to expect, but who does. When I sat down at my desk I realized there was a new kid sitting in the corner. No one was near him though. I studied him for a day, but everyone seemed to avoid him.

During recess I walked over to where he was sitting by the wall. His black hair hanging in his face, as if he was hiding from the world. Like he was trying to avoid people, but that wasn't going to stop me.

"Hey, I saw you were new but had no company. My name is Collin, what's yours?"

Hey looked up at me with big green eyes.

"Darren."

"I like that name," I added.

I slid my back down the wall and sat next to him.

"So how come you seem to be avoiding people?" I asked him.

At first he didn't answer me; we just sat there in silence for awhile.

"I'm not really a people person and no one really seems to like me anyways. Why are you talking to me? No one talks to me," he finally said. He had a small voice and I had to strain to hear him.

"Because no one else is," I answered. "And you seemed lonely."

We talked some more until the teacher yelled for us to go inside. We learned that we had a lot in common with each other. We soon became best friends and every recess we sat at that same place and talked.

~Chpater 10~

Darren looked over at me.

"What’s up?"

"Ahhh, nothing. I was just thinking," I said.

"About what?" he asked me.

"About the first day we met. How I was the one that went up to you when no one else did."

"We became best friends after that," Darren said, finishing my thoughts.

"Yeah," I continued, grabbing a hold of his hand.

In a matter of minutes we were standing in front of his house. I turned to him and wrapped my arms around his neck, and he wrapped his around my waist.

"I love you," I said to him with a large smile on my face.

He gave me a quick kiss and said, "I love you too."

Walking away he gave me a small wave bye, and I returned it with a wave of my own. Only after he had closed the door behind him, I started walking down the street again. 

It took me about ten minutes if I walked quickly to get home, but today I dragged my feet, causing me to take about half an hour.

When I got home my sister was standing in the doorway.

"So I liked your little moment at school today!" she yelled to me.

"You did, did you?" I said with a smirk.

She walked over to me and turned around to fallow me into the house.

"Why yes, I did. It was quite an interesting way to come out, don't you think? Don’t answer that. So how was school?"

My sister didn't feel 'well' this morning and wanted to stay home, so my mom let her.

"Ok. And how did you find out what happened at lunch?" She stayed home; there was no way she would have known.

"I have my people," she answered, laughing a little as she did. "Come on let’s get inside already!"

I hadn’t noticed that we'd been standing in the middle of the pathway this whole time. I turned around and headed in the house. Trying to avoid my sister from bothering me anymore, I quickly ran into my room. I threw my stuff on the floor and jumped onto my bed, landing face down into the pillow. I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling. I hadn't noticed how tired I was until now. So I fell asleep.

~Chapter 11~

It was cold out and I forgot a hoodie. I was walking to Darren's house. Being night time, the street lights were on. They reminded me of spot lights, following me, as I walked slowly down the street. 

I got to Darren's door and knocked. He answered. Though he was smiling, I could see sadness in his eyes. Darren didn't say anything, but he seemed to do all the talking with his eyes. Something was horribly wrong.

"What's wrong?" I asked him, a little scared of what his answer might be.

"I have to talk to you," he replied in a small voice, like he was trying to hide from the world, just like we had the first day we met.

He waved his hand inside the door as if to say to come in. So I did.

"What is it?" I asked, walking through the doorway.

"There is a problem," I nodded as to say 'what?' He continued, "You know I love you, right? But… but we just can't be together. I'm really sorry."

Suddenly my heart dropped and my chest felt heavy. Tears started to build up in my eyes. I tried to stop them, but I just couldn't.

"Wh- what! Are you breaking up with me?" I stuttered. I just couldn't believe it. "Wh- why?" I cried.

"I'm really sorry," he said again.

Suddenly my whole life went to waste, I felt like I had no reason to live anymore. I felt like the only thing I really cared about was being taken away.

Everything went dark and my eyes shot open. I quickly shot up into a sitting position. My heart felt like it was going to tear open my chest it was pounding so hard.

I slid my knees up to my chest and rested my head on them.

"It's only a dream, it's only a dream," I told myself out loud over and over again. I struggled to talk though, for my breathing was so heavy. I tried to calm myself down.

I sat there, with my arms wrapped around my legs, staring at the walls. For awhile I thought about what would happen if he really did leave me. What would I do? How could I deal with myself?

~Chapter 12~

The next day was hard to deal with. Every time I saw Darren, I thought about the nightmare that I had the night before. I couldn’t deal with myself if he left me, I would blame it all on myself. That it was all my fault that he left me.

Darren walked up to me and put his arm around my waist. We walked in silence for awhile. "What's wrong, you seem so sad?" he looked down at me with the same green eyes I saw when we were only in third grade. Eyes filled with sorrow, with concern. I shook my head, trying to blow it off, but it apparently didn't work. "There is seriously something wrong," he said stopping me. He faced me and put his hands on my shoulders. I had to look up, cause by now he was almost a foot taller then me. "Come on tell me. You know you can tell me. What is it? What's bugging you?" he continued.

"I know this might be a weird question, but do you ever think about leaving me?" I asked, tears building up in my eyes again with the thought of it.

"Of course not! What would bring such nonsense up in your head? What, are you thinking about leaving me? Are you doubting us? 'Cause if you are, just tell me now, cause I'll try to fix what you think is wrong," he quickly said. He said it so fast I don’t even think he took a breath the entire time.

At first I didn’t answer him. Of course I wasn't doubting us, and I sure as hell wasn't going to break up with him, I loved him too much for that.

"Are you doubting us?" he now sounded more concerned then before.

I quickly gave him a kiss. "I would never doubt us, never in a million years. I love you too much to leave, you should know that!" I said finally.

He stared at me for a moment. "Then how comes you brought it up?" he asked.

I wasn't going to bring up the dream, not knowing what he might say if I told him. Knowing him he might get concerned. "I was just wondering." I tried to change the subject, "So what are you planning on doing tonight?"

"Hanging out with you, of course. That's if you are available," he said with a smirk and we started walking again, in silence again.

When we finally got to his house I turned to him. "Of course I'm available," I said and smiled at him. I followed him into his house and shut the door behind me. "So what do we have planned today?" I asked.

"Well… Collin… my parents are out of town for the week, so I was wondering if you would like to stay here for the week."

I didn’t know what to say. What would my parents say? "Um, I don’t know if I can. What would my mother say? I'd have to come up with an excuse to be here for the week," I said.

"You never told your mother about us? Oh my, what am I going to do with you? You have to tell her sometime, you know!" he laughed a little.

"But I'm worried about what she will say!"

"What if I helped you tell your mother? Would you do it then?"

"Would you actually do it for me? Oh thank you, thank you!" I ran over to him and hugged him.

"I'll take that as a yes," he said, laughing a little as he did.