Chapter 1: Part 2

The school year was going by fast. I couldn't even tell what was happening. It never really occurred to me at this point that I was going to be leaving high school pretty soon, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go to the middle of my freshman year...

It was a very, very confusing time in my life... I was thirteen and all my social life was at this point was well... movie with the guys once in a while. Hangin' out with them from time to time, computer games and whatnot. I was going out to meet girls, for the first time in large groups. My other girl friends were from golf, or village people, friends of cousins, and well... I met them through people. How was I supposed to go up to one now?

We were in Leo's house. Watching some videos, playing video games, normal thirteen year-old stuff. There was pizza, so, we had a bite, not realizing we didn't have any tooth brushes, and the pizza was cheese and garlic, in short, our breaths were gonna smell. Uh-oh.

We had to brush teeth with our hands, not realizing that mouthwash was one solution.

About an hour later, we were heading for the venue. I was nervous.

There were a lot of activities, games, food, music. I didn't know how to act, I just tried to get even a little bit attention. There were some girls that caught my attention. There were some girls I was never going to forget, though they won't remember me. There were some girls I never talked to, and some that I will never, ever remember.

All I remember was that there was this girl I had in mind. Her name was Nina... something. I forget her last name. We were playing charades, and I was a total freak. I didn't know what to do or say, I was fucking nervous.

We got "Valentine's Day" as our topic. While she, nicely, made a suggestion on what we should do, I silently, in an aggressive tone, said: "we're doing that already!" Wow, what a first impression! Epic fail, am I right? That wouldn't end well.

Towards the end, I asked for her phone number, and, well.... she told me to ask from someone else. I could clearly tell she wanted nothing to do with me, but my hard head wouldn't allow me to think otherwise. I retrieved her number from my friend, Ryan. The day did not end as I wanted it to, but I remember meeting someone here that I didn't know I'd run into ever again, Maia. Oh, and I don't remember if I'd asked for it, but I got someone else's number.

Her name was Sab. Hmm...