the story but different

Long ago, in elementary school, I had my first love, and his name was Parker. It was grade three when he started going to a different school. I thought I’d never see him again. Six years later, I had kind of forgotten about him. We were now going into grade eight and he started coming to the high school. Most times in movies and books two people fall in love get separated then when they are brought back together they fall in love right away. Well for us it was nothing like that. We came back into each other's lives, but to me we weren’t really even friends.

We lived on like this for most of the school year. We never really talked that much, nor did we even hangout very much. I didn’t really mind much. To me Parker was someone in my past that didn’t mean that much to me now. I was happy with only having my other two very good friends Bell and Olivia. Throughout the year I became friends with Josh who just happened to be Parker's best friend, but still things didn't change with us.

Things kept going on like this for a while until one Saturday in June, Parker was on his way to the city, and I was sitting in my bedroom. Both of us had nothing to do so we started texting each other. We texted all day, learning more about each other, learning about what had happened in the years we were apart. I learned a lot that day not knowing that was only the beginning of what I would later know.

After talking for a bit we didn't know what else to say so I asked him,"Is there anything you want to know about me?"

He replied,"If I ask you a question you have to ask me one too. I guess."

Then he asked,"Would you ever date a girl?"

I responded," Probably not," not knowing that later on that answer would change.

It was my turn to ask a question, and I asked the only thing that came to mind, "Would you ever date me? "

He replied, "If you wanted to date me, yeah."

I said "Cool. I'd probably date you too if you wanted," not knowing what I had just said would change my life.

Our conversation went back to a normal conversation for a bit until Parker sent a weird picture of himself, and I commented on it, "What happened here we went from talking about dating each other to a random picture of you."

Then Parker asked " Can I ask you one more question?"

I didn't think much of it and said "Sure."

He asked, "Do ya wanna, date??"

Not knowing he had just asked me out I replied, "Do you? Kind of."

He answered back, "I mean, yeah."

At this point I was kinda confused because I had never been asked out, but someone had asked me, like that, if I wanted to date people other than themselves. Thus saying I asked, "Wait do you mean each other or other people?"

He, probably confused, replied, "Each other."

Knowing I would have said the same thing no matter what he answered, I said, " Ok good."

Parker's response to this was, "Hella sweet."

I, still being kinda confused asked, "So what does this mean?"

He replied again, “Lit means we're dating I guess."

Neither one of us expected this to happen. I had never dated someone before, and he wasn't looking for a girlfriend, but somehow we came together. Right away I told Bell and Olivia, and Parker told Josh. The three of them were shocked. Josh was scared of his two best friends dating, breaking up, and then hating each other. Olivia didn’t like Parker very much, and her and Bell thought people our age shouldn't be dating. Bell and Olivia had known me for so long and didn't think I'd date someone for along time.

The last two weeks of school passed on and summer soon started. I went to spend time with my grandparents, so Parker and I were an hour and a half apart. I thought to myself, there is no way our relationship will even last a week. We were an hour and a half apart and wouldn't be able to see each other until school started again.

I was right. Our relationship didn't last past summer, but it lasted for one month and two weeks. We ended up breaking up because Parker thought we were better off as friends. A week after we broke up we were talking, and it finally hit me that our relationship was over. I cried for hours, but I didn't tell him that.

About two weeks or so, after we broke up, Parker was in a relationship again, but this time with a guy he met online. I didn’t know this until I was in my own relationship with a girl I met online about a month after our break up. I dated this girl for just over a week until she started saying things like how she didn’t know if she wanted to date me. I told her we should take a break until she knew what she wanted. A few days later we were back together, but then she broke up with me getting mad at me and saying it was all my fault. After this I became in a bad place, and Parker helped me out of it only for me to help him with a break up a week later.

Parker was the first love of my life and I'll always love him. After we broke up we became better friends then we had ever been. We now know everything about each other. We can trust each other. When one of us isn't in a good mood the other can cheer them up. Just because you date and break up doesn't mean you can't be the best of friends in the end. If I had the chance to do something like this again, I'd gladly do it if it meant I'd get a friend even half as good as Parker.

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