“Today I’m the one taking you on a date.” Ryo says smiling at me excitedly. She smiles as we walk into her mother’s plant room. I smile back at her feeling like the luckiest guy alive. The past two weeks have been the best time of my life. I’ve been going on multiple dates and for the first time in my life I’m enjoying dating. I look forward to these dates with her. I always look forward to planning them, the exciting anticipation leading up to the date and the actual dates are always a dream. “I feel like this is turning into a competition.” I say and she turns nodding at me. I laugh because that’s not the point of us having these dates. I look around at the plants feeling so happy. There’s so much magic in this room. I need to convince my parents to create a room like this at the house. I bet it would do wonders for all our moods. Maybe we would get along better. “Oh. It most definitely is. I’m having fun trying to out-plan you on these dates.” She says and I shake my head at her h
The School gardensI take a deep breath trying to calm down. It’s day three of school being back. And all three days have been filled with watching Ryo and Oliver being happy. I sigh as my eyes drift back to where they’re sitting and having their lunch. No matter how hard I try to ignore them I always gravitate towards them.My heart breaks at the sight of them together. I hate to see them together but I can’t deny the fact that Oliver looks happy. I don’t remember him being this happy when we were together. We barely spent any time together but he can’t seem to stay away from this girl. I want what they have, I want to inspire the feelings in him that she does.“I hate her.” I say taking a bite of my sandwich, I can’t taste anything. I’m just eating because I have to. I may be stressed out about Oliver parading his little girlfriend. But I’m going to eat, I need all the str
Once upon a time I was the one Oliver loved. I was the one that he looked at with starry eye. I was his it girl. And he would call me his princess. I smile rembering his voice when he could me by this pet name. I remember a time when he couldn't live without me. I thought I was the one he couldn't live without, his love made me feel that way. And the whole town knew it too. There was a time when I was "Marlene the girl who bagged the richest boy in town." Everyone wanted to be my friend, they wnted to breathe the same air as me. They wanted a taste of the life I lived with him. The girls wantred to be me and the bouys wanted me for themselves. For a glorious year I was loved, pampred and envied.But now they look at me with hate and disgust. It's incredible how quickly people will switch up on you as soon as they decide you are not popular enough. They have forgotten who I used to be. I can admit that I acted out of charater when everything ended with Oliver but the truth is I w
Ryo is not better than me.I am the ioriginal IT Girl. She's just a shy forgatable nobody.She is not pretier than meI am the girl who's style other girls copy. I am the one with over 10 000 followers on Instagram. I'm the girl everyone is excited to see show up at the school formal.And she is definetely not smarter than me."I mean she has better grades than me but she doesn't have street smarts." I say to the silence in my car as I drive home. The realization that hit me in the bathroom stall ealier fueling my soul.I am the one boys lust after.I am going to make that meek little girl break up with Oliver. She's not going to know what hit her when I'm done with her. I am going to make her life such a living hell she's going to beg me to take him back."I just have to play my cards right." I say smilling, I finally feel like myself again. I
The next morningThe moment I open my eyes and Oliver pops into my mind. I feel energized. I have to believe that my plan is going to work. The love I have for him has to pull us through here.I reach out for my phone and open Oliver and I's text threads. I scroll through and see all of our conversations. There was so much love between us, we used to text everyday all day.He used to love updating me on his day every second. We had a stoy book love, we took care of each other. We were giddy and in love.It went bad in the end but it was beautiful in the beginning. The more I think about it, the more my heart breaks. I don't know how we let this go so bad. I know I contributed to the relationship ending but I feel like we quit too quickly.I sit up on the bed and start my text to Oliver. I am taking a leap of faith here. This has to work.Hey
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I say looking at Jameson staring at me. When I asked him to hang out I wasn't thinking of this. We haven't hung out just the two of us in a long time. I was thinking we would meet up, play a few games and have a relaxed drama free morning. I didn't want to talk about my ex. But that's all he's done since he got here. We haven't even played one board game. He just had to tell me about how freaked out he is. Marlene is making him miss sleep again. Well it's not like that but it is. I stare at him for a second wishing we were not havng this conversation. Our life is consumed by relationships and girlfriend drama lately. It's like my relationship with Ryo and everything that comes with it has taken over our entire existence. "I don't think you're hearing me." He says and I sigh. "I have a bad feeling about Marlene. You need to watch out for her." He says looking at me intently. "I feel like we've had this exact conversation before or I cou
"You look like you're deep in thought" Marlene says behind me. I look up and see a few people looking at us. We're in the library and she's talking pretty loudly. I convince myself that th's why they are staring at ud right now. I don't want to give the other thought any space right now.I turn around to look at her and she's smiling. I respond with half a smile and she winks at me. I raise my brows in surprise and she waves her hand at me."Are you okay?" She asks whispering, she sits in the chair next to me. I look around us again and people are still staring at us."I'm alright." I say pushing my chair .ack. I create space between us. She's leaning into my face and I don't feel comfortable ."Is that all I'm gonna get from you. two word sentences? Or three letters." She says looking at me for a second and then she looks away."I...uhm" I start to say and she sighs."Nevermind you don't have to exp
The sun is bright in the sky. The blue sky is spread to as far as the eye can seen. I set a up blanket for us in my parent's backyard. I was supposed to plan some grand date and go all out but I thought this would be so much more Ryo's speed.The plum tree is in full bloom, the pink flowers are so bright. Their beauty is breathtaking and I knew she would love it. I love it too. I've seen these flowers so many times and they never inspired this type of emotions in me before. Suddenly I appreciate everything a little bit more. And I can attribute this new found appreciation to the beautiful being next to me. It's like she transferred her love for nature to me.Ryo has become the light and color in my life. Her influence is beautiful.She's lying on her side serene as ever. It always boggles my mind how she can be so gorgeous doing absolutely nothing. She chose to wear a yellow floral flowy dress today. She looks like she stepped out of thos