Eight Years Apart (Pt. 2)

We left off where I gave him a hug. Did you think that would be the ending of this lovely story. Once I hugged him tight, he hugged me tighter than anyone has before. This lasted for a few minutes. At this moment, another boy stepped into my life. Let’s not get to that point right now. We will say his name is Andrew. He wanted to challenge me in who’s stronger. I accepted his challenge and we started pushing each other to the ground, and whoever falls to the ground first, loses. Luckily, I didn’t fall to the ground. Of course he did. Maybe he was playing soft just to see me happy that I won over him, but that didn’t matter to me. I was having a great time with him, but then, someone showed up...

Remember that boy I was talking about earlier? That another boy would come into my life? Well, that boy is his cousin. By that time I didn’t have feelings for the guy I met eight years back, because many years had past, and I had to move on from him. The only reason why I moved on from him was because I thought, what if he had a girlfriend at that moment. I wasn’t going to waste my time. His cousin was so sweet to me. I would always catch him staring at me. Whenever I saw him staring, he would have a smile on his face.I sat on the sofa and then suddenly something happened.

His cousin said, “is this seat was taken?”

I said, “no, it isn’t taken.”

I was freaking out because he was so close to me. It seemed he wanted to hold my hand. After my mom called me, to say that I had to leave, he came up to me and asked me for my Snapchat. Of course I said yes, because I wanted to get to know him better. Then, I asked him for his snap and he gave it to me. When I was in my car, I was screaming for happiness. From that moment we started to text nonstop. We would text everyday, every hour, and every minute.

Until he asked me if we could FaceTime—I was pretty excited, but at the same time nervous, because, what if I said something stupid? So many doubts entered my head, but that wouldn’t stop me from FaceTiming him. I told him, yeah, we can FaceTime. Don’t you love it when you FaceTime someone, and you have one of those long deep conversations? Well this was one of those conversations. We would talk about everything. We would talk about how he would love a family, and that he wanted a girlfriend. Even one time we talked about the chance that we'd see each other at some place. Well that would be insane. A few weeks after something happened: I saw him. I didn’t know that he would be at the same party as me, but there he was. I was pretty shocked that after talking about the chance we'd see each other, I saw him a few weeks later. I texted him saying to come towards me so I could give him a big hug. So I hugged him. It was one of those hugs where it goes on and on. Until, I decided to let go of him. He needed to go back with his family. A few hours later, I told him I was leaving. Whenever I saw him he had a sad face. Until, out of nowhere he came up to me and hugged me.

That moment he said, “Lily, I love you.”