before you knew me, i knew you
The day I met you was dreadfully normal. I still can’t believe you walked into my life the way someone would walk into a McDonald’s. By the way you changed my life, I would have imagined your entrance like something out of a movie- wind blowing through your reddish hair while I stood there in awe and the world would stop and you would ignore everyone and look at me with understanding eyes, like you chose me right away. This, however, was not the case. Your eyes had not followed mine as I watched you walk down the hall, right past me, adjusting your backpack on your shoulder. You didn’t give a second glance to anybody, not even Stacey Mitchell, the nicest, prettiest girl at school that waved to you in a friendly way. You just walked on to your locker like you owned the place. Faces of disgust followed you, but they didn’t know that you were fighting a battle much bigger than their owns. You needed to act confident and cocky, otherwise it would happen all over again, and the memories haunted you still as you laid up late at night, sweating in your boxers, recalling a childhood not meant for such a fragile boy. If I would have known earlier what your past was full of, I would have dropped my history book and gathered you in my arms, like I do now. I would have wept for you so that you never had to blink away tears that first week of high school. But, you made it clear that your world was separate from everyone else’s, so we left you that way. But, curiosity always got the best of me. I barged into your life and you were unprepared, caught off-guard while you sat with your illusions and played with words that floated in your mind like clouds hovered in the sky. You were too intelligent for our mundane classes and sad excuse for a secondary school. You longed to be free of the chains of teenage preventions. I saw the look in your eyes when you thought nobody was paying attention. It was almost like you were pleading to let go. I knew that wherever you went, I wanted to go too. I dropped everything in my life and devoted my time to getting to know the boy that hid away from the world and wished to fly on angel’s wings. Because, I too, had a heart that wanted to be free, and I knew, behind those cold stares, that you could change me.
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sincerelyyhope said:
you’re amazing. just saying.
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