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The Day
It has been two months since they've told you he is interested in you, and well, you definitely know you're interested in him. It is more than attraction and interest. For you, it is love. A college girl love. For the last few weeks, you’ve been gathering the courage to go and talk to him. The idea of getting to know him and letting him know you always excites you, but fear always manages to stop you.
One day, a week before summer, just as you are thinking about him, he suddenly appears, as he usually does. It is as if you invoke him with your thoughts. You look at him, and he looks at you and gives you a little sided smile that makes you think he knows he has been on your mind. This makes you feel confident; you feel as if he wants you to talk to him, so you kind of take courage and go ahead. You walk towards him, and halfway through, you stop, your knees shake, your heart pounds, your mind trembles. You are so nervous. You don't know what you will say or how he will react, and you start to wonder if it is worth to take the shot. You bail out for the hundredth time and go back to where you were. It is another day without getting to know him.
Later that day, as all the others, you dream about how it would have been if you had talked to him. But this time, you know things are kinda different. You have just one week before you go back to your home for vacation, and you will not see him for some months. You know this means a lot of days without the chance of talking to him… but even this does not encourage you. What happens if you are not enough? Or if you are not what he thinks? All these questions stop you. You let the days pass, and it is summer. He is gone, and you are gone too.
Summer feels like an eternity without seeing him everyday, but it is finally over. You go back to college a little hopeful. Maybe this is your time, maybe he’ll talk to you, or maybe fear won’t stop you. You just now know hope is within you, and your love for him has grown. You need to talk to him.
Two or three days after you are back, you are standing in the same place you were that one last time you saw him. You remember about it, and you start to wonder when he will come back, when you will see him again. And just as your mind is traveling those paths once more, he suddenly appears. You just need to see him for one second to know that it is definitely not over. You keep watching him for a little, but this time something inside you feels different, as if this day is “The Day”. For some reason, you feel encouraged to go and talk to him like no time before. Maybe it is that you realized that even months of not seeing him can’t make you forget about him, or maybe he got a tan and he looks way more attractive than he did before. You do not know what it is, but something gives you that little push you needed, and you know this is the time.
You stand, you walk towards him, you smile at him, you feel hopeful and somehow a little loved. You wave at him, he waves back at you, and just as you are about to reach him, you see him turn the other way around and shout "Hey, sweetie, come here. I want you to meet my friends". You turn around and see a girl, a girl you haven’t seen before. He looks at her and smiles; she walks towards him, and they kiss... Just as you watch this, things turn a little dizzy for you, a little odd, a little sad. The only thing you are able to do at that moment is stopping. You turn around, and you feel your knees shake, your heart pound, and your mind tremble, but this time you know it is for another reason.
