After months of the same routine, Christiana unexpectedly announced to me that she liked Collin. I looked at her dismayed.
"What?" I asked her extremely shocked, so shocked I dropped my book I was holding.
"You heard me!" She spat out.
I leaned over to pick up the book I had dropped from the shock. Not only from the shock of her declaration, but the shock from the change in her voice and attitude. Like she was someone completely different than a few minutes ago.
"Um, okay. Where did that come from?"
I tried my best not to sound upset. If this was indeed true, why hadn't she said anything until now? Weren't we friends? I began to get an upset stomach in addition to the headache I already had.
Christiana went on to explain to me how things were going to go down, and since Collin was my friend only and not my boyfriend, to back off and give her a chance since she really liked him and thought they belonged together. At first I thought she was kidding and started laughing witch only made her angry at me.
"Are you being serious right now, Christiana?" I looked up at her from my desk in disbelief . "Not once in all these months that we talked about boys did you ever say anything!"
"That's because I had to make sure you really weren't boyfriend and girlfriend first. " she smirked.
"So you mean you lied first? Were you ever my friend or were you just trying to get information?" I couldn't believe this was happening.
"Don't think so highly of yourself, as if you're beyond reach just because you're "friends ". And don't bother hanging out with him anymore, everyone knows I like Collin and he is off limits. Don't you dare go near him unless you want to labeled a boyfriend stealer. "
"Wow! You sure got this all planned out don't you? Well, let me tell you a little secret; You may think you have won, but Collin will never fall for any of your tricks!"
I saw a look cross her eyes, but only for a mere second, her arrogance not allowing her to even think that there could be a possibility of it being true.
"Sure, you keep thinking that." she challenged as she picked up her purse and walked off.
I couldn't believe this was happening. Was I really that nieve. I did promise myself that I wouldn't be so hard on myself and to be more trusting of people, but at what cost? I trusted the wrong person and now she was out to ruin my life.
I sat alone at my desk for a few minutes deep in thought. Everyone had left earlier already when Christiana had said she wanted to talk to me about something. I figured she had wanted to go over the materials together, but I was very wrong.
I sat there thinking about Collin and what he would say about what had just happened. He would definitely laugh and think the whole idea of someone forcing their love on him rubbish, which made me smile. What Collin and I had was special. We may not be boyfriend and girlfriend, but that didn't mean I didn't care about him or that I didn't love him. Of course I did, but our love wasn't that kind of love yet. It wasn't ready for that kind of validation. We were happy being friends that loved each other without being in love with each other. He was special to me and I to him. Why couldn't people just let us be. We were happy about how things were going so far. But now, it was about to be a mess.
A tear rolled down my face. I knew that things were about to change , I just didn't realize how much it would be or how much it would cost.
Maybe if things had turned out differently we could have fought this battle side by side. But then again, I was still a child, and there were some things beyond my control and understanding.
I went home with these heavy thoughts on my mind but they quickly vanished and were put on the back burner because once I opened the door to my home, my world came crashing down.
I walked into my home just in time to witness my lovely sister hit the ground.
Everyone immediately went into panic mode. You'd think we'd have a system down and be able to call nine one one. But that was something I never wanted to ever get used to.