A Fair Choice

ause it’s taken me this long just to get ready to leave. Minutes before the Ice resurfacing machine took to the ice, I fe

g my multiple attempts, they don’t even come to the rink anymore. As I get up from the bench, I feel this new pulling sensation in my hamstrings. I hob

ry and choosing a spot closer to the front doors. I hobble through the parking lot with my skating bag slung over my shoulder, each st

Her patience with me is wearing thin, and her dedication to our friendship is sorely being tested frequently. As my butt clumsily hits the car seat, a slight pain sears down my calf, I swear to myself things are going to be d

o spare. I carefully lower myself onto my assigned chair. Devotion is only ten minutes long, so I know I will hav

desk and my chair for support I slowly rise as the static plays with bits of the anthem in the background. The School Board really needs to invest in n

day and the only time he notices me is when I’m lame. He stands at least six feet tall making him the shortest guy on our school’s basketball team. His shaggy dirty blond hair hangs over the most gorgeous set of puppy-dog brown eyes

ty look for talking during her attendance. He ignores her just nodding back when his name is ca

eed to our first period. I ease myself out of my chair and swing my bag over m

that looked at

nd he catches me. Oh my God! I’m breathless as I find myself in his arms, the most gorgeous guy in the tenth grade. I so can’t wait to tell Anna. He helps me up and lets me le

wasn’t this bad before.” “

ve my mother’s

drive?” He asks, his

ulder and then hoists me up into his arms. Suddenly my day is getting a whole lot better. I wrap my arms around his neck touching his soft ha

s at her lips and then into her eyes before looking back down at her lips again. I swear if we would have been anywhere but here, in the corridor of the school he probably would have kissed me. The mood is instantaneously lost

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ne back into my bag and try not to look over in