He had always been so standoffish, but then again it was what she found so interesting. Who was homecoming King and yet shy and quiet around everyone? He taught her how to play chess and she taught him that it’s okay to open up occasionally.

She had always been the adventurous one and yet no matter where she went he was never far from her mind. People came and went but she never lost contact with him though he didn’t make it easy to maintain the long distance friendship.

She thought perhaps she was in love with him, that maybe just maybe he was supposed to be her ‘one.’ He had kissed her one night as he stopped the car to drop her off at home and it was like her world was finally in color. And then there was nothing more. No conversation about the kiss, no more kisses and for quite a while it was like they ceased altogether. But he had come back and she, well she was smart enough to know what couldn’t be said and so mourned privately for a relationship never to be. Perhaps they weren’t meant to be. Perhaps