If one word were used to describe Margot Smith it would beā¦amazing. She was the most well rounded individual in the high school, being a good athlete, a talented artist and musician, and she still retained a 4.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Margot was the picture of popularity, but she never showed it. She was just as at ease playing football with the jocks after a basketball game, as she was at going shopping with the preps and snobs, and needless to say, she could hold her own in an intellectual debate against the geeks and smart kids.
Margot was 5 foot, 8 inches tall, about 141 pounds, sported an athletically fit and toned body, and had amazingly vivid green eyes, just like the color of fresh cut grass, and she always seemed to smell like the most enchanting smell, lilacs. Margotās hair was strait, waist length, and dark brown, and as thick as hair came. She had a killer smile that would stop any guy in his tracks.
Her chest was about a 34C, and she had a nice, medium oval ass. Margot played the drums, clarinet, trumpet, enjoyed ceramics, painting, and sculpting, participated on all five of the school academic teams, as well as the schoolās basketball, tennis, field hockey and ice hockey teams. The only thing that wasnāt perfect about Margot, it seemed, was her significant other, Drake.
Drake Wright was justā¦different. He didnāt have many friends, and the ones he did have were rude and obnoxious. Not that Drake was ever rude or obnoxious; he was a gentleman, especially when Margot or Meg as he called her was around. Drake was tall, at 6 foot 1 inch, and was on the skinny side, weighting in at only about 140 pounds. However, he possessed the most beautiful colored eyes, a baby blue, that seemed to have Margot melt before him without much effort on his part. He also had thin hair, which he kept kind of short, and it was a dusty straw-color.
Drake and Margot met somewhere back near first or second grade, she sat in front of him in class, and he stared calling her Meg. Once that happened, it was sort of natural, for them to gravitate to one another, and they quickly became friends. As they began to grow up, they became increasingly interested in each other on the boyfriend/girlfriend level. In freshmen year, Margot asked Drake to a dance, and from then on, they were seen as a package deal, nearly inseparable.
One thing that Drake loved even more than his Meg was his racing. Countless hours of his spare time were spent tweaking his racecars, and during these escapades, he nearly ignored Margot. She didnāt mind, really, mostly due to the fact she had a passionate love for racing all her own. Some of her fondest memories of high school were watching Drake race at a few local dirt tracks, or cuddling with him on the couch, on rainy days watching the professional NASCAR drivers race.
It was during one of these cuddling seasons that the legendary āWhat do you want to do after high schoolā question was asked by Margot.
āI mean, I know you love racing, but is that what you want to do forever?ā she asked. āAs long as I possibly can, was his reply, Iām thinking about going to a racing school in North Carolina after high school, then going as fast as I can into NASCAR. But what about you, Meg?ā
āWell, I kind of wanted to go to M.I.T. for a bachelorās degree in engineering, and wellā¦you know how much I have always loved space and all, so I figured the best thing for me to do as a career was to become an astronaut.ā Margot said. Slowly, the fact that if Margot was an astronaut, and he was a racecar driver they couldnāt be together, dawned on Drake. But instead of commenting on it, he just shrugged his shoulders, and told Margot that an astronaut was a great career for her. He would worry about it later; after all, it was only freshmen year.
He inhaled deeply, smelling the wonderful smell of lilacs that he had long associated with his Meg. His thoughts then drifted to something they seemed to be drifting to a lot now a daysā¦Meg without all those preppy clothes she wore. Yep, he really wanted to āget to know her betterā but he knew that with Margot, the rule is if you have to ask, it would never happen. She had told him just a few weeks ago that she was totally sticking to her goal of getting married as a virgin, and nothing he or anyone else could say would break this bond with God that she had set. Stupid God, Drake thought, but if she wanted to be that way, he could wait.
High school dragged on, as it always does, and Drake and Margot were even known to their teachers as the āDream Teamā due to the fact they were always together. They each excelled in what they wanted to do, Drake in racing, and Margot in everything else. Senior year rolled around, and Margot was valedictorian, but the thing that both of the couples were dreading was the day they got their acceptance letters to their individual schools.
Drake got his first. He was so excited; he drove over to Margotās house, absolutely thrilled. Margot was thrilled for him as well, with his grades, she had private doubts weather he would be accepted or not. They went out to celebrate, but somehow, with the arrival of that letter, something else happened in their relationship. There was a rift there, but they didnāt talk about it, out of sight out of mind, hopefully. Then, the day came that Margot got her acceptance letter to M.I.T. Drake told her flat outright after congratulating her that he didnāt think she should go, and asked her to marry him. She was outraged, he was so inconsiderate. She flatly refused his proposal, and didnāt speak to him until three months later, at graduation.
āHere, this is yours, and I canāt believe Iām saying this, but goodbye, Drake, I love you and I will miss you, but goodbye.ā Margot said with a tear in her eye, and handed Drake back the class ring he had gotten in freshmen year and she had been wearing ever since.
āNo, babe, you keep it, really, and I swear by all that is holy, I love you too, butā¦well, I guess this is goodbyeā¦I will keep in contact though, ok?ā was his reply, as he placed the ring so elegantly on her finger. Her only reply was shedding a tear, and without looking back, walked away. Drake, despite all of his efforts, shed a tear of his own at the sight of his little babe walking away from him for more than likely the last time.
**********Six Years Later************ āCheck the machine, while youāre in there, will you? And grab one of my flight suits, I have to go, Iām going to be late!!ā screamed Margot Smith over the din of a babyās cry. Oh, no, it wasnāt her baby. No, at the age of twenty-four, Margot was still as single as ever.
The six-month old baby belonged to her roommate, Zack Markus. Zack was twenty-seven, about six foot tall, and had dark hair; dark eyes, and was African-American. He worked with Margot as an astronaut for NASA. Since his break up with his ex-wife, he was gay though, so Margot loved being his roommate since they could pick out clothes, accessories, and styles together.
Zack didnāt reply, but he walked into Margotās room to grab a suit for her. He cast a weary eye around, the place was a pigās sty, as usual, she was such a slob, but she still rocked. He grabbed one of the six light blue flight suits that were lying all over the room, and headed out to the kitchen to check the answering machine.