This story is a work of fiction. Please do not attempt to recreate or reenact anything you read in this story. This story is for entertainment purposes only.
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Ever since the ninth grade, I had a crush...a craving...desire to be with one of my sister's best friends. Alicia was her name, a beautiful girl three years younger than me. My crush began in high school. She was only in sixth grade. I'd have to wait until my senior year for her to be in the same school. But it was the times that my sister would invite her over that got my heart going. My sister was the same age as Alicia. I took it upon myself to befriend Alicia as well. By the end of my senior year, we were as much of friends as she was with my sister. Prom came around; I felt good. I asked her to accompany me during that evening. She agreed. I was on thin air.
I graduated high school but continued to carry a "schoolboy" crush. Alicia still visited, what seemed like everyday. I literally watched her grow from sixth grade to twelfth grade. Now a senor in high school, three years after me, she was now a gorgeous young woman. I couldn't stop thinking about her. I found myself hinting to her how much I wanted to be with her. I felt those hints falling into deaf ears, but I kept trying. Musically, I tried expressing all of my thoughts. But it was during a conversation with my sister that she put everything together. I pulled her aside and unloaded everything from day one. My heart emptied out to her only to hear a figurative door being slammed in my face. I depression settled over me. The first girl I could say I ever truly had a loving feeling for...nothing.
I month goes by after bearing my soul to the one I wanted. It starts to settle in that I should move on. I stop looking at her as I did before. I feel now that I have no chance so I have nothing to lose. I start to do things and say things that I wouldn't have before. Feeling that everything that I felt was gone, I moved on.
It was at a concert that I knew it wasn't really gone. It was when I saw Alicia lock lips with my brother Matt that it all came back. As their lips touched, it felt like a dagger piercing my heart. It felt like a slap in the face from Alicia. I could hear them laughing at me, Matt in particular, saying "I got her and you didn't, ha-ha!" even though it was all in my head, the pain was real.