I knew you were different. I had known since the beginning, when you first began to make yourself apart of my life. You approached me cautiously and I accepted you. You seemed strangely innocent to me even though I knew you were older than my 18 years.
I had never gotten attention from any man especially one that looked like you. Your honey hair was much lighter than mine and your body had a nice solid shape. I took notice of how your shoulders filled out your tight graphic T shirt which showed off your built upper half.
The more you were around me and we talked the more my imagination went running. I couldn't help but steal a few glances at you when you weren't looking. You had no idea that I was starved of attention.
Even if you did it wouldn't have helped you because I was devoid of any want for the companionship of a man. I had looked at countless females but the feeling in my chest now regardless of who I was with was loneliness.
The difference of being with you was that you were persistent enough that I took notice of you and you changed those feelings. You intrigued me and the smile I wore with you wasn't fake.
I was never the girl everyone wanted. People were afraid to talk to me. I was called unapproachable and a list of other things. I had surrounded myself with walls and I stayed inside them. I hated people and only really came out to you because I knew you were different.
I watched you watch me when we worked together. I would bend over on purpose and wiggle my ass. You would tremble. I would laugh because you had no idea I wore those shorts on purpose.
I knew exactly how they looked on me. I also knew that my perky ass was visible from the bottom of them. Your eyes would widen but you never touched me like anyone else might have. You acted with such innocence for a nineteen year old.
I watched you curiously most of the summer. I wore more shorts just for you and you continued to follow me as I jumped from working at a summer camp to a children's theatre where my wardrobe got slightly more modest.
I laughed when the kids made fun of you and you lightheartedly took it. You tried so hard to make me smile. You broke down my walls and warmed my heart.
You slowly became one of my best friends. Before long you became the only man I had ever trusted. You were protective of me and I felt an attachment past friendship regardless of our status together out in the open.
You asked me to be yours on one of those hot afternoons and surprisingly I smiled and gave you a blunt, no. Your blue eyes shined but I could tell I had cut you. I hoped you wouldn't leave but then....I wanted you too. You could do so much better than me.
You continued to follow me and asked me again. I replied in the same way. I didn't want you to be stuck with me.
You had been to my house by then and we talked everyday and into the mornings. I had learned that you had recently gotten out of a relationship where you were constantly taken advantage of. I felt sorry for you. I wondered what that would be like. I was a virgin and I couldn't imagine being taken advantage of.
It was becoming normal to find you on my couch. My parents knew you and they even trusted you enough to allow you to keep me out all night. Then that day finally came that I knew would make or break us.
We laid on my bed together like we always did when we were talking or playing video games but this time it was different.You spoke not with the boyish charm that you used to make me smile but, in the serious voice of a man.
You rolled onto your side to face me. I laid looking up at you. You took my hand in yours and my heart began to beat in my throat."I can't ever tell what your thinking and you know that. Everyone else is like an open book and you are something entirely different."