A Love Story

Helen sat on the swing set at the playground looking sad and lonely. She looked around at all the other children playing with their friends and having fun, well she sat all alone with no body to talk to. Helen was very shy and never knew how to approach people, she was the loner of her 1st grade class. She looked down at the ground and started kicking the dirt below her feet feeling resentful against the world that made her feel so pathetic. Suddenly there was a voice behind her. “You know if you want to destroy the world your going to have to do better than that.” The voice said jokingly. Helen turned around to see a girl her age smiling at her. She was Asian with her long brown hair and soft brown eyes. Helen blushed “Yeah I guess that was kind of stupid.” The other girl laughed “Ah don’t worry I was just joking.” She said as she sat next to her on the swings. “I’m Ashley by the way, Ashley Wang.” Helen blushed more “Oh I’m Helen, Helen McRea.” Ashley smiled “Well it’s good to meet you.” Ashley said. Helen turned away and smiled, someone liked her and was talking to her.

Over the following weeks Helen and Ashley became really good friends and spent every moment of recess together. Helen was the happiest she had ever been having finally found a true friend. One day the two of them were playing at the playground, Ashley was telling Helen all about her plans for the weekend but Helen was distracted, She wasn’t paying much attention to Ashley but found herself looking over at a boy playing with his friends in the sand box. Ashley could tell that Helen wasn’t paying attention and became slightly annoyed with her. “Umm hello Earth to Helen hello?” Helen snapped out of it and apologized to Ashley. “Sorry I was just umm lost in space I guess.” Ashley laughed “Don’t give me that, you were staring at that boy over there.” Helen blushed because she knew that she was busted. “I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by him I mean he is just a boy.” Ashley shrugged “My older sister has boys around her all the time and when I asked her why she said that one day I would want all kinds of them.” Helen continued to stare and Ashley joined in. “I’ll admit he is pretty good looking, nice black hair and he seems nice. I think his name is Jack.” Helen sighed “Jack” she said dreamily. Ashley laughed. “Go over there and talk to him.” Helen freaked out “Are you crazy I have no idea what to say to him.” “Just talk to him about boy stuff.” Ashley said well pushing Helen towards him and giggling.

Helen slowly walked towards the group of boys. With every step she took her brain screamed out to her to run away and hide under the slide but she kept moving. As she got closer she saw that the boys were playing army men in the sand. “Oh that looks like fun.” She said in the bravest voice she could. All the boys looked up most of them startled to see a girl near them. “Hey get out of here, this is an exclusive boys club so no girls allowed!” one of the boys shouted. Helen was fully embarrassed and turned away with a few tears in her eyes. “Hey guy’s don’t be mean, this girl actually sounds kind of cool.” Another boy said. Helen turned around and smiled to see that the boy who stood up for her was the one she was staring at. “Hey come on Jack, if we let one girl in then pretty soon we will have to let them all in.” the third boy said. Jack shook his head. “Ok then I’ll get rid of her I’m almost dead anyway. Jack stood up and led Helen away from the sandbox.

As soon as they were out of ear shot Jack turned to Helen. “Hey sorry about that those guys can be jerks sometimes. I’m Jack by the way.” Helen blushed and turned away “Yeah I heard.” Jack was puzzled at why she was so nervous but ignored it and continued with the conversation. “So you’re the girl who hangs out with that weird looking girl right?” Helen smiled “Yeah that’s Ashley. Her grandparents moved from China so her and her parents were born in Canada.” Jack nodded “So really she is no different that us cool. I kind of wanted to talk to you both a few times but my friends think your both just weird.” Helen looked down and smiled. “He wanted to talk to me.” She thought to herself. She was so happy but she was not sure why. For some reason Jack and his opinion of her was very important for her. “I’m Helen by the way.” Jack smiled “That’s a very pretty name.” Helen blushed and stared at him. The two looked into each others eyes and Helen could feel her heart pounding in her chest. Jack was nervous as well, he had never met a girl like her and for reasons he couldn’t understand he wanted her. Jack leaned in and softly kissed her lips. Helen was shocked but kissed back. The two shared a special moment for it was the first kiss for both of them. Warm feelings spread though both of them as the unheard of emotion of love was being showed to them for the first time. The kiss seemed to go on forever but like all good things it had to end. The recess bell rang and the two broke apart. Both were at a loss for words not knowing what to do now. “Well I’ll see you around Helen maybe we can hang out sometime.” Helen simply smiled and nodded. Jack ran off towards class but Helen stood for a moment. She could not believe what had just happened to her, she had her first kiss and met her first love. She walked towards the school in an almost dream like state, lost in the feeling of love.

4 years later.

Helen sat in class bored to tears at the boring lesson that was being taught, Her teacher Mr. Bitterman was droning on and on about the forest ecosystem and how it effects us. Helen didn’t care about the forest ecosystem and even if she did Mr. Bittermen would ruin it for her. His voice was so droll and monotonic that he could have been talking about a war between vampires and werewolves and it would still put everyone to sleep. Helen sighed and looked at the clock ticking it’s way slower than usual. Why was the end of a Friday always so slow? She looked around the room and discovered that she wasn’t the only one who didn’t care about the lesson.