English 12 Block 3
Meghan Rogers
It could have been an accidental brush of the fingers, which happens so often between peers as they try to make their way through the halls of the over crowded high school I have the misfortune to attend, but the shiver that ran up my spine told me it was much more than that. Only one person could cause me to feel so much in such a brief moment of contact. With him that was all I had; brief moments. It's funny that the pecking order of a high school can keep two people so far apart. We were divided by our reputations. He was the quarterback, the big shot, the boy who had it all. There were social consequences for a guy like him to be caught with a girl like me; quiet, mysterious, 'moody' as some may put it. One would think that with all the "be yourself" bullshit being promoted at schools a relationship like ours would be welcomed with open arms, but in the small town like Carnegie, Pennsylvania, it's as though we are stuck in the past. All that was keeping us together were seconds like these, secret messages delivered through the touch of our skin saying it was going to be okay. We were two people from two different worlds, yet our connection was undeniable.
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