He wore his hair spiked like a skyscraper. His big chocolate eyes sparkled like stars and through his framed glasses he looked right at me and smiled with a slight dimple. It had never crossed my mind that we would ever date. He had been going to my school for a while but we had never really.talked.  I never thought we would ever be more than friends. Until that very day.
Starting out like any other school day, my mom woke me up to get ready and get on the bus. I was excited for this particular coming night because I would get to hang out with all my friends. All day long, the only thing I could think about was that night, and so the school day was a blur. Then evening came and I started hanging out with Regan and Taylor, dancing, and laughing with my best friends, the people I tell everything to. They  pulled me to where he and his best friend sat at one of the tables.
            “ Hey Leah whats up?” said his best friend Andre.
            “Nothing, what do you want Andre?” I sighed back to him rolling my eyes.
            “My pal over here wants to know if you would like to go out with him?” Andre said pointing to him.
            “Uhmm, sure what the heck.” I said stupidly, and I say stupid because I should have said yes straight up, instead of an awkward, “sure what the heck”.
            “Wait really?” said my new boyfriend and Andre at the same time.
            “Yes,” I repeated. I could feel myself blushing.
           The next thing I know I am being pulled in the opposite direction by both my friends. They almost tore me apart and all I could hear through all the loud ruckus was, “wait, you're dating Shay now?!?!?!?!?!”
  It all had happened so fast, I  never processed that I, Leah McKenna Hayward, was going out with Shay Mathew Getting. Shay is somewhat popular and well, I am not. The next day I walked into the school and was swarmed by people who somehow already found out about us, Shay and I.  Walking to my locker hoping no one was waiting for me, I talked to Taylor and Kasey. As we rounded the corner my other friend was right there.
            “Kiana, hey what's up?” I asked her. She didn’t seem too happy.
            “Nothing. Just found out from Shay that you were dating!!!!!! What is wrong with you? Why did you not tell me?”
            “I just realized it myself and was not ready to tell anyone. I don't know where this is going. He did not even ask me himself. I just thought it was a joke.” She just stood there glaring, nodding and shaking at me. I have no clue what that was about, but I am sure I will find out eventually. I left her fuming and went to eat.
  Lunch came quickly with kids acting like elephants. Enormous gray beasts charging into lines, feet kicking, arms shoving and teeth biting until they sat down with their friends and began to eat. The half-starved kids, tired and drained, talked loudly as the whole place filled with the noise of seventh grade students chomping their food. A few minutes later,  the door opened and the excited kids jumped up and sprang out the door to the playground.
Two weeks and two days later, the relationship with the spikey-haired Shay was over. I then realized that love is just a word and can be erased in the blink of an eye.  I see him at school and my heart freezes...freezes until he has walked by. I guess our love kicked the bucket!  Everyone thought we were great together and should stay together. But I could not do it anymore. We appeared happy, but deep down we both knew we were not. I thought I loved him.  I knew deeper down, I did not. I didn’t want to admit it. Deeper yet, I knew I couldn’t put him through this, so I took action and broke up with him.
          I said to my brown-eyed sparkly boy, “Shay, I can't do this anymore, I want to break up with you.”  It took awhile for him to give up trying to get me back. Then shay started acting stupid. He started saying dumb stuff and I had to have a talk with his sister and tell her everything Shay was saying. I told her everything he said to me, all the names and reasons why he hates this life and this world. I told her how he said he needs a girl to live but I told him otherwise. It ended with him and I not talking yet, and him and my friends being besties.  I know that even if they are friends with him, they will always have my back, and they will never let me float away. They will keep me on the ground and not let me float into space, (again).  The one thing I will always remember about Shay Is the way he wore his hair spiked like a skyscraper. His big chocolate eyes sparkled like stars and through his framed glasses he looked right at me and smiled with a slight dimple.

And when my mom edited the paper, she added this...
( And I should have listened to my parents who tell me love in middle school is fickle and that I am not to have a boyfriend until I am in college. ;)