My secret place was perfect. About half a mile down the road from my house and then a quick left into the woods where I would walk for nearly half an hour before I got to a little stream that meant I was almost there. Kenny had said that he was going to be waiting for me at the Hide Out, as we called it. He'd said that he had a surprise for me. I hoped that it was that he was going to ask me to the Fall Fling at our school. I was in love with Kenny from my head to my toes. His green eyes and black hair killed me. But what killed me the most was that he had one dimple on his left cheek. He was simply beautiful. No doubt about it, every girl wanted to be with him, to be his best friend, that was why everyone was surprised when on his first day at school he chose to sit next to me. The nerdy girl with her hair in a messy brown braid and her glasses slipping down her nose. The only pretty feature about me were my eyes. Even though both of my parents, and both of my sisters had brown eyes, I had blue. Nobody knows where I got them. I was nearly an inch away from climbing up the ladder into the Hide Out when I heard a girl’s giggle, then the sound of Kenny’s voice.
“Shh! She should be here any minute now!” Kenny said gently as if talking to a child.
“But what if she doesn’t like me?” The girl cried as I sat at the trunk of the tree listening. I’m surprised that they hadn't heard me walking over here.
“Now, what makes you think that she wouldn’t like you?” Kenny said softly,
“I don’t know, maybe I’m just being a little paranoid about meeting your best friend for the first time, or any of your friends for that matter!” The girl giggled.
I heard Kenny laugh with her, I was afraid to go up, because I already knew who she was. She was the girl he had been telling me about, the girl that was everything that I wasn’t. The girl he had met a few weeks ago at the skating rink, he'd told me that she had just moved here and that she didn’t know anyone but was an amazing skater.
“Kenny? Kenny are you up there?” I called out.
“Yeah Stacie! Come on up! And hurry!” The excitement in his voice made me feel so low inside, knowing what was going to happen next.
“Okay” I said, trying to hide my sadness, but I didn’t do a real good job at it.
“Are you okay, Socks?” Kenny called down, Socks was my nickname that he had given me when he first moved here because of my insane long socks that I would wear everyday to school.
“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” I said as soon as I got to the top, I was still looking down when I swung my legs over onto the boarding of the tree house.
“SURPRISE!” They both yelled at the same time.
“Hi! I’m Violet! Violet Freeman!” she said. She was so beautiful. She had long blonde hair, and the prettiest blue eyes ever, prettier than mine, and tanned skin. Her eyelashes were painted black, long and full with mascara, and her face was clear from any freckle or pimple. She almost looked more like a Barbie doll than human.
“Hey, I’m Stacie, Stacie Martin. Nice to met you Violet.” I said trying to hide my sadness with a smile.
“Violet is my girlfriend. The girl I have been telling you about and I wanted you to met her as soon as possible, I hope that you don’t mind that I brought her to the Hide Out” Kenny said shyly like he always did. “Please don’t be mad” he added.
“No, I’m not mad.” I said giving him a half smile. "So Violet how far away from here do you live?" I asked trying to break the silence,
"I live three houses down from the park, about a quarter mile away from here actually" She said,
"And only a block from where you and I live" Kenny added as he looked into Violet's eyes, Violet blushed and looked away quickly. After that, everything went quiet. My eyes began to sting when I noticed that they were holding hands. It was a painful sight and the silence only made it worse. I wanted to die, right then and there.
“Kenny?” Violet said and his name sounded so beautiful coming off of full velvet lips. “I have to be home soon, or my parents will worry.”
“Okay,” he said, “Thanks Stacie for coming here, and for meeting Violet.”
“Bye Stacie. It was nice to met you!” She smiled with her perfect white teeth, and I hated her. Everything about her, how beautiful she was, and how amazing she was, and how she was everything that he could ever want and I wasn’t anything near that.
“Bye” I said in return as they climbed down the ladder and out into the woods. As soon as they were out of sight, the tears began to fall and they wouldn’t stop.
My heart was broken, and he was the only one to repair it. But he never would because he had Violet. He had his perfect little angel, the girl of his every dream. The girl I wanted to be.
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