Unexpected

• Abby Arnold, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2013

She’s the good girl at the front of class
She stayed out of trouble
Extra credit was double
Next to her A on every exam is a plus
He sat at the back of class
Commenting and just being an ass
To hear him cuss was nothing new
Girls he hadn’t been with were few
Little did he know he’s always on her mind
Makes no sense, bad boy and girl so kind
But in him she saw what everyone missed
A different spark in his eye like their first kiss
Together they spent summer on the beach
Speaking of what they wish to reach
Eating ice cream and having a laugh
Never expecting summer to end so fast
The start of the year was something feared
That made his eyes constantly teared
A beautiful life was taken too soon
Of a good girl who lost her fight at noon
A torn boy’s school term resumes
And he is forced to face that room
Where a beautiful, to short story began
About a good girl and her perfectly good man