A Change Of Hearts

• Lily Yang, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2017

The first time I saw him was in grade three, and I knew that he had to be mine. His name was Jordan Craig and I had fallen hard.
Three years had gone and I was crushing to the point that you could call it love, although any adult would say it was ridiculous. One afternoon I waited for him to go to the front gate and I told him the way I felt, but he just laughed before telling me to stop joking around. I almost broke, for three years I liked him but he took it as a joke. What a fool I was, to actually think he would like me back.
Life is ridiculous, and that is exactly how I felt. He had always been a player, everyone knew that, yet so many girls fell under that demon’s spell, just like me. When he wanted to end a relationship he would always say that he was dared to or that he didn’t want to get too serious or that he just wasn’t into the relationship.
After that I was always cold to him, whenever he asked me something I would be straight forward and walk away most of the time I would turn the other way when I saw him. Who would expect that that weirdo would like my attitude, and come and bother me whenever he saw me.
I was so annoyed and really wanted to punch him in the face so hard that he would look like a panda. Every day he would come to bother me and I would walk away, we repeated this until graduation. He said “Rose, I like you do you like me back?” I stared at his face, the face I had liked for three years, the face that once rejected me. “I don’t know,” I said, before walking away.
It’s been seven years, and now I’m married with the world’s most annoying man, that had confessed to me fifteen times before I said that I liked him back. Although I have to admit I was sort of happy the first time he confessed to me and how he stopped being a player just to make himself a better choice than all the other hundreds of guys on the world. Though the one thing that I regret is not making him look like a panda.