Could This Be Love?
For as long as I can
remember, I’ve loved Aaron Aackerton. Not the fluffy kind that fizzles out in a
heartbeat. I’m talking about the real deal, the forever kind of love. I knew
that one day we would be together and it would be the stuff that epic love
stories were made of.
We grew up together in a
small city called Riverside. At that time, it wasn’t much. A built up suburb,
that had twenty five thousand people living there. It’s doubled since then. We
were never neighbours but with the smallness of the town, it felt like we were.
We were the best of friends. When people saw one of us alone, they’d always ask
where the other one was. We were that close.
He knew I loved him, knew I
cared for him in a way that was more than friendly but our relationship never
changed. He never tried to kiss me, even when on one completely embarrassing
day I made an overt pass at him.
The fact that he treated me
like a loyal puppy never bothered me much because I knew that I was always
number one when it came to his heart, always one of the most important people
in his life.
That was until she came.
I knew from the first time
I saw her that she was trouble. Vanessa Manor, leggy, dark haired and big
breasted, which was traumatic for the fourteen year old me. I still hadn’t
grown into my body yet and all I could do was compare her tall, curvy figure to
my flat chested, gangly one.
Aaron fell in love with her
the first moment he saw her. I didn’t get why. So yeah, she was beautiful and
okay, if the chauffeured driven Rolls was any clue, she was rich but she was
also egotistical, bratty and rude. Her personality totally didn’t match up to
her looks and the ugliness of it made her appear less than stellar to me.
Unfortunately, Aaron never
saw things my way. He was in love and all he could talk about was how wonderful
Vanessa was and how beautiful her eyes were and…maybe at that point I should
have taken the hint that perhaps Aaron and I weren’t meant to be together.
Unfortunately, I have a tendency to be just as blind as Aaron and I let him
treat me like a faithful pet in hopes that he’d come around and see what was
right in front of him. See that, I, Elizabeth Coppley, was the only girl for
him.
Years passed and after
watching, Aaron and Vanessa break up and makeup again something inside me
clicked. Maybe that part of my brain, that I had been ignoring for so long just
so I could preserve this ridiculous idea that Aaron and I were the Romeo and
Juliet of our time.
I’d be lying if I said that
it was just something inside of me that made a certain chain of events occur.
No, the truth it had a lot in part to do with someone. Someone who had
always been there but that I’d never really seen. And when I finally did see
him for what he was and what he could be for me, everything changed.