People say there is no romance in school. I thought this too, but that was before I had the pleasure of meeting Matthew Knight and Emily Wilson.

    I do not know whether or not this love story started back in middle school for these two people or if it was just an enlightening that happened between these two sole souls in the past two years.

    To begin, I would first like to tell you about Matthew. In fact, I do not even have to tell you about any of his physical characteristics, the only thing that you need to know about Matthew is that when it comes to women; he is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. With that in mind, let me begin the story of a love gone wrong.

    We begin our story on a cold day in late fall with Matthew sitting in the cafeteria at a table talking amongst his friends when an antagonist, by the name of Anthony, sat down and started to listen in on their conversation. In this short time period that he sat at their table, he seemed to figure out that Matthew had a tiny crush on Emily. Now, Anthony, being the inconsiderate person that he is, went right down to his next period class, where he proceeded to announce to the whole room that Matthew had a crush on Emily. Emily, from what I hear, was not embarrassed and she did not seem angry at this breaking news. She did send her friends to find out from Matthew if he really did like her or not. Well, he lied, he told them that it was completely false and told them that he never liked her, when in fact he did, but he thought, by telling this lie, that he could spare her some embarrassment and keep her from getting hurt. Besides, from Matthew’s perspective, he knew that it would never work between a popular girl and him, so he decided to dodge love yet another time.

    Now, let me move into the present a little ways. Anthony, being the antagonist that he is, just was not willing to let this go. So he told Emily some words that Matthew supposedly said about her, which I cannot disclose in this publication because of their graphic content. Well, this got Emily to thinking that maybe Matthew did like her after all. So one day, she went to one of Matthew’s friends, Jenny, to ask Jenny if Matthew really did like her. Jenny took the liberty of telling Emily that Matthew has always hated Emily and did say all those terrible words about her, when in fact, Jenny was one of the ones that actually knew that Matthew did not say those horrific words and did actually love Emily. The only reason that Jenny made up this horrific lie, was that Jenny and her friends hated Emily and were not willing to let Matthew be with Emily, whatever the cost may be.

    Recently, within the last few months, Matthew has come to terms with himself and realized, that he could have saved Emily much more embarrassment and confusion by telling her friends yes, instead of no, on that pivotal day in the fall when her friends came to him in the hallway to ask him if he did like Emily. By telling the truth about his feelings toward Emily, he could have found out how she truly felt about him. Unfortunately, Matthew chose to answer Emily’s friends untruthfully, so consequently, he snuffed out any chance of romance that could have ever existed between them. He has also come to realize that those people, that he believed to be his closest friends, were actually his worst enemies, because they were the ones who were truly responsible for the destruction of any future that Emily and he would have had together. If they truly were his friends, they would not have cared about his decision to show affection toward Emily, and they would not have destroyed Emily’s feelings at the expense of keeping her away from Matthew.

    My closing thoughts are this. Maybe these two people, in the brief time that their lives interlocked, realized that they could not live without each other and someday they will fall deeply in love and live happily ever after. Although, they could now have a deep dislike of one another and will never spend an entire day together throughout the whole of their lives. Just like every other love story, we will not know the end to this one until a distant future becomes the present. On that day, I will tell you the rest of the story.
 

By: Michael Kitko
Published: February 24, 2001

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