Chapter 1
A hopeless romantic, I loves love yet has never experienced it. My names Jess, I grew up with my parents and older sisters jazz and Jamie. I had seen kind and calm love from my parents first hand and then second hand from the boys my sisters dated. But unlucky me, I did not experience this. I grew up liking romance novels and romcoms were my favorite, i always dreamt of love like the novels. Middle school was boring i had no friends or any experience on love at all. I was so excited to get to Highschool in hopes to try out love. Only in 11th grade, a boy, popular soccer player, long hair and tall was Dante,the the first boy jess ever had interest in or even found attractive, since my school was filled with dorks and bums. I stared at him everyday by the sports field, stalked him on Instagram and even watched him hang with his friends at lunch time. I definitely wanted to make a move but i was so scared i and couldn't bring myself to do it. One afternoon i stayed after-school for extra science classes. I could not wait to go home, I waited for dad at the school gate where sitted on a bench. I did not feel great, i was tired, mad at dad and did not look flattering at all, I literally had old braids and a acne explosion going on . As I looked at my watch, in a distance i saw Dante, walking towards the benches with his friend. On the other side of the table were 3 girls, talking and paying jess no mind. Dante and his friend knew the 3 girls and came to speak to them. Embarrassed i tried not to stare at him or make any eye contact. At this moment I hated dad for not coming on time. The girls and Dantes friend had to go home, so it was just me and Dante left. Dante saw my chemistry book on the table, he saw my name on it and we talked about chemistry. We spoke for 30 minutes and guess who decided to show up, dad. He finally came, said bye to Dante and left , I was so happy, excited and we exchanged Instagrams and I went home. For a month we spoke, endlessly for hours and obviously I loved it.
Chapter 2
Two months later of hanging out and FaceTiming, we planned a dinner, and he called me to the rooftop. He was waiting for me with flowers and music and a sign asking me to be his girlfriend. It was literally the sweetest, I obviously said yes and we kissed and spoke while watching the sunset. When the sun set we went for dinner, ate and spoke more. I loved staring in his eyes, looking up cause of how tall and fine he is. He walked me to my Uber and we said goodbye. We spent months hanging out at the park, watching my favorite romcom, walking the dogs, going to get ice cream, watching the sunset, listening to music and fall asleep together. I went to all his basketball games, and practice. The weeks that followed were dreamy. We disnt just go to the same school anymore we were something more. Our hallway glances turned into hand-holding between classes. Every text was a little flirty, every goodbye lasted a little too long. We took walks after school, shared playlists, and talked about everything plans, fears, dreams. I kept waiting for the magic to wear off causei didnt think this was all real , but it didn't. At least, not yet.
The awkward silences felt comfortable. Even the embarrassing moments like when i accidentally spilled dounut jam on his hoodie or when i caught Dante trying to impress me in gym class just made me laugh harder.
It wasn't perfect. We still had school stress and family drama. But for now, in this new chapter, everything felt soft and golden. Like the start of something real. Something like my sisters have until...
Chapter 3
This biggest party of the year, everyone was going to it, I had dinner with my parents so I had to go to the party a little bit later, while I was at well I was a dinner with my parents Dante was at the party with his friends when his ex, Norah, a very pretty and popular girl at school, came up to dante and pulled hm into a bathroom and they kissed. I got to the party and spend ti.e with my friends, i was calling dante and looking for him but couldn't find him. I asked his friend and they told me about him and norah, my heary was shattered.
Dante found out i knew and came to apologize cause he supposedly felt guilty and I couldn't even talk to him, i told him that I never want to speak to him again and how he Made me feel dumb and worthless, told him to go back to his ex .He made me feel so embarrassed he made me feel used. I wondered if all that was even real, did he actually love me, was he actually interested in me did he actually want to be with me. Just like that my unlucky fate caught me agains