The Bully's Secret Love

A new friend

Lyn POV.

I continued looking into the fire at least enjoying the moment away from any kind of bully, torture and teasing. I have always loved this moment of just being here doing nothing but just looking in the fire. It is my favorite thing. How ever I don't always do it because not everyday that I be at such a spot. I have always loved that I at least one day go out with mom camp and then sit by the fire enjoying every bit of life.

However staying there for roughly ten minutes , my instincts tell me there is someone looking at me. I mean there is someone staring at me. However when I try to look around in tye direction that I have e access to without standing , I see no one . However I feel the same thing when I get back to just staring in the fire.

Just when I want to stand up and get away afraid that perhaps I have a stalker who won't leave me in peace. However Just as I able about to stand up, I see some one approach me. I at first don't recognize him well due to the darkness but when he gets nearer to him, I am finally able to recognize him. He is Larry a boy from our class as well.

He is actually amongst those few who don't tease me but at the same I doubt if I have ever talked anything to him other than Just mere greetings. So seeing him approach me makes me perplexed and wondering what he has to tell me that is making him get next to me.

Not yet being able to get answers to my questions , he is now right Infront of me with a smile - yes I think a reasonable smile and not a fake one. I stare at him back with a smile as well.

“ Hello , good evening ." He greets me

“ Good evening to you " u greet him .

“ Do you mind if I join here by the fire ?" He asks me politely.

“ No problem at all. You can join me " I answer him. That s all he needs and the next thing I Know is him sitting down opposite me excited. I can't help but giggle a lot at that gesture.

“ So , what are doing sitting all alone here ?" He asks me.

“ Nothing , am just ignoring the fire. This is something that I love so much not able to do " I answer him sincerely .

“:What is that ? Getting to watch fire is Free and you can do it any time that you feel like you want." He asks me wondering.

“: Actually that is not what my life is about if I am being sincere. I mean you might see that it is that easy but that doesn't work on my side. Life has not been something soft if I can say ." I say sadly.

“ Why say that ? I think it was not a good idea for me to bring in such a talk" he says feeling regretful for what he just said.. . I had no idea such existed in bully of a class. Any way perhaps some are not actually what we think that they are.

“ No no , my pleasure is when I talk to some one about my life. I never get such opportunities for sure. "

“Sure! Then if you say so. I promise to give you all my time even if it means the whole night " he replies extending his hand and giving mine a little squeeze if assurance. I get tensed at that small torture.

Don't get me wrong , the truth is I don't always have such chances . So if I get tensed I think I have nothing to do.

Okay.

“ So , tell me anything. The truth is I am going to listen.he assures me.

“ Okay, tye truth is my father died when I was so little and this left me with only my mom who has done so much to see that I am able to attain a better education as well as having everything that I need in life . "

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“ The fact that my mom is always busy me all lonely. We never have the family bonding time. Going for dinner and perhaps even for once in a while at least going fir a one day vacation or even just a movie. I have missed all these. I am always all bored. Ofourse I don't blame my mom cause all her working is for me to have a very good life "

I look at Larry and he seems to be paying extra attention to me. For sure this is what I have been wanting in a long time. Having some one to listen to me pouring my heart out at them.

“ However almost everyone that I study with seem not to like me. Fir sure this leaves me totally perplexed wondering why things are the way they are?"

“ All will be okay" I don't even remember how he got next to me and now drying my tears with the back of his hand. I stare at him for sure taken aback by this kind of gesture. Other than my mom and Jean, there is one else who has been good to me like he has. I don't know if he is being sincere or he has other plans. .

However right now I don't care about any of that . I am enjoying the moment if having some care towards me.

We talk for a considerable period of time. Things about school , ambitions in life , family life and so in. However concidentally we have common things ranging from the fact that the both of us have grown up with single mothers who are struggling hard to give us the best .

However unlike me , he had a young sister who is about eight years old. After that conversation , I sleep knowing that apart from Jean , I now have some other friend. Thanks , I definitely know that I am now going to have at least have persons by my side the rest of the last academic year in highschool .

I talk to jean at night giving her the good news that I now have another friend. Ofourse she is happy and excited for me

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