2011 Fourth of July. I’ve always done the same things with my family every year for the fourth of july; we would walk as a family to watch the fireworks at nine o’clock. This year, everything changed .. because of one small conversation.
Me and my brother share a group of the same friends. (or we became close bc i started to hang out with my brother and his friends.) It was about 6o’clock when all of our friends were over. Since there were seven of us in total we all could go out because that meant driving two cars & i wasn’t in the mood to drive. I offered to stay home while they went out to eat so i stayed behind &so do one of his friends. His name was Nathan. So i sat down on my couch & he lied down putting his head on my belly. & from there, we just talked. talked about school, to family, to college. A few minutes later they walked through the doors and one of my closest guy friends yells “how cuteeee!” at that point, i was pretty embarrassed. when it was 8:30ish i wanted to go watch the fireworks so i got ready. A little something happened with my family which caused me to cry and get upset & that ruined my entire fourth of july. i walked up to my room, locked the door & just bursted out crying. no one knew though, i was by myself & my brother’s friends were in the door next to me. my sister knocked on my door because she knew what was going on & she asked me if i wanted to go watch fireworks. i ran out of the room, put on my sandals, and walked pass by my parents and out of the door. my brother and his friends were on top of my roof and called my name a million times… including Nathan, but i had tears running down my face, i didn’t want to cause a scene. my sister was in the middle of staying with them or coming with me. she didn’t want me to walk by myself. so i waited for her to walk toward me. i was wiping my tears away tryna get myself together. I turned around and saw Nathan walking toward me. I didn’t want him to see me crying so i stopped for a while. and then he made me look at him, and he hugged me telling my everything was gonna be okay. i told him i wanted to walk back so he put his hand around my shoulders and said, “just breathe, just calm down.” & that’s what i tried to do. as we got closer all our friends were watching us from the rooftop. i ran inside &locked myself in my room while they were watching fireworks. When that was over, he came into my room, & saw that i was lying down on the floor. He too lied down next to me making our heads touch. he asked if everything was okay & i said yes. i was still angry though & i still wanted to cry, but i couldn’t. we were just lying in my room for about forty five minutes just joking around. he wanted to see me smile, so tickled the heck outta me. & i did laugh. (i mean, who can keep a straight face when someone finds your tickle spot?!) everyone else called our names including my best guy friend to go watch a movie downstairs. so they carried me downstairs. while everyone was watching on the couch, i stood up next to the dining table drinking water. my best guy friend pulled out a chair for me & he went to go sit with my other friends and my brother. Nathan stayed with me though. he put his arm around me while i was sitting, and he said, “you okay?” i scooted a little so that he could sit down too. so we shared a seat while watching a cute love movie. he looked at my glass of water and saw that it was empty. he went to go get me more water and a small snack. he sat back down, put his arm around my shoulder and smiled.
by anonymous