Jade was a shy girl. She didn't talk much in front of new acquaintances but get her around her friends and family and it's hard to shut her up. She is a small girl both in height and in shape. She has long brown hair that had never been touched by artificial coloring. Her eyes are the color of dark chocolate. When sunlight catches them they almost gleam brick red. Get her mad and they are as dark as the night sky. Her skin is an olive complexion but she hasn't been in the sun for so long that it appears as fair as snow. She has freckles but only across her nose and on the tops of her cheeks just like Pippy Long-stalking. They are faint until she gets a good dose of sun then they are much more noticeable. She is a pretty girl but she doesn't know it and when people compliment her she blushes and doesn't really believe.
One fall evening her sister's, sister-in-law, Bridget asked her if she cared to go bowling. Jade thought it sounded like fun. So they went. Bridget was very beautiful. Tall, slender, short brown hair, perfect skin, smart, you know the type. Jade and Bridget bowled a few games trying not to notice the two guys bowling near by that had quite obviously noticed them. They finally worked up the courage to ask if they could join our game. They claimed that their other friends hadn't showed up. The girls being polite agreed to let them join. Only one of them was actually good looking his name was Mason. He was tall, good build, gentle blue eyes, dark hair, perfect skin and a smile that would make any girl melt. The other had a darker complexion, maybe Indian, bad skin, equally as tall as Mason, black hair, brown eyes but he was nice. The four of them played several frames and had a great time joking and laughing and getting to know each other. After they were done bowling they continued their banter out in the parking lot. Mason finally mustered up the courage to ask Jade for her number. Jade wasn't interested in dating him but as friends sure. So she agreed to give him her number carefully instructing him not to call past 8:00 pm. See Jade was only 15 years old but looked much older and was very mature for her age. Mason was 18.
He called her the next day. They talked as if they were old friends. Getting to know one another over the next few weeks. He called her everyday like clock work. He asked her if she wanted to hang out and she said yes. Why not they had become such good friends. Now Mason had other things in mind of course. Mason came to pick her up and they drove around all night just talking and laughing and they really had a great time but as soon as Mason made his intentions known Jade, for reasons unknown, let him down gently. Mason didn't give up on the idea of dating her. He chased after her for a year. Mason sent a dozen pink roses to her at school in a beautifully arranged floral vase. Jade loved the gesture no one had ever done that for her before or gone to such lengths to get her attention. At this point of course it had been a year so she was now 16 and Mason was 19. She still resisted and he never gave up.
One night Jade went to babysit her older sister's son and invited Mason over to hang out. They watched a movie while the baby slept. Then after her sister came home Jade walked him outside. They hung out talking by the swing set for a while. He pushed her on the swing then walked over to the post and watched her swing back and forth listening intently as she babbled away, interjecting when appropriate. Mason finally couldn't take it anymore and kissed her ever so gently. Her heart started beating fast and she felt a sudden swarm of butterflies in her stomach. It happened right then and there she fell for him.
For the next 6 months they were like peas and carrots so happily in love. It was a new experience for her. He would make her CD's and she would write him letters in class and give them to him later. He would write her letters to read in class. It was so blissful. She was on cloud 9 but you know what they say what goes up must come down. He dumped her, completely broke her heart. She was crushed. She didn't understand what she had done wrong. All she knew was she gave in, took a chance, and lost.
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