If you looked closely
at Isabella Cross you couldn’t help but see why she was one of the most popular
girls at school.
Her Elphin face had a
shape and symmetry that was very easy on the eye and both genders thought she
had a figure to die for.
Although there were
girls in Christian Myers circle who were more classically beautiful than she
was, they didn’t have any of the character of Isabella’s.
Her silky red hair
shone and shimmered as she moved her head and her brown eyes bore into your
soul when you met their gaze and as if her unique beauty was not enough to set
her on a pedestal she was also athletic, artistic, intelligent and downright
sexy.
Everyone, but
everyone, boy or girl that ever met Isabella Cross fell instantly in love with her, but Christian had been in love with
her since the time before she blossomed.
However despite all
the attention she received from the moment of her blossoming Isabella managed
to keep everyone of the persistent suitors at bay which inevitably led to the
rumour that she played for the other side.
These rumour’s led to
reports originating from the “other side” that she didn’t play for them so
therefore the conclusion was that she must be frigid.
Not that Christian
ever believed such rumours for a moment and he had known her longer than
anyone, because Isabella Cross was literally the girl next door.
And she had lived
there since she was three and they had been best friends since the very
beginning.
So when she was
approaching her seventeenth birthday, even though Christian was everything that
she was not, he would have been extremely surprised not to get an invitation to
her birthday party as Isabella, Christian and the other guests had after all
been friends since nursery school.
So having well and
truly established that Isabella was one of the popular group, Christian on the
other hand was in no uncertain terms not.
He was not athletic,
artistic, or sexy but without being immodest he did have intelligence in common
with her even though his intelligence was considered nerdy because his forte
was science, and in particular Physics.
So under normal
circumstances, friendship and intelligence aside, it would be inconceivable if
one of the popular girls was to invite a Science geek to her 17th birthday
party.
Anyone not close to
her could be forgiven for thinking she had a rush of blood to the head such
would have been their surprised but he was not at all surprised.
There may well have
been peer pressure to only invite the “in crowd” but she was not of that ilk
and was not easily led or cajoled.
The popular crowd
would probably have been further surprised when it turned out he was one of
only six guests at the party, one of those being Isabella herself.
Though for him it
certainly wasn’t a surprise knowing her as he did she was never a flashy
person.
She didn’t want a big
flashy party with glitz and glamour and lots of superficial friends.
There was just
Isabella, Christian and four other guests at the party who were also old
friends chosen for the longevity of their friendship rather than for their
social standing.
Kelly Reed was also
one of the popular girls at school but she started with them in nursery as well
and she had no affectation about her either.
Then there was her
cousin Roy Pollard who was 18, Mark Clench and Susanna Perioli.
The party was at a
Chinese restaurant called the The Scented Garden in Abbottsford which
was Isabella’s favourite.
As you would expect
from such a great restaurant it was a really excellent meal and as Roy was 18
he ordered wine with the meal which they all drank as they reminisced about
their shared history and by the end they all laughed until they cried.
As they left The Scented Garden and got down to street level they had the usual
round of hugs and kisses on the pavement and then Kelly went accross the road
to where her Dads car was parked and as Mark, Susie and Roy all lived in the
same neck of the woods they went off to get the bus and Isabella and Christian
headed to the station to catch the train.
As they walked up
station approach he said
“I had a really great
time”
“Yeh me too” she
replied
“Wasnt it great to get
the six of us together again?”
“We should do it more
often” he suggested
““We” should get
together more often” Isabella said
“What just the two of
us?” he asked
“Yeh” she said coyly
“Just you and the
Science geek?” He asked with surprise
“You’re not a geek”
she said defensively
“I’m going to study
Astro Physics at Cambridge” he pointed out
“That proves nothing,
and anyway if you were a geek that wouldn’t stop me fancying you,” she said.
“You fancy me?” he asked pointing at himself
“Yes” she replied “Didn't you know?”
“Not for a second” Christian said and shook his head
“What about you?” she asked shyly
“Do you fancy me?
“Well I don’t know
about fancying you” he said and she was clearly crestfallen for a second and
the smile left her eyes
“But I’ve been in love
with you since we were 7 years old if that counts”
“You total pig” she
said and laughed before she kissed him softy on the lips which led to the most
wonderful spine tingling embrace that seemed to last forever.
When it ended she
looked at him with her soulful brown eyes and smiled the most loving smile.
He returned her smile
and wanted to say something fitting for the moment, something that would truly
mark the moment forever, something poignant and pithy, but alas he was lost for
words.
“Wow” she said beating
him to the punch
“Why didn’t I think of
that?” he said to himself
“Wow” she said again
and giggled then she ran off up the road and shouted over her shoulder
“You’ll have to marry
me now”
He caught up with her
at the station and she was still giggling until he kissed her
“Okay then” he said
and headed toward the platform and it was Isabella’s turn to run after him.
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