#WritcoStoryPrompt74
You are falling in love with your friend. What should you do? Write a story...

dear Shawn,

hey there bestfriend slash soulmate, you might be wondering why I'm writing this letter. well it's because I have a story to tell you, a long one actually. One I have to tell you before you travel half way around the world for college tomorrow.

you can't see me now, but I'm taking really deep breaths and telling myself to put my big girl shoes on.

so on with the story, half of it you already know.

my hair was in pigtails and I sat in the middle of a sandbox, creating my own world with sand all over my face and in my hair when I heard it, a sniffle.

it was from this other kid, one who looked so small and scared that my tiny heart broke alittle. I remember staring at him, I remember realizing that he was new there, you see I knew all the kids and they all loved me. not to brag but I was quite popular among the six year olds at kindergarten.

so I walked up to him, and I was confused at first because he was in the sand box, the home of all fun, and all he did was sit there and look like he had his puppy taken away

I remember how he didn't look up as I stood before him, how he also was lost in his own little world of loud sniffles and shaking shoulders.

I remember saying hi, with my signature wide grin on my face and I remember him finally looking up at me, eyes blown wide, I remember wondering at how red they were.

our conversation went something like this

" I'm tiana, but my friends call me tia. why do you look so sad kid?" he had pouted at me, upset eyes crinkling the...