Creative Writing: 17.04

17.04 I was alone at the back of a bus, waiting to go home from school. It was horrific it had been raining all day. I was soaked through just walking from the school gates to the bus, which was about 500m. I swear if I rung out all my clothes in bath it would be nearly full.

I was waiting for my boyfriend to join me like usual. He was always the last one out. We sat in the same seats every bus journey to and from school. The other kids on the bus were always scared to sit in our seats because they thought we would beat them up.

17.06 Time was getting on and my boyfriend was not anywhere in sight. So I sat back in my seat and was thinking where he could have got to. This wasn’t like him to not to be here by now. I was working out whether

“Hey babe,” I bellowed down the bus to him. Not even a slight acknowledgment. How disrespectful. He stood right up the front of the bus next to the driver shaking like he had just seen someone rise from the dead. To be honest I didn’t know whether he heard me the first time so I shouted even louder at the top of my lungs, “Hey babe.” Everyone on the bus looked round so I sat there and hid behind my folder so no one was looking at me. I still got no response from him and my face started to drop and a tear began to fall from my eye. I loved every part of him and couldn’t imagine life without him. I thought I wasn’t having none of this so I messaged him again “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, I AM NOT INVESIABLE, LAST TIME I CHECKED I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND.” I sent the text with no kisses and very blunt and to the point just exactly how I was

I felt like I needed to give him an answer but I was scared. My tongue tensed up and I couldn’t quite get the words out they wanted I wanted to. I began to say with various pauses throughout “I love you too but we are only 14 do I really want to commit my life to yours at such a young age. I think it’s a lovely gesture you have got me a haribo ring and have bought me a bag of love hearts but I don’t think realistically I commit. My heads all over the place. However you do make me smile and we have a really good connection so I can try to commit but this isn’t for life.” Everyone on the bus started to clap and he got up and kissed me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I knew this what I wanted but more importantly I didn’t want to have been known to be a bitch for mugging a boy off in front of a bus