Lasting Love (Ch. 22)

Elizabeth was surprised that he was asking her out to be his girlfriend for the first time that she just met him a few days ago. She felt like that she wanted to be more that just friends better than ending up single for the rest of her life. At the same time she felt her worries that it might happen later if they break up. She wasn’t sure at all but one choice was giving him a chance in once. She nodded and hugged him tight, hearing his beautiful words, "I am glad you give me a chance, Liz, and this is my first time, too." She slowly pulled back with her hands on Tyler’s chests and her words flied under her breath, "Yeah, I know, Tyler." While she pressed her lips against itself gently with her shy smile leaving on her face and she hugged him again, whispering, "Thank you for asking me because I was planning to ask you the same thing."

Tyler smiled so far and wide that makes himself happy once again but he also created a happiness for Elizabeth. He liked to feel a happiness once again better than before. Everything used to be atrocious back in his old high school that he never enjoyed every single day there. He just wanted to be happy better than anything else in the world. He was not like other guys who had one thing in their dirty mind. He’d never done that to Elizabeth or other girls because he preferred to stay pure and spotless. That was all the matter to him.

Tyler got out of the car with Elizabeth at the same time together. She locked the doors automatically and took her keys with her in her backpack. Tyler was waiting for her to be done. Together was something they liked to be. Elizabeth grabbed his hand to hold her. She didn’t care if anyone sees them as a couple, either did Tyler. They entered high school. Everyone watched on them and gossiped in quiet voices but Tyler and Elizabeth didn’t care in any way. Some girl was walking toward them. She threw her wavy-straightened, blonde hair behind her back and pushed her hands deep inside her pockets on the skinny jeans. Her pink shirt with a ‘Hollister’ written on it was looking a little tight to squeal her breasts. Elizabeth rolled her eyes at that shirt that she didn’t normally wear that shirt but that girl walked to them.

Saying in a quiet, unique tone, "I am sorry for Jeremy that he hurt both of you. My boyfriend is outtie of control sometimes but I am truly sorry. I hope he won’t hurt you ever again." As she sighed, "Anyway, my name is Lola Madden, so I gotta go. Bye." She faded away that leaving a confusion to Elizabeth and Tyler and they looked at each other as they still held their hands. "Oh, that girl I just met few days ago in my art class." Tyler said as he was thinking why Jeremy wanted Elizabeth back while he was having Lola.

Elizabeth felt hurt but she was trying to move on a little far away from Jeremy’s name that she hated so extremely.

"Are you okay, Elizabeth? Don’t try to think of him anymore. I can’t stand seeing you hurt," said Tyler as his heart was broken in million pieces like countless shattered glasses spreading over the floor. "Come on, Liz. Let’s go to class."

They entered their English classroom. Elizabeth knew she’d had to put into words of her poem out to the classroom as she was ready to pull her poem out of her folder on the desk as her teacher wanted her for her grade.

She walked to stand up in front of the classroom to read her poem out loud out of her heart that hurt her in her broken heart. She didn’t want to read out loud but she had to for her grade in her classroom. She wrote a poem about her parents, life, pain, and anything else she wanted to break herself free. Nothing else. Just her lover. The memories once brought back again to gradually crack her spirit apart. She was looking at the title she created with the poem below on the paper. Her voice was strong and thunderous for everyone else to hear her, "My poem is called ‘These Days’ and it is based on my life, so I am starting for now." As she was ready to read the words of her poem,

Elizabeth was trying to read the whole poem as much as she could not let her tears slipping out of her hurt eyes as she didn’t want her voice to be breaking. After she finished her poem and handled to her teacher on the desk. She walked toward her desk and saw Tyler’s wounded, hazel eyes but she ignored and sat in the desk. She buried her head under her arms on her school desk.

After the class was over, the teacher was calling on Elizabeth’s name to stay with her for few seconds before leaving to other class. She didn’t do anything bad in class but she did well. Even though she was upset at the past days she had with her family and Jeremy. Thanking god, she was happy that Tyler was there for her.

Elizabeth just had a small talk with her teacher about a poem and then walked out of the classroom. She saw Tyler waiting for her against the locker behind his back. She was grasping his hand with her toward the classroom and filling a happiness once again with Tyler. Tyler was the reason she wanted to be happy with.

They had all day along to be together and was glad that Jeremy was in school at all.

They were never having a problems at all in months without seeing Jeremy in school because there was no drama at all. Some people seemed to accept Tyler and Elizabeth as a couple. They seemed to find new friends to make. They were all good friends together. Also, Elizabeth found a girl friend named Erica that she could talk closer to about anything else she needed. Tyler had a guy friend named Tommy that used to be Jeremy’s best friend and Tommy didn’t want him to be his best friend again because all of the things he had caused a pain.