Who Was It With? 

Kyle

When Did You Realize It was Love? 

Summer

What Did It Feel Like? 

Like butterflies in your stomach.

What Happened Next?

   The first day of swim team. We're the Whitesharks. My story is not much about the Whitesharks, it's about my first love. 

   I anxiously parked my bike in the bike rack. I am early, I always like to be early to hang out with my friends and flirt with the guys. I was walking on the sidewalk towards the pool when I saw a group of my friends in a small circle talking. I stopped and my friend Aubrey was catching everyone up on the latest gossip. I looked around the circle, it was only about five people that I recognized, the sixth was directly in front of me. I looked at him and caught his eye. They were ice blue, the same color of mine. He smiled softly at me and I was too shy to smile or do anything. I just looked down at the ground like an idiot. Then I took a chance to look up at him again. He was still looking at me! I didn't look away this time, I wanted to see his face. His hair was long wavy and blond, sunkissed. He was making me feel self conscious like I had something on my face.

   Then Aubrey stopped blabbing and went silent. I was too lost in this beautiful boy's eyes to notice.

   "Cassie."

   "Mhmm?" I managed to say.

   " C'um on! Practice is starting." 

   Everyone was starring at me. 

   "oh, ok." I mumbled.

   Today in practice we only go over names and rules. The beautiful boy sat a few people down from me and I learned that his name was Kyle. When practice ended we started talking about swimming and how this was his first year in this team. He was very nice, I was starting to like him. That night I wrote about him in my diary saying how cute and funny he is.

   Summer went by and sometime Kyle asked me to be his girlfriend. By then I would have done anything just to be near him! So of course I said yes. He never told me he had an ex girlfriend. Someone told her that Kyle and I where going out and she got furious. She turned everyone against him. She was having a fit and making me pay for it. I tried to be cool but it was hard and I was fine until a couple months after that.

   Since the ex was making a big deal out of it, we decided to break up until she cooled down. I agreed. Big mistake. The next thing I knew Kyle and his ex where back together again, happy.I was left behind, confused, sad, and feeling vulnerable to anything. I have heard that first love hurts but it didn't hurt me...until later. It finally sank in, I was lied to and dumped for some other girl.

Lessons Learned

• trust your parents, they know better.