April 18, Monday

Period 1: Semester 1: Chemistry. Period 3: Semester 1: English. Period 1: Semester 2: Math. These are all the classes I look forward to the most in my daily school life. One part because these are the courses I excel in the most, but the other part is because it’s the classes I have with Josephine; and I know, I know, it’s kind of creepy. Oh who am i kidding? It’s REALLY creepy, but at least I don’t know where her locker is haha… but I guess I should tell you some things about myself and Josephine. My name is Coltim, and Josephine is someone that I fell for instantly on the first day of school. She wasn’t the prettiest but to me she was cuter than any other girl you could name in my school. This girl was cuter then the ‘over-the-top pretty face’ girls that grabs everyone’s attention, but I didn’t care, to me she was better than everyone else; and that was that. I just, never.. actually.. talked to her.. or got to know her. Probably because to me she was a rainbow, a sight to behold especially when you get to see the whole potential of it, but you will never be able to reach it no matter how far you run. So eventually I gave up on the running and just viewed her from afar and watch her as she would slowly fade away. Asking myself; was it worth it? Should I have kept running?

Will I regret it?

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April 19, Tuesday, Period 1: physed.

Why must I have physed in the morning… after forcing myself to get out of bed to do physical activities, just the worst, but on the bright side we are having a “lazy day” and are playing dodgeball while the physed teacher is out on a field trip with the grade 11’s. Dodgeball was one of my favourite games back in elementary. With all the throwing and the dodging it was fun, like paintball but without the paint, and the pain. Although, throughout this period I could only think about Josephine-wondering if I should attempt to talk to her but I’ll probably bail at the last second. Must be easy being a girl, all you have to do is sit there and wait for the guy to come to you. my life would be so much easier if we can read the minds of the female race.

“Hey Coltim!” loudly whispered my buddy in crime.

“Yo Luke” I replied as I dodged a ball aiming right towards my face.

“If you’re not busy at the moment (which was obvious that I was) I would like to inform you on something that you might be interested in”

“Really? like what?”

“Well, I have this friend who knows Josephine and that friend of mine told me that-”

Wait.. what? told what? Why can’t I remember? What happened..?

Why is it dark?

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April 19, Tuesday, After School.

I slowly wake up to the sound of kids running in the halls and realized that I’m in the Nurse’s office laying in one of the beds. I felt my head only to find a sharp pain and a lost memory of what happened earlier as I got up from the bed. It’s a little vague but what I can remember was that a ball was coming towards me. Granted I don’t know what exactly happened but I can put two to two together and assume I got knocked out. Laughing a bit of what happen I begin to hear voices outside of the room.

“Did you hear? Coltim got knocked out during physed”

I can only recognize that it was a female student.

“Really? Where did you hear that..?”

This voice seemed more familiar to me. Who was it..?

“I heard it from Luke. You know, he can be so nice” but then the same voice repeated again in my head but saying ‘and that’s why he is one of my closest friends! But I don’t want people to know about that.’ Which was weird since I was sure she didn’t actually say anything.

“Oh.. I see..” followed by the other girl’s voice in my head saying ‘that’s why he wasn’t here for english. I hope he’s okay.’

It was only after the mention of the word “english” that made me realize that it was Josephine, and oh boy, I couldn’t describe my very initial thoughts to what I just heard. Did Josephine actually notice me? I was actually recognized? And she was caring about me!? Wait wait.. chill out Coltim. Step on those brakes because these thoughts are going out of hand. Was I.. reading their thoughts? No.. impossible.. that couldn’t be right. I’m sure there is a completely scientifically and logical answer to all of this. Maybe I’m just hearing things that my mind wants to hear. Yeah.. that sounds right, let’s go with that. There is no way that Josephine (my one-sided love) would notice me..

right?

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April 20, Wednesday, Period 1: Chemistry.

I walk into class hearing the thoughts of my classmates, but I could only filter out that these aren’t really real. Eventually, I walk passed Josephine’s desk where my head is greeted with her thoughts.

‘Oh good! he’s fine..’

I turned in a quick motion towards her to see that she was smiling and clearly wasn’t saying a word. This can’t be right.. There is no way this could be possible. I sat in my desk (which was a little behind Josephine’s) focusing on her, to see if I could actually read her thoughts; but at this point I was fully convinced that I could. So as I sit there fishing through her thoughts, I’ve come to find some interesting things.

‘ I hope Coltim is okay.. I should probably go talk to him but.. I don’t want to come out of nowhere to ask if he’s okay since he probably doesn’t know that I know his situation.. I’m sure a lot of people know though, so maybe it is okay, right? Ugh, I don’t know. Maybe I should just not do anything. Not like he knows I exist, and even if he did know he would have came and talked to me by now..”

I wasn’t sure what I was hearing, to me it sounded like she well.. maybe likes me? That couldn’t be right though. If she liked me she would have.. told.. me. Wait.. she also thought that we as the other person didn’t thought the other existed. We were both a rainbow that neither of us ran towards to. We weren’t so different, meaning I should do something about it since I out of the two of us knows that we like each other.. but that might come off as- NO! stop it! you know that is not the case here! I should go talk to her, but what should I say? ‘Hey! After I got knocked out playing dodgeball, I now have the ability to read minds and figured out that we both like each other since I read your mind!’ No.. that doesn’t work, I’ll just.. wing it? I stood from my desk and walk towards her’s only to feel my heart pounding in my chest screaming to run back, but if I don’t do it now then none of us will. Reaching her desk, I took a silent breath and spoke.

“Hi”

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To my surprise, Josephine was completely off guard of my approach.

‘Oh my gosh! is he talking to me!? Umm quick say something before he gets too quiet..’

After hearing these thoughts from her i was kinda excited for what she will say. Even though they would most likely be the answers of ‘hey..’ or ‘do you need something?’

“H-hi” she spoke with a quivering voice. “Do you need something?”

In my mind I was like ‘called it’ because those were the exact words or close enough words to what I imagined her response would be, but in all do seriousness I was kind of.. speechless? Quickly realizing my mistake, I started to panic and think ‘what was I supposed to say now? Should I just play it cool?’

“Umm, so you see I was away yesterda-”

“Yeah! I know,” she said interrupting me midway.” ‘..Oh shoot! that might have came off to fast.. hope it doesn’t draw him away from me..’

“And I just wanted to know if I missed anything important?”

“You missed a few things, would you like to meet up with me after school?”

“Sure”

“Okay it’s a date! No I-I meant a study date! Not an actual date of course haha..” ‘ugh why did I say that..”

“haha of course” I replied with a dumb grind on my face, and turned back to my desk and sat down with a huge relief.

Well it looks like I’ve made the right choice, I felt happy, and.. hazy? My vision began to become fuzzy and my head started to feet light. Before I knew it, I found myself in the darkness again.

I opened my eyes to find Josephine looking over at me as I was laying on the floor in the chemistry room. I looked at her noticing something was different. I… I can’t read her thoughts!? Well I guess god didn’t want me to have these powers for long, but I was glad to have them for this short period of time. If it wasn’t for this, I would have never known how she had felt for me. How we both had feelings for each other.

I was glad.

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Eventually we met up more, talked more, and became very close friends to the point where we both confessed our feelings on Valentine’s day, and started dating after. It was all because of that magical dodgeball to the head that made me realize that.. or at least that’s what I’m telling her, because she would flip if she knew i was able to read minds at the time, but shhhh. Don’t tell her that.