Chapter 1. Koi Pond Eyes

A Chapter by Sammie

A crush develops bewteen joey and mei.

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I hate it when you read a book but you dont know what the main character looks like. You can read half way threw a book imagining a character with black hair and then WHAM, the author can Throw in a totally unnecessary cheesy line in like “Her golden hair blew in the breeze.” and then your whole image is ruined. But I live for cheesy lines so my story wont be short of those. Anyways,Thats why with the start of my story Im gonna tell you everything about her. From head to toe, from lips to belly button,Every little detail. For now my name and my appearance is not important because I want the spotlight to be all about her. Mei Konani. But I get to call her Meki. Her long brown hair flows just enough to catch strangers eyes. Her eyes are a mix between a fresh loaf of bread straight from the oven and the koi pond at our neighborhood Chinese restaurant. small and cuddly just like a puppy, yet meki is allergic to dogs so she doesn't like it when I tell her she looks like a puppy. Her nose is small and spotted perfect for kisses. Her lips smile even when her eyes are sad. Her hands are always hidden, In pockets, behind her back, or pulled tight under her jacket sleeves. Its one of the cute little things she does that makes me lover her even more. This is where I come into play, For now you can call me joey, but like I said before this story is about meki. Just like in real life. Meki is my everything.

Starting from the beginning, so that you aren't lost ,I met meki during my second week of 7^th grade. Having just transferred from my old hole in the wall school, I was quite lonely and scared to suddenly be thrown in mid-semester to a prep-school in Arizona. I hated Arizona until I met her. The dry summers. The dry winters. The dry spring...your get where I'm going with this. Everything is dry in Arizona. Im so tempted to spew out a cheesy line about how meki is the rain to my dry Arizona life but ill skip that and save you the trauma. The date was September 28^th. My home room teacher was a short bald fat man with terrible teeth and an obsession with Korean culture. My seat was in the middle of the classroom on the left. 1 chairs to my right was a girl, with brown hair and koi pond eyes. I like to think to this day it was fate we were sat so close to each other but meki never gives up on reminding me we were sat in alphabetical order and that yes indeed J and M are kinda close together. Meki doesn't like cheesy love stuff as you can tell. The first time I herd the name Mei Konani is still fresh in my Mind. Mr.Koreg or as I like to call him Mr.Korea, was teaching us about something Arizona related, it was probably about something dry. His words slowly fade out as he walks down the row of desks next to mine. He grabs a text book off my desk and Slams it down hard on the desk next to me. He shouts “Mei, I mean Ms.Konani! If you insist on sleeping in my class at least make it a little less obvious.” Everyone in class isnt paying much attention to this crazy thing had just happened in front of me. Mr. Korea goes on teaching and everyone is listing to him per usual, but im mezmorized. The girl next to me that at the time I knew as Mei, was Slowly fixing herself up. Throwing her hair in a bun and fixing her uniform tie. She pulled glasses from her bookbag and put them on. She gazed down at the text book on her desk. Im staring at her hands. There small yet rugged. In suddenly snap back into reality when I see a head suddenly rest on the hand I was, for what feels like ages, Staring at. Before I even realize it the girl in front of me is back to sleeping, and im left without a text book. The sad part is for about a week after that I went without a text book. Mei continued to use it as her own personal classroom pillow, day after day, sleeping in class like it was normal. I became more and more interested in the sleepy girl called mei.

Exactly 1 week, 3 days went by of my constant subtle glances. I was becoming more and more interested in her. But on that day, 1 week, 3 days and 4 hours later, I got to talk to mei for the first time. Im sitting in the courtyard of the school playing on my phone. Looking up randomly to people watch as students hurry too and from there classes. Look up, look down. I did this everyday, relaxing on that old wooden pick-nick table, mindlessly playing with apps on my phone. Look up, look down. I see the same girls walk to there class, the same couple making out behind the dumpster. Look up, Look down. One last gaze up from my phone to see if the students have cleared signaling it was time for me to head to class. Ill never forget the feeling I had. As I glance up from my phone there is a spotted nose about 4 inches from mine. Startled I fall backwards off the picknick table bench onto the ground. Then Looking at my hands to see what damage has been done, They caught my fall along with some sharp rocks, I hear a small voice “What are you doing?” I look up too see meki has sat across from me at the picknick table resting her head on it like she does in class. I stand back up and sit down at the table. Meki at this point has her eyes closed and looks really relaxed. In shock I blurt out the first thing that I can think of “My textbook!” Im still embarrassed at the way my voice sounded, at the time I remember thinking she probably thought I was a nerd who only cared about books and spent break period alone at some picknick table. What feels like minuets go buy as I wait for meki to open her eyes. I cant help but stare at her while I wait, shes wearing the same uniform as every other girl in this school and yet she seems to look so unique. Im in a tracne of meki's beauty, im once again mesmerized, this time short lived as im snapped back to reality buy a sentence I will remember forever. “Is that your book ive been using as a pillow?! That must be why you have been staring at me! Thank god! I thought you might have had a crush on me or something!” Mei pulls the book out of her backpack, sets in on the table and walks off.

A crush? Me on meki? I remember panicking. Looking back at it know I realized my little glances were more like full on stares, And they were never at her face. I assumed she was sleeping because that seemed like all she ever did. My mind was racing, Was she never really sleeping? Did she see every time I looked at her hands, or her lips? Crush. Crush. Crush. The word circled around me as the bell rang for class. I stay seated at the table as if I wasn't even at school. To 7^th grade me having a crush on someone seemed like the end of the world....lets me honest, crushes even now are the end of the world. Soon after my nervousness calmed down I realized I couldnt have a crush on mei. Because mei was a beautiful amazing girl, with long brown hair and eyes like freshly baked bread and koi ponds, with a spotted nose perfect for kissing, and lips that always smile. And I, Was joey, aslo know as Jahela. A 14 year old Girl with a crush on...another girl.