(Part 01)
If you looked closely at Isabella Cross you couldn’t help but see why she was one of the most popular girls at school.
Her Elphin face had a shape and symmetry that was very easy on the eye and both genders thought she had a figure to die for.
Although there were girls in Christian Myers circle who were more classically beautiful than she was, they didn’t have any of the character of Isabella’s.
Her silky red hair shone and shimmered as she moved her head and her brown eyes bore into your soul when you met their gaze and as if her unique beauty was not enough to set her on a pedestal she was also athletic, artistic, intelligent and downright sexy.
Everyone, but everyone, boy or girl that ever met Isabella Cross fell instantly in love with her, but Christian had been in love with her since the time before she blossomed.
However despite all the attention she received from the moment of her blossoming Isabella managed to keep everyone of the persistent suitors at bay which inevitably led to the rumour that she played for the other side.
These rumour’s led to reports originating from the “other side” that she didn’t play for them so therefore the conclusion was that she must be frigid.
Not that Christian ever believed such rumours for a moment and he had known her longer than anyone, because Isabella Cross was literally the girl next door.
And she had lived there since she was three and they had been best friends since the very beginning.
So when she was approaching her seventeenth birthday, even though Christian was everything that she was not, he would have been extremely surprised not to get an invitation to her birthday party as Isabella, Christian and the other guests had after all been friends since nursery school.
So having well and truly established that Isabella was one of the popular group, Christian on the other hand was in no uncertain terms not.
He was not athletic, artistic, or sexy but without being immodest he did have intelligence in common with her even though his intelligence was considered nerdy because his forte was science, and in particular Physics.
So under normal circumstances, friendship and intelligence aside, it would be inconceivable if one of the popular girls was to invite a Science geek to her 17th birthday party.
Anyone not close to her could be forgiven for thinking she had a rush of blood to the head such would have been their surprised but he was not at all surprised.
There may well have been peer pressure to only invite the “in crowd” but she was not of that ilk and was not easily led or cajoled.
The popular crowd would probably have been further surprised when it turned out he was one of only six guests at the party, one of those being Isabella herself.
Though for him it certainly wasn’t a surprise knowing her as he did she was never a flashy person.
She didn’t want a big flashy party with glitz and glamour and lots of superficial friends.
(Part 02)
There was just Isabella, Christian and four other guests at the party who were also old friends chosen for the longevity of their friendship rather than for their social standing.
Kelly Reed was also one of the popular girls at school but she started with them in nursery as well and she had no affectation about her either.
Then there was her cousin Roy Pollard who was 18, Mark Clench and Susanna Perioli.
The party was at a Chinese restaurant called the The Scented Garden in Abbottsford which was Isabella’s favourite.
As you would expect from such a great restaurant it was a really excellent meal and as Roy was 18 he ordered wine with the meal which they all drank as they reminisced about their shared history and by the end they all laughed until they cried.
As they left The Scented Garden and got down to street level they had the usual round of hugs and kisses on the pavement and then Kelly went accross the road to where her Dads car was parked and as Mark, Susie and Roy all lived in the same neck of the woods they went off to get the bus and Isabella and Christian headed to the station to catch the train.
As they walked up station approach he said
“I had a really great time”
“Yeh me too” she replied
“Wasnt it great to get the six of us together again?”
“We should do it more often” he suggested
““We” should get together more often” Isabella said
“What just the two of us?” he asked
“Yeh” she said coyly
“Just you and the Science geek?” He asked with surprise
“You’re not a geek” she said defensively
“I’m going to study Astro Physics at Cambridge” he pointed out
“That proves nothing, and anyway if you were a geek that wouldn’t stop me fancying you,” she said.
“You fancy me?” he asked pointing at himself
“Yes” she replied “Didn't you know?”
“Not for a second” Christian said and shook his head
“What about you?” she asked shyly
“Do you fancy me?
“Well I don’t know about fancying you” he said and she was clearly crestfallen for a second and the smile left her eyes
“But I’ve been in love with you since we were 7 years old if that counts”
“You total pig” she said and laughed before she kissed him softy on the lips which led to the most wonderful spine tingling embrace that seemed to last forever.
When it ended she looked at him with her soulful brown eyes and smiled the most loving smile.
He returned her smile and wanted to say something fitting for the moment, something that would truly mark the moment forever, something poignant and pithy, but alas he was lost for words.
“Wow” she said beating him to the punch
“Why didn’t I think of that?” he said to himself
“Wow” she said again and giggled then she ran off up the road and shouted over her shoulder
“You’ll have to marry me now”
He caught up with her at the station and she was still giggling until he kissed her
“Okay then” he said and headed toward the platform and it was Isabella’s turn to run after him.
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