SECOND
CHANCES
Tom became her best friend. When Daniel dumped Holly for Lisa- one of the bitchier girls in her class-Tom was the one who comforted Holly, who confessed that he had fancied Holly when they first met but that now he was glad that they were just friends, especially since he'd just started
going out with Isabelle.And of course Holly, who had gotten over Tom completely, found herself
developing a major crush on Tom again. Except by the time he and Isabelle split up, she found herself going out with Dom Parks and she and Tom drifted apart for a while- and by the time Holly and Tom rediscovered their friendship, A levels were looming and they both knew one another far too well for there to be anything between them other than friendship.
Holly remembers how Tom used to smile at her across the desk as they worked in the library. Sometimes she'd be buried in revision and she'd look up and catch Tom's eye and he'd grin; and even then, even when she was over her crush, no longer spent nights crying in her bed as she listened over and over again to the sond track for
Save the best for last. Even then she knew that whatever she and Tom had, it was special. and maybe at some point in the future they would find one another again.
Holly spreads photos out on the floor and starts to move them around. She pulls one from the pile. It's Tom and some girl. She had seen the photo and had demanded to have it because Tom looked so handsome, smiling next to the girl she hadn't liked. he looked almost model-like, and
Holly had been so proud of knowing him. Tom had cracked up laughing when Holly had said she was taking it. " I'm going to cut her out and stick me in instead," she had said with an evil glint, and Tom had shaken his head as if he didn't know what to do with Holly, which he didn't. She was, in turn, funny, delightful, warm, wise and insufferable, jealous , insecure and impossible. He loved her but didn't know how he could live with her. he loved her but wasn't in love with her. NOT TODAY, at least. She just was. Holly Mac. A fact of his life. Someone that would always be a part of him. As he would always be a part of her.
Ironic much? Wasted much ? Familiar much?
♥Thursday, March 26, 2009
