If Only You Knew (Completed)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

I did not sleep.

I was up all night with your sketchbook.

I felt like I got to know you.

And I wondered,

What made you so sad?

who hurt you?

And I wished that you would talk to me.

But you didn't.

You never talked.

On the bus I tried to give it back.

You did not take it.

You just showed that you had a new one.

I was the first picture in it.

I did not mind.

You captured me in such a honest way.

And I loved it.

"Michel, you are beautiful"

I said at lunch and you looked at me in disbelief.

"You really are! You eyes has such a beautiful shade of green and I love the way the sometimes light up when you smile. Your hair is like a silver dream and you are so talented. So talented."

You lit up at my words and your cheeks turned red.

I could not help but smile.

"thanks..." you whispered.

And then you picked out a pen from your case.

And you wrote

/Happy/

And then you drew a portrait of yourself

A quick sketch

But the light in your eyes was shown,

And your lips was turned in a upturned smile.

And under the picture you wrote again.

/To Jake, the greatest, the kind, and the honest, with love, Mitchel/

And you ripped out the sketch,

And you left it on the table as you left.

And I putted it in the sketchbook

And then in my bag.

And I was glad