The Purple Triangle (On Hold)

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            *The Purple Triangle*

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“Jon! Carroll! Amber! Get your lazy asses up and make yourselves useful!” Madam Keeth screeched from outside our shared room.  We all lived in the brick boarding house of Glennville Academy for the Lost Child (GALC); basically a school for kids without parents or an education.  We groaned and looked out at the pink and purple sky. I looked around and threw a pillow at my sleeping roommates to wake them. My name has been Amber for as long as I could remember because of my hair but my real name is Alexi, I’m almost sixteen with layered auburn hair with brown highlights. My eyes changed by my mood from the calm and relaxed brown to a challenging hazel then to a dreamy dark blue. I’m five-foot ten, and ever since I was little the other kids had teased because I was always taller than the other girls. Carroll is fifteen with dark brown curls and fake green highlights that matched her eyes, but she had a glare that could cut through steel. With her funky fashion sense she could look much more intimating although only being 5-foot six. Jon’s seventeen with dark blonde hair that looked like gold in the sunlight and had eyes like aqua colored sea-glass he easily towered over both us girls being a full six-foot-two. None of us are related in any way they knew about biologically but we were like siblings to each other.

I walked over to where Jon slept on the other side of the room. Carroll and I had put up a cubical-like board between the beds for privacy since we caught Jon sleeping nude when he was fourteen.

“Morning sleepyhead,” I whispered in his ear then wacked him in the head with his pillow that had fallen to the floor. My iPhone buzzed in my pocket with a school wide text. I groaned, time for the mid-dawn run. Jon finally got up and we all dressed in our “jog-attire” as the school required and slipped out into the dimly lit hallway of our dorm. Just like us, groggy-eyed teens were slipping out into the hallways. Our dorm advisor Madam Keeth was watching everyone with her beady eyes like a hawk, searching for a fresh kill.

The school grounds reached five miles across but the school was surrounded by a deep forest with wild horses and rabbits but also talking gnomes and magical pixies, but those were only stories of thick headed boys who boasted stupidly that they have been in the forest during nightfall. Nobody went to the forest, if they could help it, during the day even, but at night! I remembered the stories they told as I zoned out Jon’s voice jogging beside me. Carroll was a bit ahead jogging with her boyfriend Dave and the blonde brains of Kate and Erin. I loved Carroll and Dave was fine but I couldn’t stand the girls.

“Ooh!” I heard Kate squeal like a pig in front of me. “Look at the lovebirds jogging, they seem so cute together.” She turned and looked back at the two of us. My ears turned red and my face flushed red with both anger and embarrassment. Ever since the eighth grade we had a dorm party and we were playing truth or dare. Being me I chose dare so Carroll, knowing I had a crush on Jon at the time, dared me to kiss him. I put up this huge argument explaining how that was a dare to both of us Jon reached over and kissed me quickly, pulled back, looked at me, and then leaned in to kiss me again but at that point I was already running to the bathroom to cry. It was one of the best and worst moments of my life. Rumors had spread about us dating and now almost four years later people were still teasing us about it. I hated it! And people knew that I did so they did it just to annoy me now.

We finished up out jog and headed back to shower and change into our uniforms for school. I walked out of my room and one of my best friends Emma walked in.

“Hey Em, what’s up?” I asked her as she met me at the door. She had straight, light brown hair and eyes to match.

“Just here to talk to Jon, we need to plan when we’re gunna work on our Trig project together.” She said pointing to Jon waving to her from his side of the room.

“Alright then, have fun.” I said closing the door behind them and went off to shower. I came back half an hour later feeling clean and refreshed. I walked into the room with the lights dimmed. I walked around the room towards Jon’s side. “Hey Jon...” was as far as I could get before realizing what I was looking at. Jon’s back was to the wall and Emma had her hands on his chest, pushing him as far back as he could get. I thought at first maybe she was just shoving him but then I saw his hands slide up her back and he leaned his head in towards her. My voice and heart caught in my throat and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I watched as their lips touched and then they seemed to move in slow motion. They tilted their head this way and that to get better angles to kiss each other more deeply. I turned around blinded by my tears and ran out the door and to the bathroom stalls and sank to my knees and cried. Damn Amber what’s wrong? I asked myself. Why do you care if he kisses her, even if they are your best friends? How could I have been so stupid!? Of course he’s gunna date girls and kiss girls, he’s already seventeen! And what girl wouldn’t like him? He’s smart, funny, caring, cute… oh who am I kidding he’s adorable, hot…  I had to stop myself. Who was I now? I hadn’t thought of Jon that was for years! Now all of those emotions were rushing back into me like a waterfall. And the worst part of it was, I don’t think he saw me, I now know his secret that I was never supposed to learn and it was killing me! How could I look at him now? What would I say? Hi Jon, so yeah I saw you kissing Emma. What did you get for number twelve on the math homework?  My iPhone broke me out of my trance. Time for class, and time to avoid Jon, because the longer I could avoid him, the longer I could survive from myself.

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