You Have ONE New Message

Winter Ball. The Final Part.

For  Anyone and Everyone who read You Have ONE New Message. Thanks for your patience and perseverance throughout the last 15 weeks. I hope I didn't disappoint you with the ending! Sarah, xx

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“I want you to kiss me,” she said in that low voice that I couldn’t help but love.

When did Anah Miller become so damned beautiful in every possible way? I had always known that she was in a league of her own, but in recent months, she had surpassed all my expectations. I have loved her from afar for more years than I like to count, but this year I knew that I had to take that leap. I had to tell her how I felt for her.

What started out as a threat from Jake soon turned into the best three and a half months of my life. I hadn’t meant to scare her way back when at the beginning, and at times I felt like she wasn’t going to let me in, but I persevered anyway and it paid off.

They say it takes twenty-one days for something to become a habit, and waking up to tell Anah just how beautiful she is soon became my obsession. Making her smile with just a simple message was an addiction to me… she was my drug.

With the question reverberating around my mind, I think back to the Halloween party two years ago, and how things could have been so different if I hadn’t gone and messed it all up.

We were at Jake’s house. His brother’s birthday fell on Halloween weekend and so the party became a joint birthday-Halloween party. Naturally I was invited, and so was Eden. Jake and Eden had been this on-off couple for a few months and they were currently in an ‘on’ phase. I’d hoped that Eden would bring Anah along, so when I looked up from a conversation with a drunk Yellow Power Ranger and saw Catwoman walk in, my heart skipped a beat. I knew it was her just from her dark, chocolate colored eyes. Was it pathetic that I knew it was Anah just from her eyes? I don’t think so.

I should have gone up to speak to her, initiated conversation or something, but I was too much of a coward to. She was this beautiful creature and I was… Sutter. The guy that was already making a name for himself on the soccer field and the guy that almost every girl in our class was making a play for.  I never took any of the girls up on their offer because somewhere in the back of my mind I rationalized that it would be like betraying Anah. She was the only girl I wanted, and the only girl I needed.

I just needed some Dutch courage.

I made my way to the kitchen and poured myself a shot of vodka and chugged it back. Then I did another, and another, and another. I wasn’t drunk, or at least I didn’t think I was. I was a little numb and I’m pretty sure I was seeing two Anah’s when she walked over to me, but now that I think about it, I could just have been seeing Anah and Eden.

Anyway, I’m getting off track.

Anah came up to me. We spoke for a while. I think it was mainly about Grace. Anah asked how it was going with her. I said she was perfect. It was instant love. Anah’s face fell. Grace is my niece, I explained and watched as a hopeful glimmer appeared in Anah’s eyes. Yeah, love that look better. Then she bit her lip, drawing my attention down to them.