Just One Day

I was the new girl at a school, and my English class was reading Shakespeare. One of the boys, who basically looked like Cole Sprouse from Five Feet Apart, was chosen to read for the male protagonist. Before he began, he held up a smooth rock and said he was going to toss it to an audience member. He tossed it to me. The class took a field trip to a city, maybe Chicago, to see Shakespeare. I remember beginning to get along with some of the girls in the class as we went shopping, and I was spending some time with Cole Sprouse. I really liked him, and he seemed to like me. At one point, at night, guy who looked like Haymitch from the Hunger Games wouldn’t leave me alone on the street, and Cole stepped in. However, when shopping with the girls the next day, I overheard Cole in a store talking to some of the other guys. He said that the only reason he threw me the rock was because he pitied me for being the new girl, and I didn’t matter to him. I was crushed. I think he saw me crying and going back to the hotel. I left the rock on the ground. That night, we were at the Shakespeare performance we were seeing. Cole stood up in front of our rows in the audience and said he was going to toss a rock to a beautiful girl in the audience. He looked at me while saying it, and he tossed me the rock. I remember smiling and feeling really special. It was an orange rock and really smooth.