Love at a young age

By: Tommy

Well, It all started when I was a young boy.

My Mum's best friends daughter and I had become friends when I was still in diapers. She is a year older than me and I am now 18 and she is 19. Back in third grade we had gotten a little fond of each other and we started being "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" not like we really knew what that was at the time but we acted like it. I don't really remember how long we "dated" but she had moved away shortly after. I didn't realize then that I would see her again. About four years later her Mum called up my Mum and began talking again.

I didn't understand why they stopped talking all together but then I didn't care, I was just happy to see my old girlfriend. We were about 10 in third grade and I was now 14 and she was 15 and she was steadily dating a guy that was about 3 years older then her. We stayed over night and left the next morning. After that, my Mum and hers talked for about a month and never talked again for another 3 years.

My Mum and her Mum then started talking to each other and I know realized why they hadn't talked to each other and kind of understood but not really. Now Me and "Melissa" (that is her name) were young adults but not full adults. She again had a boyfriend and didn't really show interest in me, but boy did I ever like her. I had realized that I had been in love with her for 8 years and it was getting stronger everytime I saw her.

After my Mum and her Mum saw each other, yup you guessed it, they separated again, but Melissa also separated from her mother. After that Melissa had a beautiful daughter Katie and was keeping in touch with us.

About June she moved in with us just her and her daughter because she was on her own and was going through some tough times and my Mum was willing to help her out. So she moved in and again she had a boy friend and for about two months they dated. Something happened and they stopped but at the time I was dating also. Well, my girlfriend broke up with me and I started to really like Melissa and one night we had started to "fool" around with each other and my love grew every moment from then on stronger and stronger. She would say "I love you " in a voice that would sound like she was truly in love with me. I don't think she knew how much I loved her or maybe she did and she was just playing games I will never know.

In about October she moved, but before that I had wrote her a letter asking what was going on with us and if there was something and if not I would understand, but not want to take that path. I gave her the letter and she read it and said that she would write back to me before she left, well I am still waiting for that letter to this day.

I am not obsessed, I am still dating, But she was my first love and I will remember her for the rest of my life. It is possible to fall in love at a very young age so don't listen to people who say it is impossible because they don't know how you feel and if it is true love you will have that butterfly feeling in your stomach all your life everytime you think of that person. I am pulling my self through things but I still write her letters that have no reply either cause she doesn't get them or she is afraid. But I will not let it ruin my life and that's what people have to understand that being heart broken is devastating but its not the end of the world. Like I have been told many times before "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger".