Sometimes love is right before you and you don't even know it.

(I'm M16) A girl moved to my school last year, from France. She didn't speak English and she was incredibly quiet and often seemed upset. One time I went to the music classroom early after lunch, only to hear the subtle, sweet melody of "a thousand years" coming from the grand piano. I opened the door expecting somebody to be having a music lesson but it was her. Sat alone, as she so often was, she looked up at me and smiled, something I had never seen her do in the 3 months since she had joined. I happened to know this song on violin and so I asked if we could play it together. Now, this is where something happened that has never happened to me in almost 8 years of playing music, such was the connection between us whilst playing that I couldn't help but stare at her as she played; what this connection was is open to debate, but I have an idea... I noticed that tears were slowly falling down her cheek and at that same time I felt my eyes fill with tears. When the song ended she said to me, "thank you. This is special" this was the first time I'd really heard her voice and as I type this now I can hear the same tones twinkle In my head.

This began the start of a promising friendship, I could visually see her grow in confidence and we would often talk and play music together. I could speak with her about things going on, such as my breakup with my girlfriend of 3 years, which broke me more than anything ever has, and she told me how she missed her friends from France and that love was something she now only felt whilst playing piano. We stayed friends for months and got closer and closer. People started to say how we were a good match, I'm not somebody who can take hints very well, so any romantic implications people made went right over my head. 😂.

But three weeks ago I was at her house, we were watching some random stuff on Netflix, and I looked over to see her staring right at me, smiling, I went over and sat by her on the other couch and she continued to beam up at me. When I said "what's up?" she simply said "I've found love and it's closer than you can imagine" I looked down to see her hand and I put mine on top. I then looked up into her deep brown eyes, which made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and I then it happened, I leant my head towards her and connected with her cherry lips, it was probably the worst kiss anyone has ever given but it felt like time froze and I was floating in a cloud of ecstasy. It felt right, I may get called young and naive for thinking this is love but I can't imagine anything feeling better. We haven't told anyone else in school about it yet, so you are the first to know.

As somebody who was forced to mature at a fairly young age, after losing my father and my mother becoming very depressed, romance was something I never pondered. I was never envolved in "playground crush's" I had worries at home to be concerned with, not chasing girls, however in my teens, this seems to have intensified my desire to find someone to be with, and I hope to stay with forever. This is my first 'real' experience in romance and I am sharing it with world, for some reason... Thank you for taking the time to read this. ❤️

Submitted May 30, 2019 at 02:17AM

(I'm M16) A girl moved to my school last year, from France. She didn't speak English and she was incredibly quiet and often seemed upset. One time I went to the music classroom early after lunch, only to hear the subtle, sweet melody of "a thousand years" coming from the grand piano. I opened the door expecting somebody to be having a music lesson but it was her. Sat alone, as she so often was, she looked up at me and smiled, something I had never seen her do in the 3 months since she had joined. I happened to know this song on violin and so I asked if we could play it together. Now, this is where something happened that has never happened to me in almost 8 years of playing music, such was the connection between us whilst playing that I couldn't help but stare at her as she played; what this connection was is open to debate, but I have an idea... I noticed that tears were slowly falling down her cheek and at that same time I felt my eyes fill with tears. When the song ended she said to me, "thank you. This is special" this was the first time I'd really heard her voice and as I type this now I can hear the same tones twinkle In my head.This began the start of a promising friendship, I could visually see her grow in confidence and we would often talk and play music together. I could speak with her about things going on, such as my breakup with my girlfriend of 3 years, which broke me more than anything ever has, and she told me how she missed her friends from France and that love was something she now only felt whilst playing piano. We stayed friends for months and got closer and closer. People started to say how we were a good match, I'm not somebody who can take hints very well, so any romantic implications people made went right over my head. 😂.But three weeks ago I was at her house, we were watching some random stuff on Netflix, and I looked over to see her staring right at me, smiling, I went over and sat by her on the other couch and she continued to beam up at me. When I said "what's up?" she simply said "I've found love and it's closer than you can imagine" I looked down to see her hand and I put mine on top. I then looked up into her deep brown eyes, which made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and I then it happened, I leant my head towards her and connected with her cherry lips, it was probably the worst kiss anyone has ever given but it felt like time froze and I was floating in a cloud of ecstasy. It felt right, I may get called young and naive for thinking this is love but I can't imagine anything feeling better. We haven't told anyone else in school about it yet, so you are the first to know.As somebody who was forced to mature at a fairly young age, after losing my father and my mother becoming very depressed, romance was something I never pondered. I was never envolved in "playground crush's" I had worries at home to be concerned with, not chasing girls, however in my teens, this seems to have intensified my desire to find someone to be with, and I hope to stay with forever. This is my first 'real' experience in romance and I am sharing it with world, for some reason... Thank you for taking the time to read this. ❤️