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Reese.
     
    Reese: I’m ordinary, Garrison. I’m not a second take type of girl.
     
    Garrison: What’s wrong with ordinary anyway? I would do anything to be ordinary.
    Reese: It’s just not special. Like Autumn she has this “look at me” sign on her.
     
    Garrison: Autumn’s pretty, but she knows it. I don’t know who told you that you weren’t special. You are one of a kind. I know it and we’ve only been friends for what 2 weeks?
     
    Reese: 1 week and 5 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes.
     
    Garrison: Not that you’re counting…
     
    Oh God I sounded like I was in elementary school…
     
    Our conversation was easy, and we were up all night texting back and forth. He continued to say sweet things that made me smile throughout the night. There was a big piece of me that started to fall in love with him that night. It was a feeling I had never felt before, completely different than the feelings I had towards Cannon. This felt real.
     
    When I fell asleep, he was the last person I thought of. I had the biggest smile on my face, and my heart was full. I dreamed of him all night and just as he was coming in to kiss my lips, while holding my face and whispering to me, “You’re not ordinary, Reese. You are anything but,” I wake up to my little sister Natalie, shaking me to get up.
     
     
    1 week later
    Reese
    My parents never allowed me to ride with teenagers but this year, they are finally letting me. Well, with Autumn anyway. Autumn has officially gotten her license. Can you say freedom? They probably wouldn’t have let her drive me anywhere unless they knew how awfully slow and careful she drove. It took us almost thirty minutes to go a ten minute distance. To be honest, she probably wouldn’t have even gotten a driver’s license if she could have walked everywhere. She was feared when she got behind that wheel and not exaggerating a turtle could beat us. She got a used two door Honda and she called it the “smurf”. It had that old stinky sock smell and had blue seats. It had no A/C or heater but the windows worked great. What more do you need? I was only allowed to ride with her to the mall and to school. We lived pretty close to the school though so I had planned on walking most days anyway.
     
    Today we are going to go wander the mall and I was excited. It was our first trip without our parents dropping us off. Neither of us ever had a lot of money, so we usually cruised the mall, buying a pretzel for us to share and a Dr. Pepper for each of us. We go and try on clothes but are rarely able to buy them. Sometimes we try on things we would never wear and laugh at each other.
     
    This mall trip was just her and I. Most the time we were meeting someone she was interested in or some of our other girlfriends.
     
    We sat at the food court today and Autumn dropped a bombshell on me. If fact, I almost choked on my food and spit my soda out. She had to hit me on the back to dislodge the pretzel that got stuck in my throat.
     
    “I’m thinking of going all the way with Ryan.”
     
    I asked trying to catch my breath, “Why? Already? You’ve only known him a couple of weeks.”
     
    “He has been asking me and I just feel it is right. I think you feel when it is right.”
     
    “But… Autumn… What makes you think it is right? Don’t you think it should be special? I’ve had in my mind it would be… perfect. Meant to be.”
     
    “I don’t know. It just feels right. Reese, you almost live in a fantasy world. That’s not how it is in real life. I don’t get why you think everything should be special. It’s not realistic. When he touches me, it gives me a feeling I’ve never had before. It’s a feeling of needing satisfaction of not getting enough of him. It’s hard to explain. Ryan is a totally different than any guy I have ever dated. He always says the right things.”
     
    I smirked. “Probably because he has said all the right things to lots of girls…”
     
    “Whatever, Reese.