1 Pain

Pain,it was all I feel as I burst into another round of tears coupled with the fact that I woke up with the worst hangover ever,puffy and red eyes from crying all night.i was at the club all night mending my broken heart,funny how the alcohol did nothing when I woke up. Yesterday started out great but turned out to be the worst day of my life.

I was humming to my favourite song that morning because the love of my life was coming to New York.I haven't seen Dave since two months ago and I miss him so much,we speak on video calls every day but it wasn't enough,he has been my boyfriend since junior year in highschool,he walked into my life when I was at my lowest and turned my life around for good.

I was always the quiet girl at school because I was always called "big and late bloomer"it wasn't calling me a late bloomer that was bad,it was the reason why I was called that,I was seventeen in sophomore year when most of my classmates were fifteen,my parents are adventurers who moves around a lot, and I was called big because I have a big bosom,curvy hips and big ass.

"On that day, sophomore year,I was on my way to class when Alicia and her group of friend crossed me,I knew in that moment she wanted to cause trouble for me because she was one of the slim girls in school that thinks being curvy is a disease,I put on a strong facade whenever anybody address me as "big" but deep inside I was hurting,Alicia started throwing her tantrums as usual on that day when a voice from behind suddenly spoke up before I could give her a piece of my mind,I wasn't a weak girl myself who would let anyone look down on her. I had insecurities but no one will ever know that because I keep a hard exterior.

"You shouldn't bully people you know,every body is beautiful just the way they are.

It was a deep timbre voice that did things to my body, that I didn't know existed.i wasn't so grateful for the stranger's help though because I always stood up for myself,but I was thankful regardless.

We all fell into silence,Alicia and her minions, including the few onlookers that already gathered to hear what the school queen has to say,for the first time in my life,someone actually stood up for me,I thought,I decided to face my saviour and there stood a god in human form with the deepest shade of blue eyes and a perfect face,he is unarguably the most good looking man I have ever set my eyes on and those muscles ,Lord!

The girls were visibly admiring him and so was i,who wouldn't?.He was simply breathtaking in his green suit, didn't know a green suit looks that good.

I couldn't describe him with words,no word could come close to describing him because he looked like a specially carved angel sent down from heaven by God himself.

Those deep shade of blue was what captivated me the most,they took me in,his presence brought me so much freedom I didn't know I was ever going to get in my life.

Unlike the others in the hall way I wasn't drooling only because of his good looks,but for his short speech too.

It was also crazy that I felt a connection between us, like magnetic pulls,I could feel it on my skin and in my heart,I could feel it on every hair on my skin and on every fibre of my soul,it felt too good to be true.

It made me a little happy that he defended me,yet I kept my cool because every eyes in the hallway was looking at us.

"Hi my name is Dave, "he said stretching out his hands for me to take,that brought me out of my reverie,I took his outstretched and shook him, Rosie thanks for defending me.

"Mmm Rosie,"He repeated after me all smiles. His smile was so broad and so beautiful I smiled too. He was beautiful,I heard a huff behind me and the angry matching steps of Alicia and her minions leaving the scene,Alicia is used to guys swamping her like bees,so this good looking man no sparing her a glance is the biggest disappointment of all times.

Our face met and we burst into laughter not caring about our onlookers,it felt like we both know what was in the our minds without saying it out.Thank you,I said again,and before he could say anything else,we heard the bell

"I beg to take my leave now,we both said together,he smiled and I was forced to reciprocate."Nice meeting you Rosé,he smiled and walked away. Well guess I have a new nickname"?

I was momentarily frozen for a second before I headed to class,and getting there I met the shock of my life. Dave was the new history teacher,I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that someone that good looking teaches?

I came out of my reverie when I heard him chuckle,I moved to my seat in long stride,till the end of the class I knew I didn't hear a single thing because this man in front of me was making it hard for me or any other girl in class focus.

When I heard to bell,I immediately stood up from my seat because being in the same place together and hearing his voice, watching the way his lips moves when he talks is making me go crazy.

I got accustomed to the fact that Dave was my history teacher because I was seeing him on every history period,until the day a freshman came to my class and said I was called by a teacher,I am very intelligent with a photographic memory as a blessing so I was wondering what could have happened.

I wasn't called by a teacher,but the freshman took me to the counselor's office,I was now utterly confused,when I entered I was met with a pity expression,"was I being expelled? what did i do? did anyone found out about my crush for Dave? "Different thought was going through my head at once.

"I am so sorry Rosie..

, I knew..i knew someone found out about my crush for Dave, I know it's Alicia.i was basically rambling in my head for reasons why I would change yet another school! but I was not expecting the what came out of the counselor's mouth."your parents were involved in a ghastly accident and they didn't survive.the doctors tried their best but the force in which the truck collided with their car was too much..am sorry honey but they have been transferred to the hospital morgue. Is there someone we can call?A relative?

"No I answered in a hoarse voice. okay,a teacher will be arranged to take you to the morgue,I just nodded lightly.i was to distraught to utter any word.

There was a knock on the counselor's office door,the door opened and the person turned out to be Dave,he looked like he was in a hurry,I was too sad to bother why he was like that.

Miss Peterson,Mr Dave would be your escort to the hospital,I stood up and Dave followed me immediately,he took long strides to get to his car and open the car door for me.

The car was dead silent on the ride to the hospital,no one uttered a word,I jumped down from the immediately we got to the hospital, apparently the school has explained I was coming,So I was immediately directed to the hospital morgue.

When I got to the door,i didn't want to go in,but I braced up for what to come,I didn't know what I was about to experience was a nightmare,my parents were battered and their face unrecognizable.

I stood stunned on a spot,and tears unconsciously rolled from my eyes,I didn't know when or how I moved my feet to where they were,a loud shrill of agony escaped my mouth and I fell to the floor. I shakily held my parents hands,mum..dad..i..i...oh My God..I couldn't form words.i am going to miss you..I am going to miss you..that was the only sentence I could mutter.i cried uncontrollably on a spot until Dave held me up his chest, apparently I had to make a decision about what to do with the body, because I was the only relative,with shaky voice.i asked they cremate my parents,their face were unrecognizable and I couldn't bury them that way.

I walked out of the hospital with my parents ashes in my hands.Dave started checking on me from that day but I didn't care because the only people in my life where gone,I withdrew from life from that moment,all I did was attend class and read my notes.

Dave didn't leave me alone and started waiting for me after closing hours to take me home,and slowly he make me laugh again,I wasn't fully recovered from the trauma and I never will but Dave was there all step of the way.

He became my rock and deep down in my heart, I had feelings no eighteen years old should feel for an older teacher, but I couldn't change how I felt.

Senior year,he asked me to be his girlfriend and we managed to keep it under wraps till graduation.

I am twenty two and in my second year of College, Dave is twenty nine and I wouldn't have it any other way, Our relationship has been three years and I was hoping we could celebrate our anniversary,I didn't know the news awaiting me was going to leave me completely distraught.