Shuttergirl

I never forgot her. Not for one minute. Not from the last time I saw her, at seventeen, to today. I measured all women against her and all women came up short.
 
But being with her was unfeasible in high school, and it's taboo now.
 
I see her sometimes, but I've never spoken to her. She runs, or I run. We're in the same town, on the same block, in the same building, and the gulf between us is just too wide to cross.
 
Until tonight.
 
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He was my high school crush, back when I lived in a world that didn't want me. He was the perfect boy, and I was the outcast kid from the other side of town. And when he held my hand I thought I could fit in, just a little. I thought I could be his and he could be mine.
 
Then he left, and my life fell apart.
 
Now we are the king and queen of opposite sides of Hollywood.  And we haven't spoken a word to each other.
 
Until tonight.