A Special Girl

Jessica was the only girl inside the whole school whom I thought might be worth knowing. Also, she had a dog. I've seen her with a mutt. I'm an animal lover. Yeah, she's an animal lover too and she wants to be a nurse someday. I also knew that she was raised by her ex-Marine father who always wanted a son but since he got a daughter, ended up raising her in much the same way he would have raised a son. Jessica was quite the tomboy. You got it. We're talking about the kind of girl who wears overalls to the mall and a baseball cap no less. She was different from many of the girls I knew. Most females I knew were really into clothes and stuff. I'm not into fashion. The stuff I wear is strictly Phat Pharm and sometimes Sean John's. Oh, and I gotta have my black Timberland boots. I have to have those.

I remember when I met Jessica. I was hanging out with some guys around Boston Common. We were just throwing the football around. It was just me, Jason and Mark. Jason's a slim Latin dude who looks a little bit like that famous dude, Santana. Mark's a tall, lean white dude with blond hair. He wears black and blue all the time and looks like a cop but he's actually friendly. There we were. Three guys who knew each other in high school and ended up going to the same college. Jason threw the football and I leapt to catch it. It soared above my head and went right past me. I chased after it, running through the grass. I stopped.

Someone had caught the football. Some skinny guy under a white hooded sweatshirt. I approached the dude. "Nice catch." I said. Just then, the wind blew and the hoody on the sweatshirt flew backwards, revealing the face of the person underneath. I found myself staring into the face of a girl. A rather pretty girl, actually. She smiled at me and handed me the football. I was gawking. Not just because the girl was pretty but because she had caught the ball. Mark has a strong arm. When he throws, he puts all of his strength into it. I know this because we played together in high school, on the Junior Varsity football team.