An Accidental Letter

{2 months later}

Mark planned to stay with us until he left for college, and found a new house. His unofficial bedroom was the guest room.



My parents left with Sadie and Tommy to go on vacation to Disney world for the week yesterday, but because Mark and I had to work on stuff for our universities (I’m going to Harvey Mudd College in Cali and Marks going to the same college mum went to because he wanted to be a writer also), they allowed us to stay home.

We were both sitting on the couch when Mark turned to me and said, “I’m gonna go take a shower now.” I just nodded and continued to work on my maths. I groaned in frustration and pushed the table, which inadvertently caused most of Mark’s notebooks and binders to fall off and onto the ground. I sighed and started collecting the papers off the floor. As I picked up one of the binders, an envelope fell out. And being the curious person I am, I had to open it.

“Oh my gosh.” I said as I read what was on the first letter.
Freya Tomlinson
You’re the girl i have had a crush on since day one.
I remember thinking how pretty you were,
but it wasn’t until we got older
that I realized my true feelings.
You didn’t seem to feel the same way though.
Boyfriend, after boyfriend, after boyfriend that didn’t treat you right
because they didn’t know the real you,
I stood to the side knowing i could do better.
But you will never know how i feel.
It’s all in this letter that i don’t have the courage to give you
Forever and Always, Mark Reydon
There were over forty letters like that one, in the small envelope, so I folded it up and stuck it in my pocket before putting the envelope back in the binder. I finished cleaning up the other stuff and went back to my work.

After we both ate lunch, I informed Mark that I was going to visit my Aunt Abby and Uncle Harry.

“I’ll come.” He responded. “I need to asked Harry about something.” I nodded and walked out the door, locking it after Mark came out.
Abby answered immediately after we rang the doorbell. “Mark! Freya!” She greeted, holding Evi, their year old daughter. “Please come in. Harry is upstairs, playing with Darcy.” Mark nodded and head in that direction.

“Abby, I need to talk to you about something in private.” She nodded and brought me back to the front porch, where we sat on the little loveseat.

“What is it?” She questioned.

“Well, I found this letter.” I said, handing the letter to her. Abby looked it over and then smiled widely.

“I knew it!” She exclaimed. “We all knew it!”

“Yes yes. I get that all my aunts and uncles basically ship me and Mark together. But can you help me, tell what to do?”

“Of course! I recommend that one day this week, while you and him are alone, bring it up casually and tell him that the feelings are mutual. They are mutual, right?” Evi looked up at me with her big green eyes as she climbed into my lap.

“Hello there sweetums.” I said before looking back at her mother. “And yes, of course they are,” I responded.

“Well that’s perfect Freya!” Abby exclaimed. “You have to do it soon! You guys are perfect together.” We just continued with some small talk and playing with Evi until the boys came down stairs because Darcy wanted to say hi to me. “We’ll see you soon. Uncle Liam’s birthday is coming up.” I nodded as I hugged Darcy and Evi.

“Bye Bye!”

“Bye sweethearts.” Mark and I walked to the car and went back to our house.

Notes

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