This I Believe

There are many things that I believe in. One that I feel is the most important is one that I discovered about nine months ago. I had this boyfriend. We were pretty much inseperable. I think we were the longest relationship that Mulvane High had ever seen. We did everything together. I thought that we would go through college together and eventually get married and live happily ever after. I have came to find that it was all just a dream I had. We were together for one year and eleven months. There was one week of high school left until we graduated. It was a Friday. The same Friday that I had Regional Track in Augusta. I noticed that my boyfriend Brock had been acting wierd all morning. I kept asking him what was the matter, but he would just say that he didn't want to talk about it. I just kept asking him. We were walking down the hall to our third hour class and a girl walks by and hits him. It just happened to be a girl that I had played volleyball and basketball with and her dad was my club volleyball coach. I was pretty good friends with her and her family. It all happened so fast that I didn't even see who she was, so I turned around. She was just standing there with a wierd look on her face as she was staring at Brock. Then as I turned back forward, I noticed that Brock was just looking at the ground with a very sober look on his face. Right then I had a pretty good idea of what was bothering him. The day went on and we were at lunch. He was still acting very strange, so I started asking him questions about what was going on. I finally asked if it was about the girl in the hall. All he said is, "I am so stupid". I just quit asking questions because I didn't want to be crying all day. I could see that he was about to cry too and I didn't want to make a scene at lunch. As I was leaving for the track meet, I met up with my best friend, Josey. She was asking me about things and was consoling me. Keep in mind that I didn't even know what really happened, just that something did. As we got on the bus, she said "you are handeling all of this really well." I had no idea what she was talking about. Handeling all of what well? She told me that she heard that he had cheated on me with that girl from the hall. I was in complete disbeliefe until i sat down and had the whole ride to Augusta to think about everything and I realized that it all matched up. I felt so stupid for not even realizing it. I spent that night with my close friends who all tried to cheer me up. Nothing helped. The next day I went to a band concert and talked to his sister Brook. She went home after the concert and called and said that Brock had left and he was saying some very disturbing things about what he wanted to do to himself. Right then I knew that I had to talk to him. He came to pick me up from the high school parking lot and we went to English Park to talk. We talked for hours that night and early the next morning and on and on. I eventually decided to stay with him and give him another chance. In my heart I knew that he would change, and he did. We began our journey into college and we started arguing a lot. I found myself thinking about what it would be like without him. I had tried to break things off with him a few times, but it never seemed to work and we always got back together. This time is different. We have broken things off, and it has been a success now for almost 2 months. I am a lot more happy than I thought I could ever be without having him in my life. I wouldn't change anything that I did for the world. This experience has helped me grow and learn about myself. Now that I have followed my heart, I feel that I am on the right path.