Gwendolyn - Part One
He had worshipped her from afar for so long. Now she knows!
Gwendolyn was, from the first time I saw her, an icon for me. A vision of perfection. She walked past me on the school grounds unconscious of the devastation in her wake, unaware of her radiance, unaware of me, though my breath might catch and my gait might falter. I asked my brother Mitch about her. Like him, she was sixteen and two years behind me in high school. "Oh," he said, when I described her as delicate and aloof...