Long Poem I

And so it begins here, or does it end. We always hear that the end is just the beginning to something else. This is a situation where there is no love lost but no love gained. In all starts in 5th grade for Gianluca. The sound of foot steps hitting the ground in no particular order, the lights shine so bright here, signs of a dance. There is no sense of giving ones self away to another person. Then Gianluca sees his crush, his first crush ever, Veronica. Veronica is of higher social status at the time. She is beautiful with her tresses falling perfectly where they should fall. Her eyes a honey type of brown in the light. He knows that this love is forbidden. But that doesn't stop him from imagining a lifetime with her after school everyday. The school is rather new, the gym is blue and the children are sat on the floor. The lights turn off, Gianluca's eyes roam the whole gym in search of Maurizia, his heart racing, he knows that he feels for her but she seems so irreachable now.. Music starts playing and everybody gets up at their own place. Maurizia gets up at goes to her boyfriend Giuseppe and they start dancing. Maurizia falls into his arms, she doesn't know that Gianluca is looking at her... Gianluca was always a loner.. He never realized it. In fact Gianluca never had a social life. He lived in a neighbourhood where he had no friends, he once had a friendship from 1st grade to 2nd grade but then his mom made him stop talking to them because he would get picked on by them. He also had a friend Roberto, whose mom would drop him off with his grandma who lives next door to Gianluca's grandma, Gianluca lived with him parents inside his grandma's house. Gianluca was isolated. Roberto would be sent to his grandma's house when his mom and her boyfriends would get into arguments. He was Gianluca's first friend... They met when they were babies. But this friendship was a fleeting one.. Gianluca's aunt Graziela was a teen and already was starting to withdraw from Gianluca, this would for sure ruin him... He is used to people leaving him emotionally. He is too young to understand. In this age of 11 years old, he is starting to see that he will probably live alone forever. He watches Giuseppe and Maurizia dance... His heart then shatters into a million pieces.. He is now in 11th grade... Gianluca has long since been a loner.