Im sorry, I don't seem to know you

“Lucy… Lucy, please remember that you are in trigonometry not your dreams”Mr. Kudfelt said as I was brought out of my very lovely day dream.  I felt the eyes of every person in my 3rd period class, including Mathew McLain who was absolutely the hottest boy that I had ever laid my eyes on.  

“I'm sorry Mr. Kudfelt, by the way the answer was cos(9)” I said feeling my face become very very red.

Today had been particularly difficult to focus because it was Valentine's day and love was in the air. Walking through the hallways of Lineswood school was even fun because you would see girls ecstatic because they got flowers or a boy had asked them out.  I love the season of love.  I had always been particularly unlikeable for some reason, I was the girl that kept to myself and cared more about my grades than having the best outfit.  My tangled brown hair and mis-match sweater with stained  cargo pants made that clear to all of the boys too.  But Matthew, he was different.  Matthew talked to me and seemed to have an interest in being my friend, him and I loved to smoke blunts behind the dumpster behind the school after 3rd period.  Therefore, today was the day that I would finally ask him out and see if the season of love was going to work in my favor or not.  

When class ended I had so many butterflies in my stomach that I wanted to throw them all up and watch them fly away.  I walked to the dumpster and saw him already sitting there with a bag of candy hearts in his hand.  I walked up to him and he just looked at me.

“Hey Matthew can I have one?” I said looking at the candy hearts.

“Ummmm Sure, I guess” He said, lengthening his arm towards me.  I sat next to him and started telling him about how Mr. Kudfelt had talked to me after class about my day dreaming and how it was becoming a problem.  I knew that I was mumbling and had to just jump on it before I talked myself out of it.  

“Matthew, will you… possibly want to go out with me… like be in a relationship with me?”

I said ringing my sweater in between my hands.

“ I am very flattered, but I am not sure that I even know who you are and I don't think that I can say yes without knowing who you are.  I am sorry” He said looking into my eyes.  I was in complete shock, how could he not know who I was?  We had been friends for a year now and talked to each other at least every day.  He had even met my mother before.  

“Matthew, what are you talking about?” I said with mild panic in my voice.

“ I am sorry you seem very sweet but we have never met before” He said, beginning to stand up and walk away.  I was in complete shock. I cannot believe that he just said that he didn't know me.  Was this a prank? Why would he do something so mean like this?  I was panicking, what was I going to do?  I could never show my face in front of him again.  I stood up from the curb and my knees were shaking.  I began to walk forward but tripped on his old candy hearts bag.  I feel so hard for Matthew and now I was falling onto the ground.  I hit my head on the ground so hard that my entire world heard the noise of the beeping and red lights.

I opened my eyes and my alarm was screeching telling me that it was time to wake up, my entire body was wet and I was shaking, looking at my phone I realized that it was November 3rd and I had 2 notifications from a contact labeled “bae”.  Who was that? Was it Matthew? Why don't I remember anything? Was it all a dream?

It hit me that maybe I had dreamed it all, but it felt so real.  I got out of my bed and went directly to the shower to see if I could wash off all of the confusion that had just hit me.  My mother was down the hallway making breakfast as I scorched my skin in hot water.  In the shower, I got a flashback of Matthew kissing me and it gave me butterflies imaging his hands on my body.  But, I thought that he had rejected me.  I got out of the shower as quick as I could because I needed to call him, or whoever my “bae” contact was.  Hand shaking, I tapped the contact and listened to the deafening ring for what seemed like forever and finally a female voice answered. 

“ Hey, I am so glad that you called. I was just about to call you.  So, I was wondering if you would want to go out with me, and maybe be my girlfriend” She said very quickly trying to get the words out before she backed out.  I racked my brain for a couple of seconds thinking who this person could be but I just couldn't put my finger on who this person was.

“I am sorry, but I don't seem to know you,”  I said, having flashbacks of the dream that had affected me so bad the night before.  

“ What? What do you mean? We have Lucy's history Lucy.” “Bae” said, seeming very frazzled and angry, “ How could you do this to me?” she said now, seeming very sad and disappointed.  Then I heard the phone clatter like she had fallen.  What is happening to me? I decided to brush it off and go to school, I was too tired to solve the mystery.  I stepped outside and there was a bag of candy hearts on my doorstep, they were labeled “from Trina” Putting the puzzle pieces together very quickly I thought that “bae” must have been Trina.  But, still I couldn't remember ever knowing a girl named Trina.