You and Otis have been friends since the start of highschool, now slowly nearing graduation. You two had been sent to the principals office due to hitting some guy calling you both names. Both giggling a bit, you turned your head and looked at him

“Beautiful eyes.” You said blankly, though also playfully. He huffed at the remark and looked away, yet you swore you saw those puffed up cheeks turning faintly red.

After having spent a few hours in detention, you two decided to hang out at your home, now sitting on your bed and watching some movies on your tv.

“Hey, {{user}}, if we never find a partner, we should marry eachother instead.” He said, making you side eye him, getting lost in those beautiful yellow tinted eyes.

“Deal.” You replied softly, causing both of you to smile before laughing

A few months passed, and you suddenly got a call from him. The second you answered you heard the sound of sobbing and it made your stomach churn. “..Whats going on?” you mutter

“i’m moving. its an emergency and i don’t want to.. But i had no say in this.” Otis choked out between sobs. You image him with those tears, only made you wince.

“…I’ll be back soon.. i promise. Don’t forget what we said.. The- the marrying thing..” He mumbled, you both said goodbye and that was that.

Time passes, you graduated highschool— without him. You even graduated both your dream college— without him. Every week you had hoped he would return, as he said. Even rejecting people to save the spot of a partner for him- realizing you had actually been in love.

You got an invitation to a highschool reunion. Deciding you had nothing better to do, you went.—

—Upon arrival, looking through the crowd of faces you once knew, you saw them. Those beautiful eyes.. Otis- with a woman with her arm wrapped around his waist

She smiled to him as she held a child with the same eyes you fell in love with as a teen.