79: The Bucket List

JUDAH’s POV : "There's something I've been meaning to tell you, and it's been a long time coming..." I paused for a moment to take a deep breath. “And since we’re defying our fears today…” "Judah, what is it?" Blondie gave me a puzzled look as I stretched out my right hand to her. "Hi... my name is Jaden... well, it's Judah now, but that's beside the point..." I started rambling. "Judah, what are you doing?" she narrowed her eyes at me, but she took my hand anyway. "I wanna thank you for sharing your lunch with me. And for the Band-Aids too. And I just wanna say, you're the coolest girl in this entire playground and you have the prettiest eyes I've ever seen..." Those were the exact words that little seven year old me wanted to tell her all those years ago. I had practiced that line so many times in front of my bathroom mirror. Corny maybe, but for a seven year old, I thought that wasn't so bad. "I've waited years to tell you that. I've wanted to tell you since the first day we met at