English Creative Writing GCSE Coursework

Authors Avatar

Only You

Imogene Taylor had never believed in love at first sight until the day she first saw Sean. Sean Middleton. Just hearing those two words always caused a smile to break onto her face. Just his name alone made her pale blue eyes sparkle with excitement, so it was no surprise that when she whenever she actually saw him her stomach tied in knots and it was all she could do to keep herself from going up to him and running her hands over his perfect body.

        She couldn’t imagine life without the idea of him. What thoughts had filled her mind in every spare moment before he had come along? Surely nothing as fascinating and incredibly perfect as him. From the moment she first saw him in school, she knew he was the one she was meant to be with. Her legs turned to jelly just thinking about that day. She had been at netball practice, warming up, when he had come through the gym doors. Immediately, her eyes had been drawn to him. There was something about him - whether it was his slow, slanted smile, his emerald green eyes or just the way his golden hair caught the light every time he moved– that made her heart skip a beat.

        She could feel the chemistry between them, even from several feet away, seeming to be twining them tightly together. Her body was burning, her skin tingling; the electricity between them so powerful. Surely he must have felt it too? They say lightening never strikes in the same place twice, but it did: in her heart, every single time she saw him. It struck right through her each time, ripping right through her heart and sending shockwaves through every nerve in her body, leaving her feeling drained and yet somehow so alive at the same time.

                                    *                          *                            *

        “Are you sure my hair looks okay?” Sophia Bride asked her best friend, nervously playing with a loose blonde curl.

“Of course it does! Now stop being silly and let’s go back and dance!” Imogene tugged her friend away from the mirror in the ladies bathroom and back onto the dance floor. The volume of the music hit them again as they opened the bathroom door, but their ears soon got used to it again. The disco lights flashed an array of colours, keeping the normally mundane brown floor in a constant spectrum of colours.

        “Let’s go over there” whispered Sophia, pointing over to a less crowded space, but Imogene shook her head vigorously. Sophia opened her mouth to ask why not, but realized before she got the words out. Liam, Imogene’s ex, was slouching over there. Imogene had finished with him after the first time she had seen Sean. She knew Liam could never, ever make her feel the way Sean had managed to, so there was no point in just stringing him along. Besides, she’d started to feel slightly uneasy around him for a while anyways, though she couldn’t explain why. She did like to think though that it was because she knew – somehow, inside of her – that true love was coming and that it wasn’t in the form of Liam.

Join now!

        Imogene rolled her eyes and smiled at her friend before pointing at another spot. One, conveniently, which was over near where Sean was leaning casually on the marble bar, looking more gorgeous than she remembered his sandy hair tousled. Sophia rolled her eyes back at her, but followed her over, muttering just loud enough for Imogene to hear “Ever heard of subtlety?”

“No - I haven’t” answered Imogene with a mischievous smile, before going and sitting on a barstool situated right next to him. As she sat down, she allowed one of her bare legs to rub past his. ...

This is a preview of the whole essay