Bestie's crush stealer, am I?!
"Ahem...viber's girl? "
Through my pacing feet, I twisted around glimpsing questionably at his heart-shaped face but his playful always ready-to-haze anyone looked like to be in some serious mystery as his hands were tucked into his jeans pockets and lips partly opened but eyes dragging onto the stoned floor similar to his feet which he was dragging lazily, but then, he took an inch step closer towards me in that abrupt fashion but that was still nothing to...what he said--
"...You look good without that scarf around your neck" --left me breathless, speechless, and basically in a coma!
Why is he saying 'You look good' sentences?! These are (essentially) lovers' statements!
And we're...nuf! ... He's my best friend's crush!
Also, he's the only one who tried to haze me on day one of my independence!
And now?
Is he trying to propose to me or trying to get his revenge on me for sending Viber behind him?! And make me ' bestie's crush stealer'?!
Oh never, I will do such a culpable thing!
Never! Never! Never! NEVER!
"Just saying! " He cried alarmed (of course, I was in deep silent shock that maybe my eyes would have already gouged out), rising both his hand up to his should as if proving his innocence to a cop and stepping behind continuing with a guilt-ridden face-
"It's just... That your vibe feels...different now"
Oh, I... See...
And meanwhile Le brain of Willy: ' dirty mind '
"Eh... Thank you, how was I with the scarf?" laughing in awkwardness, I cursed my brain within and questioned something mindless to lighten the thick mist of discomfiture!
"With the scarf? (He touched his chin with the index finger of his) You looked like a little self-preserved lamb who was ready to be bullied and never complain... But now, there's an unmatchable glow of confidence somehow."
An unmatchable glow of confidence?
This will be the very first time someone has said something rather than calling me a weakling or soulless...and this feels overwhelming,
"Thank you Mito," I let out veering my gleaming face away recklessly, striding away as if sprinting in the spring, flying like a newborn butterfly,
How can I not spread my wings?!
"Wait! Viber's girl, still you owe me some answers! " Wailing, he cried cutting in between my happy feet through his athletic ass!
"Agh! What? " I moan, putting my palm on my hip and eyes narrowed on the corner,
"Why was she bleeding? "
"Who? "
"Your cat-eyed friend"
My lips got glued together hearing this much- cat-eyed? It's Nev! He had noticed it was Nev who was bleeding?!
Well, not to forget for blame, it was her, my cat-eyed bestie who kept so many loopholes in point of her secrecy and now I am here to cover that for her?!
No way! But... 'I'll handle your love interest.'
Shit! I declared that in such a trustful manner!
But... There is a good thing- he noticed Nev!
Ha! It looks like her spell is working!
"Are you with me, Viber's girl or do you need a Viber kiss to wake up?! "
Agh... This annoying guy! Why does he always drag Viber in between?!
(Cause he's your 'boyfriend')
"Shut up!" and as if in a surprise attack, I twitched his round collar near which my blooded fingerprinted to his t-shirt, in my fingers,
But he was seriously dumbfounded by my action, and for a whole moment I was praying at the top of my notch- please don't hit me! Please don't hit me!
" My friend Nev had just undergone a-a tragedy in her life recently."
"Tragedy? " He questioned scanning my eyes and his mint-scented breath that rushed around me- wait!
Focus, will!
I nod touching my chin to my collarbone, and eyes as a pup helpless and adorable meeting his stretched gaze-
"Someone crucial in her life passed away that has cost her to lose her wits most of the time- sometimes she is a 5-year-old child, sometimes she is ready to slit her wrist or others for mindless reasons and others, we don't even know what she's up to? (Yeah, the actual image of Nev) However...we try our best to contain her and give her love and care, still..."
"Still what? " He asked desperately,
"Still until a male individual joins this drill of love and caring towards her, she can't be cured completely, and I am afraid... (I moved my face away still not losing his view, covering my mouth in a dramatic intake of breath) according to the doctor, may even commit suicide of her depression! (And, let his collar go, with twisted my face under my hand as if weeping!) "
"Hey...I'm sorry... I never thought that was the case" wiggled to his soul, and he enunciate carefully touching my shoulder and consoling me,
"No one knows *sob* because neither no one cares and rest who do- she doesn't want to publicize herself being psycho, so we all hold it as an inexpressible secret between ourselves. "
"Why a male individual? Was it her boyfriend who passed away? " He surveyed still, brushing my freezing shoulder, with his stone-rugged hand,
Calling for my trump card that I am not so scornful of!
"it was more than a boyfriend... It was... Her buddy for life, soulmate to the this, next, and every life, and love of her heart- her hamster, wolverine "
"*cough* ham-hamster?? " The ground beneath his feet and arousing emotions in his soul abruptly as if snatched away, and now he was completely lost in a gigantic void- 'who I am where I am? This ain't the place where the hamster named 'Wolverine ' live, does it? '
And I have already said I wasn't proud of this-
Nev: raising her eyebrow and sharping her shovel with a stone,
'What? My brain doesn't choke?'
"Do you think it's a joke? "I inquired still intensely serious, at his face which anytime ready to crack in laughter although I knew how many marks it was but... The best way to lie is to live a lie!
"That little ball of fur used to run on its treadmill for endless hours thinking it could evolve just as fit as Hugh Jackson then it could be like Wolverine- rescuing people through...through his sharp cut stone teeth and Nev will be like Jane penetrating through the roots of worlds creating goods and destroying worst, but then... One day just before his 6th birthday, he was stuffing his favorite peanuts while watching ' Wolverine Originals alone and she was out to buy his customized Wolverine costume as his birthday gift but, one of those peanuts unexpectedly stuck in his lil' windpipe and then until Nev arrived, he was already long gone...leaving their dream of Being wolverine and jane parred away, the indestructible duo in their sweet majestic reality rather than killing one another in name of love and securing world in that fucking fiction, now this jane was ready to skim all limits and beyond for bringing her beloved love"
A tragic love story of a hamster and a fun-loving girl?
oh, my great god, I couldn't continue this bullshit anymore! Please don't make me propel this imaginary string anymore! I begged the heaven's brink through my bleeding and fatigued heart of intense beating!
"So she was so traumatized over her hamster's demise that she used to blame herself and hence dare to dig a hole under the oak and bleed her palm to perform some 'ritual' to bring her beloved hamster back?! " he tightened his hand under his chin in great throughs that were filled with vague doubt
yeah, that's the gist, that I nod affirmatively rubbing my eyes with my palm,
But then, his eyes as dark and like a hefty void glimpsed straight into my eyes,
Did I blow the cover? Has the unraveled plan which I was mucky attempting to wrap, eventually in the daybreak of truth?!
My breath stuck to my lungs and I could see and hear Nev's cries- 'I only asked for love and now...*Wail* I shall never have one? '
Gods, I'm screwed!!! I'm big screwed!!!!!
But,
"I think I can help to be that ' male individual ' to your suicidal and mentally needed bestie"
Eh, what?!
"You can't be serious, are you? " I declared jolting his thick shoulders in jiggling astonishment but he declared in uttermost sincerity, that trembled my hands off his shoulder-
"I'm serious, I will do anything"
Although this was all I needed to hear from his pretty mouth, but now, it was as if an itch that I couldn't pull and now was making me swill in annoyance and suspicions-
When did he become so obedient?! It arouses a revolt inside my veins, and I pulled my head in my hands trying to mash it in my very hands before busting-
"Why? Why? Why are you doing this for whose sake? I can barely connect anymore! Why didn't you leave and rather waited for the whole drama to end? Why didn't you just snap away from this Nev problem? It's not a concern to you! But still, why?! Why do you want to hang in this situation?! "
The narcissistic guy rotated his head away to the blind spot as if dismissing any words with tiny arrows with piercing needles pointing at him,
"I'm asking something! "
Why is everyone ignoring me until I fight for my existence?
And I cried pulling his arm down almost as if endeavoring to rip it off!
"Tell me! "
Then I will fight!
"The reason? Is that all you want to know? " he mumbled with his unfocused eyes,
"That's all" I declared and let go of his hand, to which he signed,
"The reason is you"
"Me?! "
"All this that I am doing is for your sake"
Wait! Was my instinct all the way true?! Is he looking at me as a love interest for all that moment?!
(Hey readers,
Got into the hostel, and a total of 6 of us live in a hall-like room but today's chapter has not been compromised- where do you think Mito can emerge as a love interest?! Well, poor Nev?!
Yours,
Author)
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Spoiler:
"For my sake?! " she asked and the answer was yes but was the answer well anticipatprotagonistrotognaist!!