15 days is all it takes for one's heart to change. At least that's what he hopes so that it is enough to make her fall in love with him.
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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My True Love❤
Good morning mi Amor, rise and shine. Today is Day 3 and I know you are probably still mad at me. I will stop by your house, this morning. I will bring some truce food to apologize for yesterday's incident. See you <3
Jasmine smiles when she receives the text but quickly rolls her eyes. She wonders why she just smiled after receiving the text. She thought the boy won't be sending messages today considering they had a little fight yesterday.
Who would have thought that Jasmine would wait for the messages from a certain someone.
A few hours later, a maid knocks on her door saying that Zach has arrived. She quickly did her hair so it didn't look too messy when she realized it was just Zach.
She goes downstairs to the living area where she finds the boy. He is admiring a huge tank that her father bought many months ago.
"What brings you here?" Jasmine asks him. She looks at his outfit for today and he looks smart. Then the boy turns around, with a box of chocolate in his hand with a card on it. She raises her eyebrows.
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"Before that, this is for you, princess." Jasmine smiles as she took the stuff from the boy's hand. Their hands slightly touch each other before Jasmine quickly pulls her hand.
It is as if there were an electric shock. Both of them know they felt it but no one said anything about it.
"What brings you here?" The boy raises his eyebrows.
He looks at her happy face when she receives the gift he brought for her and suddenly feels like he could not tell her. It would be unfair if he starts the day with the bad news for her.
"Oh, uhm-nothing. I just wanted to apologize for not being able to bring you out for a date today. It will be a busy day in the office, today. That's it." Zach says to the brunette. He thought he sees the girl frowns but realizes maybe it was just his imagination.
"Oh. That's all? Did you come here all the way just to say that? Whatever, I don't care. You are such a jerk." Jasmine rolls her eyes and brings the chocolate along with the bear to her room and leave the boy alone.
"Maybe your boyfriend can spend time with you, today too. I'm okay with it!" Zach replies a little louder so the girl can hear him.
"It's not like I need your permission to go out- You know what, just get out, I hate you!" Jasmine shouts before stomping upstairs to her room.
Jasmine closes the door with all of her strength. She throws all of the chocolate and the bear Zach just gave her.
"I should be happy. It means that I can go out with Harry again but then why am I not happy?" Jasmine mumbles to herself. She realizes how fast her heart is beating fast.
She calls her lover, but it goes straight to voicemail.
Huh, weird. She thought.
Jasmine tries to call him a few more times before she gives up. Maybe he is tired. She thought again before she decides to just go back to sleep.
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"Good job everyone for today," Zach says to his co-worker. Everyone in the office clap together for the great job they did today.
It is 5 p.m. and all the interview had finished. He remembers that he haven't eat lunch yet today.
His co-worker and assistant invited him to eat lunch together but he decides to finish some work since he will not be going to the office for quite a long time.
Zach looks at the calendar beside his computer.
He still has 12 days to make Jasmine fall in love with him, but if he minus the day he will be recovering after the surgery then it would be just 6 days.
He sighs. 6 days is too short, how can you make someone fall in love in just 6 days.
"It's not like she will love you back. You know that one day you just have to let her go, Zach." He mumbles to himself. He looks at his watch and decides to just call it a day.
"Z, I heard you skipped your lunch today, again." Zach turns to look at the voice owner and see his best friend.
"Dude, what's up." Zach stands from his desk and walks toward the guy and they did their secret handshake.
"You can't skip lunch you know that right. It's not good for your health." Thomas says to his friend. Zach just nods his head.
"I don't have time to eat, there are lots of unfinished paperwork that I need to get done before the surgery." Zach replies.
He will be going for surgery after his doctor told him to do a check-up since he constantly felt pain in his head. Turns out, Zach has a brain tumor.
But only his parents and Thomas knew about this. He will tell Jasmine when the time is right. Until then, he just has to act like he is healthy.
"Uncle Zed told me you need to rest, so stop being stubborn Z." Thomas pushes the CEO's shoulder. Zach sighs.
"At least all the paperwork will be done after I die." He mumbles the last word thinking his friend doesn't hear him.
"Z, we talked about this. You ain't gonna die. There are so many places we haven't gone yet. Remember?" Thomas replies. His heart is in pain whenever they are talking about this.
Zach is the only one who wants to befriend him when others look down on him. He is his childhood friend.
Everything they do, they do together. It's like without one of them, nothing can go right.
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A/n : That's it for chapter 10, I hope you like it. Thank you for reading :)
