Dear Destiney,

CHAPTER-4

One fine evening, I was done with my physical package and had already decided to meet my little trio for some time,

whenever we met, me and Destiney would be a little tongue tied for the first few seconds .."Hey" I would say, flashing them an awkward wave, and after that it would be mostly Jade that would continue to talk, thanks to her though for she always kept us far from awkward silence. We always did the usual walk-walk around in the locality talking about literally anything mostly them obsessing over the HTS band.

Destiney, whenever she got excited about anything or she had to tell something super fun she would wrap her hands into one another and do a little bunny jump followed by a "Oh Oh guys you know what happend....", quite adorable, childish yet mature.

If ever she goes missing I would be sure where to find her, any empty secluded spot with her favorite book, she was fond of books, I learned. A little awkward, mostly quiet, smiled shyly before dropping her eyes whenever I tried to maintain an eye contact with her..I enjoyed the view of her doing that so much that I would try to make eye-contacts with her almost everytime. She appeared to be a kind person who would like to hide away from the rest of the world if she got the chance to do so.

Whereas, Jade, she had the Oh I am pissed off at the entire world attitude always dripping from her body, the incident and scene she created that evening was absolutely not required and well it didn't do any good to her.

We were walking-talking sweetly, "Guys I want to discuss something." Jade whispers in a very low tone, always...when a girl starts with this line, you better know that either you messed up high time or she is gonna drop a giant bomb.

That's exactly what she did, dropped a giant dynamite. "Sure, what it is?" said Destiney, I kind of perceived in the back of my head about what she is gonna tell...all of a sudden her eyes turned a little watery, I got concerned and thought that it would be something super serious and not what I was thinking cause it wasn't a big matter that would require even one drop of tear, see seemed to be at the end of her rope...Jade sat down near a pedestal removing the green bushes from her way, took a deep breathe and boom, "Him liking you is gonna break the whole group apart." Jade said gloating at Destiney...well well, exactly what I thought, but to cry about it? Was that really needed? She can very calmy talk about it first. I stood there puzzled, "How is it gonna rip the group apart?" I asked Jade, her making my feelings completely public and that too infront of the girl I had some passion about was the least of my concern cause I didn't have any strong feelings towards her yet, it was a little bone chilling not gonna lie but whatever not embarrassing cause I was solid and iron clad that yes I liked Destiney a little bit, it was more of an infatuation or fling.

I excused myself for a while and went to throw the banana peel I had eaten not running away but to just come to senses, thinking about what had happened and how I should handle it.

Felt like biting her head off for she jumped to conclusions, I had an emotional shift and my trust on her stood broken all of a sudden, I didn't even feel like reassuring her, how would it break the group apart..that was really silly, plus I have already reassured her times and again earlier that nothing like that would happen and she won't be left behind, considering the fact that it was always me the quiet one in the group and I should be having the fear of missing out, but no.

I returned back in my senses and calm, Destiney and Jade discussing the same thing, "Well, everybody likes me, sorry don't mean to hurt you, Elian." says Destiney looking at me..oh is that so my highness, well yeah so pretty, everybody must be liking you and would be ready to kill for having you. "Yeah it's alright."

I said, I didn't even feel like expressing my feelings to Destiney at that point infront of Jade. After a little more grumbling, "Don't you dare distance yourself from me." affirmed Jade, I just nodded, knowing the fact that I am not gonna discuss anything with her anymore....

I was a feeling a little desolate cause I hadn't expected it to happen in such a way, I pardoned and went home. I was thinking about the scene alot and thought that is this gonna end our friendship? The new friendship of me and Destiney?

No, ma'am, I won't let that happen ever, letting Destiney go? Haha, what a joke, I had this courage to keep her from the starting, so I mustered up courage and decided that I'll tell her everything about what I felt, after weeks of hanging out I felt myself comfortable telling her all ever little emotion I felt. I started writing a letter for her, added everything I felt towards her, how congenial she was to me, how deary, how-how mature, how beautiful, how much I enjoyed her company and everything, finally I came up with a term - Potential crush to express my partial feelings to her, it meant not a proper full fledged passion for her yet, but on the way to have passion for her.

I sent her the letter early next morning, waiting eagerly for a response, and well as fate had it, she was flattered and replied back with the same enthusiasm, she said that even she likes me as a guy for now and will need some some time to be sure of her feelings the same way I did. That was enough for me to know. I slept peacefully that night.