Dear Destiney,

CHAPTER-7

One evening, me and Destiney were meeting down, I was waiting for her and then suddenly Jade showed out of nowhere seeing that yes I was waiting to pick Destiney up..I knew that she wants to put a drama here, it was visible in her body language, I asked her times and again that there is no need to do all this cause it's no matter that big just forget it and it will be fine in few days, but she won't listen.

Destiney came out of her house..Jade in a bitchy mode started grumping all of it face to face, they discussed whatever was happening..but Jade just didn't seem to get it, the matter wasn't that big at all and that their friendship was strong enough to get over with it, Destiney explained but Jade wasn't having it and she skedaddled.

I had Destiney beside me, she did a hard shrug, I wasn't sure if she was approaching the cry zone, "It's gonna be alright." I said wrapping my right hand around her and pulling her a little closer to me by the waist as we walked, she is safe with me. It was the first time that I was close to her which was not a hug. She said with a sigh, "Why she can't understand..?" we talked about the situation for a while and understanding what was happening, she is a type of girl that would rather die than to show her emotions some times for she feels shy sometimes hehe.

I felt near her for the first time, she felt so warm with all those emotions and concern about the friendship dripping from her mouth.

It was time for some mood change, I didn't wanted to see her gloomy ever,

"You wanna burst some pop crackers, Destiney?" I suggested very enthusiastically, "YES I WANT TO THEY ARE SO GOOD!" she said, in a shop we saw some pop crackers, we both went inside and bought two packets for both of us, her standing there waiting for the pop cracker packet to be handed over to her...I found myself almost hoping that nothing would change, ever.

We went to an open area, bashing those crackers on the floor, it felt like channeling out your negative emotions in your arm and turning them into smoke with the burst of the cracker. She was as delightful as a kid stuck into an adult body, she felt so full of life all of a sudden, I learned this from her, that whatever life throws at you, every little sad and harsh truth or lie, you fight back and find happiness in the tiniest of things.

I couldn't help it, I fell in the moment and cherished every second of it.

Playing and laughing our lungs out..tired we sat near a lamp post, calm winds blowing and carrying a lovely vibe in it. "You smell really nice.." she commented, she caught me out of nowhere, "Thanks", I said, "It's the new cologne I got"..not gonna lie I almost blushed but was also successful in hiding it from her I mean c'mon I was complimented for the first time about my scent.

"Your hands are so big, Elian.." she cried putting her hand outfront and exposing her palms..well yeah my hands were bigger than hers, her hands looked like that of a kitten, small and baby pinkish like its paws. She and I both loved cats so much so that we planned on having around a 100 cat army as we grow up.

You are a cat in human skin, this line was enough to make her blood boil for somereason..her nose turning a little red, inviting you to boop it, cute.

After the tensions between Jade and Destiney, their friendship seemed to come to a halt, whenever hanging out with Jade, I got to know more about how toxic and how big her ego was, whatever the reason, even if she seemed right to herself in the mirror, and I also learned that even if you have hundreds of good memories with someone, one awful extreme moment can change relationships in minutes, that's exactly what happened between them.

However, time heals everything. Me and Destiney started hanging out together more often, Jade wasn't even in the equation, I hated Jade for how toxic she turned out.

Hanging out with Destiney even if strolling around in the locality was so fun that I looked forward to it, with gradual meet ups the shyness and awkwardness between us was decreasing, yes that's how it is supposed to be.

"I don't know..I am all fine around other people, but just your presence makes my brain numb and heart skip a beat and I start to stut-stutter!" I said to her after stuttering in the smallest of the sentences and making a big joker out of me, the thing was I get nervous around her. "It's okay, even your presence makes me go through the same thing!" she said..it was kinda funny and endearing at the same time, my English speaking skills is good but around her I even failed in pronouncing the word What, I would end up speaking it like Was, "Was is the time?" instead of "What is the time?".

Few weeks ago she even pointed out that I sound more bold in letters..but not so much in person, Zamn was I hurt hearing that. GIRL? EXCUSE ME? WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO, YOU SO BEAUTIFUL THAT MY TONGUE SLIPS EVERYTIME JUST CAUSE EVEN IT WANTS TO BLAB OUT AND CATCH A GLIMPSE OF YOUR CHARM CAUSE WHAT THE EYE SEES ISN'T ENOUGH <3. Heh, well even she sounded bold in letters and not so in person, in person it's mostly "Good, cool, nice"..means even my handsomness leaves her wonderstruck, hell yeah.

We used to hang out almost everyday, one eve we were walking below a tree of jasmine, flowers lay on the ground freely as if they have attained freedom...Destiney picked down a few of the flowers, "Here these are for you..." she said giving the flowers to me, I felt like a prince for a while, and Destiney was the princess. I was so happy contemplating the scent of those already beautiful flowers now extra beautiful, never have I ever got flowers before, this strange girl was already on her way to spoil me bad. I had kept those flowers in the drawer of my study till it started to wilt away.

It has always been easy to make me happy and smile like an idiot, she called me cute and I still hold onto that for all the ages to come. We would sit in lone places tired from walking, we would just sit, yes, both of our minds working fast to come up with a topic to murder the silence..but however hard we tried when we opened our mouth only a sharp calm smile came out of it..seeing her smile made me smile even more, "You don't have to hide your teeth when you smile" I said seeing how she covered her teeth with her lips while smiling..if only she could she herself from my eyes she would know how peaceful her smile is.

Bored to hell, being bored is very dangerous, it can kill. We decided to play a small questions game.."Have I ever started to like someone slowly but at first didn't used to..?" I started with this, I really hoped that she says yes and that someone is be me. I asked this question intentionally.

"Yes, I am doing it right now..." she replied, I asked who it is? "Ahhh leave it" blushingly she said, "Is it me?" I wanted to tease her alot..."Yes" she said her cheeks turning red as if dust was scattered on them, bless her.