Jai sat inside her car, waiting for her destination to come. She thought about the event that happened earlier.
Flashback...
"L-love? What do you mean?" Jai asks.
"Platonically speaking, Jai, I love you. Platonically." He says
'Of course it's platonic. He sees me as his best friend nothing more.' Jai thought.
"O-oh, I uh, I love you too, then." Jai says. "I have to go."
"But th-" Paolo was cut off by the door slamming close.
Jai couldn't help but let a few tears fall. She was sad, no, she was heartbroken. The love of her life only sees her as his bestfriend.
Flashback ends...
Jai sighs, opening her phone. Not bothering to open Paolo's messages, her phone started ringing which she ignored once again.
"We're here, Miss." The driver says.
"Uh, right. Thank you." Jai says, getting out of the car.
"Jaimie?" A voice calls her.
Jai turns around to find the person who called her only to be met by someone's chest, throwing her balance off. Jai braced for impact when two strong, slender arms caught her slim waist.
"Falling for me, are you?" A cocky voice says.
Jai blushes deep red and steadies herself.
"O-oh, Hi Lukas." She says.
Lukas smiles down at Jaimie's blushing face and tucks a strand of her hair behind her ear. Lukas has been doing this for months, meeting her in front of the school and accompanying her in class.
"What's up?" He asks.
"Hmm?" She looks up at him, "Nothing much, what about you?"
"I just caught this beautiful girl who tripped in front of me, so my day is great." He smiles at her.
Jai immediately looks down, her face red. Lukas places two fingers under Jai's chin and lifts her face gently. Her brown eyes met with his cool blue ones.
" Don't ever hide your beautiful face whenever someone compliments you." He says. "Can I walk you to class?"
Jai was still staring at his eyes. His cool blue eyes that looked like deep whirlpools waiting to suck her soul out. Those blue eyes staring deep into her innocent soul.
"Jaimie!" She hears.
"Hmm?" Jai answers.
"I asked you a question." He says. "Are you okay?"
"Y-yes, I'm fine. Do you mind repeating the question?" She curses in her mind as she stutter at her first answer.
"I asked you, if i could walk you to class?" He says slowly.
"Oh yeah, sure." She answers, smiling at him beautifully.
Lukas smiles and held out his arm for Jaimie to take. She looks down at his arm and back up to his face that had an encouraging smile showing. She couldn't help the smile that made its way towards her face and slowly circled her small hand on his bicep.
"Off we go, milady!" He says joyfully, which made her laugh.
As they entered the school, silent whispers filled the hallway. I mean why wouldn't they gossip about this.
Lukas is known to be the school's playboy, almost everyone knows this, well except Jai. She is oblivious to everything around her. Including the glare she received when one of the basketball players or even when Paolo approaches and talk to her.
'Oh My God, who does she think she is?'
'She's just another plaything obviously.'
'What does he see in her?'
'Is he serious?'
'I'll end him'
These were some of the whispers that Jaimie overheard, the last one coming from her dear friend and your truly, Paolo.
"Here we go, milady, we have reached our destination." He smiles at her.
"Thank you, Lukas." She says to him.
"Anytime, Lady Jaimie." He says and grabs one of her hands laying a kiss.
Once he leave, Jaimie gets in her classroom and sits down her seat beside the window. Classes begin and she takes out her notebook to jot down a few notes.
An hour and a half later, Class had ended. She felt a chair being moved beside her. Jai looks to her side to see a fuming Paolo.
"What the heck was that, Jai?" He asks her.
She rolls her eyes and turns to the window, enjoying the view of the field that is open to her vision, ignoring Paolo. A slam of her table makes her jump out of her daydream.
"God damnit, Jai! Answer me!" Paolo exclaims.
"What do you want me to say, huh? That someone actually payed attention to me other than your stupid ass? That someone actually talked to me about myself and not you?" She yells at him, standing up. "Tell me, Paolo, because you managed to get on every nerve in my body to get me this riled up. Are you seriously angry at me for nothing?!" She adds.
"You just wish you were me and not your bloody self. It's your fault why no one talks to you. It's your fault why no one wants to be friend with you. You're just a nerd whose face is always buried in books and ignores reality. Well wake up, Jaimie! This is reality whether you like it or not. Face it. You have no friends because no likes you. You have no friends because you're a nerd. You have no friends because you're not me." He exclaims.
Jai drops her head and chuckles humorlessly. She lifts her head up and sees the look of regret across Paolo's face. A sarcastic smile spreads on her face.
" Right. Because I wanted to be you. Is that what you believed in?" She asks him, coldly. "Well, open your eyes, idiot. Not all the time my world revolves around you." She takes a step towards him. "You just erased everything you are to me. You're nothing." She whispers to his ear.
Jai turns around and gathers her things and leaves the room, noticing the stares directed at her.
"Fuck off."
That sent the students to their way. Jai goes outside their school and hails a cab from the shed in front.
"Jai!" Paolo yells from the door.
She ignores it and enters the cab saying her address to the driver, which scurries off immediately.
"Jaimie, please!" Paolo's voice slowly fades.
Who knew her own best friend would be the cause of her first heartbreak. Funny right. The love of her life embarrasses her in front of their classroom.
A stupid thing, love is.
