compilation of my literary pieces

unrequited feelings

UNREQUITED FEELINGS

"How do you move on from someone who was never truly yours? When you break your own heart, who do you blame?" My teacher in Literature asked in our class. Our room filled with silence and no one seems interested to answer her question. So I, instead raise my hand and answered her question.

"Moving on from someone who was never yours is a process that takes time. It's important to remember that you have no control over the other person's feelings, and that you did the best you could to make the relationship work. In time, the pain will lessen and you will come to accept the situation."

As I said those words, memories of us in the past relapse in my mind. I first met him on our first day of school. He's strenuous in an aggregation at school. He's great at solving discordant problems and never tolerates discrimination that happens in his surroundings. Among the boys that I have met, he's the only one who treated me differently. He often run his hands through his hair every time he talks to me, and that idiosyncrasy of his absentmindedly makes me want him to be mine.

I was happy at our small interactions, but sometimes I get jealous when I saw him talk to other girls that are prettier than me. So in order to cope, I talk to other boys as a vengeance, but I knew that he won't mind because, who am I to him anyway? I'm not that special.

Realization hit me that my feelings towards him was atrocity that I had to stop before it gets worse. So I always keep in mind that he doesn't like me. My friends also said that he's in low-key relationship with someone so I guess this is the sign to move on even though we've never been together at all. I changed my favorite viand and my favorite color, from pink into fuchsia because pink reminds me of him.

I tried to let go of the memories of us that lingers in my mind. It somehow worked, though it takes a lot of time to erase them off. I've come to accept the fact that he'll never like me, but I won't regret that I had once this unrequited feelings for him.

[A/N: I made this short story for our 21st century written work which is a literary piece including the 10 vocabularies that we listed on our notebook. I hope you like it!]