Story of a girl who wanted EVERYTHING

Chapter 25

I spent the next day on agonizing over everything that Deán had told me. The others pretty soon noticed that I was down, and I wasn't really fond of their teasing about it. But Ty... he had to choose this very day to have a conversation with me.

- I'm not sure what's your problem, but I've never seen you... this depressed – he told me after we walked some meters away from our table where no one was around. I grabbed Deán in the line for lunch and asked him to sit with us... that loneliness I had seen on him in the night made me sure that those Heaven Seers he always had around him weren't enough. Now poor guy was sitting with Kianna, Damien, Hakare and Sarah. Wasn't sure if I made his situation better or worse.

- Spit it out – I looked at Tyler tiredly.

- All right, so we don't talk about it – he seemed a little disappointed.

- I'm gonna update you if needed... but I gave my word I keep this for myself – I explained shortly. Tyler seemed surprised.

- You and the young master are pretty solid, ehh? – he grinned.

- Shut up.

- Can't ignore how he looks at you. As your big brother, I have to think this situation through and decide whether or not I agree with it – he sounded serious. For a nanosecond.

- Ahh, and what did you decide? – I sighed.

- I'm gonna accept him. Not because how he looks at you, trying to hide how he watches every move you make. But because I see how you look at him.

- Stop this "you fell for him, Winnie" teasing. You know it's not working like that. He just has a crush on me, and I owe him a lot – I shrugged.

- All right, all right – Ty rose his hands to sign he had given up on me.

- Now, tell me what you wanted to talk about. And why we had to crawl away from the others who are now watching us in fear, in case we start fighting or something – I said while waved at the others who were staring at us way too obviously.

- Listen, Winz, I have a favor to ask from you. It's... some girly thing, and I know you suck in it, but you are the only one I can turn to – he sighed. Now his always cheerful face seemed like troubled.

- This sounds dramatic. You can always turn to Sarah or Haka for girl stuff. They are much better in it – I said. Without those two, I would have already dropped out from the supporter class. They always helped me with the tasks we had and they poked me while I was sleeping (in the first row) and the teacher was about to ask me a question.

- You see, I can't really turn to Sarah because you're a better choice... and I can't really turn to Hakare... because... - Ty lost his words which just simply shocked me.

- What in the world is this about? – I became serious in a second too. The others must have felt the tension between me and Tyler, because Kianna shouted "no unauthorized fight, you two!". Then she laughed.

- Well, I can't ask Hakare because it's about Hakare – he finally said it.

- What? – I was confused. What were we even talking about?

- You know how I wasn't really keen on with the idea of attaching her to our group. But you made me and partly this is the reason why I'm all right with having the young master at our table now. Because... the more and more days you made me spend with Hakare... I...

- Gods, you like her – I realized. I had never seen Tyler so troubled with telling me something... so I supposed it was serious.

- Yeah. But... I also thought that he was into the young master only, so I was like, all right, I can still be her friend at least, whatever. But now that fortunately you had him out of this picture forever...