We Can't Be Friends

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(Rhea)

"Hey there!" his voice sounded different from when we speak on calls. There's no way he recognised me!

"Rhea! Is that you?", Nathan's voices floats across the corridor and all of his friends, including my Senior, turned at my direction. Holy shit!

I wish I could be invisible now. I just waved my hands at Nathan, as all the words left in me slipped away from my mind. Nathan's eyes gleam in delight and excuses himself from his friends and jogs towards me. 

My crush is on the way to me! How great it sounds.

His built muscular figure was so elegant in person than I saw on the internet and his posts. As he stands in front of me, I think I fell for him. But there was a layer of awkwardness buttering between us. 

He smiles gracefully, "How's it going? You never mentioned you are in my college."

He refers the truth and I think about it for a while and say, "I too never thought we meet up like this!"

He chuckles and his perfume had already scooped me, "What's up? Are you heading to your classroom? Do you need any help in finding it?"

How thoughtful he really is!

I politely refused his offer, "It's more than enough for you asking such a kind thing. We're good."

"Is this your...", Nathan notices Laila who was barely making any breathing than looking at us both.

"My cousin. She's Laila!", I plastered my famous way of smile and introduce my cousin to my crush.

They shook hands and passed a smile genuinely. Yet I am sure, she's not out of the shock which knocked me out.

"Seems like I am interrupting the time with your friends. You shall continue with them, we'll catch up later" I gave the brightest idea one could ever imagine. As I couldn't stand Laila who was stirring an obvious murderous glare at me. 

Of course my head could not bear anymore turmoil yet my secret crush is hard to leave.

"Sure, Rhea." Nathan looks behind him and other guys waves at him and one of them points the watch, urging him. "I better keep going. And one more thing..."

I stopped walking when he called. "Are you in a mood for a coffee? We're heading to cafeteria only. I think you don't mind me if I buy you a coffee or something and let me, please you."

Nathan unhesitatingly ask such thing in front of the fricking principal office!

My face made its best to hide the struggle of making choice. "You mean... You are getting me on a date?"