Yours Forever.

Chapter 12

Luke's POV :
I woke up in the morning and the first thing i did was checking my inbox. I had recieved one message which made me jump a little. But as i opened my inbox, i had apprehended a message from Alicia.

Alicia. I remember the time we've spent together. I liked her company, she was fun. I had a huge crush on her too. I liked Rosie as a friend but maybe Alicia was more than that. At times i tried to contact her after she left the school but she always ignored me. I heard so many depriciatons about her dating Aaron or her having a crush on some other guy friend of her but i didn't really believe any of those.

I thought maybe she likes me the same way as i did.
Alicia had replied to a message which i sent her a week ago. She opened her inbox everyday as she appeared online and i could see that. She ignored my messages on purpose, probably. These were the old typical girly things, to let the other person know your importance. But as i said that i never mind laying down my ego for the people i liked. I messaged her asking about whatever Aaron told me about him and Alicia.

"I don't know what's up with him". -Alicia

"Okay."-Luke

I always felt awkward before sending her a message because i knew i wasn't getting a reply before a week or two. But i never stopped trying to get her attention. I even planned how to tell her everything but she was never ready to talk to me properly.

Suddenly another message popped into my inbox. Rosie.

"Hi"-Rosie
She replied immediately after coming online even after being annoyed by talking to me.

"How are you?"- Luke
"Why do you care? "-Rosie
"Cumon, just asking" - Luke
"Great"-Rosie

Right after Rosies's reply i thought of something. I thought maybe Rosie can bridge the distance between me and Alicia. I could ask her about everything Alicia does at school and confirm if all the 'rumors' were actually rumors or not. So i decided to share my tiny little secret with her. I trusted her enough not to open it up as Alicia told me a lot about how trustworthy she was.

"Hey, i wanna ask you something "-Luke
"What?"

"What's up with Alicia nowadays? She doesn't talk to people much and i heard many rumors about her as well that she likes some guy. Is it true?"

"Why are you so interested?"
She's so mean!

"Just answer me"

"OMG don't tell me you have a crush on her?"

"Umm. If i say yes?"

"Then do you think I'm gonna keep this to myself?"

"yeah?"

"And why do you think like that?"

"Cuz i heard that you're a trustworthy person. And i wanna believe in it if you act that way."

"Hmm. What do i get if i don't spread it all out?."

"My trust?"

"Ahan."

"And a good friend. Like Luke Bryan ;)"

"Haha right."

"Tell me one thing. Does May really like me? Look i promise this is not breaking your friend's trust. This is like, a conversation with your new friend"

"Let me tell you something. Alicia is not interested in you. But if you like her, i can try to convince her on talking to you more. And as far as May is concerned, yeah she likes you but I'm not really sure about it. But if you like Alicia, it's only her we should be talking about. I'll tell you what Alicia's opinion is about you."

"Thankyou. You're a nice person"

"Really? You too :-)"

She was not as rude as i thought. She was just hesitant on talking to new people because maybe she was too afraid to get close to a wrong person. But she was enough ethical to never ignore somebody. She replied to a message immediately and carried a whole conversation on without running away in between.

Maybe she was not as bad as i thought she was. Well, my concern was about Alicia. I just wanted to know what she thought about me.

Rosie's POV :
Luke was a nice guy. He talked in such a nice way to me. Neither he was rude to me nor he talked about any of the tactless conversations we had in past.
Whatever, he just wanted to know about Alicia because he was so in love with her. Why even? She was too busy trying to be good friends with other people . Although she liked Luke previously but i had no idea what she had in her mind at the recent point of time.

I met Alica near the main entrance of the school as she was waiting for me. We continued to walk towards the classroom while i talked to her about Luke.
"So. What do you think about Luke. You had a crush on him right?"

"I was a kid. He was a nice guy but i can't run after every other person who tries to be nice to me"
she conveyed being casual.

"Okay. But still?  You don't like him anymore, do you?" I asked her with a skeptical look on my face.

"Maybe. I don't know. We don't really talk now. Why are you so interested in such things in the morning. Let's talk about food, that's more interesting"

"Alicia, look at your weight girl. You're turning into an elephant" i said rolling my eyes.

"Okay mommy" with her usual puppy smile.

Alica was a cute person. But sometimes she annoyed me. She never shared the whole thing in her mind. Maybe she liked Luke but maybe not. I wasn't even sure about her feelings because she was a champion at hiding what was in her mind.

The whole day went extremely boring as there was no activity lesson in our timetable.  Poor us.

As i reached home, i immediately opened my Facebook and saw Luke's message.

"Hey, what did she say?"

"She won't admit it that easily. But i know she likes you. Keep up the hope dude."

"Okay. Can i help you some way?"

"Just be nice to Alicia. That's all i want from you :) "

We kept talking till the evening, he talked everything about how he met Alicia and how she changed her attitude towards him. We talked about the reasons we both hated each other and laughed at how stupid we were back then in the middle school. We even conversed about our relationships with our families.

Talking to him was fun. It was more like talking to an old friend after a very long time. It took me nothing to trust him in our third conversation. I didn't even know him that well but i just liked talking to him. The only thought left in my mind was that why did i hate him so much without knowing who he truly was. My habbit of judging people too early kept me away from making a good friend. But this did not change my views about the actual personality of a boy.

Luke was no more than a distant friend to me. He was never going to be close enough to be the whom i depend on, even as a friend. Dependance leads to expectations and expectations lead to disappointments. That was my final determination because many factors lead me to this decision.

Rosie doesn't want to get close to Luke because she is too afraid to be heartbroken. But why does Rosie judge everybody too soon? And why always in the negative way? Luke knows how him and Rosie were best friends in past and somehow Rosie gets that feeling too.
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