9. The Confession

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Then it was exams and we didnt meet except for a day when they had a chinese exam and both of them planned to stay at the library during the exam.

That day, Chaol went up to his classroom to ask permission to stay in the library during Chinese exam, leaving Boon Heng and me in the library, but he never came back till recess. Miss Hema was also free and so she took a chair, settled down beside us and told us ghost stories about the school.

Well, Verlac is a person who loves repeating things, by the way.

Chaol came back during recess, saying that the teacher did not give him permission to stay in the library. As he sat beside me, Verlac started to repeat the stories and I was so creeped out that I gripped his arm, not so tightly, but quite tight, out of fear. I started to loosen my hold when I realised what I was doing, but the stories were too creepy so I continued helding him. He gave me a sense of safety, somehow.

It wasn't until I reached home when I thought to myself that he did not show any signs of refusing my hold on him. I dismissed it by thinking that he is a guy with open thoughts.

At night, I thought about it again and I couldnt help getting surprised that I was jealous at the thought that he could let just any girl take his arm.

That was when I knew I liked him.

I called him that night, and we talked for around 20 minutes before he hung up suddenly. We talked about everything, even until the topic of names, his parents' names included.

He called back after a while and asked me whether I have a crush on him. Knowing what I just knew, I was reluctant to tell him, because I remember what happened when I told my old crush that I liked him. When I told him, he just started to avoid me. I didn't want that to happen between me and a friend I just found, and so I denied it.

A moment of silence dawned on us, and I asked him back, whether he liked me, even though I was kind of sure he did not.

The answer surprised me for he said, "I guess. "

I did not know what to say. I was happy, yes, but I had just denied that I liked him. A longer period of silence issued as I pondered about whether I should tell him the truth.

I told him, then. I said, "Actually... I like you. "

And after another period of silence, he said that it is already 12 am and that he needs to sleep. He hung up.

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