The Best Friend And The Beast

One.

One.

"How can he be so selfish, arrogant, irritating and narcissistic, all four at once?!" I grunted.

"Relax, Mel. I guess he's just that into you." Sarah patted my shoulder and looked at me mischievously.

Ugh. Seriously. Luke Damon, the friendless guy in school always covering his face, had been trying to get on my nerves since the first time we sat next to each other in history class. It's either throwing paper planes with flirting notes written on it or shooting tiny crumpled papers with straws. Definitely, I am so not into him. Besides, I've got my dear loving Colton. Who would ever be dumb enough to ditch a flawless man like him, for a douche delinquent like Luke?

"And what's with the long face, princess?" Colton slid into the seat on my right before ruffling my neatly combed hair and kissing my cheek. "Did I miss something?"

"Well, deary Colton, I guess your little peachy girl here has got some serious issues." Sarah giggled as I gave her a warning look.

"Seriously?" I ran my finger through my now tangled locks.

"It's been forever. Luke got on my nerve again this morning during history." I rolled my eyes.

"What? Again? That dude's really something." He chuckled and ran his fingers through his blonde locks. I don't know what's going on with Colton, but usually, he's so protective of me and always jealous whenever small things occurred between me and other guys. In short, he's always jealous. Especially when the guy's Luke.

But not sure how long it's been, he started to become less jealous and kept forgetting little things like my favorite sandal still in his house or my Chemistry book in his room that he never cleaned. Y'know, stuffs that I had reminded him for quite a few times.

"Colton.. I need to talk to you.." I gave him a concerned glance before turning to Sarah. She knew exactly what I meant and left her seat, probably heading towards the library. She's been my best-est friend and I couldn't thank her enough for all the things she'd done for me, and in return, I promised to tell her everything. We've been friends for almost three years now, but of course, deep down Colton meant more than her.

"Why can't she stay?"

"Because it's between the two of us."

Colton's eyes weren't as calm as before, and he clenched his jaw. For the first time, I wasn't scared as I used to be, always obedient to whatever he says and bottling up my feelings whenever he hurt me. There was a tinge of guilt in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" He tried not to sound rude.

"Colton, why do you not care anymore? Why are you trying to distance yourself from me? Am I not good enough for you? If there's anything wrong please just tell me..." The words were spoken out of my so fluently as if I memorized it in my head before. 

And the strange thing is, I didn't want to cry.

"Nothing's wrong, babe. You know I love you, and I'll never break the promise we made." and by the promise, I knew which promise he meant. When we were young, he promised he would marry me and be my forever prince. I know it's a really stupid promise, considering we were eight years old but back then it was really sweet. Right now, after all that we went through, I don't even know where we're going with our relationship. 

I stared into his caramel-hazel eyes expecting it would be like the ones in the movies where the girl melts and the guy was forgiven, pretending nothing happened, but no. There weren't any sincerity in his eyes and strangely I didn't feel hurt; I didn't even care if he was sorry. That moment I realized that my fairytale was no longer coming true and my prince was forever gone.