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Chapter 11: Confessions

This is a super important chapter. So do read, coz the life and soul of the story lies with this chapter.

Listen to "All we know" by The Chainsmokers for this chapter.

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Vincent looked at his phone screen and ignored the caller. The phone rang once again. Kyle, who was still sitting next to Vincent, peeped to see the screen and then said,"Who is this girl?? Dayum! She's hot!"

Vincent shifted in his seat,"Uh.. Ex"

"Really? Why is she calling you?" Kyle asked.

Vincent shrugged. Before I could think of what I was saying, I blurted,"are you guys planning to get back?"

Stupid me.

Vincent raised his eyes to meet mine,"no" he said.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if he did get back with his ex. I had experience on this matter. Back when we were 'best friends', he used to get into relationships with his exes, over and over again. And kept ignoring me.

"Why?" Jared asked. It might seem nosey to ask a guy who's new to your group to ask about his personal life. But this gang was a bit different, no matter if you were close or not, they were always eager to listen to your story and help you out.

"Because.." He paused, then looked at me and turned to look at Jared.

"Because I love someone else" he said.

The metal chunk in my heart, dropped once again.

Why does he affect me so much right now??!!

The guys 'whoa'ed and Vincent scratched the back of his black hair.

"So did you tell this girl that you love her?" Gina asked. She spoke so little with the other guys that it was quite a surprise when she asked the question. Natalie looked at me. She had the are-you-thinking-what-i'm-thinking face on.

"I think she might know by now" Vincent said and looked at me.

"So how did you both meet?" Kyle asked taking a puff from his joint.

"Well, it's a long story.." He began.

I got up from the couch and started to move towards the kitchen. I've been to Jared's place more than fifty times owing to Natalie, and so his place was known to me.

"We were best friends once..." he continued. I froze on my tracks.

Best friends.

"we had feelings for each other. I liked her from the beginning. But I wasn't sure if she liked me the way I liked her. So I started to date other girls to keep my mind off her..."

I went into the kitchen and started making myself a cup of coffee. I could hear only his voice in the living room. Everybody else was so silent.

"I started ignoring her because I thought maybe that way I could save both of our friendship. But then she stopped speaking to me. I wondered were she was, every day. I became mad at her because I thought she didn't think about me the way I thought about her. I became bitter towards her. Rude..."

As the coffee brew, I slid my head between my hands and listened to him.

"Then one day, a friend of mine told me how wrong I was to treat her the way I did. I told her that I wanted to meet her. I almost said that I really liked her. But I couldn't tell her that the feelings I had for her was driving me crazy and so I was trying to distance myself from her. I was so young and stupid... So stupid..."