Broken String Of Fate

His Unknown Text

*Emma's POV*

My life has never revolved around boyfriends. I just never had them. Not really interested in them actually. At least it's better to earn that title of being sweet 16. Nowadays people just don't get that. 'Sweet' 16 basically means that you have never received your first kiss until the age of 16 and if you do, well, you don't get any sweets at all. Get it? You will receive a 'Sour' 16 instead. At least that's what I heard.

I can say that I do admit that I wished for someone to be my side. A soulmate. A partner who can support you and love you like no other. Someone who will be there for you when you're on your downs. Someone to hold my hand in public. But for now, I don't need that kind of stuff. I have better things to do than just dating. I could go for a walk in the park, even ride a bicycle, go out with my friends and maybe watch some movie marathons. It's pretty simple but it definitely is worth my time.

Come on, you think a girl like me wouldn't have a crush now do you? In fact, I do have one. I had a crush on this amazing guy since I was 13. A package for a guy too. He had his good-looks, an athletic body, best at sports especially basketball and woah did I ever mentioned he was intelligent? If I'm not wrong, he has an IQ of 171. Yeah, that high. I don't know, probably he was gifted. He had everything except one.

A girlfriend. Should I go for it? Heck no. I was too afraid. What are the chances of me getting together with him anyway? Zero. For a guy like him, he's really popular and I was only an average little girl with a big nerdy glasses stuck onto my face everyday in school. It's not 'instagrammable' if you could imagine us being together. One thing though, I'm not a nerd. I just happen to look like one.

But as always, I believed in miracles and miracles can happen if you just have faith. Sometimes I do want him to know how I feel but for having everyone's favourite fear, I didn't want to know his answer. What if he rejects me? What if he doesn't like me at all? Or worse. What if he doesn't even know me? Yeah, I'm pretty sure the last one's the correct one. There goes my chances. Walking and bumping into him was the only option left. Special move: never say hello. Just smile. And run. That's my eternal plan. Been doing it for 3 years.

Until one day, one of my closest friend told me something extraordinary. Like really, so mindblowing that I thought I could feel my heart was going to burst!

"Emma, I have great news! I've just heard that your crush, Max, yeah your guy.. has hots for you! From when he noticed you a year ago! Ooooh you lucky bi-atch! Eeeeeep!" My friend, Fiona started squealing non-stop and made me even more do some squealing than her. Probably even louder. Like is this even happening? Were my ears broken? I checked. Nope. Oh my gosh. Max likes me?! I have to tell him. Wait no. Girls shouldn't confess first. Hey what am I talking about. Gender doesn't matter. Anyone can say who they like. Okay, now what should I do? Should I start talking to him or do I have to wait for his move?

Okay, I'm acting completely nuts.

"Oh my gosh, Fiona! What should I do? I, I don't know the first step to aproach him. Wait, should I even be the one to start the first move? Wait, how did you know about this? Do people know? Why does he like me? How?" I started asking so many questions withouting realizing I was grabbing onto her arms too tightly.

"Woah chill! Calm down. Don't you worry girl, just take yo time. Everyone's talking about it now. Can't believe you haven't noticed it yet. It's been yesterday actually but well I can't blame ya, you were sick so you weren't in school. I guess your time spent on bumping, walking and even avoiding him all these years was worth it after all," when she said that, I couldn't stop smiling.

But she said he noticed me a year ago. What did I do back then? Detention? Class? Recess? Nah. We both never even talked. So does that mean he was too shy to speak to me all this time? Was I that too oblivious?