Behind Rejection

Chapter 9

Yano's POV

"Yano, I expect so much from you," our adviser in newspaper club reminded me

"Don't worry sir, I'm on it" I said to him with confidence. When I entered high school, I joined The Newspaper club to be an editor and a photographer. I usually take pictures of events, places and animals, not very much with human, I got bored taking pictures of them, pretty common for me, showing an emotion in a photograph, it's just boring when you tell them what to do. I like something that will do what it wants and that's the moment I'll capture it. In an easy term, stolen shots. 

"Uhh, Yano?"

It's her again, Taya from the co-ed school right across the street.Given that she's pretty, smart, as they say but I just can't seem to like her. She keeps on giving me gifts and stuff. I always accept gift since I appreciate her efforts but  I may be rude to say this that I don't like her being persistent. She's starting to annoy me, I must do something about it.

"Yes?" I replied,

"I bought you this, I heard you don't have one" she said

"Oh thank you," she's about to leave but I shouted, "School festival!" 

She looked back and said, "Hm?"

"Come to our festival tomorrow," I invited her , "Don't forget to bring your friends!"

She smiled at me and left. My friends kept telling me that I should give her a chance once she confesses, they also told me that I should invite her at least. One problem is that, I can't accept her feelings, I know she hadn't confess and I'm pretty full of myself to assume that she likes me but it's pretty obvious. It's just that, I really don't like her, maybe, as friends but romantically? No. And I always reject when I don't like. I can't force myself and pretend that I enjoy their company even though I don't. Besides, I don't want to hurt her feelings,

"Oh my dear son, why don't you just give her a chance?" my mom told me

"Mom, I can't force myself, I told you no means I don't like you"

"How many girls did you reject? Son, tell me the truth, are you gay?"

"You know me, I genuinely accept a person when I like them, I'm not gay mom, it's just that, the girls that confessed to me is not my type"

"Listen, I heard our neighbors gossiping you, that you are gay"

"They don't know shit"

"Language!" dad said,

"And accepting her wouldn't change the fact that I rejected the other girls"

"Just like your father, you'll learn to love her once you try to know her, and accept her feelings" 

"Do I really need to do this?"

"It's an advice, but I think you'd be happy when you have a girlfriend"

I still don't know because the only reason why I want to reject Taya is because I don't want to hurt her. It's never good to response positively to a person when you don't feel the same. I will love someone when I feel it but right now, I got a lot of stuff to do. Love can wait right?

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Today is the day of our Festival, everyone is busy arranging their booths. There are a lot of different school visiting our Festival. I sat at a window pane on the third floor, fourth room on the left, this place where Taya always finds me. I was taking a picture from here to the grounds, I zoomed in the lens of my camera and saw Taya with a girl, a boy-cut hair girl with a straight face ,she was holding a coffee, I followed them through moving the camera to their direction so I took a photo of it. Something about her is very mysterious and it makes me curious about her. Strange huh?