The Man I Never Thought I'll Fall To

Chapter Three

It's been a week since the school started and now it's Friday night. For most highschool students, it is the time they can go to parties or host sleep overs and gossip with their friends.

As the eldest child and only daughter, Yanna is not allowed by her parents to socialize in the middle of the night. Her parents have a rule that she has to come home straight from school every day and no leaving the house at night.

Yanna spent her teenage life following those rules so she didn't experience a lot compare to the people her age.

That night is no exception. Instead of going out to have fun, she spend the evening on her phone like every other nights.

She checked her social media account and is shocked to see her notifications overflowing. She read them one by one from top to bottom but most of it are tags or comments about a friend's post.

"There is nothing here to see. I better sleep now." she said.

Bored, Yanna decides to log-out but as she is about to close the app, something caught her eye.

A friend's post on her feed.

She read the post again and again unknowingly that it will keep her up the whole night.

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That same night, Nathan is with his friends. They were practicing for the upcoming teacher's day where they will perform in front of the student body.

Nathan is the guitarist, Warren is the drummer and Harry is vocals and piano. Everything is going well so they decided to take a break.

Nathan is the one who writes their original songs so he grabbed a pencil and a paper then started to write.

Harry and Warren are eating snacks until he threw a bag of chips in Nathan's direction. It hit him on his face.

The three laughed until Warren asked Nathan about a girl.

"Is SHE still the one?" Warren asked.

Nathan stopped writing and looked down with sadness in his eyes. For him, his love life is the most fragile thing that he wanted no one to know about.

"I guess." Nathan answered.

"I saw how you looked at her on the first day of school. If I didn't know any better I swear it looked like you want to avoid her." Warren said concerned.

"I'm just not in the mood to talk about that. I'm still not sure what I'm feeling about HER right now. It's confusing and I don't know if SHE feels the same way though."

Some people say Nathan's a bully, mean and arrogant. But what those people don't know is that he is not what they think he is. And that goes for the most people who show different personalities on the outside that does not reflect who they are on the inside.

Sometimes, he's a little bit off and this bother his friends. Nathan never thinks of the feelings of others before he talks but that does not mean he's a bad person. That's just the way he cope whatever he's experiencing.

"You know you can't keep on hiding forever. Would you rather live on what ifs instead of knowing the answer?" Harry asked.

Nathan said nothing.

He grabbed his phone and stared at a picture. His wallpaper.

Suddenly, he remembered the past three years. The very first time he met her when he transferred school. It's been a while since he talked to HER. He remembered how SHE laughs, HER walk, HER witty personality and HER sweet nature.

"It's always the question isn't it? To keep holding on or just let go." Nathan said quietly.

Then he opened his social media account and wrote something on his wall then logged out.

"It's getting late. Let's wrap up!" Nathan said to his friends.

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"I'm sorry if until now, I'm still not sure if i should hold on or let you go"

It's Saturday.

It's the next day but Yanna keeps on thinking about what she saw last night. She wonders whom Nathan is talking about.

Deep inside, she treats him as her friend even though he's mean to her. After all, he's the only one who spent so much time talking to her even with non-sense things.

It made her laugh three years ago when they first met. He talks to her longer than her friends do. She's taken aback since he's not that type of guy who will vent his personal feelings on the internet.

"Why do I care?" She asks herself. "It's not like we're actually friends duh!"

Maybe she'll never know.

Her mind is full of stuff. Homeworks, exams and projects. She can't be distracted if she wants to fulfill her plans.

What she saw has nothing to do with her but she can't understand why she feels rejected.

Even hurt.

And why she wonders who is the girl that Nathan was referring to.

Out of curiosity, she grabs her phone and looked at his post one more time.

"Let's see how you'll react."

She hit the like button.