People think about how future will help them. They say destiny made you who you are. And destiny finds you're match. But I don't rely all of my faith and trust on destiny. I wanted to make them. I was 11 years old when I met Lianne. We've been together since her parents passed away in a plane crash. She lived with her grandparents near ours. We were best friends. We share everything we have and what we do. We were like siblings by heart.
Ten years now, we were both studying at the same university. She was an excellent girl, so lovely that any boy would like to be hers. So am I.
Yes, I fell in love with my best friend. Who can blame me? She has every man would dream of. I am just an ordinary boy with ordinary feelings of what a normal guy would feel.
We were sitting at the cafeteria while having our lunch. I was caught off guard by her beautiful smile. I lost my self a minute.
"What is wrong with you Jael? You're jaw falls. Hey, are you okay?" Lianne said with matching punch on my shoulder.
"Uhmm, nothing I just find you beautiful today." I replied.
"What? Just today?" she added.
"NO. FOREVER you're highness." I exclaimed.
That day ended just like another days. I went to bed to take some rest. I was about to lose my senses, when my phone rang.
"Good heavens. Nice timing! Who could this be?" I complained.
I took my phone and it was Lianne. Without complain I answered my phone urgently.
"Sleepy head! Are you awake?" she shouted on the phone at the same time I could hear her scream on the other side. Well, we're neighbors.
"Hurry let's meet outside." she added. I hang up the phone and went outside, but still my sleepy sense was with me. We sat at our old swings and started to play.
"I met him" she started.
"Who?"
"Jang Wook"
"What"
"I mean, Francis. The guy at the school that I'm telling you whom I like." She said with a happy tone and a glittering eye.
"Okay. Then what happened?" I asked her boring tone.
"He asked me out this Friday. Uhmm, I don't know what to do, so I said yes.
What should I do now?
Grandmother would not allow me to go with other man, besides you."
"I know what you mean." I replied with soft tone.
I felt that heaven and earth collided that moment and I was at the middle of it feeling the pressure of pain and guilt.
"Yes. I knew that you will help me. All you need to do is that you will go with me and ask my grandmother that we are going out on Friday. Just the two of us."
"What about Francis?"I asked.
"Of course, I'm gonna meet him at our meeting place and you will be my guard incase grandmother will come to find us."
I felt that I was struck by a lightning that moment. How could she be so blind? Because I love her, I did what she wanted. And Friday came. I wish there were no Fridays on a week. We went to mall and I was their chaperone. I was hurt. I felt what normal people would feel when they were dumped by their lover. A for me she never knew that I have loved her more than a friend would feel.
At the school Lianne always finds a way to meet Francis and I am the one who is making that way. One day, I was having my snack at the back garden, because Lianne was absent, I saw a couple kissing at the next bench, not too far from me. I look very carefully and saw the unexpected person I never thought would do such thing. It was Francis. My eyes fired up that moment that I wanted to make a scene. I came closer to him and grabbed his collar. I started punching him.
"You MF. How could you do this to Lianne." I exclaimed.
"What is wrong with you man. It is natural for us men to do this thing. Don't get too innocent. And Lianne, she is not that fun."
I punch him again until our teachers came.
"Stop it. Mr. Dela Cruz and Mr. Talabang see me at my office now." Principal Basa said.
I can't believe what I did. I went home and saw Lianne at their lawn. I was about to come closer to her when she went inside their house. I did not know why she does that. I walked home and took a shower. I was ready to sleep and I saw messages of Lianne and our group chats on my phone.
GC: "Jael punches Francis"
"What could be the reason?"
Blah, blah.
I read Lianne's messages.
'Why?'
'Why did you do that to Francis'
'Was I asking too much from you?'
She knew. Those texts made my tear fell down. I was frozen that moment. I can't even reply to her texts. I wanted to tell her the reason. I wanted to let her know what kind of man she fell in love with. But I can't. I was a coward. I was afraid that she might get hurt if she knows that Francis is playing her feelings. I went to bed with tears racing down from my face.
Days passed, Lianne and I were like strangers. I wanted to approach her but she avoids me. I couldn't do anything but to reminisce those moments when we were together.
Monday morning. I saw Lianne at the back garden crying. It crushes my heart. I came to her, to comfort her.
"I'm sorry. I was a coward" I started.
She hugged me so tight. I missed these hugs. I missed this moment when we were shedding tears together, comforting each other and sharing things with one another.
"No Jael, I should be sorry. I was blinded by my love to Francis. And I didn't ask you the reason why you fought with him.
I'm sorry Jael, I really am." She said with so many tears coming from her eyes. I was hurt the same as she was.
I kissed her. I kissed her passionately and she replies to my kisses too.
"I love you Lianne. I was afraid to tell you this but I have loved you before. I will do everything for you and I will make you happy. I will make destiny bind us together. And I will fight for the love I have for you." I said softly to her and I mean it.
"Shhh. You already did Jael." And she kissed me again.
The End.
