Love Maze| KTH ff

Chapter 4-Real friends

2 weeks later.....
Two weeks have gone by and Cassie and the girls still don't know that I have been talking with Tae secretly.

Ever since then Tae and I have always hung out every after school since my brother always took his dear time. But I didn't complain, it was nice being around him. He didn't make things awkward for me but instead always made me laugh with stupid jokes.

We also had competitions towards each other since both  of us were really competitive.

We would challenge each other on mercy or thumb wars just to prove the other one that their better. Both of us would just give up since we knew neither of us were going to give in and lose.

He would always come early before class started to talk more and what not with the other two.

Whenever my friends were around us. He would discreetly look at me and smile. As I did the same.

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"I think I'm going to ask him out" Cassie says to me as we made our way to bench.

"That's nice" I say unbothered
"You think he's going to say yes"
"I don't know. Don't you think this is too fast. We're literally in 6th grade."
"Why do you always have to be so judgmental. I get that you never actually liked anyone but you don't have to be so rude about it."
"I wasn't trying to-"
"Whatever" she says being all moody again
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Halfway in through lunch and I hear the rest of my friends whispering to one another.

"Just do it. Don't be shy"
"He'll say yes"
"Omg you're going to have a boyfriend"
"Fine I'll do it!" Cassie says building up her courage as I watch the whole thing happen.

"Tae can I ask you something" she cuts in while Tae and Jimin stops their conversation.

"What'd I miss" Jungkook walks in as he hands me his pack of goldfish he held in his hands as I happily took them.

"She's gonna ask him out" I say with a mouthful of fish crackers in my mouth

"Tae ummm" she says shyly while taking a pause

"I like you a lot, like more than a friend kind of way. Will you go out with me?" She says with high expectations.

There was a long pause

So long that everyone in the group was so focused on hearing the answer.

He walked away

HE WALKED AWAY?!

Wait why is he walking towards our direction

Where are you going

He's getting closer to me and Jungkook

Why are you smiling so mischievously I thought to myself

Finally he's in front of me

He stood his hand out in front of me

I grabbed it hesitantly looking at him with extreme confusion

He propped me up and intertwined our hand together

WHAT THE NUGGETS
WHAT IS HE DOING

my eyes widened and so did the rest of the groups

"Sorry Cassie, I really like you a lot too. But only as a friend. The person who I actually have a crush on is Abrielle" he says waving our intertwined hands in front of her shocked face.

"What?" She says in confusion I couldn't tell if she was sad or angry

She walks closer

"You like her?" She repeats as Tae nods casually.

"Why? She's not even that pretty. She's fat and ugly" she says meanly as if the words that were coming out of her mouth were poisonous venom.

My heart shattered hearing those words come out of my so called best friend that I knew for years.

All of my other "friends" started to gather up behind her making them all look at me with hatred.

So much for being best friends with them I thought to myself.

Jimin ,Tae and Jungkook stood by me while Tae squeezed my hand gently with assurance.

"The only thing ugly is your personality" Jungkooks says harshly as he stares at Cassie intensely.

"You girls aren't her real friends. You're toxic." Jimin says with a cold tone.

"What I like about her?" Tae repeats
"I like how real she is. I like her personality. She's beautiful inside and out. Nothing you can compare too." Tae says calmly while he looks at me giving me a smile

I looked down and tears  started to roll down my cheeks without me even knowing.

"I don't like the way you treat her" Tae says as Jimin hands me his handkerchief that he kept in his pocket.

"Can you all please just hang out somewhere else now" Jungkook says as he made his way around and stood in front of me, covering the view of my "friends".

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"Sorry" Tae said with a guilty look on his face.
"For what" I said as I finally composed myself

"When she asked me out I panicked. I don't want to date her. So when I saw you I figured why not just set her straight right now"

"So I was just being used"
"Everything I said to her was true. She just thought I meant it in a relationship way. Other than the part where I said you were my crush. The rest were all real promise." He says with his pinky sticking out as I intertwined it with his.

"Are you mad at us?" Jungkook says as he sat down next to me.

"No why?"
"We made your friends stop hanging out with us"  Jimin buts in

"I don't think they consider me as their friend anymore. They all looked against me and none of them defended me. Only you three did. So thank you" I say genuinely as I bring them all in a tight hug.

"We're all besties remember" Jungkook says in a suffocated tone as I hugged them tighter.

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After that day Cassie and my other "friends" avoided me.

They stared  me down whenever I walked passed them and whispered mean things as if I couldn't hear them.

The boys would always come in to rescue though. I never really felt alone. I always had company because of them.

So instead of being mad at Cassie I was somewhat thankful.

She made me realize that I didn't need her or her friends.

It didn't matter how long we knew each other.

I just needed real friends.

People who bring me up and not drag me down.