No, Maybe, Yes

"I like you," I cried.

"What," Levi, asked.

I immediately looked at the ground, seeing little ants carrying a bit of cracker crumbs back to their place. I didn't know what to feel, I was finally confessing to him yet I felt like shit knowing what he was going through and I was here doing this, well I can't take it back now.

I looked back at him, waiting for his reply. Instead I saw looking at me with pity in his eyes, I knew what was coming but didn't want to acknowledge it.

"I like you," I said once again.

"Lisa I-I," he stuttered. "I just went through a relationship and my parents and even school, I'm super stressed right now, I don't-,"he stuttered.

I felt tears building up in my eyes and my nose starting to burn. "Those are all excuses, your parents?! What do they have to do with this," I yelled in despair.

"Do you like me, yes, or no," I whispered the last part quietly holding onto a string of hope, that wasn't even there.

"No."he said.