He was in his motorcycle and i was walking with ken who challenged me to talk to christian because he knew i didnt have the guts to do so. But since i was a type of person who wouldnt turn down any challenge i did what i was told to do. Eye to eye with christian i gathered enough courage to ask him "hey , do we have a problem?" and trust me , ken's expression was priceless when he saw me actually talking to the guy. Christian himself , was shocked. I had this sudden mood change that made me have mixed feelings i felt like an idiot for obeying ken and i thought he was probably gonna yell at me or something . Turned out to be the opposite , he told me with a smile on his face that he had no problem and infact he asked me for my contact number . Guess what? Being the most clumsy person , out of excitement and anxiety i forgot my own phone number so i went saying umm..... for a complete 5 minutes before i could recollect my number and give it to him. Ken also told me the other day that Christian had been badmouthing me in his current school , the same school where Jaynie is studying in . So, after realising that no , christian isnt a maniac to shout at me for asking him whether he had any problem with me . So,i decided to clear things out and ask him about the same. He said no , he didnt do anything of that sort and he apologized for being a bad neighbour , i dont know how this is relevant but yes, he did so. This was the end of our conversation and i walked pass him feeling so good about myself and indirectly i had to give credits to Ken for this. I felt so nice and peaceful knowing that im back to talking with my biggest crush.

Ken, on the other hand wasnt happy about this so he decided to irritate me and mock me based on the way i spoke to christian he said that i was trembling when i questioned christian. But oh well, it happened for the best. The following school day , i told katy and the nice popular girl of my school about my progress and they were happy for me but katy constantly asked me to help her progress , in terms of friendship with the guy that she really liked , the one with hazel eyes and who was dating my popular friend. Because it was in terms of friendship, so i felt that it was okay to help . Whenever the class was empty , i persuaded katy to engage in a conversation with this guy who according to me , is shrewd and plain mean. He used to hate me for no reason and i hated him too . I still dont know how girls can fall for his attitude and all.

There's something known as clubs in my present school , that basically means that students from the entire school are categorized into different groups called clubs and few students from each club were chosen to participate in the competitions that they had like chess, singing , debate , declamation and etc. Each club had a representative captain and was differentiated by colours like red for club A , orange for club B and etc. We had a sudden club meeting in the court , and i was in club A . When i went down to the court i saw katy's crush that i disliked and he was in the same club where i was . He was so annoying and i hated the fact that out of all the clubs he had to be in this one. He seemed like a bossy type of person but i didnt know him personally so it would be wrong for me to judge him based on my assumption . He was my hate at first sight. The captain of my club wrote my name in the list of competitions and i was enforced to join the debate competition. I really didnt want to participate as i was still new and had no confidence but there seemed to be no choice . I was told about this exactly 1.5 weeks before the competition and i had to prepare a debate speech on the topic of tourism . I worked on my speech and finally drafted a decent one but it was considered to be' very good' by our captain so i was pretty proud as i was given the title 'best in language' just like the one i got in grade six. The big day finally arrived and we were dressed in tshirts with our club's name and logo on it. We were told to sit in a certain kind of arrangement on top of the stage and i had another guy(representing the senior section) from the same club as i was sitting beside me that made me felt like i wasnt alone in this. . When my name 'Victoria from class 7 representing junior section' was called . Trust me , i trembled i could feel myself shivering , my legs and my hands especially . I was blank and i didnt realise that the microphone was already on ,i tried to recollect my speech for the first 5 minutes and when i really couldnt do so i sighed , "oh god help me" . Since the microphone was on , the whole auditorium heard me and everyone bursted into laughter. I was drop dead embarassed but my captain was already staring at me i felt like he might kill me if i didnt proceed so i had to make up a new script on my mind and recite it on the spot. Although i paused a few times , it wasnt that bad that i could be disqualified. Finally after 3.5 minutes of speaking , my turn was over and i had that look of relief on my face (well obviously). We waited for everyone's turn to speak and finally it was time for the results, they announced the results from the bottom third position and they said my name after that. Which means , that i won second place. I was shocked more than i was happy and everyone gathered around me to congratulate me . They were really nice afterwards well obviously cause i won for the team. Talking about the guy with hazel eyes , he didnt even bother to look at me forget about congratulating , well who cares anyways his opinion might be important to most girls luckily, im not one of them. The following days after that were usual with katy instigating me to believe that our classmates were on to attack us and seperate me and my bestfriend . I know its rude , but i paid no heed and i kinda ignored her because i didnt see any traits of what she wanted me to believe. We made new friends , we as in me and my bestfriend we also belonged to the geek gang of the class , mostly studying but they're pretty fun i mean , i enjoyed their company. Within a month , we had our first ever bazaar um.. i didnt know what this was but we had to participate in something , gain money out of it and the money will go to charity. We had raffle tickets too and the lucky ones could win a huge television or a refrigerator but i didnt get the upperhand to win any of those special prices . 

There were various other competitions , and i was really enthusiastic to join the solo singing competition but i just didnt have the guts or the confidence to do so. Not to exaggerate , but i added this to my wish list it was so nice like , the dark ambience and the colourful lights shining on the participant's face i really wanted to join this , but perhaps later on when im a senior with guts and an attitude. Our anual exams were around the corner and everyone was eager to top it , i really didnt know the paper pattern i should be expecting but all i did know was that i should prepare well for it as i was still new . Im a type of person who loves to procastinate but im sure that i'll get my work done on time right before the deadline and the same thing goes for my exams . I used to keep my book on top of my wooden window frame and peek out every 15 minutes just incase Christian would pass by or whenever the clock struck 4 i would get ready and throw my book on the bed and go for my usual "christian seeking walk". The following days in school , our exam days were not as bad as i proclaimed it to be , although me and my bestfriend were seperated in different classes as we had a huge gap between our batch numbers . Batch number 1 to 10 would be seperated from batch number 11-20. The school system worked that way. We expected to receive our report cards a week later from the time our exams ended . So it went this way , exams , one week of holiday and then results. Your results decide ur holiday mood i mean , who would enjoy their summer break with bad grades. We received our results and i got a 91% overall , at first i thought this wasnt good enough if i compared it to my grades in the previous school i was in , i went around the class to check who topped and the highest was a 95% so mine wasnt bad at all. I went on smiling the whole day and we were dismissed early that day as it was results day. Did i mention that we werent allowed to immediately leave the school premises right after taking our reports? We had to stay back for a 30 minutes lecture by the principal in the auditorium about disclipline and respect. To be honest , most of the people in my class were half asleep. We went down to the lobby and i dont think any of my classmates (except my bestfriend ofcourse) were happy about my grades. Instead , when i was walking pass by the cars parked in one side of the school gate , the guy with hazel eyes accused me of cheating during most of the exams while the truth is the entire opposite . 

He got a 90% and wasnt satisfied with his results despite cheating from his mobile phone during the test so how is it my fault? Other people believed in him well since he was popular , and i didnt have a lot of friends at that time i decided to ignore him and forget about it as i mentioned earlier , his opinion made no difference to me . There was only one thing that made me ponder , how did katty like him in the first place. His attitude was disgusting honestly but love is a strange thing isnt it?. I carried on with my usual walking routine by 4 pm when i went back home from school and i was excited to display my report infront of my parents. My dad was more or less carefree as he himself was a 9th standard dropout , but my mom was overwhelmed and agreed to buy anything i desired as a return gift. The same night itself i received a notification while i was having family dinner , it was a message from christian and you wouldnt believe how overwhelmed i was when i read his name on my phone. Initially , he started of by saying "hey whatsup" and i was like "hi nothing much" im generally an awkward person to chat with like my expression and the messages i sent did not suite each other i was happy but it didnt seem like i was even interested to talk ,for him probably. He then continued by asking about my relation with Jaynie and i told him with full honesty that i wasnt allowed to keep in touch with her as she wasnt a good influence to me. Later on , he continued the chat until i reached home from dinner , my mom noticed my peculiar behavior as i was not the type of person who's glued on a gadget. Me and christian were chatting till midnight and finally he convinced me to invite Jaynie over one last time . At first , i was nervous but since it was my crush i couldnt turn him down so i promised to ask permission the next day itself. The next morning , before my mom left for work i asked her nicely if there was a chance for Jaynie to come over and i told mom that i really missed her company , i also promised her that i wont be late for family time that we used to have every night in my grandma's room , we would talk about school and work but thats not the point. After a short debate with my mom , well not exactly a debate but she finally agreed with a condition that Jaynie should leave our home early not upto 11pm or midnight as it wasnt right. I was so excited to give this good news to Christian but i also warned him about my mom's condition he told me that i didnt need to worry he'll talk to her himself. Jaynie came over the next day , but Christian had plans to visit a hillstation with his family that he had completely forgotten about . Jaynie seemed to be very pissed at him but she couldnt vent her anger on me either , so me and Jaynie engaged ourselves in games and we also had this coffee session together , well she drank coffee and i drank milk thats how much of a protected kid i was , no caffeine as it was bad for health. During this so called coffee session , i decided to explain her in my own way about my feelings for Christian and the plan that the popular girl in school and i made that was a flop thanks to katty , the throwing a ball inside his house plan remember? She told me that Christian liked girls with long hair and he preffered girls who let loose of their hair instead of tying it up into a ponnytail like i mostly did whenever the weather's too hot. She also told me about his character , what kind of person he was and his habbits . I actually took notes on this as it really meant everything to me. There was a beeping sound from Jaynie's phone and it was a message from Christian telling her that he would reach home by 8pm that night . We both , me and Jaynie were suddenly happy and she begged to stay in my house upto 9pm. Now this was a difficult task for me , it was hard enough to get my mom to agree in the first place and now im disobeying the time limits that she had set for Jaynie. I tried explaining Jaynie that no, this wasnt possible and i had to make up some reason telling her that i had to go out. She told me to cancel my plan and stay back with her at home so we could spend time with Christian , she also told me that its for my own benefit as she was trying to make me and him closer. So , i had to lie to my mom i told her that Jaynie's mom was stuck in traffic and she would probably be late and my mom believed me i mean , this was the first time i properly lied to her. I felt really guilty and i wanted to confess the next day , Jaynie told me that this would create problems for me and Christian so i dropped the idea. 

Christian texted Jaynie at exactly 8.30pm informing her that he was home and like some wild desperate cat that missed its cousin a lot , she ran outside my house leaving me behind and i had to run after her . Much later , i lost track of her i went infront of Christian's house but i saw no signs of both of them . I messaged Christian and Jaynie but both didnt reply. After 15 minutes of being alone in the streets at night , something i wouldnt be allowed to do even if i turned 17. My parents were really protective , in a good way ofcourse. I went back home with nothing but dissapoinment on my face . The moment i was 5 houses away from my own , i saw two people running towards me , it was Jaynie and Christian . I asked them about their whereabouts and they said that they were infront of Christian's house all this while , i didnt tell them i was there too but i couldnt see them. They probably were looking for me too , so i ignored this. Christian was chilling with us infront of my house and i even played badminton with him , out of Jaynie's instruction . I was happy that my far cousin was helping me get closer to my crush , me and Christian also engaged in a short conversation while playing. He told me that he had special badminton skills and he could defeat me easily in the game , i took the challenge and lost as well with a score of 5-1 but we all had a good laugh about it. I saw my mom's car approaching our house and Christian ran immediately. My mom wasnt very happy to see me and Jaynie infront of the house at night so she scolded me infront of her . 

Jaynie was fetched about 10 minutes afterwards and i couldnt bother my mom by inviting her over again. I decided to stay away from her as my mom was very pissed at me and so i did ignore Jaynie's messages out of force. Christian didnt message me nor did he have contact with me after that. A few months later , my dad made a huge sum of money and his business was doing really well . He wanted to move to a bigger house , much bigger than the current one. After weeks of looking for big houses , we got to know that my dad's friend was renting a huge house nearby my current one , however it was in a different neighbourhood much bigger and more quiet. I was extremely disheartened i didnt want to leave my current house , as leaving it means that i would be leaving Christian even though we didnt talk , i could atleast see him. How will i even contact him afterwards when i didnt even have the guts to message him first? Oh and also , he kept changing his phone and number which made things even more difficult .I had no choice, but to help out in packing things for it to be shifted to the new house . Everyone was busy doing running their own errands , my mom's sisters (my aunts) helped us out too and so did Jordan. Just one day before moving out , i decided to embrace my final walk in this locality with hopes that i would bump into christian or something. As i walked with my awkward looking grey tshirt and shorts , i looked really pale as i really had no interest in moving out in the first place. I saw Christian in his motorbike coming towards my direction and he stopped right infront of me. He asked me , "hey ur moving out?" well obviously he would ask that with the containers and furniture that he could see infront of my house . I said "yea im moving out tomorrow" he told me , "omg same here!" and i was dumstrucked like what did he mean when he said same here? Is he moving out too or is he just fooling around. He told me that he's moving to an apartment and he also told me that the new house i was gonna move to , Jaynie's parents were also planning to rent it so there was a conflict between my parents and hers that i never knew about. I asked him "so.. where is she moving to now?" he told me that she was moving to the same apartment where he's going to but , different towers. That was great news for me and i was happy for her. The new house i moved to was nice , it had a backyard for buddy to play in and not long after that my dad bought me an alligator gar since he knew that i was really fond of exotic animals . We named it rob and we kept it in our waterfall that we had in the main entrance. Jordan became really close to the guy with hazel eyes in our school and we started talking , god knows from where he knew about Christian i guess his girlfriend (who's my friend) might have told him about it. So, after few days this guy with hazel eyes asked me about Christian but i didnt trust him enough to tell him so i ignored him and replied straightforwardly. Just 2 months later , we had an event , not a school event but a public event open to children and adults . I was out for family dinner a day before the event , and i received a notification from Christian . He messaged me after so long and i wonder how my love for him automatically increased . He asked me if i was going for the event and thats it. But i was contended. Isnt it ironic that even the last time when he messaged me i was out for family dinner and this time too? Maybe not..

I went for the event , i was dressed in a blue tangtop and shorts as it was a colour run kind of event . I met him there but we didnt really talk. Katty was there too and so was the guy with hazel eyes. I was with katty and this other girl who was also super friendly to me , jasmine , perhaps i forgot to mention that she was one of the nicest and overfriendly few friends that i made when i just entered the new school im in as she was also new . Oh , and she was a friend of Christian but i wasnt close enough to disclose anything to her about my personal life. Katty was pretty annoying that day , she threw some coloured powder on Christian while he was passing by and when he turned around she pointed at me. He gave me a forced smile and i sighed like i was so embarassed for something i didnt do. Jaynie was also present there and she surprisingly , didnt even say hi to me. She smiled from a distance though but that smile was maybe not even intended for me. Or did she just not see me? But i was pretty sure she passed me. Oh well , lets hope she doesnt hate me cause i dont see a reason for her to do so. I didnt have any contact with Christian nor Jaynie for months after that event.

 The following days in school , this guy with hazel eyes asked me if i knew about Jaynie and Christian. He was sitting on top of the class's table and Jordan was playing table tennis in class with one of his guy friends , like they arranged the tables so the class looked like a mess and it was congested. I stood awkwardly beside the table where this guy was sitting on and i actually spoke to him for the first time without irritation. 

He repeated his question and asked me"vic , im talking to you . Do you know about Jaynie and Christian?" 

I replied .. " im not blind and i know ur asking me , well ofcourse i know about them but whats that got to do with you" 

"quit being rude and listen to me . Jordan told me that u purposely go to the mall below his apartment weekly" 

"hmmm but thats because i just want to its not like im there for Christian" i said

 "Victoria Savannah , you have been fooled big time" he continued 

"what do you mean fooled ?" i asked. 

What he told me after that hit me so hard , he told me that Jaynie and Christian werent cousins. They have been dating for the past 1 year doing all the wrong things couples do before the appropriate age of 18 atleast. I was speechless and the colours of my face were taken away , my head felt warm and i felt like crying infront of this guy but i couldnt. Could he be fooling around? Or have i been treated as a joke? He seemed to be very serious and Jordan was also looking at me as if this guy's statement is justified. I didnt know how to feel . I had a 1000 questions running in my mind like a marathon. Could this be why they used to magically dissapear when i was looking for them? But why would my cousin Jaynie even lie to me and even if she did why would she still help me get closer to him? Did this explain why Jaynie was always excited to meet him and didnt allow me to text him from her phone? Was i being used and treated unfairly? 

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