Chapter 21 : Rachel

During all of this, a person came to my life out of absolutely nowhere, somewhere in mid June.

Rachel.

I first met her in church during a life teen session, where we first spoke to each other and we talked a lot.

She seemed to be a really kind person.

She was this really popular girl, not only in church but everywhere else too.

She played table tennis, and she's played at national levels as well.

Honestly she's super cute and utterly beautiful, everyone knew of her and she's also a really good singer and dancer.

Now one day, Rachel's friend, Christine, texts me saying,

"Hey, I think Rachel's having a crush on you"

Yeah what a joke.

Rachel, a crush on me?

Yeah right.

Casually, I go text Rachel saying Christine said this to me.

And she doesn't reply for sometime after seeing the text.

After 10 mins or so, she replies with "Ahahahahahah"

I paused, and said..."I'll take that as a yes?"

She says.

"Okaaaay💕"

I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS CONFUSED MY WHOLE LIFE.

Why would she like me?

What the heck was going on?

For months, she kept texting me.

On Fridays, we'd meet in church for Life teen classes.

With every text she sent, I could see how much she was into me. She sent Random "I love you" texts most of the time. These evolved to long ass paragraphs which really surprised me. So much infact that it was VERY clear that she wasn't just crushing on me anymore.

During life teen classes, or mass, she'd look at me, and only me. Nowhere else, all the time.

I kept looking at her, smiled and said "what"

She just smiled and said "nothing".

She actually loved me.

She spoke stuff about me that I didn't know I was. She talked about all the little things she liked about me and honestly, I felt..... loved.

From para's it went to impatient texts asking me to accept her, for she truly loved me.

I didn't know what to say, so I asked her to wait, because I needed time to think over this.

She spoke about her problems in the past, and now, and I tried my best to help her, as a friend.

She was/is a really beautiful person.

But I asked myself how can I love her, when my mind's somewhere else?

On my birthday the whole Camp Peeps group surprised me.

That was the first time EVER, somebody had done this for me.

Rose was present, beautiful as always.

And she gave me a gift that day.

I was so happy. I didn't know how to say thank you.

They all got me a cake, and I just stood staring at Rose, while she smeared cake all over my face, smiling the warmest smile ever.

Man she's got such a pretty smile dude.

Rose.

She's everything.

Rachel was also present.

And apparently, EVERYONE knew about her crush on me. They all kept teasing me with her.

All she did was blush and all I did was cringe.

Turned out this whole birthday surprise was all planned by Francis.

I thanked him so much, hugged him saying "You're the best".

A person as kind and good as him didn't deserve any sort of hate in his life.

But life can be so damn unfair.

I thought yes. I should move on now.

Who knew what was waiting for me.