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As a new year with good news, June couldn't stop herself from sharing her engagement with James to her friends.

The two friends-Cathy&Esther wishes her well and not forget them, when the wedding will happen.

While Baby was broken hearted but still wishes her well.

But Rose was nothing but bitter about it and she just text "Congratulations" and nothing else.

*****

𝙍𝙊𝙎𝙀 𝙎𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮;

After the day, she bumped into Him, she'll always search for the familiar face and body in the school campus, and after two days, she found out that He is her senior, who's good in studies as well as sports also an University captain of the year.

She also got to know that he's a calm, patience, handsome and cheerful person. Kind and respect to everyone and every teachers.

She decided to make Him, her boyfriend no matter what happens or what it takes.

***

Fortunately for her, One day after school while she was walking towards His class, some of the senior's boys, surrounded her, asking "where she's going? " They can dropped her off or Called the person for her".

She doesn't respond but one's of them started touching her face, arms and even putting his arms around her shoulder.

She was shaking and tearing up, afraid that they might do something bad so she decided to speak out, but before she could, they all heard footsteps from behind and turned around to see him, standing and squinted at them.

The boys backed away, apologising and went away. They know not to mess with Him.

After they're gone, She broke down into tears and acting pitifully.

She saw him kneeling down besides and giving her a handkerchief, telling beautiful girl shouldn't cried.

She thanked him and wipes her face. She looks at him directly in His eyes and mustering her couraged, she told him, "𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘵, 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. "

After a few minutes, He finally answered her,"𝗜 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲, 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 ".

Rose was so ashamed of being rejected directly but that's what makes her like, Him more than ever.

Before she could asked Him, " 𝚆𝙷𝚈? "

He told her, "𝗕𝘂𝘁, 𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱. "

Before she could lashed out at him for being "friend zone".

He told her, " 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹-𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹, 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝘆'𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁, 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁. "

Rose looks at him dreamily while he was explaining himself and thought maybe she could turned the so called "Girl-friend" into "Girlfriend".

Without missing a second, she happily agreed to Him and introduced herself afterwards and He even Faceplam himself for forgetting that.

After the introduction, He insisted to dropped her home, as he don't want his new Friend to again face the situation, like before.

On the way, they talked about how their day's goes, their favourite things, their dislike and so on.

Soon they reached Her house, like every guy, he told her to get inside, to which she gives him a cute nod.

She feel him ruffled her hair and pushed her towards her gate and bade his good night and walked towards his home direction.

She watched his back, which doesn't turned back even once instead go up front.

******

The following days, weeks and months, they got closer to each other and she doesn't missed a beat to makes Him become her boyfriend.

One day, just before their exam, she got a called from Him.

She was surprised and happy that he finally gives her a called and she happily received it but before she could responded, she heard a sobbing sounds.

She sigh and called out his name, you which he replied that, "𝗥𝗼, 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗱𝗼? "

She was confused, after a while, she asked, "𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨? "

She could heard a Hiccuped and the next word she heard, it's like a she was slapped on her face.

"𝗝𝘂..... 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲.... 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. 𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱, 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁.....

She could heard him, crying and screaming out. She knows that he's a kind of person who never let's out his weak sides but tonight because of June, he let it out.

How much she envy June as the two most handsome boys in the College and University are head over him but she hated her as she'll always gets what She wants, even without trying.

She then told him to Calm down first while she checked on her.

She hang up and she just lied to him, after more than five minutes, she called Him back and told him that, "𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺?".

She could heard him sigh a relieve, her hand around her phone tighten but she calm herself for hearing what he's going to say next.

"𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗥𝗼. 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. "

Clearing her throat, she replied him, "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘮, 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘺. "

She could heard him, letting out a chuckle and bade her the same and hang up.

As soon as she hang up, she scream her lungs out and her eye's are red from anger towards June, who can makes him weak for her while she tried her best to makes her apart of his life, got accepted but as a friend and nothing more.

She regrets saying that to him that about her friends including June.

She remember him froze for a second when she mentioned her name but choose to ignored it.

Also after introducing Him to her friends, she could see him, his eyes only linger on June but who knows that Tonight she's got to knows that James one-sided love is none other than June.

Thinking about it, she feel like she's been hit with bat, ones of the day, she asked him, "Why she couldn't be his girlfriend? " After a months of bugging him to accept her.

He told her that, "I'm already in love with someone, who doesn't know my existence because I'm a coward to approach her and that's what makes me loose her and let's not talk about it again, please."!!

She gives him a nod, thinking his lover passed away and he couldn't still move on and decided to help him with it but she's not dead instead living and enjoying her days while he's crying and keeping his heart for her.

Again, who cares about it, as everyone thought her as His girlfriend, while she's not.

It all started when her classmates teases her about always hanging out with Him, and they even saw Him dropping her Home, when asked about she'll tell him that she's his Girl-friend, not caring you explained about it. That's the reason why everyone thinks her as his lover and makes June weak heart in pain.

Yet again, He doesn't payed much attention to the teasing and calling Rose as his Girl-friend as she was in deed his only Girl's friend and not more than that.

*******

After that day, everything and Him started to follow well and goes smoothly but she never expected that Him and June will be getting close to each other.

How did they talked? She doesn't know.

She was so angry and had enough of being June snatching away the things she liked.

So, after a Year, of seeing them close, see decided to makes June stayed away from him.

One days, after their classes, while they a were sitting in the cafeteria and with James joining her.

She finally speak out about June being closed to her boyfriend and paying him more attention instead of her boyfriend. She even said that June have not enough with only one so she goes on trying to takes her boyfriend away from her, she doesn't have any shame or dignity, being close to other guy's also she doesn't respected their friendship that's why she did all this.

That day, after June run away from the place, Unbeknownst to her, Rose was being slapped in the face by none other than James, who told her that, "She's not saint and June will never do it", and leave the place immediately.

Even Cathy&Esther gives her a disappointed and disgusted faces as they know what she did behind June.

Also Baby, just shakes her head at her and walked away with the other two.

Lucky for her, He was not present at the moment.

********

From the following days, everyone can see the tensed atmosphere between June and her boyfriend also they saw June trying her best to not bumped into Him, if it happens, she pretended not to see Him.

A few days later, He still don't know, what happened that June ignored him and confronted Rose about it.

Always asking the well being of June and her daily activities, Rose had enough of it and she finally let out her inner feeling.

Rose: Can't you stop mentioning her name even for an hour? Every second, minutes, hours and day's, always June, this and that?I had enough of it, If you really wanted to her whereabouts, just go and directly asked her and stop bothering me, if you takes me as your friend. You know my feelings for you yet you still...

She breaks down into tears.... but was short lived when he asked her again, "Why did June ignore me and I know that it got something to do with you? "

Rose:Yes, it was me, so what are you going to do about it, slapped me or insult me? huh? Tell me.

She was surprised when she was pulled into a hug by him. She then sob and her sobs turned into wailing for her heart hurts ways too much.

******

From that days onwards, the students of their school, college and University, put them in a relationship after they saw their interactions.

Also none of them tried to correct them about it when asked whether they're in a relationship or not?