chapter 11: presentation and his confession

[ i apologize if there would be any errors ( grammars, spellings and such more ). ]

JULIET'S POINT OF VIEW

Timeskip after school, Travis and I decided to go to his house with the permission of my mother, since she basically likes him. But for me? I'm not sure. He's so sweet and genuine, but I still can't get Romeo out of my head. I somehow feel bad after the headaches he felt. Sometimes I even asked myself if I am the reason behind all this.

The same thing happened today. We asked Aunt Tia's help through the golden mirror in making our last and final Magicia. After an hour and a half of making it, we finally finished it. All of us are excited of the creation we've done. Afterwards, I directly went home along with Travis since it's already dark. We spend 10 minutes walking to my house, Travis and I talked alot of stuff, it's like he is my ideal friend.

Wait, friend? I don't know, sometimes I do think that there is something between us. But like I said, Romeo is still on my mind and will probably do for the rest of my life. I arrived at home and thanked Travis for walking me home. Then, did the rest of my night routine throughout.

Next day, Travis and I went to the magical place where Aunt Tia used to stay. We tested our Magicias and it worked perfectly. Because of it, we happily exclaimed. Afterwards, we prepared on how we are going to present infront of our class.

Timeskip, tomorrow morning at school. Science is our first class for the day. I must say that I am very nervous as a shy girl like me, presenting our project with one of the most popular guys at school.

"Juliet? Are you okay?" Travis asked as he walked towards me and I sighed.

"Just a little nervous." I nervously said then Travis sat down beside me to calm me down.

"Don't worry, everything's gonna be okay. As long as our teacher and classmates are interested, I'm sure it will be fine." He said as he rubbed his hand on my back to calm me down then I looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you, Travis. I don't know what would I do without you." I said then he smiled.

"Good morning, class." The teacher said as she walked inside the room and the bell rang.

"Good morning, Ma'am." All of us greeted.

"Please settle down so that we could end all of the presentations early." She said as some of the students went back to their seats.

"Alright, so who wants to go first?" She asked.

After 8 pairs presenting their work, the teacher called me and Travis.

"Ms. Fitzroy and Mr. Johnson, it's your turn." The teacher said then Travis and I stood up.

Travis offered to bring the chests and walked first to the front then I followed. He placed the chests onto the table that is infront of us. I felt nervous as everyone started staring at us and whispering on what is inside the chests. Romeo, in the other hand, smiled at us then I smiled back, which made me calm down a little.

"Good morning everyone! Today, Travis and I will be presenting our chosen Science project for today's Science month celebration." I said.

"Inside of these chests are Magicias, also known as magic but we spiced it up a little bit." Travis chuckled.

"As much as we like to open these, we must say that it is prohibited. Legend says that Magicias will be completely restored in the near future, especially to the ones who would find it." I said.

Just a clarification, it is all made up to prevent the Magicias' exposure to others.

"We have here the Super senses Magicia, Telekinesis Magicia and lastly the Destruction Magicia." Travis continued as he pointed to each chest.

"We made these Magicias on our own, because we think it is a good use for the future. Besides, they are plenty of possibilities on what the future will be." I said.

"Lastly, it can bring back the past years' fantasies to have a benefit in the world around us." Travis said then the students nodded.

"That would be all for our presentation!" I said then all of our classmates clapped along with the teacher.

"I must say that we are very impressed by your presentation, if it will be possible, we know that Magicias will be in a good use soon." The teacher said as we smiled.

"Thank you Ma'am, we really appreciate it." Travis and I said then we went back to our seats.

Throughout the whole morning, I can see all of the students whispering at each other whenever Travis and I passed by. Some even asked a few questions about the Magicias, suprisingly almost everyone in school are interested about it.

Timeskip at lunch, Lauren and I sat together during lunch then she suddenly speak something.

"Juliet?" Lauren said then I looked up at her.

"Yes, Lauren?" I asked.

"Can you join with me later at the garden near the comfort rooms?" She asked as I grabbed my apple from the plate.

"Sure!" I said then she sighed.

I must say that we have a little awkward silence throughout, but it didn't really bothered me. After 15 minutes of eating lunch, Lauren walked along with me to the garden.

"So, what are you doing in here, Lauren?" I asked as I looked at her.

"Actually, I am not doing anything here. Just you." Lauren replied as she looked back then I frowned.

"What do you mean?" I asked as I turned at her then she pointed on what is infront of us.

I slowly looked at it, and there I saw Travis. I don't have any idea on what is gonna happened. Travis is holding a bouquet, wearing my ideal kind of style for a guy just like the one I drew in my diary.

"Goodluck." Lauren said the moment before she walked away and leave us two all alone.

"Tr-Travis? What's going on?" I asked as I stuttered.

"Before I begin, I just want to give you this." Travis said then he gave me the bouquet with roses all around it.

"Travis, what is this for?" I asked in confusion as I looked up at him then he sighed.

"Juliet Fitzroy, this feelings deep inside of me have been going on since middle school. The day I first saw you is when we were at the playground, I guess you didn't noticed me at all, because you were so shy." He said.

"After that, I started liking you and I finally had the courage to talk to you last week when I asked you to be my partner for the Science Month. Honestly, because of that project, I finally had the confidence to speak to you for the very first time."

"Apparently as I was helping you with your things last week, your diary slipped into my bag. I know I lied to you but I had to look through the pages and know more about you."

"Hold on, you read my diary?!" I asked as I shouted.

"Yes and I'm sorry, I know it's not nice to invade someone's privacy like that. Anyways, after I scan through the pages, I saw a drawing of yours with a guy you somehow like?" Travis asked as he sighed.

"I might have felt a little pain inside of me, but that didn't stopped me from liking you. Since we were basically partners for the Science project, I had to make a move on you, and show you that I can be the one for you."

"Even though we only spent two weeks together as partners, I learned alot from you and I also got to know you better. I even told Lauren and Romeo all about it, and here I am confessing my love to the woman I love since middle school."

I didn't know what to say. Travis' speech made me speechless and somehow emotional. As he reminisce each memory we had together, I couldn't figure out what to tell him. But, I know for sure that he is so genuine to his words and all he has done for a woman like me.

The worst part here is he even told Romeo, Travis' friend. Because of it, I even got more speechless. The awkward silence has been surrounded on us for the past 2 minutes. I am not good at responding to this kind of topics especially when someone confesses their love to me.

"I know deep inside of you don't know what to say, I completely understand and will patiently wait for your response. I'm sorry if that made you feel speechless, but I had to speak up before it's too late." Travis continued.

"But since now, I am confessing my love to you even though you like someone else, I wanted to court you as well. So that I could prove to you more on how much I love you, and want to be with you for the rest of my life."

"Take your time on thinking of your response and decision, I am willing to wait no matter what it takes, because I love you."

Now I personally feel bad for him, especially when he finds out sooner that the guy I like is his friend, Romeo. I let out a big sigh then decided to spoke up.

"Thank you so much Travis, honestly I am not used to this kind of stuff, which of course I need more time to think about it. And when I do, I will tell you immediately, okay?" I said then he nodded.

"But whatever will be my decision, I hope you will respect it." I continued.

"Sure, anything for you Ms. Juliet." He said as he smiled.

"Can I ask for a hug?" He asked as he pouted.

"Sure." I said as I chuckled then I walked to him and we hugged.

"Come on, let me walk you to class." He said as we released then I nodded and we started walking.

Everyone noticed us both especially me, holding a bouquet. The students started to whisper to another person to another and another. As we walked, Romeo saw us then walked straight towards us.

"Hi Juliet, mind if I grab Travis for a second?" Romeo asked.

"Sure, no problem." I said then I left them both.

"Guess what, Julie. You're the talk of the campus, right now." Lauren said as she suddenly appeared from behind.

"Stop it, Laury. Anyways, can we meet up later after school about it?" I asked as I looked at her.

"Sure, I'm ready to hear everything." She said as she giggled then I smiled.

~ mj <3