Chapter 4 : Chapter 3- SIDE STORY- Richard Wilson & Elsa

CHARACTERS : *PRESENT- Richard Wilson ; *Elsa

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Richard Wilson and Elsa were childhood friends. Even their family members were close with each other. Elsa cherished Richard and started growing feelings for him. But Richard saw Elsa as his best friend and he loved her only as a friend, Elsa knew this already. She could not able to control her feelings for him so she decided to confess her feelings to Richard on his birthday.

"Richard, I know you will hate this but... I don't know what to do. I can't control myself. I think... I think I have feelings for you. But I am not confident with this, I feel jealous when you are with others, I often feel sad whenever you avoid me and apart from that I really like being with you. But I am not sure what does this means. Is this love?? Or friendship?? I don't know... ahh", Elsa said this in a low tone with her face down as she could not able to see Richard and gain confidence.

Richard firmly walked towards Elsa, gently lifted her head up, and said, "I know... I know that you love me and you don't see me only as a friend. Though I know about this before I could not do anything about this. You know why.... its because I love you more as a friend and don't want to lose you. I don't want to hurt you by giving you false hope. You already know that I have a psychological problem and I am not completely cured still. I don't want to be a burden for anyone. Firstly, I need time, I need to understand myself... more than that I see you only as my friend and not more than that. I can't love you as a girlfriend but I can do it as my best friend. I just said what I wanted to now you say... do you want me to still love you as my friend or more than that?"

Elsa replied with tears, "I am thankful that you love me as your friend and I am grateful too. Even I don't want to lose you. But still... I am just a normal girl with feelings. I don't mind about your problems, I will be there for you no matter what. For now, I need to deal with my thoughts and need to compromise myself. I don't want to take a wrong decision. I can't regret doing so. Can you do me a favor??"

Richard replied without hesitation, "What is that? I can do anything for my friend."

"I just want us to be in a fake relationship. Ah... I know it sounds weird but it's just for my sake. I know that I can't erase you from my life and I can't lose you as a friend either. So I thought of this. We will still be friends, it is just like dating and not more than that. We can continue this for few months, it turns out to be hard then we can end it and return as normal friends. But if you started to develop feelings for me and if I have the same feeling for you then we can proceed further. Is that fine?", Elsa expressed her thought to Richard.

"Uhh... I don't know how you are getting these weird thoughts. I won't say this is good but I will do this for you. We can date but I can't give you any hope.", Richard replied.

"I know you can't. I'm saying it again that I am doing this only for my sake. I know you as a friend but not more than that. Since I could not able to figure out whether this is true love or an infatuation I am just trying to find an answer. I wish I would get an answer soon.", Elsa said with a straight face and warm smile.

"Ok then I am fine with this", Richard replied with a warm smile too.

Elsa went, hugged Richard, and said, "Thank you Richard.... thank you so much."

Elsa was happy and satisfied, seeing Elsa Richard was happy too. But sadly the end didn't turn out to be delightful. They both had lots of misunderstandings and arguments. His psychological problem was the main reason for their fight. After ten months of dating, they ended their relationship and decided to be friends with each other.

"Richard, Finally now I got my answer...", Elsa said this while wiping her tears.

/ DO READ CHAPTER 3 MAIN STORY FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING /