1. He likes you...

It was a summer day in 2016. I was staying for after school study sessions with my friends. "Do u want ice cream?" asked Clary. "No, it's fine you just get one for you and come" I said. Clary went into the canteen and I kept standing at the back of the queue as usual. "Hi Rose" said Simon. " Wassup with today" he continued blabbering. "Hmm, nothing much, how u doing?" I asked.

"Same stuff as usual, tryna get that girl over there" he said pointing to Michaela. "Ooo, she's not into you I guess" I said. "Ya I know. She doesn't like me at all".He replied. "Anyway I'll get going, see ya". He said. "Sure" was my short reply cause I'm not much close with him.

"Why did he vanish all of a sudden when he did see me coming?!" yelled Clary. "Come on, that's not like that, let's go it'll be late to class" I said. "Ok children, today are gonna have a simple test. We'll see who'll score the highest" Mrs Loraine said. Zeke and Simon always sat together in front of me and Clary. And always disturbed us. They hated Clary. They murmured about her sometimes. I could hear what they say about her, but still I sat back and laid my mouth shut. Cause I didn't want Clary to know all. Cause the truth is she get on with fights so easily.

That week went smoothly. And in the next after school study session day Simon came to me as usual. "Hey Rose, I wanna tell you something" he said. "Sure" I said. "This is not something about me, but about one of my friends. He keeps talking about you. He keeps asking about you. And he said that he likes you" said Simon. I wasn't surprised cause those days many boys were asking me out. But this confession was different. " So may I know about him" I said. " His name is Jaden and he's from my class. And also he's my bench partner. Jaden that this falling was a love at first sight. There's much more he said. You'd better talk with him" Simon said. I actually didn't know even a person called Jaden existed in my section. And btw I haven't even seen him. So how on earth would I be able to find this Jaden was my problem.I knew his class cause Simon said that a minute ago but still I've never seen him. I've never talked to him. So how can I talk straight to a stranger like that saying "Did you say you like me". It was totally weird. "Sure, I'll talk to him" was my reply for Simon. He quickly went away before Clary comes.

"I saw you two talking again. What are you hiding from me Rose?" Clary exclaimed. I had to tell her cause she was my best friend. " Do you know Jaden?" I asked from her. " Yaa, what's with him?" " Nothing, he likes me". "Is that what Simon said" she asked. "Yes" I insisted. "Okok alright. Now do you wanna talk with him?" Clary asked. "What? Me? No. I haven't seen him even. I don't know him" I exclaimed. "Fine then take your time and let me know what's your decision" she said. " Sure". I said and walked away.

In the next day I went to school. While I was walking down the corridor I was looking at Simon's class hoping I would recognize Jaden. But still I couldn't. I went to my class and talked with Pierce. She was the other best mate which I could open up my heart to. I said every thing Simon said about Jaden. And after listening to all those stuff Pierce said "I know Jaden. She's Michaela's cousin". I was like how can that be. "I didn't know that Michaela had a cousin" I said. " Is that so? Okay fine then lets, talk about this with Michaela" Pierce said. "Is it alright to talk about this with her?" I wasn't so sure about that. "Ya it's fine, Michaela's nice" Pierce insisted. We went down the corridor again to Michaela's class. I didn't had that feeling of asking about her cousin from her. But as Pierce and Michaela are good friends I couldn't disagree. " Hi Michaela, Good Morning" I said. " Good morning Rose, what's up?" she asked. " It's about Jaden" Pierce was straight forward. " Ooo, what is it?" Michaela asked. " He likes Rose, Simon has said that to her in the afternoon sessions, and btw Rose doesn't know who the hell this Jaden is." Pierce said. " Oo, Jaden's my cousin" Michaela insisted. "Okay then can you show me who he is?" I asked. "Sure" said Pierce and took me along the corridor. We just passed his classroom watching him, as we were going to the staff room. And for the first time I saw who he was.

Months passed...

*Jaden was waiting everyday hoping that he'd even get back a smile from Rose. But she never turned back even to have a glance at him. But in her heart she too had a crush on him. Still that was not strong.*