Kateki

**It's short story around 50 chapters or so**

Ace, a 17yr old high school student. He doesn’t interact much and lives in his own world, and doesn’t like being the center of attraction. His life was the usual one until he became friends with Annie. Annie is also a high school student and Ace’s classmate. But unlike him, she is good at interacting with others, except that she also doesn’t like being the center of attraction.

From that day, his life changes little by little, realizing and experiencing new things. Will these changes be a good one? How will it end? This is the story of a couple who will change each other’s life.

Can I Be Your Friend

Shawn walked towards me with not so happy face; I tried my best not to laugh looking at it.


"Why the gloomy aura, Shawn?" I asked him


He glared at me and sighed, "Annie said that she called to confess to you."


"That's quite a hard lie right there," I said, and he nodded.


Well, we both knew that it was a lie; Nope, I think she just snapped at him and told this lie. This indirect plan failed, eh? I guess I will ask her directly, but I at least don't want to ask her in front of everyone. It's an attention seeker's thing.


And thus, I decided that I would text her after school.


"Hey, Ace here. You called me on Thursday, and I didn't receive your call. Sorry about that. So, I wanted to know why you called me…." I texted her, and the message was sent!!


Seconds later, she replied, "Hey there, I called you because I wanted to tell you something."


A minute later, she replies, "Come on, that's something you should have noticed."


Noticed? Huh? I didn't understand this line and asked her this, "Is that so? Then I am really sorry I haven't noticed anything."


"That's weird," she replied and sent a "sighing" sticker and again texted, "Come on, I did give you hints every now and then. You are not dumb, right?"


This conversation is bizarre… It's going nowhere... And that's when I remembered what Shawn told me. If I consider that, then it's a prank, right? A confession pranks?


But then I shouldn't jump to a conclusion, so I will just go with the flow for now.


We kept on conversing until we reached a point where she texted this, "I love you." By this time, I was sure that this was a prank… But I also replied with, "I also have been in love with you." A total cringe line for me, at least.


Chapter 2