NOT AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU

"he became special to me and I love him....."

She stopped talking because Tasha cried and she came to her to pat her little thigh gently.

When Tobias heard those words, he felt that those each words were like knives that was being pushed inside his heart drastically!

She love him?!

He balled his fist to control his emotions. Was it be the end of him?! He thought she love him?!

Tasha went silent and Maria looked at him again and continue. Was he going to let her continue? Would he survived hearing her words?!

"I love him but not as much as I love you. I love him as a friend. As a big brother, I guessed. I was just kind of sad because I never thought that I would cause him a heart ache!"

Maria cried even more while Tobias breathed the air that he doesn't realized his been holding since she talk about her feelings towards Jake.

'As a friend! Big brother!'

He celebrated inside his thoughts. He hugged her tight once more and comforted her.

"its not your fault, babe. Don't blame yourself, okay?"

He tried to coax her but he was thanking God deep inside his heart!

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"Where the fuck did I put it?!!"

She screamed above her lungs. She was devastated and exhausted at the same time!

She already turned her room upside down just to find her necklace but still, she found nothing! She was starting to go crazy thinking about the possibilities of where she last saw it!

She needed to find it, it was her father's birthday gift during her 18th birthday! It was special to her because it was her mother's necklace!

Then there's and invisible bulb that lights up above her head!

"oh shit! I remember now! I wore it the day that dumbass guy hit me! Bullshit!"

She kept on cursing wildly, cursing him to death!

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While on his office, Jake kept on sneezing!

"achu! Oh dear, did I get some cold elsewhere? Achu!"

Jake speak helplessly, he's been sneezing consecutively!

"was there someone..achu!..cursing me right now?"

He talked to himself again. Feeling defeated, he took some medicine inside his drawer and popped it inside his mouth.

When he was going to close his drawer, he saw the necklace he got from yesterday. Jake then thought, was the owner of this necklace, looking for it?

He felt his heart ached because he remembered someone special to him! Was it every time he saw it, he will be depressed and lonely?

He wanted to gave it back but he doesn't knew where to go and where to find her. Maybe, he will just keep it with himself for now. Jake closed the drawer with a heavy heart.

"maybe someday we'll cross paths again."