17 "Am I being too kind to you?"

"Hmm? What is this?"

It surprised Jerrod to see a folded paper inside his shoe locker, opened it and read the contents of the note.

"Jerrod Guillermo, come to the back alley near the basketball court. I have something to tell you! 5pm after class!"

It was the letter Larissa left, but the letter was so imposing that Jerrod automatically thought that it was inviting him to another fight.

Jerrod, as the center of envy from the other students, occasionally receives challenges for a fistfight or skill duel. Jerrod always accepts this with no thought because he has never been defeated by anyone.

"Ha! He even drew this to provoke me?" Jerrod glared at the paper before he crumpled it and threw it at the bin.

The letter doesn't have a name under it and only has a drawing drawn by Larissa in which she innocently drew the hydro flask on top of a heart.

The drawing was so bad that Jerrod thought it was a wiener to mock him.

"You'll get beaten up for this."

[A/N: I posted in the comment section the picture of Larissa's masterpiece. ]

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Later, at 4 p.m., a tall and huge high school student skipped her last class to practice what she needed to say in her confession in the back alley near the basketball court. She came an hour earlier and trembles in nervousness.

"Should I ask for my friends' help? But they all have training at 5 pm. I can't drag them here!"

Larissa clenched the notebook that was filled with notes. She actually openly revealed to her friends that she would confess today and gave her a notebook filled with suggestions and advice on what she would do for her confession. They were disappointed because they couldn't be here to support Larissa due to their training commitments, but still, Larissa appreciated their concern.

She then focused on trying out her friend's suggestions.

Suggestion number one: Once he arrived, hurriedly pinned him down to the wall and said, "I always have my eyes on you. Can you be mine?"

Suggestion number two: use your body to form a large full heart to show how much you love him.

Suggestion number 3: Do a cartwheel, then at the end of the jump, send a heart sign to him and tell him you like him!

Suggestion number 4: Act like you're picking up something near him, then tell him, "I've fallen for you."

Larissa's jaw dropped from what her friends wrote and she shouted, "This is not normal at all!"

Larissa continued to read through all the suggestions, but she could not find any normal suggestions. She realized that all of her friends are all single as they are all occupied with training and studies.

"Ugh! Whatever! I'll just straightforwardly say that I like him!" She bravely shouted and planned, but the moment Jerrod really appeared in front of her, she froze and could only look down at Jerrod, which Jerrod misunderstood that she was sizing him up.

Larissa is way taller than Jerrod, so she can't help but look down. She wants her sincerity to reach right through Jerrod, which is why she looked directly into his eyes.

Larissa's heart was also pounding so much that she couldn't even hear what was around her. Jerrod looked annoyed at waiting for her to speak, so she first spoke in a soft voice, but Jerrod didn't hear her clearly.

"I like you."

"What?"

Larissa could see how Jerrod's expression changed into a scowl, which made her think if it was because of shock or disgust. She then wished to hear an answer, so she repeated her confession with a much louder voice.

"I..I said I like you!"

"You? But you look like a guy."

Almost immediately, she bows down to apologize, while internally she is laughing to herself.

'Hahaha right! There is no way he will like me back! I have more muscles! I don't look like a girl with my build at all!'

She looks down at herself and feels like throwing up from embarrassment.

"I-I am sorry for wasting your time! I just want to confess before we graduate. You don't need to answer!"

Larissa yelled everything she wanted, then ran away afterwards. Without looking back, she ran to the gymnasium to escape and calm her heartbroken heart at the training grounds, but along the way she bumped into the least person she wanted to see.

"I heard you skipped a game and a class." A stern, low voice pierced her ears on the way to her already perforated heart.

"I did, uncle." Larissa replied. She was only looking down because she was guilty of missing her classes for stalking and meeting Jerrod.

"Lately, am I being too kind to you?"