Where we exist peacefully
It all started when I was 6 years old and he was 7. We were very close friends at that age, living our own worlds without any stress.
"Hey! Alice. Do you want to play truth or dare?" Felix asked. "Suree! Okay, you start! Truuuth or daaare?" I replied. "Hmm… Of course it's the truth." He replied, as I thought of many different things to ask. "So, do you like me?" I asked with a very straight face. I knew that we were close friends, but I just wanted to know. To be honest, I don't know how I feel about him. I mean, yeah, sure, he's okay. He's fine. I mean, he's a good guy. I don't know what I think about him. "Well, no. But don't get hurt. I like you as a friend," He replied to me. "Okay! There's nothing to hurt me, I guess," I replied, as if I appeared to be fine outside but inside I felt something. I didn't know what that was, but I couldn't believe the fact that he said it with a straight face. "Your turn. Truth or dare?" he asked as my heart pounded like a drum. "Truth?" I replied. "Then, let me think. Wait. I think I have a good one right now. Would you sacrifice your life for someone else right now?" He questioned. I doubted myself before answering this. I never actually thought I would be this panicked about a truth or dare question. This was surely a very difficult question, to be honest. But when he asked that question, all I could think about was him. I kept thinking about him in deadly situations. I surely don't want to lose him. "Yes, you." I replied as I stared at him. His eyes were gorgeous; he had hazel-colored eyes. "A-Alice??? Do you really mean it?" He panicked as he blushed so hard that I could see how he felt inside. I knew that I had made him panic, and we were both quite out of hand right now, so I decided to get us out of this situation. "Hey, why make it so serious? This is a game for fun. Now, snap it out, Felix." I laughed at him. His face turned back to smiling again. I knew I shouldn't have said that, but his reaction was priceless, to be honest.
That day was the most awkward day we had ever had. But gradually, as time went by, we became closer friends. At the time, I was 13 and he was 14. We started to make fun of each other.
"Hey, what's up?" I asked him when I saw him talking to his friends. "Uh, the sky?" He replied sarcastically. I knew he liked to make fun of me, but I always say that I hate being told that, even though, he never cared to listen to me about that. "Am, excuse me, sir. Felix. You forgot about our study session or something? We were supposed to be studying for exams, and do you even care about it?" I replied to him as my temper started to rise. "Am, yeah, sure," he replied. The way he replied got on my nerves. He was acting like such a jerk. He never acted toward me like that. I knew that his new friends were changing him or something. Because he started to change his mood and personality a lot when he made friends with them. It kind of got on my nerves when he started to reply like that. His feelings for me have also started to change since then. I mean, sure, we text each other every day and say romantic stuff to each other, but, um, things aren't going as well as they used to. "Never minds. It sounds like you're not interested in studying with me. Then, let me just leave peacefully, leaving you with your dumb ass friends." I replied as I walked away. I heard his friends gossiping about me later that day. Actually, it wasn't only my friends. So, you see, Felix is quite popular at school, and all the girls probably like him. I mean, I was kind of popular at school, but just because I wanted to stay out of trouble, I avoided attention at school as much as possible. Well, technically, I did, but now I think there are rumors about me and Felix. Our close friends actually ship us both together, but others always gossip about us. They say that I am not worth him or anything. Well, everything was going well until his friends started to act crazy about us and he started to change.