CH: 33 WHEN

"Now tell me what happened between you that ended up with a kiss," Krystal asked as we made our way to the same café we went yesterday

"When I went back to home yesterday I saw Eddie kissing Jacob," I said facing to the ground

"So you meant by kissing that Eddie and Jacob kissed." She said showing a clear shock in her voice as she stopped walking and stared at me.

"No... he kissed him on his cheek," I replied and pulled her to continue walking

"I again felt jealous about that and when I went home Jacob show me his and Eddie pictures in which they were really- really close and that made me too much angry too so I ignored whatever he said and when he asked me to bring water for him my tongue slipped, and I asked him to go ask it from Eddie. And it didn't take him much time to realize that I was jealous." I continue as Krystal opened the door of the café and we both entered

We both sat on the table and I continued, "He then said that he knew that..."

"What?" she asked as she shouted

"No he didn't tell me what he knew so don't assume that he knew that I liked him. Maybe he knew that I was jealous and friends get jealous too. Don't forget that." I said and cleared her confusion

"then I taunted him about doing those things even though he knew I was jealous; he started teasing me after that and said that he is still bad at few things, when I asked what it was he replied he didn't know how to kiss and he wants to learn it from me."

"OH!" she said interrupting me and I could see her cheeks getting red maybe she was blushing by the thought

"Yes, and then he just kissed on my cheek and went away to the bed but I took the initiative and kissed him after stopping him," I replied and I could feel my cheeks turning hot too and they for sure turned red too

"Whoa man when did you become such and brave guy." She said and patted my shoulder and continued, "I'm proud of you." But it didn't take any more time when my smile to get weak by the thought of Eddie proposing to Jacob.

"Hey! What happened." She asked as she saw the smile didn't reach to my eyes as it usually does whenever I hear Jacob's name.

I told her everything I talked to Eddie about Jacob and she too went in a shock like I went when I first heard those same words. But she calmed down in a bit and said, "Don't take it that way okay; it will help you to know that whether he likes you too or not." She said and she wasn't wrong about that I nodded my head and smiled a bit as we ordered the burgers and waited for it to arrive

"But whom I will call to come to my home as my girlfriend?" I asked and took a sip of water.

"Don't forget you once had a girlfriend. Boy." She said as she smirked at me and I almost choked on my water when I heard her say those words

"Who?" I asked as I put the glass down and wiped my mouth with a tissue.

"Me! You fool didn't we dated at a time." She said and the burgers arrived

"But he knows that it was fake," I replied and looked towards her for the answer but she was busy eating

"Just tell him you fell in love with me during fake dating." She replied while chewing the burger

"Will he believe it?" I asked

"Why are you getting dumb day by day mason, why won't he believe it. He doesn't even know you like him. You still haven't proposed him and if he brings up the kiss; just tell him that you got caught in the moment. That's all." She replied to me and I didn't ask any further and ate my burger.

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It was already time to leave and Krystal was already out of the library as she wanted to leave early as she had a school gathering, I was already near the parking stand when I saw Jacob standing a few steps far from me and his back was facing me. Seeing him made my heart went crazy and it started beating at its highest speed. I put my hand on my chest and patted my chest to calm my heart down but it was all a waste.

"What are you doing?" I heard Jacob who was looking at me while I was busy caressing my chest in hope my heart will calm down

"N... nothing." I replied and he came near me and stood an inch apart and said, "Are you sure."

I nodded my head and we started walking towards our house. I felt his hand approaching mine but as soon as it touched me I flinched and stepped back and denied to hold hands. Jacob was a bit shocked but he let it go and smiled and gestured me to continue walking. We were walking quite silently, when Jacob spoke, "what are your plans for tomorrow; let's go to eat burger as we planned." He said

"Actually..." I tried to speak but my words didn't support me and I wasn't able to find a single word to start with, I opened my mouth again and again but not even a single word came out of my mouth, meanwhile Jacob was still looking at me to give him a reply. I started breathing heavily and recalled every word Krystal said and after sighing I finally spit out my words, "I wanted to tell you that tomorrow my girlfriend will come to our home." He looked at me in a shock and I avoided his eyes which were trying to look through me.

"WHAT? WHO? " he said in a tense voice.

"I'm dating Krystal and she will be coming home tomorrow as we decided to have a date but she doesn't want to go outside, so we came to the conclusion that we will spend our day at our home," I said with confidence in my voice.

"I'm so happy for you." He replied and smiled bitterly which was very obvious.

"So... I was thinking that..." I started selecting my word so that he wouldn't take my words as rude ones but before I could speak he cut me off and said, " I think I should better leave you alone tomorrow, I don't want to be a third wheel so I will go somewhere." He said and his words created a pain in my heart as I was getting more and more close to my heart getting broken. I nodded my head and didn't speak any other word and we were back to our awkward silence. I was surprised that he didn't ask me anything about 'when I started dating? Why I kissed him? Why I was jealous, if I had a girlfriend?' he just accepted the fact that I had a girlfriend without asking any question.

"Would you like to drink with me?" he asked breaking off the chain of my thoughts.

"hm." I said nodding my head and we went to a shop and bought around 10 bottles of soju and decided to drink at home as I was having a headache and if anyone of us got drunk we wouldn't be able to handle each other.

We finally reached our home, I unlocked the door and we entered the house. He placed the bottles on the table and I went to the washroom to wash my hands and he did the same after I came out. We both sat on the dining table and ate dinner without talking to each other and it was awkward as hell. I wasn't able to swallow my food as there was a huge knot in my throat which was choking my throat and my voice was not coming out of my mouth. I was suffering through a lot at that moment I was feeling like I would die at any moment. I didn't even take a chance to look at him as I was afraid that I will break into tears, it was my first time feeling like I wanted to cry on someone's shoulder not only because I was feeling sad but broken too.

Our dinner was finished and we went to the terrace and sat on the floor as he started opening the bottle. And I was stealing glances from him as I didn't want to make eye contact with him. He gave me the glass which was half-filled and took one too. He didn't say anything further and started drinking, and I just looked at him regretting what I did but I didn't want to separate Eddie and Jacob just because I love him, I don't want to separate those two who love each other.

I started sipping the drink and as it went down my throat I started relaxing, but Jacob was not relaxing at all he was drinking like if he wouldn't do that he will die. When I finished 1 bottle he already finished 4 bottles and was drinking his 5th one. His cheeks were already red and looked as pretty as the red tint on his white cheeks were looking so beautiful. I smiled looking at him and he suddenly turned towards me and looked straight into my eyes. The eye contact lasted for 2 minutes and after that I broke it and looked away.

"Mason." He said in a cracked voice and I looked at him as it was really a long time since he talked to me even though it was just 1 hour it felt like many days to me.

I looked to his face and he again spoke, "Mason I have a deep pain to share, would you listen to me?" I nodded my head and looked at his pain.

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