Reason 5: I Like Her (End)

"Class dismissed," Ma'am Dominguez said as she arranged her things to leave the classroom.

Everyone stood up to greet her out.

"Goodbye and thank you, Ma'am Dominguez! God be with you!" We bid our goodbye to our pregnant Accounting teacher. The baby's due in September, and it's a boy!

"Alright, guys! What should we talk about? We have three hours of vacant time right now. I don't want to be bored," Kim appeared next to our table just to gossip.

"Let's talk about Rae's crush!" Yuri suggested, so I immediately blushed without warning.

Shut up, Yuri! The very topic will be my tablemate! I don't have plans of confessing!

"Oh, yes! Ayiie~ I've heard from your circle that you've got a crush from our class. So, who's the unfortunate boy, Rae?" Cia asked, my seatmate for this grading period, and Blessie's BEST FRIEND.

Oh my gosh!

I might get fried at this rate.

I need to do something!

"Come on, tell us Rae. We're curious," and the whole room suddenly got a bit hotter for me.

The ice queen just freaking asked!

How can I tell who my crush is, if that person is you?!

"Alright, how about this? You can whisper the name to me, Rae, and I can whisper it to the others. So we'll be the only ones in the know. Promise!" Yuri suggested.

Will I really be caught here? I think there's something crawling around my stomach due to me being nervous.

My will is not really that hard to break, so under her persuasion, I can only submit. And besides, she leaned closer to me so that I can whisper it to her ear.

I gulped a lot of saliva to lessen my nervousness.

"Oh my, Rae, hurry up. I'm more curious now at your hesitation," she stated.

"It's Blessie," I whispered fast before I closed my eyes hard. I don't wanna see her reaction because of my embarrassment.

"Oooooooo," she nodded, as if understanding my feelings and situation. She even looked at me with a pitying gaze. Why are you looking at me like that?!

"Who did she say, Yuri? Who?" The ice queen asked, becoming a gossiper. Awts. I'll tell ya later, babe.

Kidding.

Yuri looked at me before I reluctantly gave my permission. My heart beat is really out of bounds at this point. Wooh! It's the hot seat.

Yuri whispered to Sophia who sat next to her who got obviously shocked with the revelation. Sophia then whispered to Kim, while I whispered to Cia, who sat by my right. We're sitting in a circle, so the ice queen gossiper is the only one who did not know.

Cia's eyes got wide when I told her. She smiled meaningfully, as if she'll leave the circle we created just so I can sit beside Blessie.

"Should we tell Blessie, Rae?" Sophia asked with worry.

She's really shocked with what she found out, I guess.

"Don't. It's my secret," I answered as I smiled helplessly.

"Come on, Rae. Tell me! Why do you act as if we did not have some friendship?" and the ice queen tried to use her sulking and complaining voice.

I giggled a little before I rose from my seat and acted as if I'm walking out of the room. I really need to get away from her cuteness.

But when I walked by her seat, she pulled me by the arm, and my head tilted near her ears.

I swear, I heard someone squeal.

"Do you really want to know?" We're the only ones who can hear because I whispered.

"Don't act around me, woman. Just tell me. So you're really keeping secrets from me? I'll sulk."

Oh my! She pouted! She actually pouted, everyone!

She's really cute. I wonder how her lips would feel. So she'll sulk if I don't tell her?

"My crush is.... you," and I blushed while going back to my seat. The others thought that I gave a different me to Blessie, but, they're wrong.

"Who did she say is her crush, Blessie?" Kim asked, with some glint in her eyes.

I swear, I saw her eyes shine suspiciously!

"Me," she softly said, with shock in her voice.

"Oh my! Are you serious, Rae? You actually told her?! You're fearless! Idol!" Sophia praised.

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"Was that a joke, Rae?"

It felt like heaven and earth fell on top of me. It was really hard to control my expression. I smiled brightly even though m insides felt like thousands of knives pierced my heart.

" A-ahmm, yes. I-it was only a joke, Blessie. Why would I even have a crush on you? You're not pretty at all," I poisonously said and laughed hard.

Shocks.

As expected. I should not have hopes.

"Ugly?! With a face like this?!" Oh. She's mad.

I looked bored as I looked at her, trying hard to conceal the pain I'm feeling every single second I'm here right now.

"Uhmm, yeah? That day after your birthday, when you sent me a photo of you, you look weird. Was that even human? It felt like I saw a ghost with a chaotic mess of a hair," I teased to cover up the repeated death of my heart.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're not ugly at all. You're cute. You're pretty. You're perfect. I love that photo. I'm using it as the wallpaper of my laptop (which I did not let Lisa borrow after the summer break).

But I also have to pick myself up from this ambiguous rejection. And the only way for this to happen is for me to stand tall and proud, and to act as if that confession never happened.

In that way, I can save myself from both the humiliation and disappointment.

"Alright, stop teasing Blessie, Rae. So that was just a joke? Come on now, Rae. Tell us the rel one this time, jokes aside," Yuri asked one more time after the heat of the joke (my confession) subsided.

But Cia got my attention. The look in her eyes told me that she knew I was lying. I'm not a good liar after all. My act will never convince the real good liar of the class.

"I don't have a crush, Yuri. Come on, I have high standards. I don't do crushes rashly."

You're a big idiot, Rae. You can even hide your true feelings using sarcasm. Truly a big improvement from the influence of your big bad classmates. But it looks like they believed it except for the best friend. I think I do have the talent for acting.

If only my heart isn't broken this much just to realize that.

"You're expecting, Blessie? As if I'd give up on my heart for you. Duh~ a lot of boys will cry if they loose to you. You can't even reach my level of beauty," I said and rolled my eyes.

Our classmates clapped due to my performance. This level of narcissism is a really good cover.

"We really believed you earlier, Rae. Are you going to join the Drama Club of the school that's why you're practicing your skills on us?" Sophia raised an eyebrow at me when she thought about my reason.

I've thought about joining that club, but I need to heal my wounded heart first before I can properly function, Sophia.

There's only five reasons as to why I loved a person like her.

First, I was fascinated with her tantalizing smiles.

Second, she is a very talented person.

Third, she shows great spirit that she can overcome any obstacles that come her way.

Fourth, she's not good in handling money.

And fifth, I love her. I love her. I lover her.

I get crazy whenever I observe the photo she sent me in the chat during her birthday. I lied when I said that she's ugly. She actually looked like a goddess for me!

Add that to the fact that she's in her casual wear! She really don't know what I did just to get that cute photo off my mind! I almost didn't get a wink of sleep that night because it's so hot! It's turning me on! I'm like an idiot smiling because of the photo.

She's so adorable! I love her. I love her. I love her.

And I knew that I already have no way of escaping her poison-filled trap.