Chapter 20 (2D)

Ten months passed by in the blink of an eye. With Gabriel, everything felt nice and he always gave me one thing to look up to. Even if it was his narcissism, our often lunch meetings or the way he always called me love, I started liking everything about him. My feelings for Gabriel started overshadowing what I felt for Ethan. Ethan protected me, he was always there when I needed someone by my side, so maybe I did not love him, maybe I liked his protection. But with Gabriel it was different, he was there even when I did not need him to be there, always irritating me, sometimes managing to make me blush and the other times he was a real pain in the a**. I was getting used to his company. He was becoming my habit, a drug I wanted to have around me all the time to make me feel alive.

In the third month of our meeting, my results were out and I passed with a 91 percentile stamped on my result card. I came second in the whole high-school and Ethan came first. I joined a business under-grad