chapter 31

I shake my head in denial, this couldn’t be like this, we were best friends, we were supposed to be best friends nothing more.

“Cassie, please listen to me, it was stupid of me to break it to you like this, but I really love you”, he tells genuinely.

For a matter of second I saw the love in his eyes, the care he took of me when I needed most, how was he my shoulder to cry on and my brothers best friend since our childhood. But do I love him? Can I give him myself in any romantic way is a big no to me. But why? Because he was a fuckboy, who used to have so many flings and all? Yes but no! Yes, because he might lose interest in me as he lost in other women. No, because what am seeing in his eyes is what I have never seen there in my whole life. Growing up with him I was this sure that the feelings he is expressing is not lie and it is terrifying me.

“sorry Justin”, I tell him truthfully. “I can’t return your feelings”, I tell as I dig my fingers in my hair due to frustration.

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