CHAPTER 46: THE PAST

VINCENT’S POV

“V, I have something to tell you,” Monica, one of my classmates and my childhood best friend, said while we were sitting on a bench under an apple tree in our secret place.

I looked at her as I fixed my eyeglasses. “Huh?”

“What is it?”

She hesitated to speak at first, but then she took a deep breath and looked at me. “I-I think. I think, I like—”

“H-Huh?”

“I think I like Lance,” she almost mumbled, her cheeks turning pinkish which made her look even cuter.

I wasn’t able to speak at first because of what she just confessed. Monica was my first love, and the only girl that I loved since we were just kids. I had been loving her secretly and I thought she was in love with me too but—

I forced a smile on my face. “R-Really? Then why don’t you tell it him?”

“Y-You know I can’t tell him that.”

“And why not?”

“B-Because I don’t think he likes me. I-I think he likes someone else,” she said, tears already filling her eyes.

I looked down. Then why don’t you just love me instead?

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