"I have a bad news.."

"Just say news, it's always bad." I said to my best friend Yui.

"Well, Emi please don't get mad."

"What did you do..?" from her looks I really am not gonna like her answer.

"At canteen I kinda spilled that you have crush on Aaron."

"Whaaat...what...how.....why..."

"I guess many people heard that and by now maybe everyone knows that you have a crush on Aaron."

Hearing her say that I felt like there is no energy left in by body, "How did you manage to do that." I said shaking my head.

"I mean what else I can expect from you." I said lifelessly sitting on a library chair.

Never trust your best friend to keep a secret. I repeat never ever.

"I am dead. Maybe I should transfer from this school... Yes that's a good idea I should transfer from this school."

"Emi I'm really sorry."

"Do you think Aaron heard that too..? What would he think of me now.."

"Don't worry I will just say that I was joking around. Maybe that would fix things."

"I don't know anything anyone."I said as I thought about the time I fall for him.

My family had just transferred to WinterFalls so I didn't knew anybody. It was my first day of school, I was on the school bus listening to music and looking out from the window when a guy with black hair color and eyes light green came and asked

"Can I sit here?"

"Um.. Yes.." I replied a little puzzled.

"I'm Aaron. Haven't seen you here before..?" He said smiling.

"Yes.. I'm new..Emily...Um..Call me Emi." Yes it was that smile.

He was the first person to be my friend. We talked about music all the way and we both were surprised at how similar our taste were.

By the time we reached school. We were totally buddies. Because of him I was over any first day nervousness.

But the most embarrassing part is when I stood up to go out of bus, there was a jerk and I fall on his lap and he was holding me by my stomach. I can only imagine how flustered I must have looked then. Without looking at him, I said sorry and thank you at the same time and got out of bus.

It has been two years since then, we are now in our senior year. But I was never able to tell him how I felt about him. I don't understand why it is so hard to be upfront about your own feelings. It's not like I have not tried to tell him before, there was this one time when I wrote all my feelings in the lyrics of a song that I gave to him. But he is just too dense and now because of Yui, not only him but whole school knows about my feelings.

My name is Emily Collins and the guy I'm talking about is Aaron Cooper. He is the Rockstar of our school. The most popular guy. He has all the qualities that can make a girl swoon over him.

And me, I'm not only a fan girl but also his friend. Me being a nerd I don't know how I end up being part of the most popular group of the school. I have helped him with many of his songs and academics. So at least I'm an important member of the group.

While walking from library to my class-room I felt everyone's eyes on me. My ears started buzzing, oh God please make me invisible.

"Are you alright? You look a little pale."

Is she serious "Of course I'm not alright. Nothing is alright. What makes you think that I'll be alright after what you have done." I hissed, glaring at her.

"Maybe you should go to the sick room."

If I could just kill someone now.. But that actually is a good idea.

"Yep, I'm feeling a little nauseated."

I was sitting on the bed of sick room after taking the pill miss Alonso gave me. Wracking my brain for something that will take me out of this situation.

Me, who was always full of ideas was out of ideas right now. I had never felt this restless before. I think, I need some time to think things through. The school will be over after few hours from now, maybe I can avoid everyone till then. And maybe everyone will forget about it by tomorrow.

Thinking about it I need to distract everyone from this issue by creating an even bigger issue.

I was pretending to be sick while waiting for the school to be over, when I heard a "thad" sound, miss Alonso had gone somewhere so I walked out in the corridor.

A girl was carrying too many books and had dropped some, so I helped. When I got back from library I saw Aaron was talking to miss Alonso. I quickly hid myself and tried to eavesdrop on their conversation.

"She was just here, I don't know where she is now."

"Thank you miss Alonso."

After Aaron was gone, I slipped into the sick room while miss Alonso was not looking.

When she asked I lied saying I was in Washroom.

Things were pretty much peaceful afterwards till Peter one of my close friend came.

"Emi, I heard from Yui that you are here. What happened..? Are you alright..?"

He looks really concerned.

"Yeah, don't worry I'm feeling better than before."

"So what happened?"

He doesn't look convinced.

"I just had this headache and was feeling a little nauseated but I'll be fine. You go to your class." I said with a smile on my face.

"Hey.. Um.. Have you heard about the canteen incident."

"Wh..what.?"

"If you haven't. It's just Yui, she made such a mess but don't worry about it. Everyone knows how she is and she also made it pretty clear that it was a joke."

"Uh..Thanks for telling me, let's talk later okay.? I'm feeling a little sleepy."

"haha, alright. You take care okay.."

With that he was gone. I guess maybe things are not as bad as I thought.

After school I was at parking lot most of the students were gone. I had also told Yui to go because she would have just made a scene by saying sorry to me too many times.

I felt like ninja, hiding from everyone and completing my mission of getting out of school.

I took out my bicycle and was about to go when suddenly I heard someone calling me,

"Emi WAIT."

Oh Lord! It's Daniel, Aaron's friend. If he is here then Aaron must be close by. I need to get out of here quickly, I'm just not ready to face him yet.

"Hi Dan." I tried to behave like nothing had happened.

"Have you talked to Aaron yet?" he asked.

"No..Is something wrong?" just act innocent girl.

"He was looking for you, just wait here he will be here in a minute."

"Dan I don't feel good so we will talk later okay..? See ya tomorrow." I didn't wait to hear his reply. I was outta there in a minute.

I didn't really wanted to go back home yet. There was so much in my mind so I decided to take the long way past my favorite coffee shop. Which is my favorite place and it never cease to make me feel relaxed.

I instantly regretted my decision when I spotted the tall figure leaning casually against the side of the coffee shop.

Wearing jeans and a black leather jacket over a gray T-shirt, Aaron appeared to be waiting for someone - and I didn't need three guesses to figure out whom.

As I drew near him. My stomach starts to flutter. He always makes me feel things that I never knew existed. Every other thing becomes blurry in front of him. How does he do that?

More importantly, what did he want? I was tempted to ride past him, but he was already waving at me.

"How did you know I would be here?"

"You always come here, whenever you are in a bad mood." It's unbelievable how well we know each other.

"What do you want to talk about? I kinda am in a hurry and, if you are gonna talk about what happened at canteen. You already know how Yui is, she has this habit of exaggerating things and, half of the time she talks rubbish" I started blabbering.

"Emi, Em take a breather. Before saying anything can you hear me out first?" He sounded sincere and I should hear what he had to say; It's not like I could say no to him.

"Okay."

"Is there somewhere we can talk privately?"

I thought for a moment.

"We can go down this way there is a park. That's usually pretty empty this time of day."

"That will work." he told me.

I wondered if he felt as awkward as I did. No, guys like him probably never feel uncomfortable. His every movement emanated confidence, and he had the added advantage of size. At five-four, I felt dwarfed by him as we walked side by side.

He was silent until there were only us too. His face gave nothing away. I wheeled my bicycle around the corner of the park.

As I thought there were only few people around and they were far away from us.

Aaron walked towards me, stopping a few feet away so he was facing me.