Chapter 62: Confession

"And then?"

Bree stood up and strained to reach for my hair. "Come on, when I remove all your hair on your head, you're annoying!" She sat down again.
I fixed my messy hair. "You're still pretending that you're not in love with him."
Bree's eyes widened at me. "You're as much as you know, will you guess?"

"I just notice. It's like a story in the book, enemy to lover." She was trying to hurt me.
I smiled meaningfully. "Of course he's here tomorrow."

"Who, Alexander?" while frowning.

"Yes."

"How come he's here tomorrow? An outsider can't be here at our school. "

I smiled even more. "Don't you know that ma'am said Alexander can come because he has become a part of our school as an exchange student?"

She couldn't believe it as she looked at me. "Why didn't I know that?"

"I asked, ma'am, when you weren't with me."

"It's you who did it, so maybe ma'am said it could be because you asked." It even made her eyes glaze over.
"Nah, I just asked, and then that's ma'am's answer."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes." The school bell rang again for the students to re-enter the classroom.
"Let's go in," I said to Bree. They went to the classroom together.
Meanwhile, when Daniella came home, someone called her. "Hello, Alexander!"
"Why?" was its answer on the other line.
"You want to partner with the color that Bree will wear, don't you?"

"Yes."

"Her gown is red, so you still have time to find a red tuxedo, or maybe you already have it in your closet."

"I already have a red tuxedo, so that's good."

"Why did I even ask the CEO’s son?" I whispered.
"What's that?"

"Ah, no, that's all I'm going to say. Bye! " And I dropped the call. "The hard part of what I'm doing is when those two really don't get together, they both get a slap from my palm."

Alexa first stopped writing when Lexie arrived. She set aside the book and the pen first. Lexie saw it. "You're writing about it right there in the book. You know you haven't fully recovered when your strength returns. "

She smiled and adjusted the back of the bed. "It's okay, I'm just bored here."

"You can go home the next day," she cheerfully stated.

"Yes." Lexie was about to sit next to Alexa's bed when the door suddenly opened, and Jack and Glen entered.
Alexa and Jack stared at each other for a few seconds. "That's enough to stare at," Glen exclaimed abruptly. The two avoided each other's gaze.
Alexa approached Lexie. "Who are they?"

Lexie looked at the two and motioned to sit in the chair near Alexa's bed. "Glen was our batchmate in college." At the same time, she pointed at Glen, who was wearing a red shirt.
"Who's next to him?"

Lexie and Jack looked at each other first. "Don't you know him?"

She stared at it intently, but she could not remember who. "I don't remember him."

Jack's face would look sad because the person he loved did not recognize him.

"He was Jack, our classmate when we were in high school."

"Jack?"

"The one who always teases you."

Alexa thought about what had happened when they were still in high school, and she could only see blurry images. "You used to call him "Mushroom" because he always shows up whenever Ryan is around. "

"Mushroom?" She suddenly remembered the notebook with a piece of paper with mushrooms written on it and words that had been deliberately erased with ballpoint ink.

She looked at Jack. "If you still remember, were you the one who put a piece of paper in my notebook then?"

Jack smiled at her question. "Yes, it's me."

"If you don't mind, why are you here and what do you need?"

Glen and Lexie looked at each other. "I need to go out for a while. Will you come?" Lexie asked Glen.
"Oh yes, I'm hungry too. Just stay here, Jack; we'll just leave for a while."

The two went out and were still quiet inside the room. Jack stood up and moved a chair so it was closer to Alexa.
"I don't know how to begin."

"What kind of wind is blowing at you here? If you tease me, it's too much, and if I don't tease you, you won't stop. "

Jack laughed slightly. "I'll admit I really meant that."

"Why?"

Jack held Alexa's hand, but Alexa avoided it. Jack showed a small smile, painfully. "Because I have a reason why I treated you like that back then."

"And what's your reason?"

"Because Ryan was the one you always noticed back then, even though the one next to you was the one who really admired you."

Alexa just listened to Jack and didn't speak first. "You didn't notice me even though what I was showing you was obvious. Lexie noticed that, but why didn't you? So what I did was by teasing you so you would notice me even if you were really mad at me. "

"What do your words mean now?"

"I was the one who really felt something for you at that time, not Ryan. You like him, and I like you, so I made a way for you not to just talk to him or cross paths with him at school. "

"Meaning..."

"Yes, I love you, Alexa, but you're numb. You can't see the effort I'm making because you prefer to pay attention to someone who didn't care about you from the beginning, but I haven't said how my heart felt before. You left after graduation because I was afraid that you wouldn't accept me or would just laugh at me because that's how you know me. I'm joking, not serious, and you've always been teased. "

"I did not mean..."

"That's what—that you didn't notice. I know that, Alexa; you also mentioned something about the paper stuck in the notebook. You saw a word that was deliberately erased, didn't you? "
She nodded. "That's the word I was supposed to say after graduation, but I didn't say it."

"Then what's the word written on the paper you erased?"