
The next day, when Josh visited Aaron at his house, his best friend greeted him with a lethargic face.
"Hey friend, what's wrong with you?!" as he followed his best friend into the living room, Aaron threw his body onto the sofa.
"I was rejected,"
"Rejected?!" Josh looked at his best friend with a face of disbelief, Aaron nodding softly, "Why?! I mean what's the reason? Your face is quite attractive, some girls are even queuing up to be your girlfriend!"
"Alicia had bad memories in her childhood, I don't know what they were, she didn't want to tell me, but those memories seemed to affect her a lot! To make him avoid a relationship with others," said Aaron limp.
"Memories of childhood?" Josh seemed to think, "My best friend Alice also has bad memories as a child!" Josh recalls his childhood.
"Josh, why does my heart hurt so much?!" aaron's words make Josh realize from his daydream.
"It's not strange if you always get whatever you want! The first time you face rejection will certainly hurt your self-esteem! Relax friend!" Josh patted his best friend's shoulder, "What if we go for a walk?" persuade, "Come on!" Josh pulls his lazy-looking best friend.
***
On a sunny Monday morning, Josh had just arrived on campus when he saw Alicia get off the bus, Josh was waiting for the girl at the campus gate.
"Allen!" as the girl passed by, Alicia looked surprised to see Josh.
"Josh?? Are you waiting for Aaron?" Alicia watched all who passed through the gates of her campus.
"I'm waiting for you!" Alicia turned her face when she heard Josh.
"Me?" tanyanya was confused while pointing at herself, Josh nodded, then walked over to Alicia.
"Can I talk to you somewhere else?" josh asked as he looked at the girl before him, Alicia nodded softly, Josh pulled the girl's hand and led her away from the campus gate, at the same time Gwen and the newly arrived Aaron looked at it with annoyance.
Meanwhile, Josh seems to take Alicia to a place not far from the basketball court.
"Josh, what's wrong?" alicia asked confusedly as Josh let go of her hand.
"Tell me, what's your reason for rejecting Aaron?!" Josh looked at Alicia with a cold face.
"I explained it to Aaron,"
"Your excuse can only be used to lie to a child!!" yelling Josh, Alicia was surprised to see Josh's angry-looking face.
"But what I said is true!" alicia defended herself.
"Certainly?!" Josh approaches the girl, "Is flirting with a guy and hurting him fun for you?!" yosh snapped while catching Alicia's hands.
"Josh, you're hurting me!" alicia groaned as she tried to let go of her hand held tightly by Josh.
"I've known Aaron long enough, he.. A little stupid but never hurt anyone!"
"I didn't mean to hurt her at all!!" Alicia pulled her hand, "You two better get away from me!" sahut Alicia softly, turned her body and stepped away from Josh.
"I'm not done with you!" Josh pulls Alicia's bag, the bag falls off and makes some of the things inside scatter on the floor, Alicia puts her belongings back in, looking at Josh with a sad face then running away from the place, "Why is he looking at me like that?!" Josh saw Alicia's departure looking sad, as she was about to leave the place, something lying on the floor caught his attention, Josh picked up the thing and looked at it for quite a while.
In the classroom, Alicia approached the empty chair beside Gwen with a sad face, Gwen who was still upset to see Alicia's closeness to Josh at the campus gate, trying to stay away from her best friend.
"Gwen, I lost my ballpoint pen, can I borrow one of your pens?" alicia asked her best friend, but Gwen just kept quiet, "Gwen??" Alicia looked at Gwen with a pleading face.
"Stay away from me! I don't have friends like you! Who betrayed his own best friend!" sahut Gwen with an angry face.
"Gwen?? Did I do something that made you angry?" asked Alicia again, not understanding the attitude of her best friend who was suddenly angry with her.
"You know that I like Josh, but what have I seen this morning?! You and Josh left the campus gate hand in hand! Isn't this the same as stabbing me in the back?!" Gwen looked at Alicia.
"Maybe you can fool others with your words! But Aaron and I saw this very clearly,"
"What?!" Alicia glanced at Aaron who was in the back seat, Aaron looking away from her, "It's really not what you guys think!" Alicia sighed.
"Yours?" the voice of a man made Alicia raise her face, looking Josh standing before her, while thrusting something that was in her hands.
"My lady," Alicia picked up the thing quickly.
"That thing.."
"From a good friend of mine," Alicia looked at the bracelet she was in her grasp, "I was afraid of making it break, because of that.. I never wear it" whispered Alicia softly.
"I found it! I managed to find you, Alicia," whispered Josh happily, "Here!" Josh placed a ballpoint pen on Alicia's desk, "I happen to be carrying two today, that's for you!" alicia looked at Josh with a confused face.
"What's wrong with her? Why is his attitude always changing?"
"Sorry to have scolded you" Josh stroked the girl's head which he had made sad this morning.
"Eh," Alicia was getting confused, Josh smiled gently.
"I went to my chair first," after saying that, Josh left Alicia who still looked confused, stepping into his chair.
"Areally not what I thought?!" said Gwen cynically, Alicia looked down lethargic.
"Why not tell me that you like it too?!" Aaron looked at his best friend who threw his bag at an empty table beside him.
"You mean Alicia?!" Josh sat down next to Aaron.
"Is there another girl?!" said Aaron upset, Josh glanced at his best friend.
"Sorry,"
"Is that all you can say after betraying your best friend?!"
"But I'm always honest with you! I never liked him! Until this morning.. This morning I just found out that she is Alicia! My little friend, the girl I've been looking for, she's my first love,"
"Is this just your excuse for me to accept your betrayal?!"
"Alicia still has the gift I gave her!" josh denied, "Didn't I ever tell you that I once gave her a bracelet I made myself right on the day of her departure from my school?! He still has that bracelet!" josh said, Aaron looked at Josh, trying to digest all the words of his best friend.
"So, that girl is really Alicia?" he asked, Josh nods, Aaron sighed, "That's it! I give up on you, man!" Aaron patted his best friend's shoulder, "You've loved it for eleven years! This feeling of mine compared to your long wait is nothing,"
"Sorry," Josh looked at his best friend, Aaron smiling.
"No need to apologize to me! Alicia this.. You like it before me, I'm the one who's guilty of you, man!"
"But I have disappointed you as your best friend" Aaron shook his head at the words of his best friend.
"All this time, whoever I like you have always supported me, after all our friendship has been many years, and you have always been by my side as a good friend, just a girl? I'm ready to release it for you," Aaron smiled sincerely.
"Thank you" Josh hit his best friend's arm, Aaron chuckled.
"What about Alicia? Did he know about you?" Aaron looked at his best friend, Josh shook his head.
"He doesn't know it yet" whispered Josh, telling Aaron everything that happened this morning.
"You're mad at him?!" shouted Aaron, a marker drifting into his head, Aaron turned his face forward, The Professor giving the lecture today looked at him with an annoyed face, "Sorry Professor," Aaron laughed awkwardly, saying, Josh smiled at the face of his best friend, "All because of you!" aaron whispered as he stroked his painful head.