CHAPTER SIX
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MIXED SIGNALS-
LUNA'S POV-
After Zane confessed?
Things got weird.
Not bad weird.
Just...
Complicated weird.
We still talked.
Still laughed.
Still gisted like normal.
But now?
Everything felt different.
Because once someone tells you they like you, nothing ever feels completely normal again.
At least not for me.
I tried acting like nothing happened.
Like his confession didn't randomly replay in my head at 2 a.m.
Like Philmon wasn't still teasing me every chance he got.
"How's my in-law?" he would say with that annoying smile.
I would just hiss.
"You people need help."
Meanwhile Amelia?
That girl had no shame.
"I knew it!" she said dramatically one day.
"Knew what?"
"That Zane likes you."
I rolled my eyes.
"You literally think every guy likes me."
"No," she said, smirking. "Just the ones that stare at you like they're writing wedding vows in their head."
I almost threw my pillow at her.
Because honestly?
I didn't know what to think anymore.
Zane was nice.
Really nice.
But every time I even thought about giving him a chance-
My brain reminded me:
Girlfriend.
The same girlfriend he had broken up with and gotten back together with too many times.
And me?
I refused to be somebody's rebound.
Or somebody's "better option."
No thanks,and after I listened to her about Jake and that didn't go as planned so nope not this time
LESSONS LEARNED
LUNA'S POV-
After everything with Jake and Xavier...
I stopped taking relationship advice so seriously.
Especially from Amelia.
No offense to her.
But after I listened to her about Jake and everything crashed and burned?
Yeah.
No thanks.
Not this time.
A few days after Zane confessed, Amelia cornered me in my room.
"So..." she started with that annoying smile.
"So what?" I asked already suspicious.
"You and Zane."
I sighed immediately.
"Please don't start."
She sat beside me dramatically.
"Luna, he likes you!"
"And?"
"And you people fit!"
There she goes again.
That exact sentence.
You people fit.
Funny.
Because she said the same thing about Jake.
And look how that ended.
Disaster.
Embarrassment.
Lessons.
I turned to her.
"No offense, but after Jake? I'm not listening to relationship advice again."
She blinked.
"Ouch."
"I'm serious," I continued. "Last time I listened, it didn't exactly go as planned."
She rolled her eyes.
"Not every guy is Jake."
"Or Xavier," I added.
That shut her up for a second.
Because honestly?
I was tired.
Tired of complicated boys.
Tired of girlfriends suddenly appearing halfway through stories.
Tired of becoming the confused side character in somebody else's messy relationship.
And Zane?
He already had history.
Too much history.
Breaking up and getting back together with the same girl more times than I could count.
No.
Absolutely not.
Because all I kept thinking was-
If he can leave her this many times and still go back... what happens if I enter the picture?
What if one day he leaves me too?
Comes back.
Leaves again.
Comes back again.
No.
That type of relationship would stress me out.
And me?
Once I break up with someone?
That's it.
Finished.
No season 2.
No reunion episode.
No "let's try again."
So when Zane tried bringing it up again, I told him the truth.
"Zane, I'm not interested in being part of whatever is going on between you and your girlfriend."
He looked hurt.
"But I really like you."
I sighed.
"Maybe. But if you really cared about her, stop hurting her feelings. Figure your situation out."
Silence.
Then he asked quietly-
"So there's no chance?"
I looked at him for a second.
Then answered honestly.
"Not like this."
Because maybe he was nice.
Maybe he even meant what he said.
But I had learned something the hard way-
Sometimes liking someone isn't enough.
Timing matters.
Honesty matters.
Peace matters too.
And for once?
I was choosing peace.
Later, Zane became distant we hardly talked any more, no hi,hello,when we meet face to face, no chat up or calls, I am even the one that talks to him, greet him, start the conversation that always ends short,so I gave up on that, on him, just for 3 months later he started talking to me out of the bloom, he see me, he smiles, run to me hugs me, something was fishy as heck, oh I was right.
How, I got to know that his girlfriend broke up with him because she found him kissing another girl, no wonder he was all over me.
Later he asks me out,and I was like na, gave my usual excuse, of I don't want to date
TO BE CONTINUED SOON
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