Chapter V

I overslept the following morning. I couldn’t have felt more miserable when I knew that I had missed all the fun and laughter in Youth Group.

Worst of all, it was the last Sunday to submit the consent forms for the coming Mission Trip to Malaysia. All my friends at church had signed up and that trip would be all they were going to talk about for the coming weeks.

I groaned to turned on the radio to full blast. It was terrible enough sitting at home on a rainy Sunday morning, knowing that my friends were having a whole lot of fun at Youth Group.
To top it all off, I still had to study. And I wasn’t exactly looking forward to my exams the next week. I made myself a quick breakfast, popped some peppermint sweets into my mouth and returned to my bedroom to study.

After my lunch, I gave myself a short mental break from simple and compound interest and recurring decimals. Logging to MSN Messenger, Jamie, my church friend, popped up to chat.

This is a short extract from our lengthy conversation:

Jamie: Uh, hey?
Ariel : Yo…
Jamie: U din cum for YG today
Ariel : Yup… I overslept :’(
Jamie: Aw… dun feel too bad. It wasn’t tt gr8 todae
Ariel : Wasn’t gr8? Y?
Jamie: d gal in charge of collecting the consent forms din cum… N the speaker was so boring!
Ariel : heh. Hu was the speaker?
Jamie: AARGH!!! He’s a foreigner, his accent is OMG
Ariel : hehx
Jamie: Oh ya. Btw I 4got to tell ya sth
Ariel : Wat izzit
Jamie: U wun blif dis, man!
Ariel : wat? TELL ME… PLZ PLZ PLZ
Jamie: U noe d drummer hu always practices wif us?
Ariel : danny? Ya, y?
Jamie: he told us tt he lyks u
Ariel : OMG
Jamie: OMG
Ariel : …You gotta b kiddin
Jamie: OMG, no I’m not
Ariel : haizz… haizz…

I was shaken after the conversation with Jamie. It seemed impossible that Danny liked me… Well, I had treated him as a very good friend only!

Sure, he was nice and caring towards me and the others used to tease both of us, but… somehow…

Hopefully, Jamie was joking. I had enough on my overloaded brain with the pending exams, Gerard and my friendship problems. I slumped down in my chair and held my head with my hands.

Glancing at the screen, I had received a series of ‘nudges’ from Jamie and ‘R U ok?”. I typed ‘Yup, dun worry.’. And decided to forget all my crazy crushes.

That was, until the exams were over.