At school, parsley and Lawrence walked straight to the cafeteria counter to make their orders, as they carried their trays to a table. Mama wondered why parsley and Lawrence were hanging out not as friends but as something else.
Lawrence and parsley sat at the same table as they laughed over something, opposite them was Ryan and his gang, they all stared at Lawrence and parsley, Ryan felt jealousy rushing through his veins again and again, his face began to flush and he began to squeeze the smoothie cup untill it folded. Nathan turned and saw how angry Ryan was so he tried talking to him to calm him down, but before he could say anything, Ryan yanked up off his chair and walked out of the cafeteria in vexation.
Just then, lezzie came up to the table in which Lawrence and parsley sat. she had a new look, she plaited her red hair backward and was putting on a dangling earrings.
She smiled cheerfully as she sat down on the same table with them.
"Hi lezzie"
Parsley greeted.
"hi" lezzie returned back her greetings.
Just then, Lawrence phone beeped, he took it up.
"Oh, a message from my mum" he said.
"I would be back, twinkle"
He said as he pecked her and exists.
Lezzie was so surprised and speechless.
"twinkle?" she asked. "like a pet name, for you?"
Parsley smiled.
"wow, how come?"
She asked, her voice being shocked and disappointed.
"what?" parsley asked, not getting her well at first.
"I mean, you guys look really adorable together" she said almost squeaking.
Parsley was at the school hallway still sipping her smoothie, she dumped the cup into the dumpster, as she turned to proceed to class. The lessons had begun and she was the only one at the hallway. She suddenly jammed Ryan, who stood before her interrupting her to pass.
"oh sorry" she apologized, not wanting to make the discussion long, as she step aside to go to class.
"wait!" Ryan snapped.
Parsley froze, but didn't want to turn, Ryan slowly walked towardher and stood beside her.
"did, I hurt you?" he asked really concerned, and trying really hard to figure out his fault.
"no" she quickly said, not looking up at him and walked away again.
Ryan felt weak at his knees as his eyes began to burn and hot tears slipped out down to his cheeks.
After school, lezzie and parsley strolled around.
"are you mad at Ryan?"
Lezzie asked, raising up the topic suddenly. Parsley sighed but didn't give an answer.
"parsley…" lezzie called.
"alright, alright, I - - -, I am afraid.
"of what?"
"I am afraid that I might take away Ryan from you" parsley said, but turned when she noticed that lezzie wasn't walking with her anymore.
"Ryan! Take---, take Ryan from me" lezzie sneered.
"yeah, you guys are in a relationship so…"
"what the heck?"
Lezzie snapped parsley was really confused.
"am not dating Ryan, neither his he dating me also" she continued.
Lezzie cleared that out.
Parsley was filled with surprises.
"but… ,but I thought" she said, running out of words to say.
"seriously, you broke a long time record, no body have ever made Ryan cry before…"
Lezzie said, before parsley cut in asking a question.
"how long do you know him?"
"it doesn't matter, but I want you to be aware, he is seriously crying"
"crying?"
"yeah, his in class right now"
Lezzie alerted.
"can… can I go met him?"
"are you still gonna go because you are already wasting a pound of time"
Lezzie sneered.
Parsley chuckled, as she ran off, leaving lezzie standing alone. She shrugged as she felt pretty good of herself and hoped away.
Parsley slowly opened the class room door. She didn't see anyone in the class, as she looked around she finally saw him at the back bench, drawing something in a paper. As she came closer, she noticed that Ryan was crying, tears kept flowing down his cheeks without him knowing. Parsley felt totally sad for bringing a guy down. She came closer, but Ryan didn't notice her. She looked at what he was drawing- it was her name, he designed- parsley didn't know how to start the conversation, just then she snatched the paper from the table. Ryan immediately looked up, but he bent his head down to his palm when he saw it was parsley, he wiped his tears stylishly and stood up facing parsley, putting his hands at his waist. He tried saying something but his choked words couldn't come out from his mouth.
Parsley didn't know what to say but she had to say something.
"I am…, I am sorry"
Parsley started.
Ryan nodded trying to say something, but later, let it out.
"I know I have a lot of nasty characters, but I didn't know that one of my nastiness would hurt you" Ryan said, almost about to cry again.
"you didn't hurt me"
Ryan didn't hear whatever she said, he just continued
"I didn't even know what I was thinking, i…, I, am just sorry, so… so… sorry" "no, I am meant to be the one sorry, ryan" parsley said,
"you know, I haven't known you for long, but, it feels like I have known you for years, I feel a special connection to you Ryan" she said , with a soft voice. Ryan didn't know when tears escaped from his eyes , he simply didn't know what to say. "I feel the same" he managed to say. As he hugged her tightly for a long time.
"my driver would be waiting" Parsley alerted, as Ryan let her go.
"am sorry, I just got emotional there" parsley gave him a smile and his face lightened. She pecked him at his cheeks and left the class with her bag pack.
After some while she came back.
"I am keeping the paper" she said as she left again.
Ryan smiled and nodded his head.
On a Saturday afternoon, lezzie was in parsley's house sitted on the couch while parsley was at the kitchen making a sand witch.
"trust me, your home is ama….zing" lezzie squeed.
Parsley smiled, but didn't say anything as she continued with what she was doing. Just then, micheal came down and saw lezzie. Parsley looked up and saw her father, fear grabbed her immediately.
"dad… da…dad?" she quivered "I thought, you were out"
Micheal glanced at her, he didn't want to get mad at his daughter again, he didn't want to loose his temper. He swallowed in and gave her a fake smile.
"yeah, I want to go out now, I would be back late so take care of the house" he said, as he gave her a kiss on her fore head.
Parsley was really surprised and she smiled faintly back.
Micheal left the house.
"wow!, your dad is not that bad" lezzie commented
"yeah, I wonder why, he is just feeling scared that if I have friends that I would be in trouble or in a life mess" parsley sighed, and went back to her sand witch.
After a while the doorbell rang.
Parsley wasn't expecting any visitor that afternoon.
"please, help me with the door" parsley begged lezzie who was not so far from the door.
"gal, you do know how comfy I am now on this couch" lezzie snapped as she closed her eyes.
Parsley sighed, and left the kitchen to the door. She opened it and looked up to see Lawrence, with a bunch of red flower, he smiled at her.
"awwwuh…" she squeaked as she took it and gave him a peck.
"come in" she said, as she entered back into the living room and kept the flowers into an empty vase. Lawrence sat down, just to turn, he saw lezzie, who felt so relaxed, an ear phone against her as she nodded to the music.
"this song is sick!" she said, as she opened her eyes. She was shocked when she saw Lawrence. they exchanged glances without saying anything. Just then, parsley came to the living room with a plate of sandwich. So she kept it on the table.
"lawsy, you need some sandwich?" she asked sweetly.
"yeah, but I think I would make some instead, I am gonna hit the road now" he said as if he was in haste or afraid of something.
"but…, you just came…"
"don't worry,, twinkle, I would see you in school" Lawrence kissed her hands and quickly walked out of the house. Parsley was really confused, she turned to lezzie but she just shrugged. Parsley sat softly on one of the couch and starred into thin air .
"I don't understand my life"
Parsley said to herself, nearly a whisper but lezzie heard what she said. lezzie let out a deep sigh. And walked up to parsley and sat beside really close to her.
"parsley?" she called, parsley turned her face to her.
"don't you think that, you are in a big mess?" lezzie asked her.
" a big mess?"
"yeah, don't you think you are kindda caught in a love triangle or should I say a love square instead"
" lezzie, you are really confusing me right now"
"okay, let me explain, you have a relationship with three boys, Daniel, Lawrence and Ryan"
"Daniel?, I have told you already, that I broke up with Daniel because of the distance"
" is that the point now?, the point is, you gotta choose a single guy from this three, think about it" lezzie said as she got up and left, parsley starred into thin air meditating on her words, just then, the door opened again and lezzie came in .
"sorry, I should have grabbed a sandwich". She said as she finally took a single sandwich and left again, leaving parsley alone once again.