A BEST FRIEND

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After several letting go of love just so I won't be hurt and deciding not to love anymore because I think my heart is too fragile for the betrayed and lost love I've heard so far, I met a tall, fair and so handsome young man of my age range.

Sitting down in the school sit out all alone with my earphones in my ear listening to some nice songs and feeling the breeze from the trees around, he came and sat down,said Hi but it fell on deaf ears. He then pulled off the earphones from my ear and said Hi, though the inner part of me wanted to be rude, but all I could voice out was "hey, how're you doing?". Well, we talked that day, spent time together and wow he was so cool. He was just the kind of male friend I needed at that point in my life,someone I'll call " best friend". We got to know each other's names and to my greatest surprise, his name was Frank, literally the name I had in mind of giving my first son when the time comes (I mean when I get married and have a son). Wow I loved himself though. We exchanged contacts as well and I went back home happily because I and fun that evening.

We got close, shared everything we had, he was single just as I was, we played a lot of games, we had a lot of fun, we played some crazy games of getting each other wet with the water we bought in school🤭😂😂...so crazy. We took lots of pictures together and went to cinemas to see some movies most times. I mean we were sometimes called lovers but in the actual sense, we were not lovers. Jeez there were times we fought, but no one could stay a day without trying to settle the issue.

I got into Frank, I found myself talking about him every time to my girlfriends and I discovered I loved him🥺 but I couldn't just tell him or give the feelings a chance because of my fear of getting hurt though.

I started distancing myself from frank, just so the feelings would go but damn it!! Each time I try that, I felt so empty and so angry with myself.... I kept on trying to distance myself from him but all to no avail and unknowingly to me, frank also loved me too.

On my birthday, frank was the first person to wish me a happy birthday when he came to the house, got me wet by pouring me water and then gave me some gifts of my portrait picture, and a really nice handbag.
Omg I was so happy and surprised, while I was still shocked he said something that changed my mood. He said "please zoey, be my girlfriend.... I really love you and would do a anything for you to see"

I ran into the house and shut the door, I don't want to get hurt🥺
I stayed home, didn't go to school, so I won't see frank but frank was still outside waiting for me, he stayed in the couch outside and slept there, waiting for me to come outside.

The next morning, I got outside and found him there on the couch, he even knelt down to ask me to be his lover, well, because I loved him, I accepted to give a chance. I was with him in the relationship but was still afraid and scared. After 2years, yeahhh the relationship was the best relationship I had🤭😊.
Truly a best friend turned a long awaited lover🥰