Noelia and his family came home after their vacation. During that time, Noelia tally met Maria. Maria rushed to Noelia hugging him as she missed him dearly.

  “Where have you been tely? I didn’t hear anything from you.” Maria asked. “Sorry, I didn’t tell you that I was on vacation.” Noelia apologized.

  Then Noelia asked what Maria was doing when he was on vaaria said that she was only w and hanging out with her friends. Maria remembered something, she asked Noelia if he wao meet a certain someo week at a park. Noelia became curious and agreed to her request.

  “We just came back from a two day vacation and they act like they haven't seen each other in years.” said Sebastian while unpag the car “He’s doier than you did back then, Manuel!”

  “ you N me up all the time?!” said Manuel “e on Isabe, back me up!”.

  “Your brother’s kinda right tho.” said Isabe.

  “See!” said Sebastian then he ughed.

  A week has passed and Noelia’s in the park where they arrahe area. He sat on a bench waiting for his friend. He waited for an hour then Maria called him. He turo Maria and saerson behind her. He suspected that the person behind her was the certain someone she talked about.

  “Noelia!” said Maria while waving “Sorry it took so long, I had something to do before.”

  “Yeah, it’s fine.” said Noelia

  Noelia looked up to that person. He was taller than both Noelia and Maria. His eyes gave Noelia’s goosebumps, Noelia described it as if it was dead eyes. Maria softly pulled Ethan’s shirt to get his attentiohan turo look at Maria and his eyes ged from dead to full of life.

  “Ethan, I would like you to meet my friend.” said Maria “This is Noelia.”

  “o meet you, I’m Ethan.” said Ethan, a handshake.

  Noelia was about to shake Ethan’s hand, ahan suddenly pulled him closer to me. He whispered something with a threatening void deadly look.

  “I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know. If you try something funny with her, I’ll make sure that you beore cautious with your life, uand?” said Ethan.

  “Is everything okay right there?” Maria asked.

  “Yes, everything is just fine. I simply want to take a closer look at him.” said Ethan, looking towards Maria.

  “Oh I see. Oh yeah Noelia, Ethan is my boyfriend, we’re dating but don’t worry, he’s kind and polite, sophisticated too!” said Maria.

  Noelia’s eyes widened as he was shocked with the news. His heart shattered into oblivion, his breathing was untrolled. He didn’t know that this would happen.

  “O-oh uh-uh th-that’s g-great!” said Noelia nervously.

  “Is he really that timid?” Ethan asked Maria.

  “He’s probably nervous about meeting new people. He’ll get used to you if you hang out more with him.” Maria replied “Anyways, do you guys want to hang out now?”

  “Sure why not.” Ethan replied.

  “Great, let’s go then.” said Maria.

  Noelia was left puzzled by Ethan's behavior. How and why did Ethan suddenly bee aggressive towards him? Noelia just met him and he wondered what he did wrong. He had some thoughts but he was unsure of it.

  “So what do you guys want to py first?” Maria asked.

  “Maybe we cou-” said Noelia but was interrupted by Ethan

  “Well let’s try to find one first.” said Ethan“Talk about being polite and sophisticated…” Noelia sarcastically thought.

  First, Ethan found a pung game which he found iing. He asked Maria to look as he ied the and the game started. Ethan “generously” asked Noelia to go first and give a punoelia punched and got a det score then it was Ethan’s turhan cracked his knuckles and gave a punding up with a high score.

  “Alright nice! Good game anyway.” said Ethan, looking at Noelia.

  “Woah…” said Maria in amazement.

  “Darn it! Did I just let Etha me?! No, I ’t lose. I gotta find something that I could win against him.” said Noelia in his head.

  Noelia ahan pete against each other to charm Maria a her attention. Maria was oblivious to their petition. Noelia hated to admit it but Ethan seemed to be outmatg him. Noelia thought for a way in order to gain Maria’s attention. But then he suddenly felt selfish f to hog all Maria’s attention for himself. He then remembered his love for Maria so he had to tinue.

  The three found an arcade game which was a fighting one. Noelia thought before he acted, could he really win a fighting game to impress Maria? Ethan challenged Noelia which he accepted.

  “Maybe Maria would be impressed if I mao win!” Noelia fidently thought.

  Noelia ahan started their matd began pying. At first, both of them were equally matched but soohan got the upperhand. He mao beat Noelia in the first round. Noelia didn’t give up as there were still two more rounds to go.

  “I’m not giving up yet!” said Noelia.

  “Bet.” Ethan replied

  They resumed their game and Noelia mao beat Ethan in the sed round. Now it was the final round, Noelia put his effort into beatihan. Unfortunately, Ethan mao win the final round.

  “That was amazihan! I didn’t know you were good at games.” said Maria

  “Mmm… I don’t know. Probably luck.” said Ethan.

  “Oooh, so humble!” Maria replied.

  Noelia looked at Ethan and Maria, he began to lose hope and started to accept that Maria chose Ethan over him. Noelia excused himself as he had urgent business ahe two alone.

  “ Noelia, I know you’re joking. I get that you're shy but , hang out for a while more.” said Maria.

  “No… it’s urgent and besides I don’t want to get in the way too.” said Noelia.

  “Noelia.” Maria insisted.

  “I said I DON’T WANT TO.” said Noelia.

  Maria was quite shocked and Noelia immediately closed his mouth with his hands. He apologized for his behavior, he noticed Ethan was ready to hit him. So he quickly excused himself right away.

  “Noelia…” said Maria in schok

  Noelia hurriedly got out of the arcade a outside. He took a rest at an alleyway, he sat down thinking about before. He felt devastated and embarrassed, first he lost to Ethan multiple times and he almost acted rudely to Maria. Noelia got up and walked with deje while looking down. It suddenly started to rain and Noelia didn’t bring an umbrel.

  “Heh… this already feels like the sad part in a novel,” said Noelia.

  Noelia tio walk, ign the rain as he was too gloomy to care about it. He uedly ran into Jay. Noelia asked what Jay was doing in Atnta. Jay told Noelia to go to a suitable pce to talk.

  Noelia and Jay found a pce to y under from the rain. Noelia asked Jay the question before and Jay expi.

  “I went back from vacation and also, what’s with the gloomy face?” said Jay.

  “That’s not really important. Please tinue.” said Noelia.

  “Alright… I came home here in Atnta from vacation since I’m from Atnta, I only moved to a different high school outside the city and lived in a dormitory then I graduated a on a vacation. I’m visiting my hometown friends too.” Jay expined. “Well anyways, I’ll be going back. See you around.”

  The two parted ways and Noelia returned home. Noelia ignored everyone, even his elder brother and mother. Noelia was greeted by Mira when he reached upstairs but he ignored her a into his room. He took off his wet jacket and threw himself to this bed. He stared at the ceiling feelibroken.