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Chapter 4 - Teal

"ahem...um..excuse me" she cleared her throat

Julian looked up from his phone. He saw a short, dark eyed, dark haired girl standing in front of him , she oddly looked familiar. He immediately knew what she wanted.

"not interested" answered Julian coolly. Aria was struck ,"not interested ?for what i didn't even ask you anything yet" she said feeling embarrassed.

"alright! what do you want" he asked with exaggerated enthusiasm. Aria felt belittled "um..i wanted to ask if you were taken cause i have two tickets to this..some..concert ,I was looking for someone to sell it to" she told the first and the most lamest thing that came to her mind.

Julian looked dumbstruck, he scoffed ,got up and left. Aria felt humiliated she never felt this embarrassed before , but abnormally found him extra cute after this. "ooh a bad boy, homme fatale " she smirked after him shamelessly.

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"are you okay?" Dina asked Aria genuinely worried, after she had narrated her little café fiasco to her friends Dina, Lila ,Peter and Penelope . "yea , don't worry I'm okay " she answered feeling touched. "no, not that , like did you hit your head in the shower or something this morning? he completely blew you off and you found that attractive?" Dina asked placing her palm on her friend's forehead checking the temperature. Aria looked fake hurt and did a small 'wiping her tears away gesture' . "it's not his fault he didn't find me attractive and i know that this is just a superficial attraction , like that dude has zero personality ,all he has is good looks , he humiliated me , i know i should be angry but i can't help but grin at the thought of him, don't get me wrong i am questioning my morals, values and principles as we speak but can't help but fantasize about how his hands would look holding mine " she explained.

Her friends looked at her disgusted, well all did except Penelope . Penelope and Aria were the lead trouble makers of the gang . their crazy optimism always fueled each other's mischief. Penelope grinned looking at Aria "Well , don't be so hard on yourself ,first of all he never verbally said that he wasn't attracted to you 'he physically did' but verbally? no..no. second of all you ARE superficial and you know it.. so , congratulations . Third, you hardly had any morals, values or principles to begin with . Finally shame on you for fantasizing about holding hands and other kinder-garden crap" she said with a straight face. " but its okay, it's just a crush, nothing serious or probably it Is destiny " she said dreamily.

Peter sighed ,he was the most reasonable one of them all, almost like the mom of the group, he shot dirty looks at both Aria and Penelope ,he knew they were beyond reason but he tried nevertheless, "not that your little speech was borderline prompting a 'toxic attraction' or anything " he said rolling his eyes, "but even if you were to continue 'feeling this way' about him ,what are you going to do about it? you don't know anything about him. you don't even know if you are going to actually see him ever again . and destiny?" he stopped ,side-eyeing Penelope . "this isn't some poorly written romance novel " (side note: well, what do you know ? it is.) reasoned Peter getting up ."anyways , we got to leave its getting late ,come on get up ,up. Quit playing that stupid game and put your phone down Lila " he said dragging Lila and the others .