To Ariel, Hunter wasn't dumb; he just happened to be unlucky enough to fall for the wrong girl.
It was easy for Daniel to conclude Hunter to be dumb because he hadn't been victimized by love before.
"I think people should learn to see the writings on the wall. He should have know he wasn't needed and was being used." Daniel explained.
Ariel was stunned for a few seconds, wondering if Daniel was also telling her that he had already put the writings on the wall for her.
But she knew hunter wasn't dumb; maybe he had seen the writings but, just like her, he had decided to ignore them.
"Do you know what it feels like to not be able to get your mind off someone, to replay every normal conversations you had with them, and to want to be with them every chance you get? Do you know what it feels like for your thoughts to drift to someone even when you don't want to? If you know how it feels like, you'd know that even if there are any writings you would ignore them." Ariel replied, pissed off, referring to herself.
She didn't want all this, but it kept happening. When she thinks of Daniel, she can't help but feel the butterfly effect.
"Ariel, I know what all those feel like. But trust me when I say, no one is gonna break my heart."
"Don't be so sure." Ariel scoffed
"Princess, you don't know you are responsible for all those feelings you mentioned. You make me feel this way. But no one would break my heart except you want to."
Here we go. Ariel scoffed in her mind. He gives her little to no attention, only to come back in a day and rekindle the flame in her heart. She had to admit it; He was indeed good at this game.
After her conversation with Daniel, she had whiled away the time doing anything she could until she was sure her dad was off work.
Visiting her dad was refreshing; all her anxieties, problems, and pain dissapeared just by seeing her dad smile.
She helped him with some household choirs, and after spending time with him, she went back home.
ONE WEEK LATER***.
In a blink of an eye, a week had passed. Ariel could finally focus on her studies because Daniel had ghosted her after their last conversion. She had expected that and although it hurts, she really wasn't gonna go find him first. Pride was something every girl didn't want to lose.
Right now, Ariel was lying on her bed as she picked up her diary.
Ariel loved writing. In fact, she is good at anything that involves writing.
Back then in high school, some of her friends asked her letters or poem for them.
However, she didn't like the idea of writing a diary because she had developed the habit in middle school, but her diary was picked up by some classmates who read it and made her life difficult with the content.
Since then, she had decided to drop the idea of writing a diary.
However, today, thanks to Daniel, her mind was full of thoughts, and since she didn't want to bother anyone, she decided to pick up her old habit.
"You can do this," Ariel encouraged herself.
"Here goes nothing." She breath.
DEAR ARIEL...
Hey there, me!
Look who picked up old habits..
Well, I actually got the courage because I found out Daddy also writes a dairy!
Could you believe that?
That's crazy.
But it's cool. Now I know the habit isn't from mum.
Well a lot has been going on lately with me. Simply put, I've been through a lot.
So this guy came in,(in case you're wondering dairy, yes a guy came in!) And I THOUGHT he was everything I wanted.
But lately he stopped giving me attention. And I noticed he was confidence about my feelings for him. Well what can I say? Feelings are like river and there just flow.
Anyways am trying to forget him and I hope it works.
But I think I complained too much.
I know am like this, but I can't help it dairy!! You know when you really like someone and your as unsecured as me? you are bound to notice the slightest change and voice out your feelings.
But he hasn't said anything yet about me complaining a lot though.
And you may be wondering why i am writing to you instead of talking to my friends.
Well, the reason is that am not close enough to my acquaintance to share this thoughts and Jessica, well, I think something's up cause that bitch don't wanna talk about him.
But it's cool though.
And oh! The guy's name is Daniel.
Anyways, I gatta go.
Xoxo^^.
Ariel felt so much better after that. She should do this more often!
"Time to study." Ariel groaned as her alarm went off. She had set a study alarm and was getting strict with it.
Her exams where fast approaching and thanks to Adam (Daniel) she had become far behind her reading schedule.
She still had a lot of topics to read.
There weren't joking when there said boys were gonna stain your white garment. Now look at her, her reading garment has been all stained.
"Damn you Daniel." She cursed under her breath.
ANOTHER WEEK...
Ariel has successfully survived another week of torture from Daniel.
Feelings are definitely bitches.
Where the hell was the saying which goes 'feelings are like visitors, let em' come and go.' Hers came and refused to go! Maybe there found her heart comfortable to stay. She thought self depreciatingly.
Forget Daniel's silent treatment when she did nothing wrong, the dude bought the audacity to add a girl to His story and his caption said 'yeah, she's the one.' With many love emoticons.
What the hell was that suppose to Mean? And she couldn't ask for many reasons.
The first one being she had pride.
The second one Being she wanted to act like she didn't care.
And the third she feared his answer. What if he doesn't even reply? Where shall she put her face?
So, Ariel didn't ask, but he kept posting girls with flashy caption on his story.
Ariel picked up her dairy again.
DEAR ARIEL...
How fucked up do you want your life to be before forgetting this guy exist? Hasn't he trampled upon your dignity enough?
Ariel he has been ghosting the shit outta you and here you are, penning down your feelings like the depressed bitvh you are!
You are better than this. You can't even focus on your upcoming exams.
Please stop hurting your self.
Go talk to him about it.
Hurt it once. Hurt it all.
Thanks for being the only object I could wet my tear upon diary.
I wish you were human.
Xoxo.
With continues tears following down her cheeks, Ariel wrote on her dairy.
While she wrote, she tried not to get the paper too wet.
After venting out her pained, she didn't feel better like before. Perhaps she should just talk it out with Daniel.
She picked up her phone but when she wanted to, she couldn't.
Ariel suddenly got an idea.
His birthday was coming up so she would just wish him a happy birthday and then she could voice out her feelings.
Ariel picked up her phone and started scrolling through peoples post. She then saw a post from one of Daniel's friends.
It was Daniel's picture!
He was smiling sweetly at the camera. Ariel's eyes trembled.
He had smiled so brightly at her before but now....
She then jokily replied to the post.
"Who's this handsome friend of yours? tell him a fine girl likes him."
These guy knew she had something with Daniel, cause after all he had collected her number wanting to be friends with his friend's girl.
He went by the name josh.
Waiting anxiously for his reply, she saw him type and later got her reply.
"I'd tell him." Was all josh said.
There use to vibe before but just like Daniel, he also gave her the cold shoulder so she left him.
"Is he single?" Ariel pushed her luck.
Josh replied almost immediately.
"Don't mess around. He is taken. A serious relationship at that."
Ariel heart sank. But she wasn't gonna act like she cared!
"That's quite unfortunate, I thought I was gonna make my move." She replied with a laughing emoticon.
"Don't, he really loves his girl." Josh replied.