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chapter 25

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by MANJIROUS

"What did she say?"

"Cyno. Stop meddling in my business, will you?"

"What did she say?" Cyno repeated, acting blissfully unaware of the evident distaste.

Al-haitham rubbed his temple and released a defeated sigh. It was too late for him to be worrying about such trivial matters.

"She's okay with both of the options."

Cyno deadpanned. "Then choose the first one. It should be a handwritten essay — or letter, whatever of the two you prefer — and you should be on your knees in front of her doorstep. That sounds perfect."

"Do you despise me?" He clicked his tongue. "She may be a hopeless romantic, but she doesn't like such... intense display of... uh, of any emotion."

"The emotion being affection."

"This isn't affection."

"I'm losing my patience. You're too grown of a man to not accept your feelings for someone." Cyno said, exasperated. "It's okay. You're in college. People like other people."

Al-haitham calmly put his phone on the nightstand and adjusted the sheets of his bed. He grabbed a book from the shelf, tuning out every word Cyno was pelting at him.

Cyno, however, continued expressing his irritation despite Al-haitham's impassive behaviour. "I don't understand why you're being like this. She's so nice... she lets me win card games, she has a lot of good jokes and she also laughs at mine, she's cu—"

"Do you like her?" The grey-haired man asked casually.

"No."

"Does she like you?"

"...No?"

"Do you like Dehya?"

"No!"

"Does Dehya like you?"

"Hopefully not..."

"There you have it." He stated plainly. "No matter how amazing a person is, you cannot force yourself to see them through a romantic lens."

"Well, you have never said that you don't like her. That means there's something. I'm your friend. You have to tell me."

Al-haitham had a ghost of a smile tracing his lips. He ignored his surroundings and skimmed through the book in his hands, his eyes searching for a folded paper that was tucked neatly somewhere between its crisp pages.

He took it out once his gaze landed on it, observing its bare surface. Then, he grabbed his pen and began jotting down everything that his mind had been yelling at him for days.

It wasn't much. It wasn't worth fifty pages. It was even worth two.

Y/N.

I'm not quite sure if it's an apology letter or a confession. Is it even a letter? It feels more like a diary entry that I'm letting you read. I'm barely holding myself back from referring to it as a waste of my time. I could have planned the layout of a chapter of my book during these few minutes, or maybe completed a pending assignment.

Anyway, since I am genuinely repentant for the treatment I've given you, I'll choose to go through with it.

I'm going to list my thoughts as they come to me. You'd understand them better that way.

If you want me to write about you, I don't think I can. I'm sorry.

Fifty pages are not enough, but they're also too much at the same time.

There are poems inside of you that paper can't handle.

I may be a writer, but I'm bad with words. I hope you're good at reading eyes.

Oh, also.

I definitely don't like you.

Thank you for forgiving me. I know you have.

I do things that do not make sense. That's no excuse for my behaviour, though. I just wanted to tell you why I reacted like that once our 'contract' was over.

Then again, the world doesn't make sense either, because why the hell am I writing all these things for you at 2 AM?

This is something you deserve to know but I'll never say it in person because you will never shut up about it— I didn't enjoy the time when we weren't talking. It felt empty.

I never thought I'd find myself getting used to your presence. Now here I am, texting you almost every day.

You slowly soaked into my heart, like rain.

I think I'm done. I'm slightly confused; I have too much to say but my vocabulary is failing me.

Important note: One of the things I've written here is a lie.

After all, you have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

— Al-haitham.