Thus continues the story of Alex and Natalie...
Alex and Natalie, who were now called ALALIE more often than their actual names, were trying to not burst at everyone who called them that, but things had gone out of their hand pretty quick. But somewhere, deep down, both of them had a soft corner for each other.
They were getting teased very often now. They were able to shrug it off, but not without a giving a dangerous look. Things, however, didn't go down so calmly all the time. Apart from their occasional burst of rage, there was this one distinct incident that quite shaped what was to follow.
Natalie's best friend, and Alex got along pretty well. So, she planned a supposed prank that didn't go down well, at all. She created a fake screenshot, which seemed as if Natalie was confessing her feelings about Alex to Bertha. She sent it to Alex, who took it lightly and instinctively, sent it to some of his friends. Mind telling you that Alex's friend circle and Natalie's friend circle were like oil and water, they just couldn't mix.
Now the thing had gotten so much bigger than it really was, and Alex got to know that it was a prank, and that fired him up, to the point where he blocked Natalie and her friends out of sheer disgust of how insensitive the prank was. But Natalie couldn't care less, she seemed to have handled the situation much better. It took a lot of convincing and apologies from Bertha, and finally the matter was sorted after a lot of argument. At the end of it, Alex and Natalie had known so much more about their other side, which doesn't often show, and an incident that could've ended even a strong friendship, make this one even stronger.
It was the winter vacations!! Finally after 5 months of exhaustive school lessons, the students finally got the much needed break, where they could just sit back and relax. Meanwhile, where on one side, Alex was thinking of Natalie more and more, trying to not and failing badly, on the other side, Natalie was so busy going places, socializing, that she probably didn't even think of schoolmates, let alone Alex.
It was about time Alex addressed the elephant in the room, that he really liked Natalie and would love to be with her. They were talking to each other much more often than ever before, but Alex didn't let his emotions overtake him. The school reopened, and now that he was actually seeing her, made it both hard and awkward for him to be around her.
Then, one day, he finally ebbed up all his courage, stopped her after school. He was finally going to do it. The exact thing that had occupued his mind for major part of a month now, he was finally doing it. He took a deep breath, and proposed her.
To be continued.....
Pitter, patter the rain starts to drop. While the water may fill up the hole in the ground it will never fill up the hole in one's heart. The droplet trickling down his cheek flows to his heart, and while that may create a ripple, it will never become his tears. He runs, faster than anyone, to race through the present to search for the past left behind, towards divinity. He wished the rain to fall even harder swallowing everything like a muddy stream. His conscious and subconscious both wanted to move forward, to see her again, to hold her hand again.