Simply Friends

"The thing is that the photo of the winner will be published online, and now with there being very high chances of me winning— not bragging, simply being honest— I don’t want to have my identity exposed.”

“Why?”

With Louis’ attention seeking personality, she thought he would want to shout out to the entire world about his achievement.

“One, it would ruin my reputation. The entire school, especially the guys, would be laughing at me. And most importantly, my family wouldn’t approve of this. That’s why, it should be a secret.”

That sounded reasonable.

“But still shouldn’t you be owning up what you do? It’s not that you’re doing anything shameful,” Esther said.

He smirked at her.

“You saying that Esther when you can hardly talk. You get bullied for it all the time, Esther,” he teased.

She scrunched up her nose.

“That’s irrelevant,” she commented.

“Sure, it is,” he mocked before staring at her with desperati