CIII

~NEERAL~

It’s been two weeks since that horrible incident happened to me. A strange feeling took over my heart, a sense of suffocation deep inside.

I thought it would be easy for me to survive with Matt being his friend, but the closer we get, the more I see myself drowning in pain. I couldn’t find myself as his friend.

Whatever he was doing, he saw us as friends, but it was affecting me badly. My saturation came when he mentioned me as his close friend in front of his family.

Yes, last weekend we went to meet his parents. They welcomed me with open arms, and it felt nice, as I missed my mom so much.

He told them about Aoife and Xander. It surprised his parents by all those incidents.

They were happy I stood by Matt’s side, but I cursed myself for creating so much pain for myself. I was stupid to allow him to enter my heart, but now it was enough.

I moved on and made my profiles on dating apps. And seeing my bad luck, he saw mail popping up in my mailbox.

“Hey, Neeral. Are you