“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love…”
-Max Mullet
How did I end up in this situation?
My name is Marjorie Bellerose…I always try to be the best person I can be…and yet…
I was supposed to have everything figured out... I mean, I have a boyfriend…or that’s what I thought until he dumped me…
Everyone always said that we were a perfect match—people even envy us...
And yeah, Aleister is… amazing. He’s kind, smart, and loyal. He makes me laugh…
However…he entered my life... The one person I shouldn’t even be thinking about, let alone feeling this way about…
Uriel. Aleister 's rival… The guy I’m supposed to hate…Except I don’t. I can't…
It’s like he sees right through me, in a way no one else does, not even Aleister...
Uriel has this fire in his eyes…like he’s always challenging me, daring me to be more than what people expect...And it drives me crazy..
March 27th…
On that day…everything was going normal like always…I arrived at school like usual…I said hello to my friends; Victoria and Angela…and moved on with my daily life…
Aleister is no longer at school…he went to Europe…and that made me…sad…and yet…it made me happen because I am not spending more time with him…
Uriel…I don’t know when it happened, when I started looking at Uriel Differently….
When I started feeling this… pull toward him...maybe it was when we saw each other the first time…when he saved me from falling from the ladder?
Everytime I’m with him…It’s like I can’t breathe around him, and when he’s not there, I’m left wondering why I’m thinking about him so much…
I know I shouldn't and yet…I end up waiting for him after class so we can walk together in the hallway…there’s even rumors that we are dating…and that we are a good match…and that makes me happy…
And yet…we can’t be together…and that’s because of my secret…
The part of me that’s a mage….
I’m part of a secret organization that focuses on magecraft…
God, I can’t tell anyone. Magic’s not just something you talk about over lunch…
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It 's dangerous. And it’s a secret I’ve been carrying my whole life. As much as I want to be with Uriel…we can’t…
He doesn’t know the girl who can bend light, who can summon fire, who holds the power to change things…sometimes too much, sometimes more than I can control…
And I know his secret too…I know what he is…what he does and his powers…and yet…I prefer not say anything…because…he is considered a threat to my organization…
On that day…we were walking together…talking about random things…and that’s when it happened…
It was lunch time…I decided to make him something special…normally we buy from the cafeteria…but this time…I baked some cupcakes…
We ate outside at a private table next to the stadium…
I was sitting across from him…and I can’t believe it’s actually happening…
Just the two of us. Lunch together. I could hardly focus on the food…my mind kept drifting to the way he looked at me when he talked, the way his smile made my heart do this weird little flip...
Every time our hands accidentally touched, I got this rush of heat up my arms.
We were laughing about something, I don’t even know what anymore, but it feels so easy, so right…
I was trying not to overthink it, but I can’t help wondering if he felt the same. There’s this lightness between us, like we’re the only two people in the whole area… like it’s just us and this perfect little moment.
As we walked back…I suddenly tripped…I was about to fall when catched me…
(BADUMP BADUMP BADUMP)
Oh my God, this was actually happening.
We’re standing so close, just him and me, and I could feel the air between us shifting…
His eyes—he was looking at me like he feels it too, like he was thinking the same thing…
My heart is pounding so loud, I swear he could hear it…
At that moment, he leaned in, just a little, and for a second, everything else disappeared. It’s like we were in our own little bubble, where it’s just us and nothing else matters...
His hand brushes mine… I don’t know if I’m supposed to say something or if I should just… let this happen.
He was so close now, I could smell his cologne, feel the warmth of him, and I think—no, I know—he was about to kiss me.
And then—
“MARJORIE!”
I nearly jumped out of my skin as my friends came barreling in, laughing and talking like they didn’t just walk right through the moment I’ve been waiting for forever….
VIctoria ran towards us and pulled Uriel away from me…then Angela arrived…along with Alejandro and Tiwa…
I try to act normal, try to play it off like nothing’s happening, but my face was burning with anger...
I sneaked a glance at him, and he was smiling—one of those awkward, “I guess we’ll pretend this didn’t just happen” smiles—and suddenly, the bubble’s gone…
I was standing there, surrounded by my friends, but all I can think about is how close we were.
What could’ve happened. What was about to happen.
No…that’s wrong…
I’m a mage and my mission is to investigate the Seven Cities of Gold…one of the most powerful mana sources in the world…
And he…is El Charro Negro…
Yet…I know this feeling…this feeling is more sincere than what I felt with Aleister…
To be honest…I am in love with Uriel…but this love it’s almost as if…
I loved him for a long time…even though I met him a few months ago…and yet…it feels like he is the person I have been waiting for…
And yet…we can’t be together…because of my secret…this secret that I hope one day…
I could tell him…along with my true feelings…
THE END…
