To be honest, I never thought of myself as the type to give up easily, but I've been searching for a garden for five hours now! And it was already seven P.M. according to my phone.
"This is insane," I said. I sighed in frustation and sat down. I just wanted to know what was bothering Jay - was that too much?
I sat down on the bench at the side of the road. I wasn't even sure where I was. I had never gotten to this part of the city. I buried my face in my hands.
How am I ever going to get back?
"Rose?" someone said. I knew the voice. It was very familiar. I looked up from my hands and I thought I had never been so glad in my life before this moment.
"Ann!" I shouted and jumped on her. Good thing she had fast reflexes and was able to catch me before we both fell on the road and got killed by a bus or something.
Ann was probably shocked. Let's just say I was a bit bitter to her since I was jealous that she gained the title of being 'The Most Romantic Couple' along with Jason. Jay and I were the second.
"Why are you here?" she asked after she balanced us both and pulled herself away from me. Well, that was a bit harsh, wasn't it?
"I was trying to find a garden," I said. I prepared to hear her laugh, because I was pretty sure she knew the area so well and there wasn't any garden around.
Surprisingly, Ann went along with it and even asked me, "Oh? I'm assuming you mean the Crystal Garden?" Seeing my confused expression, she added, "It was rumoured that a fairy lived there."
Hearing that, my eyes probably glistened from tears of happiness. "Yes, that garden!"
Then, Ann looked at me sympathetically. "I'm sorry. Just a week ago they bulldozed it into that apartment," she said, pointing at an area nearby.
So, after all, I didn't take a wrong turn. I was just a bit late.
"So, why were you searching for it?" Ann asked. "I've already looked around that garden a lot of times, but never have I ever seen a fairy in there before. Of course, if the fairy was already found by someone else, no one else could see her until the one who found her finally uses all her wishes."
"Is that so? Well, here's a secret. I found that fairy once when I was around five or six. Haven't used all my wishes, so yeah." I shrugged.
Ann smiled.
I blinked at her. In my opinion, Ann was a strange girl. She was probably one of those people who had visions of the futures, or those people who were able to see ghosts. I could always be wrong, though.
I didn't bother to ask Jay about his weird sister. After all, it wasn't my business, right?
I just wondered sometimes how someone like her could be 'romantic', but I couldn't judge.
Well, enough about Ann now. I guessed sometimes my jealousy just get the better of me. However, I couldn't let it get to me because that would be bad for Jay and-
"You're thinking too much, Rose," Ann told me so suddenly. I nearly jumped because I was so serious about the fight happening in my own head.
"Uh, what?" I asked, my eyebrows furrowed. What was with this girl? How could she even know what was going on with my mind? I wondered.
"Again."
I sighed. "What do you mean exactly?"
"What I mean is," Ann stopped - probably to add some dramatic effect, "You should stop thinking too much. He's just a bit angry that I stole his muffin at breakfast."
"Explain."
"He probably thought that he shouldn't feel too upset for a muffin, and then thought that he needed to hide his feelings from you. Then when you pushed him, he just snapped and this happened," Ann said. She shrugged.
At first, I thought no one would make such a big fuss over a muffin, but then it made sense. Jay was just like that. He felt that he needed to do more for me because he thought I had done too much for him, when really, he'd done more.
Like that time we had a big fight. It was because Jay didn't bring me any rose for my birthday which was on 14th of February. I was so engulfed in my anger that I ran away from school.
Naturally, Jay followed me outside. Noticing him, I ran faster and onto the road. I was looking back at him as I passed the road that I didn't realize a car heading my way.
Jay pushed me from the road onto a tree. I was about to shout angrily at him for pushing me when I saw him bleeding. And the car that hit him already fled.
Yeah, Jay had definitely done too much for me, I couldn't even name everything he had done for me.
"Now," once again, Ann surprised me, "There's your home, so I'll see you again. Probably."
Then, she smiled at me and it looked genuine. Not that she was ever not-genuine to me, but this was just a bit weird. But I guessed that explained how someone like her could be romantic. Because her smile lighted up her whole face.
However, again, it wasn't really my business, right?
My business right now was inviting Jay for a picnic tomorrow and buying hom some muffins, because he might need some.
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