Miss you, not.

I

The group had just finished their quartet practice after class. It was almost time for dinner and Brett was feeling quite hungry. "Hey, wanna grab a bite before we go back?"

"Yea, sure."

"Oh wait, let me text Eddy, see if he wanna join us." He took out the phone from his pocket and quickly typed a text. He was smiling.

Sara stared at Ryan and rolled her eyes. Ryan shrugged back apologetically.

A few minutes passed and there were no answer.

"Well, maybe he's busy right now. We should save him a seat when in case he read the text and decided to come." He tried his best not to let his disappointment show. Unfortunately, his friends knew him too well.

Sara, Ryan and Jade shared a look amongst themselves.

"What?" Noticing he was out of the loop.

"God, you need help." Jade cried out loud, no longer able to handle Brett's oblivion.

"Excuse me?"

"All you did today was rant to us about Eddy "avoiding" you again." Sara added.

"I mean it is his fault-" Brett defended himself but was cut off.

"So why didn't you just confront him about it?"

Jade backed Sara up, "If you miss him that much, you should just tell him. Set a date, talk it out or something."

"What? Are you nuts? He'll think I'm crazy and overthinking things which I am not-"

"You smile like a maiden in love when you get his texts. And you get super gloomy when he didn't reply for a long time. And I swear all you talk about all the time is how great he is."

"Because he is?"

Ryan groaned, "He's got it bad."

"Girl, you got issues." Jade snapped her fingers.

"Fine. You're right. I have problems. I've been having.. certain feelings."

"Oh. Tell us more about this.. "feelings"." Sara had this expression on and Ryan could immediately tell that this girl will stop at nothing to get what she wanted to know.

Brett noticed that all eyes are on him, curious and questioning. He caved in.

"It's really nothing guys. I mean sure I wanna spend more time with him despite our very busy and very different schedules. I understand that he couldn't make time for other things. Sometimes I wish it was like when we were in school again. We'd talk about how our days went, and share our thoughts. Yknow, hanging out like we usually do." Brett smiled warmly, unaware of it himself.

"There it is again."

"What?" Brett asked blankly.

"That face! You always have this shy little smile whenever you talk about him." Sara pointed out.

"No, I don't! Ryan help me out here, buddy."

"I'm afraid she's right, Brett. Sorry." Ryan lifted his hands up in resignation.

"Oh Brett, sweetie.." Jade cooed, pitifully at this poor, smitten man.

"Stop it. Why do you guys keep talking as if.. as if I'm.." his sentence trailed off.

The epiphany was there. Well, almost.

Brett snapped out of his thoughts. "Whatever! Weren't you guys hungry? Let's just go get dinner and not talk about this anymore."