HIS UNMATCHED AFFECTION

Eric Like all love stories you've probably read this one too. So I guess you know how it starts. A girl meets a boy they fall in love. They fight and maybe break up. They make up and that kind of stuff in a loop. And I know what you expect too. It has a happy ending. They all do. But listen up! This is no love story. It’s a story of rejection. Like I said a love story must have at least two people and you know the numerous combinations we have; a girl and a boy, girl and a girl, boy and a boy. And these two people must love each other dearly. Like really much not just intimately. I mean past intimacy like you know... They most of the time wanna doink each other. That's the kind of love I'm talking about. I don't have that. My love life is a mess because the girl I love. The only girl I've ever loved doesn't love me back. It's probably my fault because I've never said it out loud. But that doesn't stop me from loving her. I mean to me it's real. When I'm with her I feel free and trust me I rarely do feel free. She is like the only thing on earth I have that Jake can't and doesn't have or at least I thought so in the past. Let's get to know who Jake is. My mum left when I was three. Seven years later my dad remarried. And my step mum, Maryse brought along a son. His name is Jake and he is like my elder brother. He plays football, tall well-built nice black hair and he is a celeb at school besides he is good at everything he tries... To cut the long story short Jake has stolen my shine ever since he showed up at our doorstep. Am Always on toes to keep up lest he get something I got my eyes on. But am pretty good at some stuff too. I play football too and Am smarter than him. That's all. Did you expect anything else? However, I can only beat him in class not in the pitch during practice. Anyway Jake, my dad, Jake's mum and I live in fort cannon. A cool neighborhood along the sea of Takwama. My dad I I’ve lived here for the past nineteen years. That's since I was born. Time to introduce the girl to this story. Stacy Authors. The sound of her name alone makes my heart skip a beat. I've been in love with her since she moved to the neighborhood with her family. I remember I was ten. Jake and I were playing on the front porch of our house when they came in. The Authors. All of them were cool. When she got out of the backseat our eyes met. She shied away and pretended to stare at the ground for a minute, when she looked back up I was still staring at her. That was the day I locked the gates of my heart and handed over the keys to her. Jake being a bully he hit me with the ball. Normally I'd shriek and ran back in the house to report him to my dad but not that day. I was impervious to pain. "Dude, get over it she is way out of your league girls like her don't like nerds", Jake said ruffling my hair. "You don't know that", I argued picking up the ball. "Trust me I know am older than you", He said confidently. That's how he ends all our arguments up to now despite the fact that he is only three years older than me. After years of hanging out with Stacy as a friend I've realized she's actually not invincible to Jake. I used to think she is the only girl at seaside Academy who is resistant to Jake's Alpha male charm but no. Recently she's been lying to me about talking to Jake and all that stuff. It's not like she is my girlfriend but we tell each other everything and we know everything about each other. For instance I know she loves Tulips, her favorite boy band is imagine dragons her favorite musician is Bishop Briggs and her favorite actor is Ryan Reynolds who also happens to be my favorite. Navy blue is her favorite color because its authoritative-she is bossy all Authors are. She prefers tea to coffee and wine to alcohol. She hates bullies, ironical now that there's a chance she might like Jake and he's been bullying me ever since we were young. Cristiano Ronaldo is her favorite soccer player-she is no football fan his abs make her go bizarre and Roman reigns is her favorite pro wrestler and again the two are my favorites too. Anyway enough with the introduction part. This is where this story really begins. I have always reminded myself to love and protect Stacy, to respect her choices and live by them. In other words I appointed myself as her own personal tutelar the day I gave her the keys to my closed gates of love. If she likes me back I want it to be from the heart and on her own terms. And now I have to keep my word even though I might lose her to my own glutinous stepbrother Jake. The other day I sneaked into his room and the guy was calling her name out in his sleep. It might have been a dream but some rumors have been on everyone's lips about an incident between the two stuck in an elevator. If the rumors are true he is not going to be her first boyfriend, but he kind of reminds me of what he said when we both saw her for the first time and I'm struggling not to believe what he said was actually true because her relationship track record has been pointing towards Jake's direction. Am a skeptic person I don't believe in superstitions. Am still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing and for the first time am really yearning to find out if she loves me back or not. Hopefully before Jake manages to go with her under the sheets. He is good at it, everything comes easy to him. What takes some of us years to build he gets in less than two days.