
...Flashback...
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...Pov Ruby...
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Gibran didn't say anything, he just left. I thought it was the end of our closeness, but the next day Gibran called me, he asked for my home address.
He met my father and spoke quite seriously, surely I didn't want to look like a bad woman in Gibran's eyes so I was forced to put on a sad expression when my father started crying when he expressed his longing for Jasmine to Gibran.
I wonder if my father would cry that much if I disappeared from his life.
I wonder if my father would also be tormented if he were not around me.
There are a lot of things I want to know including why Jasmine gets everyone's love while I'm always sidelined.
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"Hello, today so will you ask papa loe to meet Jasmine?" Gibran's voice sounded so excited on the other end of the phone.
At least I don't want my father to see Jasmine again and mend their relationship.
"Sorry bgt sak, I don't think you can do this because papa hasn't come home," I replied lying when my father was now relaxing watching television with my mother.
"Oh yes, it is..." Gibran's voice sounded disappointed. It was really upset, as Gibran continued to show his excessive concern for Jasmine.
"Where are you now?"
"Gue's at Jasmine's house."
I no longer said anything, and immediately turned off our phone before my anger grew.
As if there was no place, Gibran closed his heart tightly to Jasmine.
It was hard for me to find a gap to get close to him but Jasmine was always the winner.
I hate that but I'm getting more and more into destroying Jasmine.
Everything I did included enrolling at the university where Gibran attended. I made it so coincidental that Gibran didn't suspect me.
And Gibran's anger at the airport at that time changed his attitude towards me to be a little softer that he even agreed to talk more gently to me even though Jasmine was still the basic reason.
But at least my heartache paid off when Gibran and Jasmine started fighting.
Thinking things would eventually turn towards me, but it turned out that I would never get that position.
I found Jasmine and Gibran in a quiet classroom, from a distance Gibran even looked like he was coaxing Jasmine.
I tried, I kept trying, but the effort felt futile every time I saw them share a smile.
Jasmine began to show her dislike for my existence among them, I managed to tease her but I still did not manage to steal Gibran.
The man was so determined that if I didn't act aggressively towards him then Gibran and Jasmine wouldn't be fighting like this right now, seeing him and Jasmine fighting in the middle of the road, it was really fun.
Their quarrels were like sweet fruit to me because when Gibran and Jasmine did not talk to each other, that was where I entered and increased the distance between them.
I started to think it worked but Gibran came to pick me up after school every day just so Jasmine could come home with us but after that Gibran never called me, he even ignored my phone calls even though I had brought my father's name and lured Gibran to the meeting of my father and Jasmine but Gibran remained harsh.
"You take a taxi, I'm sorry I couldn't drive home."
With anger and shame I got out of Gibran's car and the man immediately drove his car so fast back towards the school that I seemed to have been able to confirm if Jasmine was the goal.
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I was thinking up there, but the night I met Gibran and Jasmine in the shopping mall and they made up, and even Gibran asked for a kiss from Jasmine to shock me.
"You're dating now?" I asked as the new Gibran approached me.
"Why are you here?" asked Gibran who deliberately ignored my question so coldly.
"I'm going to buy something. You guys how are the nights here?"
"Gue again looking for ingredients for cakes, it happens to be Gibran nemenin." Jasmine snatched, she interrupted my conversation with Gibran so easily.
"Oh so..."
"Where's papa loe?" jasmine asked, I instantly felt afraid that they might meet and Jasmine would take my father away and have it for herself.
"There's still in the tool section." I answered lazily without smiling.
"I'm bothering you guys, right?"
"It's not." Gibran said the opposite to his actions and he turned gentle as Jasmine warned him if his attitude was outrageous.
"Yes I mean it's a public place, besides I'm the same Jasmine don't really do it."
"Why ask for a kiss?"
"It's just a joke again."
"Oh..."
"Yes, if you are again your papa, please... Papa you will be nyariin."
Gibran and Jasmine left just like that, they didn't invite me along with them, it made me both disappointed and angry.
I did not want to be thrown away by them so I deliberately waited in the parking lot and made the opportunity to wait for them and when they allowed me to hitch a ride then I immediately entered the chair the front one before Jasmine sat him down.
Gibran had already started the engine of his car when Jasmine suddenly went down and Gibran's attitude instantly changed.
"You were intentional? I told you Jasmine's condition is unstable but you're our nyamperin, if Jasmine meets your papa, she must be in shock!"
"Well, I know you're here."
"Yes, why are you still our samperin?"
"Yes because papa lama, my feet hurt the way continue to follow papa. If your sister does not permit me to ride should you refuse me, do not make me feel like a bad person because it feels like all the things I do that make Jasmine hurt!"
I was emotional, not entirely my speech was a lie because some of it was what I felt until Gibran finally fell silent.
I don't know what's on his mind right now because he looks so messed up, the rope then he looks at me.
"Sorry Ruby" she said briefly before getting out of the car leaving me alone.
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