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As I was doing my business, suddenly I heard the door open and Jessica's evil voice filled my ears. "I heard you're afraid of the dark, Arthit. Is it really true? Let's find out, shall we?"

And before I could answer, she turned all the lights off. The next thing I knew, I heard the door open and shut close.

Followed by the unmistakable "click"sound of a door being locked.

As I blinked, I tried to get my eyes to adapt to the darkness. But somehow, no matter what I did, all I could see was complete blackness, even though there was a tiny window not far from my right. Blindly, I stumbled out of the stall, but I was still unable to see anything and fear and panic quickly overwhelmed me.

I took out Kongpob's cell phone and searched for Nam's number. But the problem was, it wasn't in his phone book. And so, I decided to call Kongpob on my number instead, so I dialed "Wifey".

While I waited for Kongpob to answer, I used the cell phone as a flashlight and managed to head for the door. With my heart beating wildly the whole time, I pulled the knob, only to find out that it wouldn't budge. And to make matters worse, Kongpob wasn't picking up.

Canceling the call, I decided to look for the light switch since it was a whole lot better to be locked in there with the lights on. But as if my luck was especially bad today, the cell phone suddenly gave a signal saying that the battery was empty, and it was followed by the sound of the phone shutting down.

Just knowing that the door was in front of me, I began pounding on it hard. "Jessica! Open up!" I cried as loudly as I could, terrified of my dark surroundings. But she didn't seem like she could hear me, or rather, it was because she just wouldn't listen at all. And so, I cried even louder, panicking by the second and screaming on the top of my lungs. "Jessica! This isn't funny! Open the door!"

I could hear someone talking from the outside. '"What's going on in there?" a girl was asking someone. But I couldn't hear the answer of the other person which I believed to be Jessica.

Thinking that the girl might be my savior, I continued shouting loudly. "Help! I'm locked inside! Please let me out of here!" But still, no one bothered to do so. And so, I continued to scream until my throat became sore.

Once I felt like I had been crying for at least an hour pounding against the door, I stopped and decided to give up. No one was listening to my pleas and it was better to try to calm down and just try to breathe.

Leaning against the door, I fell on my knees and hugged myself for comfort. Not far from me, I could hear droplets of water dropping down loudly. Shivering, I wondered whether there were ghosts around me, ready to pounce at me any moment soon. Just the thought of me not knowing what was going on, I felt even more scared. And because of this, I cried even more.

Suddenly, May's voice could be heard. "Yah, Jessica, why are you guarding the bathroom door here? "

Upon hearing her voice, I once again stood up and pounced at the door. "May! May! Please! Help me, Jessica won't let me out!" I shouted, knowing that May would surely help me.

And just as I expected, she did. "What the hell are you doing? Why are you locking Arthit in the restroom?" she spoke angrily. "Let him out now."

"Why should I? No one seems to care whether he's in there or not. He's been screaming for at least an hour now and no one bothered to help him." Jessica remarked annoyingly. "And besides, aren't you supposed to be mad at him for stealing Daniel from you? I've heard you've had a crush on him since... forever."

Typical Jessica. She was trying to get us to fight with each other. But fortunately, May wasn't that stupid. "Oh really? You probably didn't know, but think about it, if I really like Daniel like you say, then why would I accept this couple ring from Michael and agreed to be his girlfriend just earlier today?" She shot back at Jessica. Yes, that's my May!

Upon hearing May finally admit her feelings for Michael, I almost felt a bit better. I felt very happy for them inside, but I couldn't smile, because my heart was becoming so restless from beating fast and every bit of my body was shivering. In fact, if I were to stay much longer, I was sure I will faint from the panic attack.

"Open the door now, Jessica." May ordered, her tone firm and serious. I heard a small struggle, I was sure May was trying to physically drag Jessica away from the door and sure enough, a few moments later, the door opened, causing me to wince upon the sudden bright light blinding me.

"I told you Kongpob's just playing with you. If he wasn't, he would've been here by now to help you. So if I were you, I'd stop dating him, or something worse might happen to you." Jessica spoke to me threateningly. Then, she turned on her heels and walked away.

Once Jessica was gone, May approached me with a very worried expression on her face. "Are you alright?".

"My legs are weak, but I think I can manage." I replied weakly, wiping the tears that were still brimming from my eyes. "Thank you for helping me."

She led me back inside and helped me wash up. I didn't realize that after the terrifying incident, I was looking like a zombie. "It's nothing. But I warned you before, didn't I? Jessica's a heartless person. You shouldn't mess with her. If you ask me, I think it's time you stopped this."

Actually, I totally agreed with her. I wanted to stop being Kongpob's fake boyfriend, so I wouldn't have to cope with Kongpob's childishness and Jessica's cruelness. But then, Nam wouldn't understand me. I knew she was so hurt by Kongpob's deceiving ways that she wanted to me to get back at him the same way. "I can't do that..." I told May weakly.

"Why not? Because of Nam?" She asked, as if reading my mind. "No offense or anything, but if I were in your position and you are trying to get revenge at your ex-boyfriend, I wouldn't do what you've been doing. I mean, sure, we've been friends a long time, and friends help each other, but I know well enough that it's not enough for me to sacrifice myself to make you happy. There are limitations to every friendship, you know. And I'm sure Nam would understand your reasons for breaking up with Kongpob. After all, it was all fake, wasn't it?"

Still deep in thought about what May had said, I felt my stomach growl in hunger and parted ways with May to go to the cafeteria, I gave her words some thought. Maybe I really should stop this now. There were other ways to help Nam with her fight, other ways which didn't involve me being bullied heartlessly. It was definitely better when Jessica just turned my own evil schemes against me rather than attacking me with no reason at all.

And upon reaching the cafeteria, I had made up my mind. I was going to break up with Kongpob Suthiluck right now.

"Yah, what took you so long? I've been waiting for you here for a while." Kongpob suddenly appeared beside me from inside the cafeteria. Then he noticed the redness of my eyes and puffiness of my cheeks. "...Have you been crying? I was just gone for 30 minutes and you already missed me that much?"

I ignored his joking remarks and entered the cafeteria, not having enough strength to talk to him yet. I walked over to the counter and bought some food because I left my lunchbox at home from being too paranoid earlier this morning.

Once we were seated, Kongpob started talking again. "Why didn't you call me after that one missed call you left? I was just busy at that moment." He asked, eating his own food as I was with mine.

I took his cell phone from my pocket and placed it on the table. "The battery's dead, and you didn't even give me your charger." I explained briefly, continuing to eat.

"You didn't tell me you needed it. I could've brought it if you said so." he replied. "Yah, why are you eating so much? Do you want to get fat?"

Still trying to regain my lost energy, I kept quiet until I took my one last bite. After that, I faced him with a serious expression. "Hey, Kongpob, let's break up." I said firmly.

And as if it was not a serious statement, he answered without giving it any thought. "No." he said immediately, face all too serious.

"Why not? Didn't you say before that you don't like me? You said you just agreed to make me your boyfriend because you thought I like you. But you're mistaken. I don't like you at all." I told him honestly.

He raised his brow at me as he smirked. He was making a joke out of this. "Why do you want to break up with me?" he asked with a husky tone, smiling that all-knowing smile of his and completely disregarding what I had just said. "I didn't mean to leave you alone. It was just that Michael asked all the varsity players to support him, while he asked May to be his girlfriend."

So that was why he wasn't picking up my call. "I'm not mad because you left me, okay? In fact, I was happy. It's because of all the stupid things I have to go through because of you." I finally admitted so that he would stop with his absurd theory.

"Really? Like what?" he asked, completely amused by this.

Damnit, why was he so stubborn about not breaking up with me?

It was all a fake relationship anyway...

I couldn't believe he was still thinking of this as a joke when I was already dead serious. "Why don't you ask your biggest fan Jessica?" I shot at him angrily.

He didn't budge. "Jessica? What's her got to do with this?" He asked curiously, not even acting a bit concerned about what it was that Jessica had done to me. Or maybe he just didn't get it. "Are you saying Jessica did something bad to you? But...she's not that kind of a person."

"Oh really?" I retorted sarcastically with a scoff. "You just don't know her well."

"I know her well enough to say that she never does something without good reason." He remarked seriously, making me feel as if I was the bad person and Jessica was the victim.

Annoyed that Kongpob was still siding with Jessica, I stood up from my seat. "If you think she's so great, then why don't you just go and ask her to be your girlfriend and just leave me alone?"

I started to walk away, but as I passed him, he suddenly grabbed my hand and spoke with stronger confidence than before. "Because you don't like a person just because they are great. You like them, because they are different from others. And that is why you can't break up with me."

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