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[An hour earlier]

"Hey, Aaron! What is wrong with you?! Can you stop pulling me around?!" Nathalia angrily demanded Aaron to release her. She can't understand why Aaron is doing this to her. In fact, she can't understand why he has been so angry since the moment he stepped inside the Fischer mansion.

She is not dense of her surroundings, but she chose not to pay attention to Aaron because she didn't want to make the situation worse. 

After relentlessly trying to stop Aaron from pulling to who-knows-where, Aaron finally stopped and released her. She looks around and found out that they are at the end side of the garden where there are only a few people who pa.s.s by.

"Don't get too close to him," Aaron spoke, and Nathalia only frowned at him. She looks at expression, she's trying to understand what Aaron is pointing out.

"What? What are you talking about?" Nathalia has no clue who is 'him' that Aaron is talking about. She knows a lot of people who go by 'him' and clearly, Aaron is not being specific with her.

"Zedrick! He said. "Don't get too close to him. I don't trust him." It was a stupid reason, and it was too late for him to take it back because Nathalia is now angry at him. It's hard for him to look at Nathalia.

She's angry at him because of a guy. A guy in which is not him.

"Excuse me? How dare you say that to me. I have known big brother Zedrick longer than I have known you. If you're going to say who should I put my trust in then, my answer would be, big brother Zedrick. I trust him more than you."

Initially, Nathalia plans to have Aaron get to know her big brother Zedrick. She wants Aaron to know more about her. She didn't have the chance to do it earlier because she can tell that Aaron is not in the mood, and she wants to catch up with her big brother Zedrick.

However, after she heard what Aaron just said, she doesn't think that she wants to let Aaron get close to Zedrick. She doesn't like it when Aaron is already holding a nonsensical grudge on to someone who she trusts so much.

'Why is he being like this?!' Nathalia inwardly asks.

"You're choosing that guy over me?" Aaron is surprised that Nathalia would rather trust Zedrick than him. Zedrick and Nathalia go way back, and he understands that. But he is not thinking rationally right now. He is upset at the fact that Nathalia is choosing to trust another guy over him.

That hurt him more than what he originally thought.

"It's not that hard, Aaron. You're the one who put me in this situation. You made me choose, and I'm choosing the person I've known since I was little." Nathalia is now regretting what she just to Aaron, but she's not gonna let Aaron see right through her.

Her trust between Zedrick and Aaron are equal, but when Aaron suddenly said to her to say away from Zedrick, she can't help but release her anger. Just like her two childhood friends, she owes Zedrick too much, he's one of the people who tried to cheer her up during her hard times.

To think that Aaron doesn't trust the person that helped her really upset her. She doesn't want to choose between them. 

"You chose him because you still have feelings for him, don't you?" She spoke with her anger intact, and without thinking, she chose a person hastily. She didn't choose Zedrick because of what she felt, it was a moment of a spur. She was angry at Aaron and she wouldn't dare to choose him.

"I used to. Past tense." Nathalia firmly said to him. She doesn't Aaron to misunderstand anything. She wants him to understand that she no longer has feelings for Zedrick. If she were to say the truth then, she would say that she mistook love for something else towards Zedrick.

Towards Aaron, there is no mistake in her part. It's different from what she feels towards Zedrick. If she were to tell him the truth, will Aaron will be able to understand her? Will he stop misunderstanding her forwardness toward Zedrick? But, what if Aaron rejects her? What would she do?

Her fear of getting rejected by Aaron is overcoming her once again, and have no confidence to say anything about her feelings.

"I don't believe you." Stubborn just like his sister, Aaron is standing his ground.

"Oh, come on! What do else do you want me to say? I'm telling you the truth! If I said the opposite thing, maybe you would believe me? Is that how things go now? Fine! I'll do that!" Peeved at the situation she and Aaron are in right now, Nathalia doesn't care anymore. She will say whatever she wants. She won't care if Aaron gets angry at her. "Unlike you, big brother Zedrick is the kindest man I have ever known. Unlike you, he's the sweetest man. He gives me things that can make me smile in just seconds."

Nathalia kept on saying all sorts of good things about Zedrick, while, she keeps saying that he's nothing like Zedrick at all. The more he hears about it, the more he gets annoyed and wants to make Nathalia stop talking.

"Stop talking." He said. Nathalia heard him, but she wouldn't dare to stop. Aaron was the one who started it, and she is playing the game he started. "I said, stop talking!"

Without thinking, Aaron pulled Nathalia closer to his face until he sealed her lips with his. When he realized what he just did, he let go of Nathalia, then stared at her shocked face. Nathalia is so red that he didn't know if she's angry or not.

Whether Nathalia is angry or not, Aaron knows that he did something that he should have not done.