Fleeting Wishes

Willow was 23 almost 24 and in the last semester of university. Although she'd have preferred to be studying elsewhere and not in Knuckles University. The school itself wasn't bad, but Willow had other plans including getting a scholarship and moving to Seoul. She'd planned everything before hand and the family drama had ripped everything apart. Instead of writing the SAT, she ended up waiting a year to get into university.

Still Willow had not given up on her plans....she only made some modifications. Instead of writing SAT, she'll apply for a full paid scholarship and hopefully a Tesla degree so she could work in Korea as an English teacher.

As she sat in English, she couldn't help but daydreaming about her life in Korea. Her best friend Ferrell stared at her and rolled his eyes.

"don't tell me you're dreaming about those monolids again", he whispered.

Willow rolled her eyes

"will you stop being racist?. Not only of them are monolids"

"whatever princess"

Willow stared back onto the projectile in front of her instead.

Ferrell wasn't really fond of the Korean pop wave and he definitely didn't appreciate the ethereal beauty of Korean pop idol's either. Something people just don't know when they're beaten.

The class ended finally after 3 good hours and willow found herself walking with Ferrell towards the hostels

"I can tell. You barely paid attention in that class. Were you ogling the teacher? ", he asked

Willow scoffed

"what? No! "

"I could have sworn I... "

"you are indeed a twisted guy", Willow acknowledged. It wasn't false. Ferrell was a weird guy. He was crazy about anime and Hentai. Not that willow was judging or anything like that. She herself was still discovering her sexuality.

Ferrell plopped down on Willow's bed as soon as she opened her door.

"I don't know why I always feel sleepy anytime I come to your room", he commented

"maybe it's because you have 3 roommates", Willow laughed.

"haha very funny ", Ferrell faked a laugh.

It was true, Ferrell had 3 very hormonal roomies. They had to bring their girlfriends on Friday nights and ruin his weekend. Ferrell wasn't complaining but Willow was always annoyed.

"you know I never cook...so I was thinking we could order take out? ", Willow asked

Ferrell raised a brow and took out a few notes

"2 eggs for me"

30 minutes later when the food arrived, Willow was virtually on the brink of extinction. She dug in immediately while talking to Ferrell about Naruto episodes

"I know I binge watched all 50 episodes in four days but can you download faster? "

Ferrell rolled his eyes

"you know, I'm really scared of the way you watch Naruto nonstop. You like it that much? "

Willow nodded with her mouth full

"have I told you my favourites? "

"no"

"well I like Hinata, Sasuke, Gaara and Shikamaru"

"what about Naruto and Sakura? "

Willow shrugged

"I don't get what the fuss is about those two. Naruto brings a little comedy into the show but Sakura, I'm not sure "

"wait till you watch Shippuuden"

Willow smiled

"okay anime king"

The rest of the day was spent with Ferrell talking about other stuff from academics to sports and music. And when it was time to leave, Willow literally had to drag him out.

"see you tomorrow Willow"

"okay, bye Ferrell "

The next morning, Willow woke up to the piece of good news every lazy student would love to hear. Classes had been cancelled. She made breakfast, talked to Ferrell for hours and decided to skip to the library.

To every on looker, Willow was a serious student off to study but it was the wifi she was actually interested in. After downloading tens of episodes of kdrama, Willow fell asleep in the library.

When she woke up, it was already evening. A look at her phone and she had 6missed calls from Ferrell. She switched off her laptop and headed for the hostel.

Willow frowned as she spotted the guy waiting by her door.

"what are you doing here Zachary? ", she asked harshly

"I came to see you baby", he answered

"I already told you I don't know you, we don't talk anymore so stop trying to make it seem like we're on good terms. We're not! "

"I'm sorry. I miss you. I want you back"

"sorry but not sorry Zach, you had your chance and you blew it. We're done, finished....so don't come looking for me "

Zachary sighed and left.

Willow took a deep breath and opened the door immediately plopping on to the soft mattress of her bed.

It was a year ago since her breakup with Zach. And yet he always found a way to track her down and ruin her mood.

Willow's phone vibrated and she picked it up. A long message from Ferrell about his feelings for her popped up on the screen. Willow frowned unable to believe that her best friend just confessed to her via text.

Later when Ferrell arrived, Willow wanted to bring it up because she was annoyed that Ferrell had pulled such a prank on her.

But when Ferrell started explaining the message, Willow didnt question him. Apparently one of Ferrell's roommate had accidentally sent the text to willow's phone instead of one of his girlfriends. It did make sense.

Willow cheered happily afterwards when Ferrell handed episodes of Naruto shippuuden to willow. She was just getting into anime and was already loving every second of it.

Ferrell stared at willow as he rewatched episodes of one of his favourite anime. What Willow didn't know was that Ferrell had led his ass of. The confession was from Ferrell, he'd taken a dare and sent the message and then he'd chickened out when he realized how this might affect their friendship.

Ferrell was in love with Willow. And he'd kept his unrequited feelings for almost more than a year. The issue was that Willow thought of Ferrell as someone incapable of showing any emotion especially that of love. Ferrell had made Willow believe he didn't believe in love. How could he dare to make Willow believe his feelings were genuine when he himself didn't believe in the word love?

To Ferrell, Willow Murphey was just one of his numerous crushes. A crush that will soon be naught and forgotten once and for all.

Author's note.

Hello everybody. I'm new on this platform so take care of me. I hope you enjoy reading this book. Stay safe.