Friendship x Love

I had been friends with Alice since 3rd Grade, and we had been best friends and classmates ever since. Till I soon realized Alice was in love with a boy named Kevin, who sat beside her in class. Okay, so Kevin was cute and caring, but then Alice began to spend so much time with Kevin that she chatted with me all about him. Although she would never declare that she liked him, I could see that for myself. I was jealous. How dared she love someone when I could not? I began ignoring her.

In the next year, Alice, Kevin and I were in the same class again. And by coincidence I was put next to Kevin. I set my mind not to even make friends with him. But seeing him daily was unavoidable, and soon we became great friends, and I realized that Kevin was really sweet and thoughtful. Since they no longer sat together, Alice no longer had a chance to talk to Kevin, much to my advantage. I...I, Kerry Lin, was in love?

Soon, Alice and I no longer talked. I suppose Alice was jealous, that I was much closer with Kevin than she was with him before. However, I don't know what I was thinking at that time. I was selfish. I thought: Great, I won the boy, Alice. You lost to me.

Towards, the end of the graduating year, I got my final chance to talk to Alice.

"Hi, Alice," I said.
"Hello, Kerry. How's your lovey-dovey relationship with Eric?" Cathy said with a tone of jealousy.

I looked down in shame. So this is where jealousy mixed with friendship takes you, I thought. I couldn't continue this conversation. I ran away in tears, burying my face in my hands. Alice just strutted off with a snobbish grin on her smug face, but there was probably some sadness behind that mask of triumph.

So Alice, Kevin and I moved to different schools each, and we never met again. I didn't enjoy this love triangle game. I don't want it anymore. So...a perfect friendship was torn apart faster than cardboard by something called love and jealousy.