it's a fictional story jumbled from the true love stories of 3 girls. :)
Joshua and Jane met each other in school at the beginning of the new school term through some activities together as well as through common friends. Subsequently, they spent more and more time together and got to know each other better as friends.
Joshua started liking Jane as more than friends. He was not sure if Jane felt the same way towards him. Jane was a sociable girl and had a few close guy friends. Was Joshua just one of those close guy friends she had?
As they were close friends, there was nothing wrong with them going out on single dates. And this happened pretty often as well. Joshua and Jane hung out together pretty often and sometimes there would even be a little tinge of physical intimacy between them.
This was when Jane broke the news to him. Jane just got attached. Joshua congratulated her and asked her about her new boyfriend. He responded like any close friend would, the only difference was that he did not really mean it. He was upset. He said he was happy for her, but deep down, he knew it was a lie.
Joshua and Jane continued being close for a while. Joshua would be there to listen to Jane when she had problems. To Joshua, they were connected in the heart as more than close friends. Did Jane think the same way too? She calls him to chat on the phone, sends him smses and allows him to enter into her life.
Joshua felt that he could no longer behave in this way. She was attached after all. And he did like her a lot. He decided to take a step back out of her life. He did not tell her about his decision. He just did it. He stopped going out with her, always giving excuses that he was busy. Jane of course felt that Joshua has strayed away. This was when Jane realized that she missed him. Jane missed Joshua.
Now, Jane had some thinking to do. She was attached, but seemed to have fallen for someone else. She was in a relationship and therefore is responsible for that relationship. She did not try to win Joshua back as a friend. She knew now that the important thing was to recollect her feelings and thoughts. Was there something wrong with her relationship now? Can it be solved? Would she and her boyfriend have a future? If there was no future, a break-up would be inevitable. If there was still hope, she would want to continue working things out with her boyfriend. It was a good thing that Joshua had taken a step back. She would not have to deal with feelings for him as she deals with her relationship.
Being the responsible girl she was, though she knew there was no future in the relationship, she wanted to continue to try to work out the relationship with her boyfriend. All these while, though she still sees Joshua at school activities and classes, she does not talk to him as much and they do not spend time together alone anymore. Still, she had the security that If she were to run to Joshua in tears one day, he would be there to provide her with a shoulder to cry on.
Finally, something happened that assured Jane that her boyfriend was not the one for her. Other than no longer being happy when they were going out together, she felt that he did not give her security. He was not there for her when she needed him most. They finally ended their long-strained relationship. Jane was now single. But was she ready for another relationship?
She did not call Joshua straightaway to inform him of her break-up. Though she needed someone to talk to and would very much love to talk to him, she felt that she needed to handle this on her own.
Subsequently, Jane asked Joshua out. They started to go out again. They started to talk more again. They started to rekindle the friendship that they have put on hold for a period of time. Joshua found out that Jane has broken up with her boyfriend. Jane told him that she might not be ready for another relationship. Joshua told her that he was not in a rush.
They got to knew each other better as friends. They knew of each other's feelings. But the time was just not right yet. Good things come to those who wait. They went out on single dates, on group dates, as friends. Though each knew that the other was someone special, they were just friends, just as they had been less than a year ago when they first met.
Now, Joshua and Jane are happily together. 6 months into their official relationship, Joshua proposed. And, it is a happy ending.
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