Book Two: Branch Ninety Three

"What do you mean?" he asked her. It was so obvious he still was not getting what she was trying to drive at.

"Anette is my best friend" he said his mind wandering around.

"Yes she is but she is your best friend who believes that one day you will end up with her"

"How?" he asked. Aletta was amused at how lost he was in the situation. how was he so naive and she wondered why.

"You know how it is natural for a girl to like a boy and vice versa," she said as if she was teaching him from scratch.

"Yeah," he said nodding his head.

"Anette seems to have those kinds of feelings for you" she explained.

"But how do you know?" he asked scratching his throat a bit.

"Apparently everyone knew aside from us. Jeanne told me today" she tells him.

"But that does not matter to me" he says and for a very strange reason, it warms her heart. He was giving her his word.

"You know that she would try her best to make you break up with your girlfriend and come to her?" she asked him trying to prepare his hear