You were so desperate for love, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that. You deeply craved it, you liked really any guy that was slightly attractive. Hell, you told your friends you thought Yves Saint Laurent was cute (well, personally, I think he is.)

Then, you found out about the new kid who went to your school. Ronan. He was pretty quiet, but quite a few girls gawked over him because of his sophisticated wardrobe that made him look like he came out of a booktok girl's dreams. I mean, he wore Burberry, Polo Ralph Lauren, Dior, pretty much all types of designer. You'd see any other guy in school wearing Stussy, Essentials, Aritzia, but Ronan really was just that guy that made everyone drool.

You developed quite an obsession with Ronan (quite is an understatement), and you ranted to your friends about him. You loved everything about him: his looks, how quiet he was, how studious he was. Ronan was practically at the top of all of his classes every time, and he'd get over 95% on his tests; his GPA was 4.0, and he always outdid everyone on all his projects.

You fell for all of that. You really craved Ronan. You fell into a whirlpool of limerence as a result, leaving you crying almost every week. You did the most random things out of desperation to know if he loved you back or not. You'd go to psychics, believe random ShiftTok videos, and you'd even interact with those 'follow my account to claim this luck/date your crush/become a millionaire' when you knew damn well it was just bait to get more followers.

You eventually found out about 'he loves me, he loves me not,' a simple game that involves a flower. Ridiculous, right? I mean, it was desperation that made you do it. You had gone behind the school to look for a flower to play the game, and you found a beautiful flower.

You gently picked it off the stem and plucked each petal, while alternating between saying 'he loves me' and 'he loves me not.' As you reached the final petal, you were about to say 'he loves me,' but you felt a gentle, warm breeze on your ear. Before you could react, you heard Ronan speak gently into your ear,

"He loves you."