STRONG GIRL AND DRACULA PRINCE'S.
JOSH AND ALICIA'S CHILDHOOD.

At recess, Alicia approached Gwen with a tray filled with food, but Gwen looked away, Alicia was sad to see the attitude of her best friend.

"Alicia, there's an empty seat!" call Aaron.

"Come on!" Josh, who has been behind him, invites him to join Aaron's table, Alicia follows Josh with a sigh.

"What's wrong with Gwen?" aaron asked as Alicia sat down before him.

"Gwen misunderstood me" whispered Alicia sadly.

"I think it has something to do with you!" sahut Aaron to his best friend.

"Me?! What have I done?!" josh asked confusedly.

"Last morning, Gwen and I saw you hand in hand with Alicia, wasn't Gwen interested in you?!" Aaron looked at his best friend.

"Is Gwen mad at you because I pulled your hand this morning?" Alicia just kept quiet, she didn't want to answer Josh's question to her, "Alicia Stone Heart!" the girl raised her face when she heard Josh call her full name.

"I haven't heard anyone call my name in a long time" he whispered.

"Alicia, don't you know me?! I'm Josh Harnet your little best friend,"

"Josh?" Alicia could hardly believe what she had heard, Josh nodded.

"I'm Josh who gave you the bracelet the day you left school!"

"No way!!" Alicia shook her head, "The two of you are so different,"

"Alicia," Josh grabbed the hand of the girl sitting beside him, "I am the same person, who always asks for your bread" he whispered.

"But.. You look different to him! Josh was my best friend, he.. Very funny and kind," Alicia smiled as she recalled Josh's eating face.

"I was very young then, and my mother always gave me a lot of food, of course my body looks like that, now.. I always keep my diet in order to play basketball easily, trust me!" Josh held Alicia's hand.

"Hey Josh, stop that! You're making Gwen even more angry!" aaron said in a soft voice.

"Gwen?" Alicia pulled her hand and looked towards the table where her best friend was sitting earlier, but the table had been empty, "She must hate me so much right now!" alicia whispered sadly.

"Don't worry! I'll help you explain what happened this morning to her!"

"No need, I'll explain myself!" Alicia stood up and left her food.

"Hey friend, why not go after him?" Aaron looked at his best friend.

"Alicia doesn't want me to help her, what do you think I should do?!"

"It's not like the words Josh I knew, loved and waited for him for so long, are you just going to see him grieve?!" aaron's words made Josh think.

In the classroom, Gwen carrying her bag to the back table and putting it there, Alicia was getting saddened to see the attitude of her best friend, Alicia approached her chair and sat down while bowing her face, Josh and Aaron who saw his sad face approached the girl.

"Hey, leave Gwen's problem to me!" whispered Josh, as he passed Alicia's table, the girl raised her face.

"Josh can do it!" aaron said with a smile, "All you have to do is trust him,"

"But.."

"All right,"

"Because you have agreed to it, what if you change your facial expression first? Your current face is really not that good to look at!" whispered Aaron.

"Eh," Alicia looked at Aaron with a confused face.

"I mean this!" Aaron pointed at his lips, "Smile!" Alicia smiled at Aaron's words to her.

"Thank you" Alicia said to the two men before her, Josh and Aaron nodding.

"Me and Josh go back there first!" point Aaron at his desk.

"Yes," Alicia nodded, Josh and Aaron left Alicia for her desk, as they passed by Gwen, Josh seemed to whisper to the girl, Gwen nodding her head.

***

At night, Josh picks up Gwen at her house, Gwen looks cheerful as Josh takes her outside on his motorcycle, Josh stops at a cafe, ordering two capuchinos and two puddings.

"Gwen, there's something I have to tell you," Josh opened the conversation, Gwen glancing at Josh with a suspicious face.

"If it's about you and Alicia I don't want to hear it!" Gwen stood up, Josh pulled the girl's hand.

"Sit down! I'm going to tell you a story about me and my best friend, I want to ask you for your opinion on this," said Josh with a slightly begging face, Gwen sat back confused, "All this happened 11 years ago, I was in first grade of elementary school, my body was not even what it is today," Josh chuckled, Gwen smiled, "May I continue?" josh asked, Gwen nodded, "I used to be so fat, my friends call me Josh the fat one! But I'm still better than him, he.. A little girl in my class, a bunch of girls used to bully her, this girl never returned the favor, I've seen her hurt a few times for being pushed by them, one day for not being able to bear to see their treatment of her, I defended her! From then on, the little girl and I were good friends, she used to bring me her mother's bread, I liked it, and she always smiled when she saw me, that innocent smile.. I still remember it today, a few days later I brought my own bracelet to school, I wanted to give it to her, but something happened back then," Josh sighed.

"What's going on?" ask Gwen curiously.

"That girl was bullied by some children bigger than her, as her best friend I certainly had to defend her right?" josh asked, Gwen nodded, "That's the day I got this wound!" Josh has a scar on his head.

"Why?"

"The bad boys pushed me into the garden chair, and caused my head to hurt, the little girl got angry seeing their treatment of me, and she attacked the bad boys and made them run away in fear, but because of that too, so that she was forced to leave my school, before her departure I gave her the bracelet I had prepared for her, I made her from thread matting with a small snail as her decoration, she said, then the little girl disappeared from my life for 11 years,"

"Then have you never met again?" Gwen looked at Josh.

"I was almost desperate, I looked for him for 11 years, honestly he was my first love!" josh said, "That little girl, she's very nice, rarely talks but very sweet when she smiles," Josh recalled Alicia's smiling little face to her, "Today, I'm back to meet her,"

"Meet her?" gwen asked, Josh nodded.

"I looked for him for so long, I didn't even realize that he was in the same college as me, to this day,"

"Do you mean Alicia was your little best friend, your first love?" gwen asked with an incredulous face.

"Right, that girl is Alicia!"

"Why are you so sure of him?!"

"That bracelet, she still had the bracelet I gave her, Alicia also said it was from her best friend, and as I mentioned the name of my little friend, Alicia looked at me, looking at me, it makes me even more sure she's the little girl,"

"Then what do you want to ask me?! Didn't you find him?"

"That's.. I was a little confused when I confronted him, because of this confusion, I pulled him out this morning, which made you misunderstand him, didn't it?" Josh looked at Gwen, Gwen looked awkward, "She didn't tease me! Alicia doesn't even believe me! Do you think everything I did to her was wrong? If it's my fault, I want to ask you not to get mad at him! That girl was always sad as a child, I don't want to see her sad anymore right now!" josh said, Gwen was silent, her mind filled with guilt for her best friend.