I hate selcas mostly cause my friend Tao will always be taking them, but he has never asked for me to be in one with him. I mean we only have pictures that other’s take of us together. Not that I care… all right so I’m lying. I do care a lot since I’ve been in love with him since I was a little kid.
I jump back on my twitter account to see that Tao posted something new with of course a selca of himself.
“Walking to a girl’s house for I can confess. I wonder if she would be able to guess who she is on my way there. Let’s see if she can guess before I can reach her house.”
I look at the selca and chuckles at how Tao looks confused.
I chuckle at how much of a dork he is, but still he’s going to confess to some girl. I wonder who she is.
“I should have told him how I felt well I still had the chance.”
I lie on my bed and wait for his next update to see if I can guess.
I’m playing a video game when I decide that I’m going to message Tao to tease him.
“Hey, I saw your post. Who are you confessing to?”
It’s a little bit before he messages, “You’ll know when you see the final selca.”
“You’re kidding me right? I’m your best friend come on tell me.”
I can picture him laughing at how I complained since he’s a stubborn kid, “You can try to guess. If you get it right I’ll tell you.”
“Ugh why are you so stubborn?”
“Cause how do I know you won't’ tell her?”
“I’m appalled that you won't’ trust me. Am I not your best friend who has kept many secrets?”
I’m pretty sure he’s laughing his tall bum off at me at the moment.
My phone buzzes to tell me he posted something new.
I open the alert to see a picture of Tao at the end of his street under a street sign pointing at it, “This is where I met her for the first time.”
“Do you have a guess?” he messages me.
“Do you know how many people you have met under that sign?”
“True, but meeting her under that sign was the most special day in my life.”
I groan in frustration and go back to killing zombies and feeling sorry for myself.
I look at the first Selca to see the confused looking Tao in front of his house.
I read the comments which basically ask the same question of, “who are you confessing to?” or it’s a few dumb bimbos who are claiming it’s them
Then I look at the street one to see a face of pure wonder on his face, which confuses me.
“He hardly lets any emotion on his face when he takes these and today because of his confession he’s adding emotion.”
Reading the comments I guess I’m not the only person thinking the same way that I am. Who would make Tao have such an expression and he met a lot of people at the end of his street.
I drop my phone on a chair as I give up on zombies and decide to throw darts maybe that will make me feel better.
I keep tossing them and picture all the girls that have ever showed romantic interest in Tao, which made it so I was hitting the bull’s-eye for once.
I take a picture and post it on my twitter, “Yay, I finally hit the bull’s-eye more than once without some kind of fluke.”
I’m not like Tao I have taking selcas unless it’s to show off some outfit that I designed. I hate taking selcas instead I like taking pictures of things that I’ve done or plan to do. I love taking pictures of my friends or sadly, with my friends, but none with Tao for some odd reason he doesn’t like it.
I know that I don’t’ live far from Tao so as the third of the set comes up.
Tao is standing by a park on the second block away from his house, “We use to come here all the time, but then one day we just stopped and I never questioned her. Those are some of the more important days that I miss.”
I stare at the hint on the bottom and take a deep breathe, “It’s not like he’s talking about the two of us. There’s a lot of people that would play in that park.”
I smile as I toss my phone onto the chair again and race into my mother’s office to grab a box with old photos and drag them into the room where I was in before. I open the box to stare at the old photos of Tao and me when we were little kids. I laugh when there’s a picture of both Tao and I smiling widely with our two front teeth missing. I pull the pictures out and lay them out in a collage on my floor and stare at them forgetting about Tao’s updates.
I unlock my phone to see he has a new update.
I open it to see a candy store that’s three blocks from his house and three from mine.
Tao is holding an ice-cream cone with a slightly smile on his lips, “We use to come here whenever we had free time and I’d buy her ice-cream. This was our summer hang out if we weren’t at the park.”
“Why does it seem he keeps talking about me? Tao this isn’t funny.”
“Tao who is it you like?”
I start naming off girls that we use to hang out with, but slowly one by one they stopped hanging out with Tao and me.
I get one simple reply, “I’m not telling until I’m in my final selca.”
I groan and toss my phone again and stare at my floor as I carefully climb up on my bed and decide to take a picture of my collage.
I smile as I upload it on my Facebook and Twitter account, “Photos of childhood memories are not just in photos but in the mind.”
I smile as I open my dart photo and laugh at some of the comments.
Tao’s is so true, “I bet you’re getting better today because you’re picturing someone’s face.”
I laugh as I answer his comment, “You know me too well Tao.”
I exit out and toss my phone on my bed next to me as I slowly lay down and look out my window to see the blue sky.
“It’s odd how much I use to love looking at the sky, but now I feel only hatred towards it because it’s so bright and beautiful and I’m not.”
I look around and try to figure out what else to do. Still I’m ready to turn on the TV and Xbox to kill more zombies but I think I’ll vote against it.
Another photo is updated when he exits that block and he’s sitting under a tree with a tired look on his face, “We use to take naps under trees no matter where we were that people use to think we were homeless.”
Laugh as it starts dawning even more on me, “Could I be the one he likes? Nah, who am I kidding how could Tao like me.”
It’s not that much later when I decide to slip out my room to get some ice-cream cause my lovely friend made me want ice-cream cone. I walk into my kitchen to find my parents hanging out in it talking about how cute he is at how he’s confessing.
“Mom dad are you talking about Tao’s selcas?”
They nod their heads, “Of course I mean who wouldn’t be. He’s being so cute with how’s he’s confessing.”
I roll my eyes, “Selcas are idiotic though. I mean what’s the point of it? He’s just trying to inflate his ego if he keeps it up.”
“Sweetheart that’s just mean.”
“Mom, he’s a selca king that’s all I have to say.”
I take the ice-cream cone and walk back up the stairs to my room.
I enter my room to see that he had two Twitter updates.
“Wow he picked up the pace,” I say to myself as I open my twitter feed to Tao’s.
The first update after his last one is one of him holding up a red chrysanthemum with a lotus flower and narcissus jonquilla. His face is smiley with somehow a dream state look in his eyes like he’s thinking of something that’s far off… Maybe like the person that he’s going to confess to.
I smile as I read the hint, “She’s not a fan of flowers, but I know that she loves the stories behind each flower. Like every element of life there is a myth behind a flower’s name.”
I chuckle as I read his comment, “Dork.”
I look at the last update to see him standing in front of my house with flowers in his hand, “Wish me luck.”
My doorbell rings and I carefully jump off my bed careful of the photos on my floor and race down the stairs to reach my door before my parents have a chance to exit the kitchen.
Standing there is Tao with his hands behind his back, “So do you have an answer to who I’m going to confess to?”
“Yes,” I take a deep breathe and hold back my tears, “You are in love with me Tao.”
He looks at me scared of how I answered him, “Yes, I’m in love with you, ____. I have always been in love with you. It’s just I was afraid to tell you, but when we were talking last week after the millionth guy confessed to you I realized that what if a guy had caught your attention and you said you’d go on a date with him. I’d lose my chance to be with you. I didn’t’ want to just tell you that I love you, because that’s not what I want. I want you to know how important you are to me.”
“then why do you never take selcas with me?”
He blushes, “Because when we were 14 and I realized my feelings and I started taking Selcas I realized the only time I would want to start taking selcas with you is when you are my girlfriend.”
I lift my eyebrow, “Tao that was four years ago.”
He nods his head and blushes, “Like I said it took me awhile to find a way to confess to you.”
I laugh, “So when you have defended your title of selca king you decided that hey what the heck I know how to confess to her.”
He nods his head, “___, you are the most important person in my life. I wouldn’t want that to change until there’s a child that I get to call my own comes into the picture.”
I smile brightly at Tao, “So what are you saying?”
“Wo Ai Ni,” he says as he stares into my eyes.
I smile at him as I chuckle and decide to tease him, “See you can say it.”
He gives me the stink eye causing me to laugh even more.
He doesn’t seem to think that I love him as well.
“I should go,” he says.
“Tao, you should wait for a girls answer,” I tell him causing him to stop in his tracks.
“It seems you’re going to reject me.”
“No, I wasn’t going to reject you. You know why Tao.”
He turns around facing me as he takes only three steps to be right in front of me, “Because you love me, too.”
I smile as I lean up and kiss him on the lips, “Yes, I love you Haung ZiTao. I love only you that’s why I rejected all those guys.”
He smiles as he pulls me over to him and hugs me tightly.
“Do you want to take the selca now since you officially my girlfriend and only love?” he asks me.
I nod my head as I sets his camera at an angle and so do I. We both take the picture at the same time as we smile with each other.
I post my picture with the comment under it, “The love of my life just confessed to me and I said yes.”
He posted his and had his comment say, “After all this time we both have been in love and now here’s the first selca ever as friends and lovers.”
I chuckle as I tap his shoulder to give him a kiss on the lips. As I kiss him I snap a picture and show him causing him to blush and laugh at the same time.
I post the picture and comment under it, “Huang ZiTao is officially my boyfriend a picture of our first kiss proves it.”
He laughs as he pulls me against him and asks, “So I hear you hate selcas.”
I shake my head, “No, I love them especially when they deal with you, Huang ZiTao. I was just jealous of all the people that you would take them with.”
He smiles as he looks into my eyes, “Well now we’re going to be taking selcas together all the time.”
I nod my head as I give him one more kiss before a flash goes off telling me my parents got nosy and a bit camera crazy.
“How about we go out on our first date?”
He shakes his head, “Not today how about we go out on it tomorrow?”
“Alright.”
The rest of my day I spent cooped up in my room looking at pictures that I laid out on my floor with Tao.