Can I even compare

Sapphira was walking arm in arm with her best friend named Verose. Verose turned to look at Sapphira, who has green eyes, chocolate skin, and curly hair, and then looked back at her phone. Sapphira has been friends with her since she was 4 years old. “How can you be so oblivious to your beauty? You are straight up gorgeous.” said Verose smiling and blushing at her phone. “Thanks, but I am oblivious because I think the best thing about me is my personality.” “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” “You are pretty too. You have hazel eyes and curly loose hair. “Thank you, what do you think about going to the cafe for some chai lattes?” said Verose still looking at her phone. “I don’t mind going as long as it has nothing to do with boys,” I said suspiciously. I knew all too well that Verose was planning to meet up with Evander, a guy she has been obsessed with all week long. Don’t get me wrong, but I wish he never came into our lives, he is disrespectful to me and I am afraid he will take away my best friend and end our friendship. “Oh don’t worry, I just want something to drink,” said Verose. “Mm, I don’t trust you. I have known you long enough to know when you are lying.” “Oh Okay, I was lying, but can we go? Please.” said Verose with puppy eyes. I couldn’t deny her puppy eyes, they were my one weakness. “Fine, we can go, “I said rolling my eyes. When we walked into the cafe, Verose almost immediately ran to Evander and ditched me and I, who had no desire in talking to anyone went to get my chai latte. How could my best friend get so fixated on some guy, she met a week ago? So I was stuck with Evander, my best fetish friend, and a flirty boy, Evander's friend. “Hello, Evander,” I said irritably with a bitter face. “Hey red face,” he said teasingly. He calls me this because when I first met him, I couldn’t stop blushing. “Shut up, Nugget.” “That’s not fair, I choked on a nugget, once.” “If the name fits it sticks, Nugget.” “Red face, you gotta stop with the nicknames.” “Then you will have to stop first.” “Alright, stop it both of you,” said Verose. We both became silent and stared angrily at each other making faces. “Verose, what drink do you want I will get you anything you want?” “Be careful what you say, Nugget, she will probably clear the whole menu, at the hearing of free food.” “I told you to stop calling me Nugget, red face.” He got close so to my face that I turned a bright red. “Ah, that’s the face I remember, that beautiful red face.” “Can you stop with the games?” I said pushing him away. “I am not playing any games, it is a very beautiful and gorgeous face,” He said with a sincere look and then he snapped out of it and said, “It is a gorgeous face for the eyes of a blobfish.” “Yeah and the only thing that will be attracted to a jerk like you would be a naked mole rat.” Verose stood in between us slightly hurt and sad. “I don’t want to see 2 of the most important people in my life, fighting.” “He started it.” “She started it,” we said in unison. Then Verose grabbed me by my hand and dragged me away then told me to leave. “Why?” “Just because I should’ve never invited you if you are going to be rude and mean to Evander, my future husband.” “Excuse me, I didn’t choose to be rude or mean, he called me, red face as soon as I got here. And I have to be the one to leave and we all know if the guy knows that you like him and you guys aren’t dating, he isn’t interested in you.” “He probably would be dating me if it wasn’t for you being disrespectful. And you are just jealous of the attention he is getting.” I was never more offended. “You know what, yes I am jealous because I was afraid of losing my best friend, but I should’ve been afraid of you being so blind cause of your obsession over a guy you just met,” I said with red eyes. I walked past her and gathered my stuff. “You can get a ride with Evander since you care more about him than your friendship!” “Red face are you okay?” “DON’T CALL ME THAT!” I walked to my car and drove off. When my mom called me, she could sense I was upset, I had a long discussion with her about my situation and she said, “Okay, wait for Verose to talk to you and listen to what she has to say, and if she doesn’t say sorry then she doesn’t care for you or your friendship and it means nothing to her, you need to move on.” So I went to my campus, went about my day, and found Evander standing by my car. “Hey red… um Sapphira, I just wanted to say that I am sorry about getting on your nerves yesterday and I had a talk with Verose.” “I am just going to stop you right there, what happened yesterday was a friendship about to be diminished, and me being upset because I was insulted by someone I am jealous of, you, and my ex-best friend who is obsessed with you.” “I am saying that I told Verose that I started it and I don’t want to get in the way of your friendship. I wanted to say, I am sorry if my actions toward you, may have confused you so I would like to clear it up. I really like you.” When I heard those words my mind went blank. I was standing there like I saw a ghost. “Evander, I don’t like you, it’s not because of Verose or my jealousy of you it’s just you in general. Now that I have answered that can you give me some space?” He looked crushed and defeated. I got into my car and was about to drive away when I saw Verose in the side mirror running after me. I stopped and got out of the car. And when she ran up to me she slapped me. “What the… are you asking for a death wish.” “How dare you flirt with Evander and then turn him down.” “I never flirted with Nugget, you psycho.” “Yes, you did I saw you blush in front of him.” “I was embarrassed because he called me beautiful and gorgeous.” “Yeah, I know that he called you beautiful and gorgeous no need to rub it in.” “I turned him down because I don’t like him.” And we started boxing. I only got a scratch, you should have seen what she looked like, all those boxing classes paid off. when I got to the cafe, I ran into a guy who looked exactly like Evander but had different hair. “Evander, I told you to leave me alone.” “I am Evander’s brother, Isidro.” I looked at him in shock I didn’t know he had a twin brother, and I felt some strong attraction like a magnetic pull. “I am so sorry, it’s just me and Evander aren’t on speaking terms right now.” “Are you Verose or Sapphira?” “I am Sapphira.” “Whoa, you are even prettier than Evander described you?” “Thank you.” I said blushing. After 5 months of knowing Isidro, I fell in love with him, but he hid and avoided me for 2 days. Once I saw him again I ran to Isidro and hugged him. “I love you, please don’t hide from me anymore, Dro.” “I am sorry, phira, I didn’t mean to hide, I just had to distance myself for Evander, but I can’t back away from you.” saying that he kissed me, but because of Evander, we kept our relationship a secret for at least 3 weeks. “ I think we should tell your brother we are dating, it's not right to keep things from him.” “Yeah, I think you are right.” Though it wasn’t easy telling him, we still did. “You are dating Red face, MY Crush?!” “I know you like her, but I fell in love with her and couldn’t hold back anymore.” “And I was attracted to him when I first met him.” “That's Not Fair! I tried so hard to be perfect for you!” He stormed off and slammed the door in Dro’s face. He didn’t talk to us for days and felt distant. Verose comforted him and shot me jealous looks here and there. “You know Sapphira, you should be ashamed of yourself. You flirt with Evander turn him down and then you start dating his twin brother, whom you don’t deserve.” “When will you let it go, I don’t have to be ashamed cause I didn’t do anything wrong and who does Dro deserve? You?” I said laughing. “I hate you, you are the only reason that is stopping me from having the man of my dream, Why can’t you disappear?!” she stormed off and I ignored her. I didn’t care for what she had to say. Isidro felt guilty so I tried to cheer him up with rollercoasters, climbing mountains together, and skydiving. He soon got over his guilt and before you knew it, we had publicly dated for 2 years now. Isidro’s dream was to go to space and become an astronaut, and seeing how much he loved it, I joined a school just so we could go to space together. He finally graduated and we were going out to celebrate. I was a few weeks behind him, but he waited so we could go together. For celebrating we were going to the Cafe where we 1st met. I ordered Chai latte as usual and he ordered matcha green tea. And once our friends Kalani, Lennon, Makoa, and Qadir came. Isidro got up and started talking about how much he loves me and wants to share the rest of his life with me. He came to me and got down on one knee, saying if I don’t accept he will never go to space or anywhere ever again. “Phira, will you marry me?” “Yes!” We had the best night ever and I couldn’t sleep since I was so excited. After 5 weeks of planning my wedding, I found a letter under my door. “We would like to invite you to join our mission, to Mars, Etc, etc .” I told Isidro the good news, and he said he got the same letter and that it was up to me if we go. “We are totally going, it’s Mars for crying out loud!” We had to drive 6 hours to get there but the trip was worth it cause I got to have some quality time with Isidro. When we were about to board, I thought I saw Verose working on the ship. Which scared me a bit cause I knew she hated my guts. “Dro, I think I saw Verose.” “What that is impossible, we all know she never would work here, and doesn't have the brains for this Job.” I knew something was up, but I ignored it since my fiance talked some sense into me. When we took off, I blacked out because of the pressure. When I woke up, everyone was panicking except for Isidro, we were off course and lost.

.Verose perspective.

When they took off I couldn’t help, but smirk. Sapphira had it coming, she was flirting with my Evander and then turned him down the only way for Evander to take me is if Sapphira is out of the picture. Yes, I rigged a few things with the spaceship, so no one can find them. But what can I say I was never her friend in the first place. So can I even compare?