Chapter 42 The Girl Who Never Stood A Chance

Ari's heart pounded loudly as her back felt the cold brick wall behind her. The four strange bitchy looking girls in high school uniform looked at her in disgust. One girl chewed her gum and mannerlessly spit it out to her right.

Are they a gang or what? Ari began to panic.

"Look here, Miss. That Gonzalez guy is engaged." Ari gasped in shock. Is Jonathan Gonzalez really engaged? With whom?

Another girl stepped in and looked at Ari in pity.

"Pitiful. I bet you've tried seducing Gonzalez a lot of times.. and failed," they all laughed in mockery and Ari's chest twisted in pain.

"Y-You're wrong! My feelings for him are pure! I-I.. I've always liked Sir Jonathan. Even if he always looks serious but he's approachable and nice," Ari tried to defend herself.

The girls made a "what is this woman talking about" face recalling what Jonathan's beast mode looked like. But Ari continued, "Even if he doesn't talk a lot... I can see how hardworking and independent he is! I really admire that about him!"

Ari was blushing hard as she said her confession and the four high school girls looked at one another and shook their heads.

"You haven't seen Gonzalez's other sides, yet, girl," Bridget said and shook her head. She could still remember how Jonathan would easily get mad when Stefani forgets to tell him her shopping schedule or when Stefani comes home late, or how Jonathan would easily agree to Stefani's requests or how Jonathan would patiently eat Stefani's cooking despite them looking poisonous.

"Yeah. And don't even dream about having to know all those sides, because that guy only shows those things to his lovely wife," Ivy added more pain to Ari.

Ari's tears were beginning to fall and trickle down her cheeks.

"D-Does he.. does he really love her?" Ari asked after a sniff, tears continued to fall from her eyes.

"Not just love, he's completely obsessed with his wife," Dianne added even more, tearing Ari's heart into pieces.

Christina chewed her gum as she walked closer until she's in front of a sobbing mess Ari.

"Miss, it's best for you to move on. Don't even try to steal that guy again from our friend. Our friend may be harsh towards Gonzalez, but she dearly loves him and shows it in her own special way. You may not be able to understand this like us, but those two have an unbreakable bond.. They've been separated for ten years, but remained in love with each other. What I'm saying is, you don't even have a .1% chance to win Gonzalez here. Cause right from the start, he's taken and he's chosen that himself."

Dianne, Bridget, and Ivy were too shocked at their friend's sudden lines. Just where did she get all of these?

"He's super loyal to his wife so back off now, okay?" Bridget added, still acting bitchy and ready to attack Ari. She clearly didn’t want Stefani to be stressing about this woman, if she could, she'd have this woman kidnapped and thrown overseas.

Dianne grabbed Bridget's arm, stopping her from her thoughts and execution ideas.

Ari let out a sob as tears fell from her eyes like a waterfall. She didn't know her boss was engaged, and furthermore, in love with his own fiancee. Maybe if she confessed earlier, she might have a chance..

"They've been separated for ten years, but remained in love with each other."

"We.. We haven't really seen each other for years, ten years to be exact. So if possible, I'd like to spend more time with her. I'd like to be more with Stefani, Sir."

Ten years..

Remained in love..

Stefani..

Finally, Ari put two and two together. The day she went to Jonathan's condo when he was sick, Stefani also came over. And that time when Jonathan was in a meeting and Stefani suddenly came barging in and dragging Jonathan outside like a dog and Jonathan just let her... (he actually didn't, Ari's just torturing herself) Plus the way Jonathan got suddenly emotional when he was talking to Mr. Hernandez in his office...

"I-It's.. Mr. Hernandez's daughter, Stefani Hernandez?"

The four high school girls looked at each other and with a smile faced Ari back and nodded.

"Yeah. She's the wife. The one and only, beloved, precious, gorgeous wife of Jonathan Gonzalez."

Ari's tears streamed down like waterfalls. So her crush has someone else now. Ari had lost the game. But was she even a player?

Ari's heart broke. So she went home knowing at least her sister will be waiting for her there.

"Oh Ari, you're home?"

Ari looked at her sister and started crying once again, "Big sister!!"

Veronica held Ari in her arms, "What happened, Ari?"

"Sir... Sir Gonzalez... Sir Gonzalez is taken, Big sis!! Uwaaaah!" Ari exclaimed while bawling her eyes out.

Ari's older sister, Veronica, felt something was strange. It felt as if this had already happened a long time ago. But she couldn't point it out. What she only knew was their family has bad luck on romance. It was really unfair but she felt she couldn't do anything about it.

"In another life, you'll have your Sir Gonzalez, okay?" Veronica said, trying to comfort her younger sister.

But she herself knew her sentence would never happen.

Weird but she just knew it.