The Boy I Loved in Secret

Rose spent three years of high school in love with Larry, a transfer student from a wealthy family who was confident and hard to miss. She said nothing about it. Her family had no money and she did not think she was worth his attention, so the crush stayed where it was for the whole three years. She worked her way into the same university he attended, without expecting to run into him. He turned up anyway. He kept protecting her and looking after her, often enough that she nearly gave herself away. Then she learned he had a girlfriend, and she pulled back and stayed away from him. What she did not know was that Larry had fallen for her over the time they had been spending together. Jealousy pushed him into telling her, and he asked her to be with him. Rose still could not believe in anything lasting, so she asked him for three months.