"I don't love her." He breathed out. "It's you. I love you."

Her lip quivered, her eyes watered, her breathing became rapid.

"Take it back," she whispered.

His head whipped around to the door. He hadn't expect that response.

"What--"

"TAKE IT BACK!" She yelled, hitting the floor with her fists. "How dare you say that to me! How dare you!" His eyes were huge, completely taken aback by the explosion. "This whole year, I have been relentlessly teased about everything that happens involving you! I never once said I liked you! Not to a single person! Why does everyone assume that I like you; just because one time I asked to know more about you!? I've done things, I've been with other people! But no, everyone is obsessed with pairing me with you!" Tears finally fell down her face as she hyperventilated through her monologue. "I didn't care about the first girl , the next one or anyone else! I never said a negative thing! I comforted you when anyone would have! Why am I being subjected to this, this torture?" His eyes shook with tears of his own. He had never considered your feelings. No one had, apparently. "You called me your friend ! I was fine with that! You told me how I help you to relax and you have sought me out when you were hurting-- that's fine! What are friends for?!" She was completely sobbing at this point. It broke his heart. "I never asked you to save me, I never asked anything of anyone!" It was killing him, to hear her voice like that. "I was okay living in my own personal hell. I wasn't a burden. Not to anyone. And now h-h-h-here you are, telling me that you were wrong about your feelings? That I should just forget how that made me feel when I heard it? I can't! I can't forget how wretched I felt. I have always lived as nothing but myself. I have been proud of myself and my decisions. But you have done something I never wanted any person to ever do to me."

The door creaked open, causing his neck to spin so fast, he could have gotten dizzy.

"You have made a liar out of me. Because now, I have to admit now that I loved you all along. From the second I saw you."

And for the finale of her speech, she kissed him with a passion only he could give back.