Jessycarcher: Wesley & Charlene

Wesley grew up in LA while Charlene shifted to LA at the age of 15. Charlene is merely an acquaintance to Wesley as they both sharing the same college until one day they ended up in the same company, that's when the friendship started.

One thing in common, they both are Chinese.

Wesley was in the center of attention during college because he was just good at everything he did (studies,sports, arts) and of course the perfect height with an athletic build is the added bonus that boost his popularity.
He would have little problems in getting any girls he wants.
But he remains single and not interested with the idea of dating for some reasons.
Wesley seldom speaks to his friends, much less to a girl, but he is not an introvert, just....for some reasons.

Charlene shifted to LA and she's from some asian countries. She has that cheerful and positive personality and you will never forget the dimples on her cheeks whenever she smiles .When it comes to language speaking she has her own accent and having some hard time in communicating most of the time that made her being picked on at class living in the center of a dark. She never gives up learning though. She is pretty, she is tough and she is smart but the only thing that brings her down is the ability of communicating and writing in english.
The basic thing she needs to master in order to survive in LA.

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Working in the same company and soon they became friends but barely share a word in between. It's driving herself insane knowing that she could be friend with Wesley as she admires him the most since college until now. She always making sure to have the best look of the day and think twice before doing anything to create a perfect impression of herself to get all his attention.

It's driving her even crazier receiving some encouragement or meaningful videos from Wesley occasionally to build up her confidence and Charlene would reply a thank-you note with all the smiley faces hoping to get a reply from him, even just a smiley face.

But one thing she doesn't understand is that Wesley never bother to reply her text or even if he does it will be only yes, no, or okay, nothing more than a single word.
How badly she hopes they could have a simple conversation in between.

Drew by Mimi Choi (LA)

So this day, she went hiking alone. Standing on top of the mountain, again she received a video from Wesley asking her not to give up whenever everyone looks down on her.

She then replied :
"I feel so high now, thank you for your video again."
Received no response, as expected.

She never receives anything from Wesley eversince. A radical change when Wesley doesn't smile and ignore her whenever she looks at him that makes her feels so helpless and hopeless. She starts feeling invisible and she decided to have a face-to-face confrontation with him.

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He showed her the message she replied that day and it shocked her a great deal knowing that Wesley got it wrongly. Before she could explain he interrupted by saying:
" I hope you understand i don't want to be in any relationship and i don't think it's appropriate for a girl to send this kind of message to a guy, you should have some self-respect."

Drew by Mimi Choi (LA)

It feels awful. It hits her like a tons of brick and she feels humiliated by him and gives up the idea of explaining.
That only makes her decides to work harder on anything that she's lacking.
She filled her downtime by learning english, learning to cope through it, and starts working on herself and just live a happy life.

Drew by Mimi Choi (LA)

Significant improvement achieved within few months.
She starts being herself without worrying how Wesley or people look or think about her.
She speaks naturally, act normally, just being herself and she's now comfortable with her surroundings and surprisingly this makes the gap between Wesley and herself becomes closer than ever.

A day during dinner, beating the fear she finally explained the embarrassment she caused over the phone few months ago.To which he replied:
"I knew everything, it just a way to trigger your determination and i want you to be yourself but not living a life under people's shadow."
"And you know, i've always admired your courage and positive attitude of learning and living."
She broke into tears.

He starts sending more-than-a-word messages, starts asking her out, and starts sending her gifts.

Until one day, something breaks the meaningful silence,