The Guy Behind the Letters

Chapter 7- Pizza

I was about to leave for school the next morning when I received a really strange message from Liv.

"Hey, I don't need a ride to school today."

Liv has needed a ride to school every single day since I have a driver's license. Something's off.

I left for school on time for the first time in ages. Still, the ride felt a little lonely. When I arrived, as any sane person would do, I desperately started looking for Liv. I found her, to my absolute shock, laughing and giggling while she held hands with Levi. LEVI. How could she not tell me THIS had gotten this far. I texted her a "Look at your left", and she looked at me while her smile slowly disappeared.

-Sadie wait-

And I was walking the other way. I told Liv everything about both Ethan and Blake, even Hemingway, and she didn't tell me she had a boyfriend. Or whatever the hell they were.

-Sadie, I can explain.-

-Please, go ahead.- I said in a very annoying, sarcastic voice.

-It just happened this morning. Levi offered to drive me to school, and then he asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I think you can figure out the rest.- She laughed and then looked at Levi. They looked so cute together, he was such a nerd, and so was Liv on the inside. Very very deeply. You could see that on everybody else's face, no one could have thought about those two together.

Well, great, now I, the only one who did want a boyfriend, doesn't have a boyfriend. Life's unfair.

Liv seemed very busy with Levi, so I started walking to class. And then I saw the mailbox. And to my convenience, I had a letter.

"My sweet Overwatch,

I am incredibly close to figuring out your identity, so you should hurry up if you intend to beat me on this quest. And since I am so close, I figured we should put something on the table. If I win you'll let me take you on a date. I think is a fair request. And if you win (Which I seriously doubt) I will do anything you want me to do, even If that involves running naked through the school playground. Just saying, that's a lot of power. I also have a question for you, What is love for you? For me, love is knowing everything about a person, the good, the bad, the easy stuff, and the tough. Knowing how they feel about death, and what they do to stay awake. Knowing if they're afraid of the dark, or maybe of being alone at night.

I want to know everything about you Overwatch since you are the only person who has been able to completely know me, every part of me... without really knowing me.

Yours,

Hemingway."

That was just... Wow. I have always felt the connection between Hemingway and me, but this was a whole new level. Now more than ever I need to know if Hemingway is Ethan or Blake, because I may be confused about the two of them, but I'm very clear about what I feel towards Hemingway. He makes me want to love myself when I have always hated who I am.

I put the letter down and immediately I started to write my reply.

"Dear Hemingway,

It really is torture, not knowing who you are, but we are so far down this competition that is too late for me to give up now. I am gonna win though, and when I do my request is for you to have yours. You can take me on a date, I'll be honored. Also, what I think about love. I think love is when you choose someone, not despite everything that's bad about them, but because everything they think is bad, you see it as good. I think you know you are truly in love when you wouldn't change a thing about the other person.

I hope to hear from you soon,

Overwatch."

And then I thought for a second, What if Hemingway has already figured out who I am? I mean, I have gotten really close with both Ethan and Blake, maybe the only reason he hasn't come forward is that he doesn't want to ruin our little relationship. I am going out of my mind. I need to find out... Today.

I had been avoiding Blake since our "Date", I think it's been enough cowardy. So I went to find him. I went through every corner of the school, but I couldn't find Blake, which was weird because he is always in the hallway talking to the football team, or anyone really. And then I saw it. Blake... Talking with Liv. Liv had never even MENTIONED Blake if it wasn't about me, what the hell was going on. And then Blake turned around and he saw me, and he didn't say a word more to Liv, instead he started walking towards me. My heart started beating so fast, I was so nervous.

-Sadie- He said.

He never called me Sadie. Something very strange was going on.

-Could you come with me? I want to show you something.

Classes were already over, and I thought, Why not? I wanted to talk to him anyway.

-Okay-

-Just to warn you, we are going on my bike today.-

I didn't see a reason to fight him today, besides, I'd never rode on a motorcycle.

He led the way to the parking lot, and then to his bike. He opened his backpack and inside there was a helmet, white. It wasn't the one Blake used, he wears all black.

-What's that?- I said.

-It's for you- He put the helmet on my head and then he adjusted it. He took a look at me and then laughed.

-You look cute Williams.-

He put on his helmet and then he got on the motorcycle, he asked me to get on behind him, and so I did. I hugged him from behind and I could feel him breathing, very fast. He was nervous.

He turned the motor on and we started riding, I hugged him harder.

-Are you scared?- He asked.

-Hell no- I said, even though I was in fact terrified.

We didn't say much on the way, and after about twenty minutes we stopped at an amusement park.

I was shocked. How could he possibly know... And then it hit me. Blake Crawford was, and always had been, my Hemingway. And he knew who I was, probably had known it from the start, and he kept his promise, this was our date, my perfect day.

We started to walk and then Blake got a little closer, I blushed. We kept walking and we got in line to get tickets. As we stood there I felt Blake slowly intertwining his fingers with mine, but he didn't look at me. Maybe he was scared I didn't want him, but I did. Every single conversation, every single letter, had led up to this, us together.

We played around for hours, and then when the park was closing he asked

-Do you want some pizza?-

It couldn't be the perfect day without pizza.

-Do you really have to ask?-

We went to this really small restaurant that sold pizza for like a dollar a slice. It was greasy and it didn't look very healthy. It was perfect. We got our pizza and then we sat down under a tree to eat. I was eating my fourth slice when I saw Blake staring at me.

-God, you are beautiful.-

I could feel my face getting RED.

He leaned in to clean a little sauce stain I had on my cheek, and then he stopped, just a few inches away from my face. He looked at my eyes... god his eyes were beautiful, and then he looked at my mouth, and he leaned closer. This was it, the moment I had been waiting for so long. And I wanted it to be Blake. He kissed me, and the world around us just stopped. The only thing that existed in that moment was he and I. And it was amazing.