Tangled || Luke Hemmings

Chapter 17

17.

 

Hazel’s POV

                A day before the graduation, a letter from Stanford came in. This is the moment that my family had been waiting for. My Dad gave me the right to open this such an important letter. I carefully ripped the envelope open and unfolded the letter. My Mom and Dad watched me carefully as my eyes moved along, reading the letter with the nerves flowed through my veins.

“Mom, Dad, I got in!” I said to them as I bear the tears of joy knowing I made them proud.

My parents hugged me as soon as I finished my sentence and kissed my head, feeling as proud as I did at the moment. I’ve never thought I would make it, not once.

“We should celebrate it next week.” My Dad said joyfully after he let go of the hug.

“Yeah, you’re right.” My Mom agreed. I gave them a grin before helping them prepare for an early lunch.

                My Mom decided to buy me a new dress for my graduation day as an early present for the Stanford acceptance instead of tell me to pick one from my wardrobe. At the moment I thought I wouldn’t be going with anyone else so I could choose any color without worrying to buy a matching colored dress with someone else’s tie color, because Patrick hadn’t texted me for a whole day. I was supposed to be beyond happy by now, but it turned out that the thoughts made me feel my relationship with Patrick weren’t real, I feel like something isn’t working anymore between us, I feel like one of us should end this, I knew I should have never think about this but I just couldn’t help it. It lingered in my mind right at this moment, until he called me.

“Hi, babe. How’s your day been so far?”

“It was great, yeah kind of the best day of my life. I got in, Patrick. Isn’t that awesome?”

“Yeah, congratulation baby I’m proud of you.” He stayed silence for a little while. “Wait, where did you apply?”

“Stanford, Patrick. I guess I’ve told you that before,”

“Oh of course Stanford, congratulation babe. Anyway, what color of the dress you are going to wear for the graduation? I want to pick a matching tie for my suit.”

“I still don’t know yet, probably baby blue since it’s my favorite color. What would you like to wear?”

“Okay, baby blue it is! Thank you.”

“It’s okay.” Suddenly my Mom called me from the living room. “Look, Patrick. I have to go, so I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“Sure, totally looking forward to seeing my beautiful girlfriend tomorrow.”

It’s weird, because I wasn’t used to the term girlfriend anymore.

                My Mom and I went shopping later in the afternoon, and she helped me pick up the dress for the graduation tomorrow, baby blue, to match Patrick’s blue tie. I couldn’t stop thinking whether I should dump Patrick or not the whole time I spent with my Mom. He is so kind and sweet, besides the fact that he is so ignorant. He didn’t really do anything wrong, but I think this isn’t working anymore and I couldn’t force myself into this kind of relationship. That drove me crazy, I feel like I don’t love him anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I do like him, I literally do, but not as much as I used to. I barely remember to fall for his pretty brown eyes when I stared at them, the way our lips touched, the way our skin touched. I did tried and put a lot of effort in trying to remember the way I fall in love with Patrick, but it turned out all I seemed to remember was Luke. This wasn’t supposed to happen. I realized that wrong thing is with me, I’ve been in love with Luke all this time, not Patrick, I couldn’t lie to myself anymore, and most of all I couldn’t lie to Patrick.