LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Chapter 11

I don't know how long I sat there crying. All I could think now is that he left. He realized it's not worth it. I'm not worth it. This was what I wanted right? His actions reassured me that what I was doing was the right thing.

A couple minutes later I heard the door open and a small voice speak "So I'm guessing he didn't take it well. We saw him leave in a hurry." Lei said coming towards me to hold me while I continued to cry.

After crying for what seemed like hours into Leila's shoulders I dried my tears and looked around questioningly.

"Louis decided to run after Liam." Leila replied, answering my thoughts.

"Please tell Louis not to do anything drastic! Liam didn't do anything wrong!" I pleaded to her.

"Don't worry babe," she said as she patted my head to calm me down. " I know your brother, and he's also Liam's friend. Maybe he wants to see what's going through his head."

"Ok well as you probably already know, he didn't take it well. He didn't even say anything to me after I told him everything. He just got up and said he had to leave." I explained to her.

"Aww honey don't worry everything will be ok. Let's stop talking about it for now. You are gonna work yourself up again. Why don't we just see what movies we can find on the TV to distract you for a bit?" She comforted me while taking the control and skimming through the channels.

She's right, the hard part is over now.

...

About 30 minutes later there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." I yelled.

The last person who I thought it would be walks through the door... Gael walks in holding a bouquet of white Roses.

"Hey Sof, I heard what happened and how you were brought to the hospital. I wanted to come and make sure you were ok." He says softly, standing awkwardly at the door.

"Oh. Hi, come in, I'm doing better, thanks for coming." I tell him so that he can close the door behind him.

"Oh and I brought you these." He pauses as he hands me the flowers. "I remembered you said your favorite were white roses and luckily these were the only ones left" he said looking proud of himself for remembering.

I smiled and took the flowers in my arms. "Thank you Gael. You're right I do love them." I said leaning down to smell them.

"You're welcome babe." He said, smile faltering as he realized the pet name slipped out. "I'm sorry. Force of habit." He apologized nervously scratching the back of his neck..

I'll admit it felt good to hear him say it. I miss having someone call me pet names and cuddle me but I know I have to get used to never having that feeling with anyone ever again.

"It's ok, don't worry about it." I reassured him as I set the flowers down on my side table.

"Well I just came to make sure you were ok. You know that even though we broke up I still care about you." He said. "I have to get going though. you know how my mom is."

I just smiled and opened my arms to let him know it was ok to give me a hug. He came closer and he gave me a hug then pulled back and leaned in to give me a peck on the cheek.

"Sorry I couldn't help it. Again force of habit." He whispered.

At that moment I heard a gasp as he pulled away. Not realizing someone came in. It was Liam!

"What the...? What is he doing here?" he asked, pointing at Gael. "I thought I told you to stay away from her." He says shoving Gael as far away from me as he could.

"Liam!" I yelled. "Liam leave him alone he's not doing anything wrong!"

Gael looked frightened as he turned to look at me. "Look Sof I didn't come to cause any problems between you and your boyfriend, I only wanted to make sure you were ok so--"

Before he could finish his sentence Liam spoke up, "You don't have a right to be worried about my girlfriend, not after how you treated her a few weeks back." he said as he walked up to me and took my hand.

"Look I had to make sure she was ok, I still care about her, and don't want anything to happen to her but I'm leaving now, bye ba-- I mean Sofi. Call me or text me if you need anything." He said as he came over and kissed my cheek again and then walked out. I felt Liam's hand squeeze mine tighter.

Once Gael left Liam let go of my hand and walked towards the wall with his hand on his head seeming to be trying to calm himself down.

"I'm going to look for Louis." Leila said, finally speaking up for the first time after everything that just happened before walking out.

"What the HELL was he doing here?" Liam asked, turning around looking, pissed. 'Damn you best friend for leaving me here with a hot angry looking Liam.'

"He already told you he was checking to see if I was ok. Why do you care anyway and why did you tell him I was your girlfriend, when I told you we couldn't be together? Why did you come back after saying you had to leave?" I said annoyed.

He sighed "Louis pointed out his car when I was leaving, and I didn't want him anywhere near you, I never want another guy near you, I want to be the only one to call you babe or to be the only one who gets you flowers and holds your hand or kisses you. You are mine and no one else is gonna steal you from me. I saw all that shit he was doing when I walked in and I snapped because I'm not gonna let him touch what's mine." he replied, walking up to me and caressing my cheek and looking deep into my eyes.

I was shocked. Why is he making this so hard? "I told you why we can't be anything more than just friends Liam." I said, grabbing his hand and holding it.

"Yes and no offence but that's bull. I don't care if you say you don't have much time to live, let me show you that I can take care of you and love you while I still have the chance. I know you feel what I feel too. Please stop denying your true feelings, I want to be with you. I want you to officially be mine." he begged.

I went quiet while looking into his brown eyes, he looked so sad. It was crushing me to keep hiding it all. Of course I have feelings for Liam but I can't let him be stuck with someone who's dying when he can find somebody who can live a long beautiful life with him. It's for the best even though I do love him too.

"Baby. Please? Say something. Please." he whispered.

"Please stop calling me that." I said with a sad sigh. "I'm sorry but I don't like you like that." Lie "You deserve somebody better, but that doesn't mean I don't want you in my life. We can still be friends" I said.

He stayed quiet for a long while just staring at me. He looked deep in thought. He looked so heart broken and it just made me feel even worse.

After a while he sighed and spoke up, "If that's the only way to be near you I accept, but that doesn't mean I will stop showing you how much you mean to me or stop me from trying to convince you to be mine." he said, giving my hand a squeeze.

"Liam, I'm sorry." I sighed deeply trying to get my point across. "I don't feel the same and I don't want you to get your hopes up thinking we could ever be together cause it will never happen, but I care about you too much to throw away our friendship." I said, squeezing his hand back..

"I don't care. We will be friends and I know eventually you will be mine. Watch. I will win you over one way or another." He said smugly as he pulled me into his chest holding me tight.

I sighed because I knew he wasn't going to give up no matter how hard I tried to push him away. At least now I know that I have someone else that will stick with me till the end. It just makes it so much harder not to keep falling for him even more...