Her and Her Unofficial Love Affairs

CHAPTER 27

I leaped as somebody banged on our door!

"Anj, are you busy? Can we talk?" Lance suddenly appeared at our shop while me and my best friend were busy cleaning up his and Yvonne's mess.

"Excuse me but I have to go to the florist to hand in their check. Thank God Yvonne was so generous for the bill!" my best friend said eyeing Lance to death as she left the two of us alone.

Yvonne already flew back to Saudi Arabia. The wedding was off and I guess she and Lance were also over.

"What are you doing here?" I asked without looking at him.

"I just need to talk to you," he answered.

"If you're here to say sorry about the hassle you caused us, then apologies accepted," I started at him to conclude his presence in our shop.

"No, that's just one thing. Another," he said.

"All things are being taken care of. Don't you worry. Yvonne already paid for everything," I interrupted.

"I know that. She didn't even give me my chance," he said.

"Those we already sent invitations to, I already called them up one by one," I continued without listening to him.

"Yes, I know you do your duties well," he said.

"And your ring? I'm sorry to inform you that Yvonne instructed us to pawn it to cover up some of the expenses. So you still had your chance in ironing some things out. I do have the receipt, anyway just in case you want it back. My best friend was actually assigned to give it to you," I continued without listening to him again.

"Whatever," he said.

"You really don't care about this whole hullabaloo, huh?" I started to raise my voice looking at him.

"Anj, I'm not here for that. I'm here for you," he said grabbing my elbow and looking at me straight in the eyes.

Then my heart started to beat boom boom boom! Why in the world is he saying that to me? His voice sounded so angelic to my ears. His grip brought tingling sensation to every part of my body. Why does his presence affect me a lot? With his proximity, I've suddenly gone petrified!

"Why are you always acting this way? Why do you always push me away?" he asked me with all sincerity. I could clearly see it in his eyes that he was longing for my answers.

"What do you mean?" I stammered in return. I really couldn't understand what he was trying to point out. Never did I assume of any feeling he might be having for me.

Then without warning, he instantaneously moved his body closer tomine. So close that I could feel hisbreathing. So close that I could hearhis heart thump. He tightened his gripto my elbow and started to trace my jawline with his other gentle hand. Then he moved his face to level mine, slowlybending for his lips to touch mine gently, tenderly, unexpectedly. In that spur of the moment, I experienced myfirst kiss. My very first kiss with theboy I was swooning over since high school! In that bright afternoon sunshine, I experienced my very firstunexpected kiss!