Yours for centuries

chapter 8. A blast from the past

To face the familiar voice. "Julian, I'm so embarrassed I'm so sorry I hadn't realised you were here." I whispered apologetically, my cheeks turned crimson red, when I had begun to suddenly notice that the man standing behind me was none other than Julian Phoenix. It was like he hadn't aged at all lately, to be honest he looked exactly how I had seen him last time. The short curly Auburn hair, the dazzling same coloured eyes, the sneaky crooked grin that would dazzle anyone into doing what he wanted. Julian was wearing some brown trousers with a short white button up shirt that had covered his amazing abs, and his beautiful crooked smile that spread across his face. "Hi, my dear Aubrielle, we meet again." He whispered softly, "Julian, um, hello, how have you been?" I had known my jumbled up wording was a tad strange as I tried to form a sentence.

I was like a lovestruck teenager who had fallen for her future rather than an obsessed teenage fangirl. To this day, I was still madly in love with my high school crush. Julian had kicked away from the hallway walking carefully over to me, his every move was gentle and calm as I had written it all down. "I'm doing very well, my dear Aubrielle what about you love?" Julian's soft bell- like voice asked me teasingly, 

"I'm doing fine, I've just returned home after years away." my feather like voice said sweetly, Julian was beaming with happiness at my answer. 

"My parents had informed me that you were home and here you standing in front of me." It hadn't meant to be a question, and I hadn't known how to answer his sudden question. Had he been shocked to see me here? or relieved that I had been helping out the party that had been planned by his very kind parents?

I could feel myself blushing red at the sudden vision of him .. I hadn't really had a clue or thought as myself as the "Fixer upper" or any events just like this that I'd helped Laura with, but at this moment, being here I was finally content. 

Julian was finally home from his holiday for this huge party-- I mean, a retirement party-- and here I now was placing empty cups on the drinks tray. Why couldn't he have talked to me years ago? why couldn't we have bumped into each other at Garachico? or when I had visited Ethan this summer? why had we just reunited now, when I was still very clumsy and plain Aubrielle Annesley, while he was a gorgeous and very handsome Anderson boy? 

And I had known to back away, no one I had ever known had made me fall for them, like he always did but he hadn't wanted me back in high school. In that sudden realisation moment, I had begun to realise that back in high school, Julian had been way out of my league. He probably may have been dating...