"With all that glow, I can tell for sure that vacation was a blast" Monse says, looking at me, expectant
"Well, you could say that" Is all I offer, taking off Autry's clothes. Our flight landed not too long ago, and he has been asleep the whole way. I blame the ton of ice cream Simon gave him.
Simon.
He is barely out of my thoughts now. My heart flutters every time I think of him, and a smile plays on my lips.
"Babe, something definitely happened and I cannot stand this silence. Give me some juice sis"
"Fine" I cave in because I know she will never stop if I don't "I met someone," I say, smiling
"And I assume it is a guy with the way you are smiling and all"
"You don't have to assume. It is a guy. His name is Simon, and a lot has happened within the week"
She gasps, "You slept with him!" she shrieks
I scoff, "You hoe. Get your head out of the gutter. Of course, I didn't sleep with him, not when I just met him. It's just, we were together literally every second of the day, and he just grew on me"
"When are you gonna get to see him again?"
My smile falls, because that is one thing I am unsure of, and it scares me that yet again, this might be the last I see of someone I am interested in.
"That is what I do not know"
She nods slowly, and I know she is thinking the same thing I am.
"If it is meant to be, everything will fall in place"
"That is what you said the first time"
"And I say it again, if he didn't come back, you didn't go there, it didn't work out like you both expected it to, then it wasn't meant to be" she pauses, before saying, "Especially since you went to a country he is ruling and you didn't see him or did you?"
"I didn't, and it is not something I wish to talk about"
She nods, "I understand," she says before getting up and taking Autry from my arms, "Permit me to put this darling to sleep, I've missed him too much," she says, heading for his bedroom.
My phone dings with a notification, and when I pick it up, the widest smile I can muster takes over my features.
Simone
Babe, you home yet?
The endearment and the way he uses it so effortlessly makes my heart flutter
Eufy
Yup, landed a couple minutes ago.
How you doing?
Simone
Good, I wanted to check up on you.
I'm doing fine, love. Thank you for asking.
How's my boy?
Always making sure Autry is never left out of the conversation. Is this man trying to secure some brownie points? Because it is seriously working
Eufy
Slept the whole way through the flight till we got home. Just put him to bed. He is exhausted.
Simone
Send him my love.
I have to get going. Work's calling.
Good luck on your first-day doctor.
I love you.
Eufy
Thank you.
- Xx.
My heart beats erratically in my chest, wishing I could return all his love with thousands of my own, but that is not possible now, although it would be, soon.
I am prepared to give Simon and I a chance because it is time to finally move on.
Alexandre Antoine POV
I stand in front of the door with the writing, Dr. Johnson.
I smile, feeling proud of her for all that she has achieved. I ask myself if I can enter, with her being right behind these closed doors. At a point, she was all I knew, in my line of sight every day. I saw her everywhere I went, held her anytime I wanted, kissed her, saw her smiles, and heard her laughs that sounded like music to my ears, and now?
Now I am nervous. This is the closest I have been to her in the last four years, and that is, standing behind these closed doors, I just have to muster the courage.
Nurses, doctors, and other patients passing look at me strangely, wanting to ask if I know where I'm going. I do know where I am going, but the question is how do I go?
All of a sudden, the door swings open without any form of warning, and anything she was about to say gets stuck in her throat as she stares at me with wide eyes. Shock, confusion, and another emotion I can't decipher, dance through her irises.
"Ale" she whispers, as though she cannot believe it is truly me standing there, as though opening the door, I was the last person she expected to see.
I take her by the arm and pull her into my arms. I inhale the smell of her that never changed, and breathe in the lavender shampoo she never changed. I hold on to the feel of her body against mine, and as the seconds pass and turn into minutes, I hug her tighter, and all the emotions I have tried locking away, come rushing back like a flood of water that cannot be stopped.
I pull back, locking my eyes with hers, and I look on, as the tears she tries so hard to hold back, fall freely, and she does not even try to stop them.
"Eufy," I say her name, and she closes her eyes as more tears fall, as though hearing me say her name after four solid years sends her heart into despair.
Our bodies still clinging to each other, I attach my lips to hers, and I kiss her deeply, savoring the moment, and reminiscing all that we have shared before, and all that I am hoping to revive through this kiss.
She pulls back away from me and shakes her head.
On her face, is an emotion that makes me wonder if I have just created everything in my head on how everything is meant to go.
Disappointment.
And I wonder exactly what she is disappointed in until she says,
"It doesn't work this way"
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