History of You and Me

Chapter 25

When it's about just after lunch I decide to head to Celias.
I knock on her door and it immediately swings open
"Darling!"
She calls out and embraces me

She takes me inside and I look around
"You changed the place around"
"Oh that. It was changed after I left so I had to fix it"

I sit down on her velvet pink couch
"Celia what's the longest time you've liked a someone"
I ask her
"Oh too long"
She sits down with a cup of tea
"There was one guy" she sighs "he took over my every thought. That man.. I think I loved him for as long as I could"
"What happened to him?"
"He got a wife. I tried to stop loving him, it didn't stop. But now he's gone. That's why growing up is the worst"
I chuckle

"So what's the situation and that guy"
"Me and Bucky- it such a long story"
"I'm an old lady with nothing to do- ever. Do tell dear"

I adjust in my seat and sigh
I feel like Celia gives off such a calming and welcoming vibe. I could just tell her anything

"Ok well.. we've known each other since we were 10. Bucky and our other friend met a year before that. We were this inseparable trio. But around the time I was 16 I started to like him."
Celia gasps
"Then I think about in our mid 20s we got separated- all three of us. So I spent so long trying to find them again. And just a couple months ago I found him again. And ever since we've been together again it feels like there's just more tension and flirting between us- it's just.. I don't even know.."

"What a great story. Childhood lovers are always destined for each other"
"You think..?"
"Of course!"

My phone starts to buzz
Unknown number
"I feel like I should take this"

I get up and walk a little distance away from Celia and pick up the call
"Hello?"
"Hey!"
A man voice says from the other line
"Is this Diane?"
"Uh yes this is she"
"Hi ok- this is Liam. Guy from the flower shop"

Flower shop?
I run through the things I did the past week
OH the flower shop. That sweet guy- I didn't give him number.. did I?

"How did you get my number?"
He laughs awkwardly
"I uh- I asked around"
"Um ok.."

Celia looks at me and mouths who is it
I just shrug

"I-uh- I actually had question"
"Ok"
"Would you wanna go out sometime"

My mouth opens but I don't say anything
"Hello?"
He asks
"Uh sorry my- uh grandma she- she need me- h-hold on"
I mute myself

"What happened?"
Celia asks
"A guy I met at a flower shop found my number asked me out"
"But what about bucky"
"I know!"
I let out a deep sigh
"Ok but what if me and Bucky are just a dead end. And I'm just waiting for something that's never going to happen and I push away all my other options"
"Well why don't you just talk to bucky about it"
"But then what if I tell him and then he doesn't like me back and it's all just weird. I don't want things with him to be weird"

"Well alright- tell flower boy you just want to hangout- not an official date. If you truly like him then you can have a real idea of who you want to tell what"

I unmute the call
"Liam?"
"Uh y-yes?"
"How about we go out but just as a hangout for now. I'm not really in any dating/going on a date headspace right now"
I forcefully laugh
"Oh yeah I totally get that. I'll uh text you some ideas"
"Mhm ok"
I hang up and immediately sit down
"You've got a tricky situation on your hands"
Celia says taking me in her arms