PHYSIOTHERAPIST [B.C.] ~ ©️

11. Crush

"Wait, how do you mean, maybe I met him before, I'm confused" Sophia groaned at me after I told her everything what happened between Ben and me yesterday

"I'm confused because of everything what I just told you, that's why I wanted to talk with you, I don't know what to think nor even do" I said

"that's insane Els and also so exciting and interesting" she said as I was sitting there on the couch next to her, head leaned against back of the couch and eyes closed

"There is nothing exciting about this" I said and looked at her

"Yes, it is Els, you probably have met Ben Chilwell, English and Chelsea footballer, before, few years ago you went to the same school as him and he still remember you" she said

"There is no proof we know each other since then" I said

"And what do you want me to do?" she asked

"I don't want you to do anything, I just wanted to hear what you have to say about it, but clearly you just see Ben and me as something" I said looking at her and raising my eyebrow

TWO DAYS LATER

"ELA, HEY, WAIT PLEASE" I heard him shouting and running after me

"What?" I asked and turned to him

"I remembered" he said

"You remembered what?" I asked

"I remembered how you seem familiar to me and how we know each other" he said looking at me seriously

"And?" I asked waiting for him to tell me

"it's not a good idea to tell you in here" he said "would you come to mine at 7?" he asked

"okay" I said and turned away from him leaving Chelsea house and going home

LATER THAT DAY

"Where are you going?" Sophia asked me

"I'm going to meet with Ben, he remembered some things, so he wants to tell me" I said, and she just smiled

"Okay have fun" she said

Gladly she decided to stay for three more days so later tonight when I come back to an apartment, I will have her here, so I could tell her what Ben will tell me. On the way to Ben's, I was nervous, I didn't know what to expect nor even think what he could remember. The way to his seemed much longer than it is.

"hey" he said opening doors for me

"hey" I said and nervously smiled entering his house

"Do you want something to drink?" he asked from the kitchen as I sat on the couch in his living room

"No, thanks" I said wanting to find out what he must tell me as soon as possible

"here" he said giving me a glass of tonic

Of course, he is so stubborn how could I forget that.

"So?" I broke silence of nervousness

"I don't want you to be mad at me because of something what happened few years ago" he started

"Just spill the tea, Ben" I said

"It will be kind of creepy but when we were at school together, I was some kind of stalking you" he said, and I got confused

"I had a crush on you, I didn't know you then but I knew you were different and I just wanted to meet you and hang out with you, yeah I had feelings for you without actually knowing you but it was kind of your fault because you never gave anyone opportunity to meet you, you were barely seen on hallways of school and you were leaving school right after your class finished" he said looking at me

"Just few times I heard your laugh and it stay carved in my mind" he said

"Are you sure in that?" I asked

"yes" he said

"I don't know" I said putting hands on my face "That can't be, someone like you will never like someone like I was then, that's impossible" I said

"Why would you say that? Why would you think that?" he asked taking his hands away from my face

"Because I was fat, I was ugly, that's impossible to some cute, handsome, talented guy like you to like someone like I was then" I said as small smile played on his face

"You, fat and ugly?" he asked laughing

"Never Ela, never, you were beautiful on the way you were, you are now beautiful on the way you are, and my eyes never saw fat and ugly Ela, she was always beautiful in my eyes just because she was herself and special on the way she was and still is" he said cupping my face

"I liked you just because of that who you were, I am just sad because you didn't give me a chance to get closer with you then, it all could be different" he said looking me straight into eyes

"I don't want this to change something between us, I don't want you to be mad at me because of that" he said leaning his forehead against mine

"Let us be friends, no matter on what happened few years ago" he said still cupping my face

FOUR DAYS LATER

It past four days since Ben's and mine conversation about what happened few years ago. To be honest, we didn't talk much, we stayed on professional relationship. Outside work we don't talk either, we didn't hang out nor anything else.

"I twisted my ankle" I heard his voice as he walked into my physiotherapist room

"Lay please" I said staying on professional voice

"Which one?" I asked sitting in front of him as he laid down on bed

"right" he said with serious voice what made me look up at him, he wasn't looking at me what made me worry

He was the one who said let's be friends no matter on what happened few years ago and now he is the one who decided to distance even more than we already were.

"Take this, put it on your ankle at least once a day, if pain won't go away in next two days or if it will hurt you more, we will make an x-ray, but it doesn't seem to be something bad, you just twisted it, nothing bad" I said giving him gel

"Thank you" he said and left the room taking gel with him