Lilly & Julian

Chapter 23: 'Falling in love during a break.'

"I'll make you believe and fall in love with me. You've my word, Lilly."

His lips captured mine once more not giving me a chance to answer because as soon as we kissed, my knees almost gave out and I was fairly certain I had melted into a puddle.

"Maybe we should call it 'falling in love during a break'."

My shoulders shook with silent laughter and I rested my forehead on his shoulder, "Tu es tellement con."

You're such a dork.

I didn't need to look up at him that he was smiling, "Mais je suis ton abruti."

But I'm your dork.

"Hmm I'm not so sure about that."

His arms circled my waist his head resting a top mine, "You forgot to add 'yet' in the end."

I chuckled again, "You're insufferable."

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"Sorry, sorry, sorry. I had a meeting ugh, men are piece of shit Lilly. Seriously, they think they're the greatest and their ego hurts on every little thing. As I said, piece of shit."

I looked up at the bubbly voice of none other than Aunt Jenna announcing her life to practically the whole Paris.

She sat across me with a sheepish smile, both her index fingers bumping each other and her signature black shades a top her recently done golden highlights accenting her brown locks perfectly. Her makeup done with precise perfection with her red lips making her face look bolder and younger while her blue eyes shone with curiosity, her usual excitedness with a hint of amusement.

I stared back at her with a blank face my gaze wandering around her face, "Red lips, makeup more than you usually do and recent highlights. And not to mention the degrading of men you did just now, you're lying J-J."

My face came closer towards her pale one, "A guy got caught cheating on you yesterday and now you are proving the world that you are not someone who can be dumped. You're the one who dump. Therefore, you were in the salon this morning instead of a meeting and that's why you're late."

I ended my little rant with a bang on the table making people around turn towards us with an annoyed expression. I fake smiled at them and waved.

She whistled, "Damn, you know me well."

I raised an eyebrow at her, "Do you expect that seventeen years of experience didn't teach me anything?"

Her one side of mouth quirked up, "Touché."

After giving our orders and returning the menu, aunt Jenna gave me her 'I-don't-have-the-time-to-fuck-around' look, her intense glare checking me out making it very hard for me to not squirm in my seat.

After a moment she spoke with her now softened eyes, "They know."

I gave her a tight nod, my lips twisting and my eyes staring at everything but nothing at the same time.

"Oh, Lilly..." She rose from her seat, made her way towards mine trying to wiggle her way beside me in one single café chair.

A laugh rose in my chest at her futile attempts to comfort me but I controlled the urge.

Finally, she half-sat on the seat and the arm rest, getting wrinkles on her full black attire suit and took my hands in hers providing all the comfort she could with a full-on discomfort expression. She made a funny picture to look at.

"How'd they react?"

"How do you think they would have? Anger, hurt, betrayal, everything was clear as glass on their faces. Blake figured it out first then Han and Julian caught us while Blake was having a breakdown."

I shook my head recalling the incident that happened three days ago. We were back in Paris yesterday and Han became busy with the preparations for the wedding again but not before being reluctant to leave me even for a second because in her words 'Time flies'.

I desperately needed to talk to aunt Jenna for everything that had happened over the weekend and somehow convinced her to let me be alone for at least an afternoon. It was scary honestly how much things could change in just a few days.

"Oh, my baby come here," she kissed my forehead hugging my shoulders.

I looked up at her like a baby looking at her mom asking for ice-cream, "Han and Blake took it surprisingly okay-ish but with Julian it was...indescribable."

"What happened with him?" She murmured while patting my head soothingly.

"Well, for starters we had a fight with loads of screaming and crying and the fact he called me selfish. Next day we fought some more with the same pattern and..."

Her face became more and more sympathetic with each word that came out of my mouth.

"And then we decided to take break."

Her eyes bulged out of her sockets.

"Just before we kissed."

"YOU WHAT?!"

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i was getting bored so i wrote a chapter lol you're welcome <3 

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