Love, Cecelia

Chapter 26 - If this was a movie

~3 months later~

September, 2022

He didn't write back.

In fact, he never did. Not once, in the last three months, even though I never stopped writing.

I close my eyes, taking a deep breath and a wave if relaxation hits me when i hear his voice.

"Thank you for coming with me" I say and he comes closer, brushing my hair off my shoulders.

"Don't be an idiot" he pecks a soft kiss on my lip, and I inhale his taste in. "I would go anywhere with you"

He leans his forehead on mine, as we stare in each other's eyes.

I feel like crying from happiness.

James takes my hand, and spins me around. "I would rip the dress off if we had more time."

I burst out laughing.

James always makes jokes like that, since we were teenagers, and still everytime he makes me laugh with a mix of a heat between my thighs.

He actually did it more than once.

"You don't look bad yourself, mister Drew" I adjust his bow better.

"How do I look, how do I look?" Emily appears from the hallway, running in her dress.

I give James a dirty look, hopefully Emily didn't hear his previous statement and he shrugs, making me laugh.

James takes her hands and spins her around too. "You look like a princess. No" he stops and Emily crosses her arms. "You look like a queen" he corrects himself, before kissing her cheek.

"I have something for your hair. Come here Em." I walk to my drawer, with a few jewels I have, and I take a small butterfly hair pin, in pink, and red shades.

I bend down on my knees, as far as my own dress allows me.

"My mom gave me this when I was around your age." I take smoothly a piece of her hair, and adjust the hair pin on the side. "And now, I want you to have it"

Emily looks at herself in the body mirror, before turning around and giving me a huge hug, around my waist.

"You're the most beautiful girl in the world"

"Come here too" she says, opening the hug, making room for James, and we squish her in like a sandwich.

We hug for a few more minutes, before James announces "Okay, people we have to get going. We have a movie premiere to watch, and stars to shine"

Emily is already running out the bedroom door when I say "I'll come downstairs in a few minutes, i'll check my makeup"

James gives me a soft kiss on the cheek, before disappearing in the hallway.

I look at myself in the mirror, smoothing down my silky, red, dress that almost touches the floor.

Starring at myself, my eyes start to fill. Last time I was starring at myself, wearing a similar dress, was at the met gala, with Ronan.

Last time, I was still chasing my dreams, and I was thinking he would be my future.

Is crazy how life turns out right?

One minute you think you have everything figured out, the next, everything you had figured out turns out to be the exact opposite.. or even better.

Sometimes the opposite works out too.