Neighbours, Friends, Lovers

4. engagement

꧁ Charlotte's Pov ꧂

Our skins are sparkly and slippery, sign the we are doing a good job.

He rolls his eyes and shakes his head, biting his lip to not give me the satisfaction of making him smile.

We stop at 4,5 kilometres signed by my watch and take a 5 minutes break.
We find a bech that faces to the sea.
We sit and let our breathes get normal while we enjoy the view.
After the five minutes we decide to run our way back to home.

"Did you talked to Gaia?" he asks.
"Yeah, we talked through the phone last night." I confess looking at him with the corner of my eyes.

"We are not doing well and I don't know what to do." he says letting  a sigh out.
"Just give her time, she will understand." I tell him trying to cheer him up.
"I gave her time. It's almost 3 months now." he confesses.

"How do I make her understand that I'm not ready and not in the right mindset for a real commitment?" he asks looking at me with really frustrated look.
"Just tell her directly, "Gigi I can't move out"." i suggest.
"And you think I didn't told her that? But she seems not wanting to listen." he says running his fingers through his hair.
"You know what she said when I told her that?" he asks and I shake my head.
"She asked for engagement." he spits it out.

I froze inside even if i keep running.
His voice get blurred while engagement seems to be tatted in my mind.

She asked for an engagement and she just twenty one?

But the most shocking thing is that she didn't even mention it.

Why did she hide it from me?
Is she scared that I will judge her?
Obviously I would tell her to thing abut it better and that she's a bit too young but I would be beside her in this moment.

Now I get all her disappointment where it comes from.

It's not just a lack of attention from him is a whole another topic here involved.

He looks at me and i see him slowly realise.
He furrows his eyebrows.

"Didn't she tell you?" he asks almost in a whisper.

When I'm about to answer my let feet doesn't meet the ground and when I realise that I'm too on the edge of the sidewalk , my left knee hits the hard ground and hits it so hard that I feel like I'm about to pee myself and then my body shutters on the ground.

"Oh fuck." is all what a hear after the sound of my headphones scratching on the ground and getting out my neck right after the crash.

I start to let moans of pain.
My neck hurts, my vision went black and my ears are ringing.
A sharp pain hits my knee.

I feel Charles hands place on the side of my arms while my check is on the ground, I'm squeezing my eyes and holding the painful knee.

"Did you hit your head?" he asks and I shake my head.
"My knee." I moan.
"Alright, alright, open your eyes." he says and when I do it, I see so much concern on his face.
Can't lie he's handsome even looking downwards, that is the worst angle ever but he looks mesmerising.

His eyes are wide open, his cheeks are flushed by the run, lips open, heavy breathing and terror on his eyes.

"Let's stand up and check." he says ready to pull me up.
"It's broken." I say while he kindly grabs my wrist and lifts my arm and places it on his shoulders.
"No way." he says trying to not make me worry too much.
"It's broken, I feel it." I say being the pessimist person I am.
"Alright, let's stand up." he says wrapping his arm around my wrist while the orders grabs my hand that is on his shoulder.