Us Against All Odds (En)

Confrontations

Romantic spirits will consider this love as a beautiful story, cynics as a tragedy'.

Nicholas Sparks

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Maya didn't want to go to the barracks anymore, she didn't want to go anywhere that Carina wouldn't be. She wanted to know their story, to learn more. The night before they had gone to bed shortly after they had been on the couch, in each other's arms.

This morning, she had woken up the brunette at dawn, so that they pack her few personal objects and her things to take them home.

- "Are you sure? Is this what you want?"

- "you are the thing I am most sure of in my life Carina"

- "yesterday I thought I was going to have a nightmare when I saw you on the floor with our stuff... I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth..."

- "what would you have done if I hadn't fallen in love with you again?"

- "I once promised you that if this happened to us... I would have hit on you again..."

-"You didn't have to do it... As soon as I saw this beautiful brunette in the hallway... My heart skipped a beat... You were so beautiful"

- "the brain forgets..."

- "but not the heart and body"

- "and if... You hadn't been interested or receptive... I think I would have ended up going back to Italy. I didn't have my mother, I didn't have Andrea and I wouldn't have had you... I would have been devastated... I was devastated..."

- "when?"

- "when you... When you remembered your attack... But not of me... That your sire had accepted his punishment... I came to your room. I talked to you, kissed you and left the room. I went to my office to sleep and I woke up in the middle of the night, I felt like I was having a heart attack... It was a horrible feeling, I couldn't breathe... I was heartbroken."

-"I'm sorry you had to go through that because of me."

-"That's part of the reason I know you're the love of my life Maya, I've always known that... But I did a tako tsubo because I was devastated... All those weeks of waiting... And all you had managed to remember was your assault. I don't blame you... But if you knew how much I needed to be in your arms... I was on a heart monitor for two weeks. And I had to go talk to a shrink."

- "my love... I'm... I'm sorry" Maya was heartbroken to hear this, to hear what Carina had gone through. But in a way it made her feel better that she was the one.

-"Don't worry, you're here now, I'll never go back to Italy, not without you".

- "I remember that day"

- "how so?"

- "well... I think... The bedroom door closed and it woke me up... And I remember running my fingers over my lips... I felt like I had been kissed."

- "it wasn't just a feeling..."

- "what would you have said to me if I had caught you kissing me?"

- "in truth... I have no idea, all I knew was that I wanted you to kiss me back, I didn't think about the consequences."

- "could you really have gone back to Italy?"

- "if I had tried everything, in vain, I think... I couldn't have been in the same city as you, imagining running into you all the time and that you might be with another girl, I would have wanted to die right then and there."