Over Him ✔

|Chapter Thirty-Four|

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•April's pov•

 
I smiled warmly at Ben who was addressing the small crowd of family and friends in our living room, all dressed rather nicely, not too formally nor too causally.

Raising our glasses in the air, Ben makes a toast and a series of cheers rent the air. Bringing the glass of red wine to my lips, I take a sip enjoying the sweetness on my tongue.

I scan the room, moving gently to the music playing at the background. The room was packed with people. Xavier had showed up, proving himself to be the perfect boyfriend, the workers back at the bakery and the cafe had showed up too. Most of them had gotten welcome back gifts for him.

Alongside the staffs who'd showed up, were Colt and his family. It was good to see that Dave and Ben were finally getting along.

Today, for just a special occasion, Ben was dressed nicely in a white polo and a pair of dark grey pants. Evelyn was dressed in a pink blouse and a pair of black pants.

Someone nudges into me and I turn to look at the person. Cherry.

"Glad you could make it" she says, cupping her drink with both hands as she pressed a smile to her face.

"Why wouldn't I show up? This concerns dad and the family, so of course I'll show up," I reply a bit taken aback that she'd even say something like that. To me, it had a double meaning.

"No, I'm not trying to insinuate something, I'm just glad that you're back. You know I'll be glad to have you here anytime," she says, a soft smile stretching out across her face.

I take her word for it and don't press on it. "So how's you and Colt doing? Any news on you guys yet?" Stifling a laugh which eventually turns to a blush, I see her eyes widen and she covers her mouth, her eyes twinkling with excitement.

"You like Colt."

"Who likes Colt?" Colt walks into our conversation, a brow arched in curiousity as he stared between the both of us.

"No one. She's just talking about another guy named Colt," I reply and he hums in pretence thinking.

"And how does this guy look like?"

"Oh trust me, he's definitely April's type of guy. Tall, dark curly chocolate hair, white skinned and I hear she's known him for a while," Cherry responds, her eyes twinkling nightly with mischief.

"Seems like I might know him.

"Okay, can you guys just stop talking like you don't know who this mysterious guy is?" I deadpan, getting tired of their games.

"Oh so you agree you like him?" Cherry wiggles her eyebrows and I almost groan out in frustration. Exhaling, I push a smile on my face and turn fully to her, ignoring the amused look on Colt's face.

"Colt and I are just friends, n-"

"Soon to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Isn't that right princess?" He asks, draping an arm over my shoulder and unfortunately, as much as I want to flick his hand off of my shoulder, I leave it there, enjoying the little intimacy that it brings and Cherry's smile widens.

"Look, I'm with Colt on this one. You guys are supposed to be living your happy ever after by now. Seriously, girl you've had a crush on him since you were nine! And you're what, twenty four!"

My eyes widen immediately and I slap my hand over Cherry's mouth. Without warning, she licks my hand and grins evily.

"Oh, did I do damage?" Wiggling her brows, she scurries off, leaving me to clean up the mess she'd just created.

Now just in case you don't know. Colt never knew that I had a crush on him for that long and I've been meaning to keep it that way but Cherry just had to open her loud mouth and spill it out.

"Princess, you've had a crush on me since you were nine?" I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping that when I reopen them, this moment would only be a mere phantom of my imagination.

Nope, he's still here. Excellent.

"Don't listen to Cherry, she's a little tipsy."

"On fruit wine?" He retorts and I mentally cringe.

"We'll talk about this later, just not right now," I reply wearily. This was a topic I wasn't expecting us to discuss anytime soon.

Using his index finger, he lifts his my head up to meet his gaze and there's a different look altogether in his eyes.

"Why no talk about it right now. I wanna know princess, really." Silence lingers for a while and I contemplate briefly on it for a while before sighing and pulling away from him, creating a bit of distance between us.

"Fine yes, I used to have a big crush on you while we were growing up but I just felt like I'd never be enough, compared to the rest of the girls you dated before and what we had," I gesture between the both of us, "Was just too special to loose. I didn't want to tell you and then you'd react differently I guess."

"Well since we're saying things we never planned on saying. I know it's been years but I've always liked you. Those little moments when we'd end up sleeping in your room after a long night playing video games and watching movies," we both chuckle at the thought of it.

"I always like liked you and," he moves a bit closer, locking eyes with me, the tension between us growing rapidly, "I never stopped loving you."

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