It's Always Been You [Eddie Munson]

XIV

"Isabella." Karen's voice yelling from downstairs woke me up from my deep slumber and I immediately ran down the stairs, thinking something bad must have happened if she was yelling so loudly in the morning, knowing that it would be total chaos if she woke Nancy up. "Morning dear, there's something for you at the door." She smiles sweetly, making her way into the kitchen where Mike and Dustin were seated happily eating some unhealthy snack they could put their hands on, I hesitantly made my way to the front door and swung it open, not sure what to expect but I was greeted with absolutely nothing, there was nothing until I looked down at the bouquet of roses on the doorstep and I found myself smiling at the thought of him waking up extra early just to give me flowers even though he wasn't a morning person. I kneeled down and carefully picked them up, my smile widening seeing the six red roses wrapped in the newspaper with some old string, I could just picture him in my head struggling to get the wrapping so perfect with his tongue sticking out unconsciously.

"Do you know who brought them?" I asked, acting as if though I was clueless but the smiles on Karen's and Dustin's face made me suspicious as if they actually did know. "Nope, they were just there with your name written on the newspaper so I left them for you to get." Karen smiled, taking a sip of her coffee as she stood next to the stove, making pancakes. "Oh well." I shrugged and put them on the counter, sitting down across from Mike and Dustin, Dustin had not stopped smiling at me and Mike looked absolutely clueless as his eyes flickered in between me and the flowers, he shook his head and got up from the table, "call us if breakfast is ready." Dustin followed shortly after him into the basement and once they were gone I looked over at the flowers, smiling widely .

"You must love him." Karen snapped me back to reality and I shook my head, laughter escaping my lips. "Love? I'm not so sure." I smiled at her and she shook her head, flipping one of the pancakes. "Oh don't be foolish, only a girl that's been knocked off her feet smiles that wide at flowers." She laughs and I frowned, I know that I somehow along the way got feelings for him but I was definitely not in love with him, the thought of love brought me nowhere but a black void as if I had forgotten what it's like to love someone, that thought scared me because what if I had forgotten what it's like loving someone?

"It's Edward right?" She asked, pouring pancake mixture into the pan and I nodded. "Yeah, that's the one." She glanced over at me before looking back at the pan. "I think his nice, might need a hair cut but he seems to be a gentleman." I laughed at her comment about him needing a haircut and sighed, looking at the flowers in confusion. "He sure is nice, definitely one of a kind." I smiled and she chuckled. "You remind me of myself when I first met Ted back in the day." She says and I looked over at her, "If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you met?" She smiled widely as if reliving a memory. "I was 16 at the time while Ted was 18, our parents, your grandparents in fact, were highly against it because of the age difference so we continued dating in secret and got engaged at 20." I smiled at the thought of how cute their story was, probably sneaking out in the middle of the night just to see eachother, going on little dates where nobody could see them or climbing through windows to spend the night with each other and then the thought of me and James came into mind, if we worked out I'd probably end up marrying him and we would be able to tell our kids how we've been lovers since 16 and never fell out of love but that was not the case and a part of me was glad it didn't work because now I have an Eddie, someone who's making me question my feelings at 8 in the morning, making me doubt my past relationship because I no longer remember what love was because I know I loved James but I just can't remember what it's like.