The Reunion (Part 1)

chapter 22

The blonde had opened her eyes and the brunette could see the urgency in her eyes, she was holding back from crying but her eyes were red and bright, "do you love him?"

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Carina had been content at first to shake her head slightly in a negative way. But the blonde wanted words, she didn't want a nod.

- "not like I love you."

- "so what does it matter?"

- "he's nice, I don't want to hurt him"

- "but it's me you love..."

- "yes"

- "and it is with me that you are tonight..."

- "yes"

- "but it is with him that you will be in five days..."

-"Maya... When I told you that you were the woman of my life... That's not quite true..." The blonde had pulled her fingers off from Carina, "wowww ... Okay ... Warn next time!" Carina moaned in pleasure but at the same time in frustration: "What I was trying to say..." she did before taking a deep breath, still under the effect of the blonde's hand that had left her body: "...is that you're not just the woman in my life. Maya you are the love of my life. And some people aren't destined to end up with the love of their life. We literally live on two different continents, on almost opposite time zones. And if we broke up the first time it's precisely because of that. Because we know very well that long distance love doesn't work, not when you have an ocean in between". Her eyes had released tears in spite of herself, and although she was still holding the blonde's face, the latter was trying not to look at her, as her tears were running down her cheeks, as well as on Carina's hands.

The blonde had removed herself from on top of her and sat down next to her.
The Italian had removed her tanga and had come to sit astride the sprinter.

"Maya, I will love you for the rest of my life, I loved you early on in our relationship, I loved you all the way to this airport, I have loved you for two years in secret, I loved you when I saw you on that poster and I fell in love with you all over again when I walked into that room and saw you. I know I'll love you even in twenty years and you'll always be my best love story. But we can't live a lie, we both know that. What's the point of pretending that after these few days we can see each other? I'm studying in London, I live in Sicily and you're going to firefighter school in Seattle.

My love" she said, running her hand over her cheek to wipe away her tears: "I'll never love anyone the way I love you. I don't even know if I could ever fall in love with anyone else. But that's no reason for me to break the heart of the man who loves me... You know... He asked me if I knew you because I couldn't stop staring at all the posters of you in London... And I had to do the hardest thing in my life, I pretended I didn't know you. Because if I had said yes, if I had told him who you were... If I had started talking about you, I wouldn't have been able to stop, I would have told him how beautiful you are, how wonderful you are, I would have had to tell him that I love you, when I can't tell him, I would have had to tell him that my heart has belonged to you for the last three years and that it will belong to you forever. I would have broken his heart and it wouldn't have changed anything between you and me. So please, bambina, if I don't want you to leave a mark on me, it's because I don't want to hurt him because he doesn't deserve it. If I have to break up with him, I don't want it to be because he saw that I cheated on him with the only person I can say I love you by thinking it, by feeling it, by living it."

Carina had bent her head to come and kiss Maya and despite her cheeks drowning in tears she had returned her kiss.

"Amore, make love to me as only you can".