Arabella Acacia Martin had been in love with him for as long as she could remember but it was her forbidden love. Why you may ask? He was her best friend's boyfriend.
After 5 years, they cross each other's path yet again. Are things going to change...
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"I can't believe what I'm about to say but he does make sense." Elena and I decided to have brunch with the boys at the Grove, this rooftop bar in LA where I narrated the whole situation between me and Kai.
"This marriage with Travis thing is stretching for god knows how long," she adds, sipping her Rose while I am stuck with a tequila iced latte minus the tequila. "But why him out of all people."
"Whom would you've preferred, perhaps Seth." I teased.
"I would have preferred a trash bag over him."
"Jealous much."
"I'd rather calibrate my eyes and feed them to Mrs. Whiskers." Mrs. Whiskers is Elena's cat or the "only good thing that came out of her father's second marriage," in her words. "I'm just saving my best friend from a walking STD."
"You are one to talk. Aren't you." I crack a smile at her offended grasp.
"Hey, at least the people I fuck have standards!" She pouted.
"I saw your tongue down Nikolas's throat. I don't even wanna look at you."
"That was a moment of weak judgment." She said, narrowing her eyes at me.
"Anyways, mind if I ask something personal?"Despite her classy ways of changing the matter, I'm going to get my way sooner or later.
"Ofcourse not," I say before munching on my tacos.
"Are you still in love with him?" she enunciated the sentence carefully, keeping her gaze glued on me.
"Honestly speaking I have no idea, anymore," I reply after a couple of moments. But I wasn't lying. Unlike the younger me, who was certain of her feelings, the older me became ignorant. Maybe it's because once you let go of all your expectations of yourself, nothing else makes sense.
"I've been desperately........ hopelessly in love with him my whole life, that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to feel now. He is a really... extremely special person." Hopeless does seem most fitting, imagine with just a mere wif of him could be enough to make me happy.
"If you had the chance or an option mostly likely, would you do it again?"
"In a heartbeat," I replied almost immediately because I don't regret any of it, no matter how things turned out.
"What's it been in love with something who isn't yours, to begin with?"
"Beautiful."
"That's absurd. How is your kind of love more beautiful than an actual relationship?" I smile. I don't expect her to understand.
"My love didn't depend on anyone. 'There is love, I'm in love' as simple as that. And you know what the best thing is, it's so volatile and filled with excitement. In a relationship, you win when you are in love and lose when you move out of it.
