Pretending

Chapter 22

Lucas seemed shocked like I was.

I think he knew I wasn't Faith.

He knew I was Hope. He just knew it.

Suddenly, I was attacked by Lily. She was crying and hugging me.

I hugged her back.

She looked at me and cautiously said, "Hope? Are you Hope?"

I just smiled and nodded.

She seemed satisfied with that and hugged me again.

Suddenly, Oliver came behind her and pulled her back.

Oliver smiled at me and told me it was nice to see me again.

I just greeted him back.

Suddenly, Cole attacked me and hugged me tightly.

I told him I couldn't breathe and Candy came over and slapped his head.

Candy smiled widely at me and told me that she missed me.

I told her that I missed her too.

I could still feel a pair of eyes on me.

Even though two year has passed, I still knew it belonged to Lucas.

I was too nervous to even look at him again. I didn't want to know what expression was held on his god-like face.

Suddenly, Linda came over and said, "If it isn't Miss Liar."

Everyone froze because Linda just brought up the subject no one wanted to talk about.

I just ignored her which seemed to make her mad.

Linda started to say more bad things about my sister and I when Lucas spoke.

His voice was still the same.

His voice screamed power and rich.

I missed it so much and I still couldn't look up at him.

He said, "Linda, I think you should shut up."

Linda just opened her mouth and then closed it like a fish.

She suddenly blushed and ran out of the room.

Serves her right.

Everyone turned their attention back on me.

Oh no.

I started to panic but I managed to say, "Uh.. I came here to discuss the new building being built with an owner of a company.. I must have got the wrong room."

I was about to leave when Lucas said, "Wait. You are in the right room."

He was talking to me.

I finally looked up at him and found him staring at me intently.

My heart sped up and I felt myself feel like my other half was found.

Everyone seemed to notice because they all left and left us two alone in the room.

I spoke up first by saying, "How are you?"

He replied by saying, "Fine but I could have been better." He was expressionless when he said this.

I winced and nodded.

He asked me how I have been.

I responded with a sad smile.

His face suddenly softened when he noticed my pained expression.

He was about to come near me when I told him to stop.

I couldn't think straight if he was even in the same room as me. If he came any closer I might just attack him.

He seemed hurt but he hid it.

We stayed quietly with me staring at the floor while he stared at me.

Suddenly, he told me to have a seat.

Casually, we just started discussing about the new building.

We didn't even talk about the past.

No, we didn't want to remember the past.

We didn't want to remember how we both hurt each other.

I think we both realized that we couldn't go back to how we were before.

When we were done talking about business, we had nothing to talk about.

So, I just said bye and left.

I was still stupid and foolish.

I arrived at Faith's home and she bombarded me with bunch of questions.

She knew. She knew he was going to be there.

I told her what happened and she just sighed and went back to work.

I just changed and went to bed and fell asleep.

As I closed my eyes, I could see his face. He has grown and I could see how two years has changed him to look even more handsome. He has grown taller if that was even possible and he had more muscle.

I fell asleep thinking of him.

The next day, I moved into a new apartment by Faith's house.

It was new and clean.

I started unpacking my stuff and found my old box filled with memories of when I acted as Faith.

Faith must have put it together.

I looked through the box and found memories of us.

Lucas and I.

I found the wedding ring, pictures we took, notes we wrote for each other, presents we gave one another.

So much memories made me cry and soon I was crying nonstop.

My tears wouldn't stop and I was breaking apart.

I couldn't think of anything but him lately and I wanted to be back in his arms.

Faith came in and saw me and hugged me.

She patted my back and said everything will be okay.

I was starting to notice how it was going to get harder and harder from now on.