The Boy Next Door

13.

Julian

I made a mistake by saying that we couldn't be together and it was too late to stop her before she ran out of the room. I don't know where is she right now but I want to chase her, sit with her, explain to her everything.
At this point I don't care about the deal, I want to be with Amelia but I don't know if my parents are ready to have her or maybe it's too early. They know that she's my girlfriend everyone knows that she's my girlfriend except me. I'm afraid that, in the moment of Amelia being my fake girlfriend, I wouldn't catch feelings for her, but what I hadn't realized was that in the process of putting an act, both of us fell in love with each other. We are like South Poles on a magnet, the two repel each other but when one changes into the North Pole, both attract each other. In that case, Amelia changed herself, for me. She changed her whole identity of being my enemy to my neighbour, to my friend, to my roommate, and then to my fake girlfriend.

I feel like my mind is running round like a carousel so I do the one thing that I can think of. Running in search of her. Amelia.

I run out of the hotel, cross the road and run to the nearest lake. Jane told me that there is a lake a few miles from the hotel. So I run and run until I'm out of breath. I jog when I get near the lake where the sky is open. I see a figure sitting on the grass. The moment I recognize her dark blackish brownish hair, I knew it was Amelia.

I walked and sat beside her. Amelia's arms are wrapped around her knees and she stares at the lake that flows in a soothing rhythm with the light sounds of the insects.

"Amy," I say but she doesn't pay attention. "I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry. I didn't realize we'd fall for each other in the process of faking our relationship."

She finally looks at me, her eyes slightly swollen from the tears and her eyelids are moist.

"What do you mean fall for each other?" she asks
I sigh

"I love you, Amelia. Ever since the beginning, ever since you've entered my house and every time you look at me like you're in love with me. Yes I am an idiot to not realize the times when I didn't know you love me. I was afraid that if I express my feelings to you, you'd not accept them since we have to put on an act of faking our relationship, I'd predicted that even your feelings oc me would be fake despite saying how much you mean it. So I am genuinely sorry for everything I have done that has brought us in this situation and also for hurting you and using you. I didn't mean it to put it in that way. Do you know I feel insane without you like you are the only bane of my existence and every time you are near me, I just want to touch you and hold you so bad that sometimes I have a fear that you'd let go of me.
I've fallen on my knees for you Amy, I wouldn't say fall in love because everything that falls, breaks. I am in love with you, with everything you have, everything you are and everything you'll ever be in your life. I want to be with you Amy. Would you want to do the same? Be with me?"

Amelia's seating position changes into a kneeling position, she comes close to me. She doesn't hug me, she kisses me and this time I hold onto her so tightly, that I kiss her with all the passion I have for her. Our feelings mix up as each kiss is deepened and each hold is intense. She pulls back, "I want to be yours, Julian. You've been mine since the very long. " 
She hugged me and murmured, " We've barely spent much time faking our relationship, and we've already gone head over heels for each other."
We didn't say anything later but just laughed.