It's Too Late To Love Me Back

Chapter 9

It was painful to still hear "we can't be together" after 7 years of love, wasn't it?

I guess because I'm kind of low on the intellectuel department that it took me very much to be finally convinced my lovely beautiful self won't be loved back.. I accepted the rejection.. I moved on.. and now I'm back to face Younes as a new person.

But to suddenly hear him saying:

_" Is there someone else in your life now? Are you seeing someone?"

At the restaurant where Amine tricked me to go and I was surprised to meet Younes there, to hear those words felt like an insult to the long healing process I've been going through.

Like seriously, the moment I start treating his highness coldly which he so deserves, the first thing he assumes is that I have a new man to chase after!!

But you see, if I heard these same words a couple of years ago I would either have jumped at him and tore his head out out of pure rage, or I would have worked myself to death to prove my love was sincere and I had no one but him, that's because I was 'extreemly' in love, but now I'm not, so I just sigh instead as I look at the suspiciously angry him and I say sincerely:

_" Just to be clear, I have no plans of being with any man for now, I'm tired."

_" You don't even look at me anymore Rima, if this is another joke of yours, it's going unfairly far." he whispers as his anger immediately disappears.

As despicable as it is, I realize this man seriously had no clue as to why I was creating distance between us.

Put aside our dearest last encounter, I had in fact a lot of reasons to neglect this insufferable person:

1- he never called or texted me, not even once, after he left the country

2- he never tried to see me, not once, for more than a year since he left.

3- he never wondered, why the me who always followed him like a shadow and rained his phone with calls and messages haven't tried, not for once, to reach out to him for a noticeably freaking year.

4- he's probably trying to win me over now, just because the situation between our families is sh*tty and he wants to use me to win over my family again.

5- Behind his mask of kindness, he's the definition of a jerk.

The list is disappointingly even longer.

Nonetheless, I still choose to ignore all those reasons and instead ask him:

_" Don't call me that.. don't call my name."

Then confront him:

_" I said I loved you the last time you and I sat on the same table, haven't I?"

_" Yes, and then if I'm remembering correctly we discussed__"

_" You rejected me."

_" Yes, because like I said I had to___"

_" Mr Merabat, You rejected me, that's that." I say with a calm smile, as if none of this matters to me.

Younes was about to say something, but he suddenly stops.. and it looks like something snapped inside his head or he has just reached a terrifying realization, because his eyes start to shake immediately, and he stares at me with tangible fear, then he says:

_" Wait, listen to me.. Please.. listen."

_" Two years ago, I meant it when I said I won't bother you anymore, that was my last confession." I continue nonetheless.