Take Care | Channing Tatum

Chapter Twenty - Don't Look Back.

~Vanessa's P.O.V.~
I was speechless. Did he just proposed to me? What do I say? My brain stopped functioning. Great. What do you even do? Besides stop working when I need you. Okay take a deep breath. Do you want this? Yes. Indeed. Thinking logically, but wait I don't have time for this. I looked him in the eye and shouted;
"YESSS OH MY GOD CHRIS. YES YES." I couldn't stop the tears. He smiled, got up and kissed me. It was magical. Just like in the lame ass cliche movies. As cheesy as it sounds, it felt like we were infinite.

"God, you didn't react for like 2 minutes. I legit thought you were gonna say no." He said with a very relieved tone. I laughed.

"Well I didn't see that coming." I said

"I love you." He said.

"I love you too." I said.

//The Next Morning//

I woke up with my phone ringing. Ugh. What time is it? I looked at my phone. 11:36am. And Channing was calling.

"What." I snapped.

"Geez. Calm down. I thought you were a morning person?" He said.

"Sorry, what's up?"

"So we were supposed to meet. Like 30 minutes ago?"

Shit. I totally forgot about that. That is so not me.

"I'll be there asap." I said

"Did you just used a text shortcut in real life?" He said.

"Okay byee." I hung up.

I rushed to the bathroom, took a shower, untangled my hair, put on deodorant, and I can't find my cream oh there it is. I put my mango body lotion. Put on a little bit of blush and a soft peach colored lipgloss. Wore a white tank-top and a light pink skirt. Put my hair in a braid. Checked the bedroom to see if Chris was still sleeping. Yep he was. Look how cute he looks awww. I kissed him on his cheek. Went to the kitchen to grab some water and prepared a mini breakfast for Chris.

I headed to our meet up place with Channing which was this good old coffee shop.

I saw him standing in front of the shop, he changed a lot. He definitely got bigger and his hair got really light and short. He was wearing a red shirt with jeans.

"I couldn't recognize you." I said walking through him. We hugged.

"Look at you all dressed up girly." He checked me out.

"My style changed. A lot." I said.

"You know what? I'm really not in the mood for coffee. Let's eat breakfast food." He said.

"PANCAKES." I shouted cheerfully. Yummy yum. He giggled.

~Channing's P.O.V~
We walked in to a nice place. Sat down and ordered our food. While we were chatting, she put her hair in a ponytail and took a sip from her orange juice. Then I noticed she had a ring on her finger. My mood went down. She was telling me a story, she was very excited about it and talked with hand gestures and mimicked voices. I smiled a bit. Just to keep her going. She didn't noticed I was in a bad mood. She kept laughing and telling her story. I couldn't listen, my mind was too busy thinking about the ring. Who proposed to her? I'm going to ask her. But not now. She looks really happy. I waited until she finished.

"Did I talk too much? Sorry." She said. She took a bite from her pancake and said.

"So, don't you have any news?" She said.

"Who proposed?" I said. Kinda mad. She seemed shocked. She put her fork down, wiped her mouth and looked at me puzzled.

"What?" She said finally.

"The ring. Who bought it?" I said annoyed.

"Can you lower your tone please?" She said.

"Let's talk this somewhere else." I said. I asked for the check and we left.

"Are you...okay?" She said. We were walking. It was kinda windy.

"I'll be. If you answer my question." I said not looking at her. She sighed.

"Chris." She said. Wow. Really?

"Seriously?" I said.

"Why are you doing this?" She said looking at me.

"I don't know, maybe because you kissed me when I was about to leave to London. I thought you loved ME! Not him." I said. She looked away.

"That was 7 years ago." She said.

"..and?" I said.

"Things have changed Channing." She said with a cracked tone.

"That's not an excuse." I said.

"Look, we couldn't make it work. I tried. But it just didn't work out. 7 years is a long time. You just can't show up out of nowhere and get mad about my engagement. I moved on and you did too. I saw the news, you got back together with Jenna. I'm not bitching about it. I did loved you. I believe we had something back then. But not just anymore. You'll go back to London, I have a life here. Let's not make things worse and stay friends. Is that too hard?" She said looking me in the face. We stopped walking. We were just standing there. I looked at the ground. Trying to hold my tears. I'm not gonna tear up in front of her. She realized and wiped my tears with her thumb. I looked at the sky. And sigh. She was right. I moved on too.

"Maybe it was just not meant to be." I say. She nod. I was going to London tonight. There was no point in ruining things.

"Are you leaving today?" She said.

"Tonight. I should be going " I said. After all these years, when I first saw her today I realized I still loved her. I'd try to get her back but it's just too late. I hugged her tightly. One last time. She hugged me back.

"I'll miss us." She said. I held her hand and kissed it. Then let her go.

I turned around and started walking away. Halfway through I could feel her crying. I looked back and said

"Take Care."

She whispered "you too"