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Chapter Eight

I am so sorry for shitty updating. Wattpad moved my chapter 12 to become part 10 of this story so I copied and paste to the original part, thing was I pasted it all over my already ready to publish chapter 13 and 13 was deleted.

Stupid stupid me.

Bear with me please.

Burning in hell, InfamousDiablo

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"I'll pick you up tomorrow?" Emmett gave me quite a smile as he wrapped his arms around me for a goodbye hug. Tom stood behind me, guarding his every move. We've went out for two days in a row and well, of course, Tom knew I didn't go out with people I'm not interested in.

"Sure thing." I hugged him back and after it lasted for well over seconds, he pulled back and extended an arm towards Tom.

"Thomas," He acknowledge him with a respectful smile and Tom shook his hand with the same amount of smile. He turned to me, smiled, and completely turned towards his park. We watched him go his way before I closed the door. My heart was pounding as I spun to meet Tom's eyes. Tom was scanning me, his eyes looking judgmental as his arms crossed over his chest.

"You like him?" He asked.

"Well yeah, he's nice and quite charming." I reminisced, yesterday he took me to an outdoor movie and today he took me to dinner on one of the famous mountain restaurants around, it really had a nice view as we were seated in the best place. Emmett made sure of that.

"Love?" He beckoned towards the the living room where he sat down on one end and I on the other.

I mused on his question. After a while, I looked at him straight in the eye. "No," No one can really compare to Matt. Emmett might be the prince charming type but maybe I'm more of an Anastasia who has the baker for a lover.

"I just don't want you hurting yourself."

"What do you mean?" I narrowed my eyes at him.

"I know you, more than you actually led me to know, El. I know how your mind and heart works, I've been with you for so long I can tell if you hate someone just by the twitch of your mouth." Tom explained. A heartfelt smile grazed my lips. "El, I just want you to be honest with yourself, okay? I don't want you to do something you know you'll regret."

I immediately flushed and felt the cold slithering up my spine. "What? I'm not forcing myself to Emmett, if that's what you mean." I frowned, suddenly my mood darkened. I don't know why but when it comes from someone else that I'm trying to focus on somebody else, it sounds awful. Not to mention I haven't exactly confined my feelings to my own brother.

"I'm not raising anything here, princess. I'm just here to guide you." He sadly smiled and stood up, patting my shoulders in the process of walking and ascending the stairs. Leaving me seated quietly on the dimly lighted living room.

I stared at the darkened stairs for a while, replaying my conversation with Tom. The more I reversed and played it, the more I understood what he meant. I didn't need to tell him what I felt, he already knew. Maybe he didn't knew I was in-love Matt but he definitely knew I was in-love.

I sighed.

A ring broke the moment.

"Hello?"

"How's my favorite girl doing?"

"Matty.." I tried to yelp with hype but it came across as a tired disappointment with a smile.

"Hey, everything okay?" Matt sounded worried, concerned, and almost immediately, sad.