Sixteen and Married [COMPLETE]

Sixteen and Married. (Arranged Marriage story) Chapter 25

heyy everyone :)

the last and final long-awaited last chapter of Sixteen and Married is here!

i know i've been keeping u guys from reading it for a long timee. sorry :P

anyways. it's the very last bit.

who will she choose?

it's not a long chapter, but i know you guys need to know who she'll have to choose.

i'll miss this story a lot :) it was extremely fun to write this. i hope you had enjoyed it as much as i did when i wrote it.

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Sallie W.

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Chapter 25:

I wake up, and find my head still on his chest and I move. Tim groans and reaches for me with his arms and holds me back from getting off the bed. I give up and lean in them.

While acting like a loving wife, I'm still wondering.

Who do I actually feel those feelings for?

My feelings for Cameron ought to have been all gone now...it's been ten years. We've moved on. I've moved on. Right?

I don't know.

I decide to look deeply in my heart and try to find the answer.

I ask my heart. Who do I truly love? The one I see myself with in fifty or sixty years or so?

I lift my head up and turn my body and look at Tim. In my mind's eye, I look at Cameron's face.

My heart whispers the answer.

I quickly get up and pull on my clothes, then pin up my hair in a tight chignon, then I run out of the sleeping house.

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"Hey," I greet him when he opens the door. He looks shocked to see me at his doorstep.

"Um- hi Hayden...Come in." He moves away from the door awkwardly and I step into his apartment.

He takes me over to the sofa and then makes a cup of tea for me.

"How did you know where I lived?"

"I have my ways as a lawyer Cameron."

"So...what brings you here?"

I bite my lip. I had gone over my speech so many times. I need to do it perfectly. He brings me my cup of tea and I nod my thanks, and he sits across me.

"Well?"

"Well..."

He takes my hand in his and stares right into my eyes. "I knew you'd come back to me."

I blink.

No.

That's not what's supposed to happen.

I snatch my hand back and his face falls. "No, that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to tell you... I've made up my mind.

"All these years I've waited for you, yet you never came after me. I've given up on you. When I saw you at the shop, my heart didn't exactly know where to go.

"Now I really know who I really love. The person really meant for me is Tim. He's the one I want to spend the rest of my days with. What I felt for you ten years ago is not what it is now.

"I still like you Cameron, but we've both got to move on..." I pause. "But... I really hope we can still be best friends. I don't want to lose you."

There's a silence hanging in the air.

"Okay." He says quietly.

"I've said what I needed to. I thought you should know; I want you to be able to let go, to start again. I don't want you to be held back because of me."

"Okay."

We both stand up.

"I should get going." I say awkwardly. "Give me a call sometime."

He nods, and we head toward the door.

"Don't worry, you'll always be a part of me. Wherever I go, you'll forever be in my heart." I smile and lean forward to kiss his cheek, and then I turn the doorknob and walk away.

Once I step out into the fresh air, I giggle. I let my hair loose from my tight chignon and let it swing around.

I feel as if a large blanket of the burden of my past slip off my shoulders.

What is in the past is always in the past.

But what is in the future, no one can tell.

"It's over finally," I whisper, smiling as I did so.

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