Meant to Be His❤❤❤

chapter 20

Matthew

This was the dreaded day. Today, Casey and I decided to finally talk and settle everything between us.She has called me when she arrived from New York and told me that we need to talk. There were no sweet nothings, no blame game, no drama. Just a simple "hi, we need to talk". We decided to meet up at the Italian restaurant we frequented before, to have a neutral ground and not in our house nor hers. Fiona has been cleared from the hospital two days ago. And though I earnestly would wanted to see her, I braced myself not to call her nor go to their place, as I wanted it, that if we see each other,I would be free as a bird and I could already tell her that I love her.

I arrived a few minutes before Casey. As usual she was wearing something nice and girly. A floral long sleeves over a tight fitting slacks with wedges. She was wearing her hair curled on the edges and wearing make up as she always does. She looked good, as always. I stood up to meet her as she entered the place, and kissed her on the cheek. And she looked....quite nervous and uninterested? It seemed she just wanted our talk to be done with. Asap. Her reaction was too far from before when she wanted to jump on me and her smile always reaching her eyes everytime we see each other. But today was different. I can see this is becoming more... interesting.

I saw that she was being uncomfortable while we seated ourselves, her eyes darting from the napkin she started fiddling with, to my face.

"I met someone", she blurted out, catching me off guard. " He's also an actor and he's from England. We share some scenes and almost all of them required some, errmm... smooching, kissing. And I guess, it all started there. We've been dating for at least five months now".

She was still folding and unfolding her napkin while she was talking, barely looking at me in the eye. Then she looked up and told me straight, "I fell in love with him".

Wow! Last night I was not able to sleep well, thinking of how to divulge to her that I was breaking up with her and we should call the engagement off, without hurting her. We've been together for three years now and I thought we were perfect for each other until I felt something for someone. For Fiona. A feeling that I could have thrown to the pit the moment I felt it. But I was left drawn each day to this girl, I hardly knew but crept all the way to every fiber of my being.

" Well I don't know what to say, really",I told her, still grasping this new information like a ticking time bomb finally blowing off. "But I think we're on the same page here, because I fell in love with someone, too. I'm sorry".

She suddenly held my hand on the table, and now I was somehow convinced Casey was the most understanding person I have ever met.

"Come on Matt. It was nobody's fault. Maybe, we were not really meant to be right from the start.  And you can't force yourself not to love someone once you're hit and you've felt it. But I hope we can still be the best of friends, can we at least do that? Anyway, both of us know each other quite well than anyone else, well except for Matthew and your new girl,I guess."

"Matthew? You've got to be kidding me? Your new boyfriend's name is Matthew?!" I asked her and she was smiling nearly laughing now.

"Yeah you're right. I guess, I'm destined to have Matthews in my life!" We were both laughing now.

"I'll be damned. I guess Matthews you met are quite irresistible huh?!", I teased her never thinking our talk will turn out like this...light and comfy.

" So who's the lucky girl?", she asked me instantly. "Is it Rain's cousin? Fiona?"

Shit! Was I that obvious that even Casey seemed to knew it all along? Thinking this was the moment of truth, and it will no longer hurt her to finally confirm it, "yes, it's Fiona. But she still doesn't know," I admitted.