Secret Love

13.

Years later:

Years passed. And right now I'm cooking dinner for Liam and our 2 beautiful children in our London Town-house.

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The children were in their play room and I stood in the kitchen getting lost in the thought of my life with Liam.
To think it was about 13 years ago when I met the love of my life, as I rushed home from work one windy autumn afternoon, and he'd been running from the paparazzi.

Our first encounter with one another wasn't exactly a pleasant one at all. If I'm being honest with myself I couldn't stand him at all. But it was only out of the fear of getting hurt.

But a simple mistaken exchange of our phones and a couple years later. I found myself happily married to him, with our twin daughters, Abby and Olivia.

As I prepared supper, I got lost in my thoughts of my past while waiting for him to come home from a meeting.  His life in the band now becoming more and more of a memory now.

To think its actually been 6 years now since the band had broken up and everyone went separate ways, business wise. But still being in one another's lives till this day.
(To think about it, we've actually all got a big dinner reservation this saturday.)

It was really weird to think about all that we've been through. Having to keep our relationship a complete secret for so many years and then almost ending it due to silly fights about having to keep it a secret and the worse of all. The one that had caused us to end it.

It was being caught by the paparazzi.

Back then we went through a lot. And being young we fought a lot and didn't think we'd make it. And we almost didn't.

We broke up for 2 years after the stress of the paparazzi exposing our relationship. It all just got too much. The fights and disagreements about what to do and what our future would be like, it just never seemed to stop.

So I did something that I still regret to this day, because it makes me feel like I was just being childish.

I left...

After aunt Julia and Robert's wedding. Ally and I travelled a bit. But she came home about 4 months later and married Grayson. She then opened up her own private doctor's surgery, while I still traveled for a while trying to escape the haunting thoughts of the boy that (at the time, I thought) I had lost forever.

Grayson and Ally are still married with 2 beautiful twin boys, Zac and Nathan. They are still really happy together. And Ally and I see one another almost every single day. And our children are like siblings.

The only reason I came back earlier from traveling was because of Ally. And if it wasn't for her, I really think I would've missed my chance of ever meeting Liam again.

Because when I came home for her wedding. About 3 weeks later I had been walking past the very same bakery where Liam and I met and I decided to stop and get something.

When I walked in, I was so in my own head, that I hadn't realized that he had been there, ordering the very same piece of cake that he had accidentally let fall that day.

I turned around to view more options and I bumped right into him. He was standing behind me, just about to say "Hello", when I walked right into his chest.

I let out a giggle, as I was about to apologize, not knowing who it was. When I looked up at him, our eyes connected and we were just focused on one another. I could feel that the connection between us was still like that very first day we were pushed up against the wall in the ally-way just around the corner from the bakery.

Our eyes were focused on one another, neither of us saying anything, just staring, as a million things ran through our minds, as if not being able to believe that this was really happening. That we might just have our second chance of being together.

A few seconds later, one of those gorgeous smiles of his that I hadn't since forgotten, had grown on his lips and he broke the silence between us with one simple word.

"Hi"  he said, still smiling.

A smile had grown across my lips, but not just any smile. A smile like the one's that had grown a place on my lips when only I was with him and had since been forgotten and thought that it would never ever be returned again.

It was the smile that was formed when his lips were on mine or when he made the silliest of jokes. It was the smile that had been on my lips when I would just stare at him with all the love I had in my heart for him and would feel like I was falling for him all over again.

I thought that I would never know it again, until seeing him again that day and saying the same word that had started the very future that was once unknown to us. The one that we are living this very day.

"Hi" I said, smiling happily.

The End......