The Love Assignment

Chapter 24

Vallerie POV

I sat in my room contemplating what had just happened yesterday. A colorful picture of Alex and me was shown in the entertainment section. The headlines read America's Sweethearts. This picture meant nothing to me. It had no truth. The photos showed me smiling but the smile never reached my eyes. Only a person who was close to me would recognise it.

I wondered if Daniel could see it, could see the facade I put there. Could see the lies that story told to the world.

I felt wetness on my cheeks and there it was, a small tear that I had hidden from mom and Stacey escaping happily out, now that they weren't there with me. After the incident, Alex, Stacey, and mom stayed over at my place. The night went with Stacey yelling at Alex for making a show while my mom consoled me. I, on the other hand, had only one thought running through my mind. 

Had Daniel seen it? Had he believed it? 

Alex explained that he had gone along with Kate to protect me. Being in an almost similar profession Alex pointed out that Kate's job was to figure out stuff and had I said 'no' or looked confused she would have pounced on me like a hungry lion. People wouldn't have believed all the stuff that I had written. In order for that to not happen Alex played along with Kate.

Some part of me understood what Alex had done but the part that loved Daniel felt being choked. Looking at all the congratulatory emails and flowers that were sent I felt torn apart. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell out loud to stop. More than anything I wanted Daniel with me. I sighed knowing that I will never have Daniel back.

I walked slowly towards my room, at the corner standing out brilliantly on my wall was the piece of article that gave me all this fame. The article that had claimed to have saved many women only destroyed mine.

As I lifted the framed piece of the article I felt my hand shiver. What started out as a simple assignment that lifted my career broke my life. I read it slowly trying to sink in the words into my head, trying to believe what I had written. I could feel my lips wording the letters but no sound came out of them, with eyes being blurred in tears I read through it. Written there were the lines 

'Why do people fall in Love?'

'Why do people fall in love?'

'Why do people fall in love?' This was the assignment given to me. Initially, I was apprehensive about taking it up but then the next question that haunted me was,

'Why shouldn't they?' Yes, why shouldn't you fall in love?

Love is an escape. A magical mystery ride that everyone wants to get on. Everyone wants it. Some say it out loud, some say they don't  want it but at the end of the day all they need a small dosage of love.

Keeping aside the science behind the attraction one feels towards the other, its more about acceptance. Each of us wants to feel needed, to feel complete, to feel cared for, to be the reason for someone's breath, to be accepted for all the perfect imperfections. That adrenaline rush, the thumping of hearts, that first kiss, that first touch, that bittersweet confusion, everything makes us want to go closer to it.

So ladies, stop trying to understand why you fell for 'that' guy? Stop trying to question your feelings. Enjoy those moments of thumping. Never lose faith. Never lose your trust on the one you love. When you are in love even a venomous snake seems to be a very beautiful creature. Love is never straight forward. It's never that simple and if it were that simple and easy we would have stopped trying. And the best feeling of all this is, it makes us understand ourselves. It shows a bigger picture of who we are. And sometimes the truth that's revealed may not be the one you like. But to realise that the same thing that made you dislike yourself is the reason someone loves you is the best feeling. Hold on to that feeling and it helps you love him more than before.