Mr. Nikolai Pavlov

The Confession

{Nik's POV}

I had to tell her. I had to man up and tell her. What could go wrong besides you know, everything. Everly could freak out, and leave me. I don't want that. Everly had made me delete whole, and without her, I would be one the same man I was, and don't want to go back.

I can tell her now, but we're at work, and it's a bad time, but if I keep procrastinating, I might never tell her, and I have to get it out. I have do.

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"Everly, can you come to my office, please?"

Here goes nothing.

In a couple of seconds, she came. "Yes, sir?"

I stood up. I could do this. I went over to her. "I need to tell you something." I sighed. "I love you, Everly. Ever since I met you, I knew I liked you, but not like this. It was really until you started living with me when I started to realize it. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, and I can't imagine a world without you. It's hard for me to say things to people, but with you, I can say whatever I'm feeling. You make me brave, you make me whole. I just... I love you. So much."

Everly looked at me like I grew another head. Did I make make a mistake?

"You love me?" She took a step towards me. "How could you?"

"I know it's not right and I-"

"No. It's amazing."

"What?"

She smiled. "That's amazing. You're changing. You're not the person you once were anymore, are you?"

What? No she didn't get it. "No, Everly, you don't get it. I love you."

"I know. That's wonderful." She kissed me on the cheek and left.

What the hell? What part of I love you, did she not understand? Did she literally think I meant that I loved her as a friend? I thought I already said that, but maybe not. But either way, she should know. She should know.

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I'm really pissed off about all of this. It's been a freaking week, and Everly acts like nothing ever happened. What was wrong with her? Should I talk to her, or let her figure out the most obvious thing? I'm just going to let her figure it out. If she doesn't soon, then what?

{Everly's POV}

No, Nik didn't love me like he wanted to go out with me, right? It wasn't that kind of love. More like a friendship kind of love. That's how I loved him. That's how I always will.

What I didn't get was why Nik was so mad at me? What did he want me to understand? That he loved me? No. Nik can't love a women like that. He's not that kind of person, yet. Trust me I know. I know that once something goes bad, he'll go right back to his old self.

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After work, I didn't go home right away again. I went to a bakery, and got some cupcakes. When I came out, I got stopped by a guy. I knew I shouldn't have been alone in New York City at night. Bad idea, but I'm going to have to deal with it.

"Hey, beautiful," said the guy.

"Hi," I said, and started to walk away.

The guy grabbed my arm. "What's your name?"

"That's none of your business."

"Tell me."

"Let go of me." I shoved him away, but he just grabbed me again. He grabbed me, and inner me to the wall.

"LET ME GO!" I struggled to fight him, but couldn't. Then someone finally came to my rescue.

"HEY! Let her go."