Now It's Just Us (Wrong Girl 2)

Four months later...

Four months later...

"Today is my twenty-fourth birthday and the sun is shining in through our bedroom window. It's still only March but we've now entered spring and the weather is slowly starting to warm up again. Zack and I have been living together for the past three months and I have now come to realise that all of the anxiety, trepidation and worrying about moving in together was unnecessary on my part.

I felt at home the second I got here and love the fact that I now think of this apartment as 'ours.' It also means that Zack doesn't have to drive forty miles just to come and see me. He now gets to remain close to work and is much more at ease now that he knows I'm close by him.

Audrey was really understanding about me moving out of her apartment at such short notice. She was great about the whole thing and said she knew how important it was for me to be with Zack.

There's been no more phone calls or anonymous letters since I moved in with him and I know that's more than likely because I have a new address and phone number. I don't really care what the reason is... so long as the harassment has come to an end.

Today is Saturday which means that Zack has the whole day off work. I was thrilled when he told me that we could spend the whole day together and celebrate my birthday in style. He's been extremely secretive about what his plans are for today, even though I've told him over and over again that I don't like surprises.

It was Zack's twenty-ninth birthday last month and I had no idea what I could buy him for a gift. In the end I decided on a pair of white gold cufflinks which I had engraved with both of our initials. I couldn't help thinking that I had made the wrong choice until I saw his face when he opened them. Zack wears them every single day when he goes to work so I guess I must have made the right choice.

He actually took my breath away last night when he suddenly announced what he had planned for us. Zack decided it was time for us to go and revisit our special spot by the lake, the place he first took me to confess his growing feelings for me when he was still engaged to my sister. I even went back to the lake myself the night before I spent my first night with Zack in the hotel we stayed in. I remember feeling so desolate and alone, struggling to understand how I was actually going to go through with our agreement to sleep together. Looking back, we were so naïve to actually believe that sleeping together would actually be enough to rid each other of our undeniable attraction to one another.

I think that's why I was somewhat reluctant when Zack suggested that we go back there, I was worried that I would associate the place with my sadness, terrified it would dredge up the past and its painful memories.

"Please come with me." Zack had pleaded just twenty-four hours before.

"I'm not sure." I replied with hesitation. "What if it makes us feel worse? It's only going to remind us about the horrible circumstances which lead us there the last time."

"That's why it's so important for us to make new memories." He argued. "I've always loved that place and you're the only one I want to go there with. I don't want you to feel as though I'm pressuring you but I really want us to go there again. I want to erase the past and start again and that new life starts now."

I eventually gave in and agreed to us revisiting the lake. I was extremely anxious and somewhat terrified about how it would make me feel to go back there, worrying I wouldn't even be capable of getting out of the car once we got there. However, it really wasn't as bad as I predicted and I realised once again just how pointless worrying about things really is. Worry is a burden and all it does it cause you to feel pain, it sucks the joy out of everything you do and this is why all of my energy now goes into battling my anxiety about things. I know I have a long way to go but I'm convinced I will get there in the end.