Accidentally In Love

Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

"You know I actually completely forgot you wore glasses." Christian suddenly said.

We were both on the couch, our dinner dishes sitting on the table in front of us, Christian on one end with his laptop out doing work or something, still in his suit but minus the jacket and tie, and me on the other end, my head resting against the armrest and my legs curled up into my body in a way to keep my feet from skimming against his thighs.

He had handed me the remote after the news had finished and I had flicked through the channels until I came across The Notebook and decided to watch it, it wasn't long before Christian stood and got his laptop, I had smiled to myself at that one.

I shrugged. "I don't usually, mainly I wear contacts now but they were irritating my eyes this morning." I figured it was something to do with the amount of crying I had done in the past couple of days.

"Well they look good on you." Christian said quietly.

I sat up and looked over at him then, he purposefully did not look up from his laptop.

"What as opposed to a few years ago when I looked like a four-eyed freak?" I remembered the first day I had gone to high school wearing my new glasses, it was during senior year and I wasn't ashamed by them at all, in fact I think they looked nice on me, made me look more grown up and professional with the small black square frames.

Of course that was until Christian saw me between second and third periods, his laugh had echoed around the hallway, his taunts of being a four-eyed freak and followed me around for two weeks until it was Christmas break, during that time I made Father take me to go get contacts and had worn them ever since, only wearing my glasses when my contacts weren't suitable.

A small smile seemed to be twitching at the corners of Christian's mouth. "Yeah, the four-eyed freak kind of suits them now."

I stayed staring at him in suspicion for a few more moments until I just sighed and lay back down, remaining silent was probably the best thing for me to do.

It was probably another half an hour before we spoke again, my mind growing sappy and thoughtful the more the movie progressed.

"Christian have you ever been in love?" I didn't know why the question sprung out of my mouth; it was as if I couldn't control it. But I was curious.

As far as I knew Christian only had one serious relationship, one that started during high school and ended when they were in college. I didn't know any of the details or anything, I hadn't been that interested in it, apart from vaguely wondering if Christian had been heartbroken so I could throw it in his face, when I had next seen him though I had completely forgotten about it and missed my opportunity.

I felt Christian tense up; he seemed to go still for a few moments before remembering to breathe again.

"Why?" he asked simply.

I shrugged. "Just curious I guess." Gesturing to the TV and soppy movie on display.

He didn't answer me and after what seemed like several minutes I had stopped expecting him to, I figured he didn't want to answer and chose to ignore me instead.

"Once." His voice was soft, I looked over to him, and saw that he had a faraway look to his eyes; maybe he was lost in the memories. "Carly Summers, she was the same year as us in high school. Do you remember her?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I sure do. She was my friend first remember." He chuckled a bit then and I almost wanted to slap him for it.

I remembered the day I found out they were dating; I had been devastated she had been my best friend and had often joined our group in what we liked to call 'Christian Bashing', pretty much just a bitching session about him. She didn't even have the guts to tell me herself; in fact she had just ignored me and my friends like she thought we would go away.