“So let me get this straight,” Cynn said over the phone. “Everytime you kiss Jake you feel nothing?”
“Yeah, nothing extraordinary.” I admitted.
“But when you kissed Zach you felt extraordinary, with fireworks etcetera etcetera?”
“Yeah, I really messed up, didn’t I?”
“Come on, Dana, you didn’t really messed up. It’s simple you’re in love with Zach, not Jake.”
I gave and exasperated sigh. “But I’m dating Jake and Zach is her brother, you remember that, right?”
“Then get it straight. You are in love with Zach, you can’t change that.”
“It’s not that simple, you know,” I continued. “ I’ve wanted Jake all my life, and now that I had him, I found out I’m in love with Zach, instead. How fickle-minded can I be?”
“Maybe you’ve always been in love with Zach, you just don’t realize it because you are so focused with your infatuation with Jake.” Cynn comforted me. “Sometimes it’s like that, you don’t recognize love even if it is staring you at the face.”
I was confused. “I don’t know what to do. I feel like hiding all my life from both of them.”
“You can’t run away from your feelings forever.”
She was right. “But Zach is already dating Nathalie.”
“All is fair in love and war.”
“You think so?”
“I think so, but first, you have to set it straight with Jake.”
And that is the hardest part.
I heard knocks on my door. My father’s head appeared from the doorway afterwards. “Zach’s here to see you.” He called out.
I shook my head, there’s no way I’m gonna talk to Zach right now. I’m not yet ready for this.
“Can you please tell him that I’m sleeping?”
My father’s brow hit his hairline but said nothing and left. I close my eyes pictured Zach kissing me. I smiled.
“You smile like that while sleeping?”
I sprang from bed. Zach! Oh Dad! How can he do this to me!
“What are you doing here?”
Zach entered the room and sat on the edge of my bed, he’d been to my room thousands of time since we practically grew together but this was the first time that I felt so nervous and excited at the same time.
“Okay.” Zach said. “Why don’t you tell me the reason why you seem to avoiding me.”
I moved over to the bay window in my room and shoved aside my collection of stuffed toys most of them are from Zach. I sat down, close my eyes and pictured him and Nathalie together. And then Jake. I felt that tears started to blur my vision.
How could I tell him that I was avoiding him because I was falling in-love with him, when he was dating someone else now?
“Zach, I don’t want to get into this now. Can’t you just drop it?”
“Drop it?” he snapped. He never talked to me that way. “The changes in your appearance were great, don’t get me wrong. But all that stuff isn’t as important as what’s inside. I miss the old Dana.”
“Zach, I-“
“I know how you feel about Jake.” Zach said. “how you’ve always felt about him. I took advantage of Jake’s sprained ankle to spend time with you. To show you.”
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Falling for The Wrong Brother
Dla nastolatkówDana Ellison spent her entire life being friends with Zach and crushing on Zach's older brother Jake. Jake Janssen is the kind of guy girls dream about. And Dana had been dreaming of him for as long as she can remember. Now, after her trip from Pari...
