Until I Met You

Chapter 17

Recap from the previous chapter!

"Will you forgive me?"

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Until I Met You

By justahobby46

Chapter 17

Theo's POV

Hey guys, so right now, I am standing in front of Shailene's apartment door, my right hand is holding the yellow rose and the other one is tucked behind my back, like a real gentleman. I am currently silently praying for the poor rose to succeed in making her to forgive me. But Shailene hasn't said anything yet so the poor rose hasn't succeeded. Instead letting me in, she is just staring at me with her mouth hanging open.

Cold sweat begins to form on my forehead. My right hand, the one who is holding the yellow rose, starts to ache from holding out the rose for 10 minutes straight. I am not a patient man. I don't like to wait. Mostly, I would call my date off if she was late for 20 minutes. See? I am not a patient man.

But for this woman, I'm willing to wait. I'm ready to do anything. I have to wait? I will fucking wait.

Suddenly, I don't feel my rose in my hand anymore. Where does it go? I open my eyes and go searching for the rose. Then I find out that the rose is in her hand now. Phew. I don't even realize that I have closed my eyes. Now that, she has taken the rose, I have to know whether she has forgiven me or not.

I scratch my neck, even though it is not itching. This is my nervous state. This woman has made me do things that I have never done before to any other woman, even my ex or my sisters.

"So," I am really trying to sound casual, as if I would do this to every woman that I have made mistake at. "Am I forgiven?"

I show her my 'smile', the smile that made mothers or anyone who saw me as a baby, started pinching my cheeks. I kinda hope that Shailene will pinch my cheeks again, like she did when we were at the park.

She doesn't pinch my cheeks.

Shailene just smiles at me back and steps back, motioning me to go inside her apartment.

I take that sign as her forgiveness. I step inside quickly so she will not change her mind.

She sits on the sofa and I take a seat across from her. I need to see her face when I apologize to her. I immediately scan the room, taking the conditions, and getting myself ready for the speech which I have prepared 30 minutes ago. I clear my throat and open my mouth.

"I am sorry that I ran away earlier. I am really sorry. I don't hate you, it's just.... this is all happening too fast and I want to slow things down. I want us to be friends. We are going to have 3 movies together and we both are the main characters so we are going to spend time together for awhile and I think if we want the same thing, it is best if we start as friends. I believe that friendship is the best foundation for every relationship."

That's not my speech. Not even close. It's hers. So she has prepared too, I guess. Not that I mind because being her friend is what I am gonna do to make her mine but it is because she is the one who say the words. It should have been mine. I usually am the one who control the relationship, the woman just has two choices: take it or leave it. I need to be back in control now. We will play by my rules from now on.

"Okay." There I have said it. Besides her words make sense.

"Okay?" Now, she is the one who surprised.

"Okay. I agree to be your friend." She opens her mouth and I hold up my hand to make her shut her mouth. "And before I forget, I want to apologize again for being too straight forward. I thought you were just like any other woman, I know that you are different now." She frowns at me.