Chapter Twenty Six - If I Ain't Got You
"Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, you, you"
- Alicia Keys
Sophie got to the rooftop, the same place where she first went out with Blake. Her heart was pounding against her chest.
And there he was. Waiting for her. With a black T-shirt and jeans, with his hands on his pockets, just standing there looking in her direction.
"Blake." She barely whispered, too confused at what was in front of her. The now redecorated rooftop had a dining table set for two with a vase of flowers in its centre and a giant plate of tacos. How she missed those tacos! But she couldn't care less. Blake was standing right in front of her. After all that's happened. "What's going on here?" She asked.
"I have to tell you something..." Sophie started to panick.
What could possibly have brought him across the ocean? Couldn't he have just called? What about the meeting?
"To be with you." He said, taking her out of her thoughts. And she didn't have a clue of what he meant.
"To be with me?" She asked, still confused.
"You have no idea, do you?" Blake laughed neurvously as Sophie just stood there confused. "One day we were lying on bed and you asked me if I would rather have my dream job or to be with the love of my life... And I never got to answer you..."
Sophie's eyes started to water.
"I choose you, Soph. To be with you. That's my answer." He finishes his explanation and Sophie wonders if this is just a dream as he slowly approaches her and wraps his arms around her.
"But Arsenal... what's going to happen?" She asks, feeling his touch on her skin and enjoying the scent of his perfum, a scent she thought she would never feel anymore.
"I never got to sign the contract." Blake told her. "I postponed it to the max and then when finally it was the day I was gonna sign it, your mother called me..."
"My mother?" Sophie asked, looking at Blake's eyes with curiosity.
"Yes, imagine my surprise when she calls and tells me I was the biggest fool on Earth if I didn't come back to you." They both laughed at this as Sophie still held onto Blake's body.
"So there is no emergency? No meeting?" Sophie asked, finally understanding what was happening. She was fooled. She didn't know whether to be mad or tremendously happy.
"Nope! Michael didn't really like the plan but he agreed to go with it." Blake answered her. A big smile on his face.
"And Brie knows about it too..."
"She was the first one I called. And James knows it too." That actually made a lot of sense.
"I have so many questions!" Sophie stated. She couldn't quite believe she was actually in New York on the top of a hotel, on Blake's arms.
"You can ask all you want. But first... tell me you'll have me back, please!" Blake begged and Sophie chuckled.
"I love you, Blake Thomas. And I will always have you as long as you have me too." She says just before she kissed him gently.
"I wouldn't want anything else, Sophia Klein."
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To be with you
Romance"How haven't we met before, then?" He asked in a joking tone and Sophie rolled her eyes at him. "Maybe we did. We could have passed by each other on the streets for all I know." She tried to reason, getting into his small talk. There was nothing el...
