Crush On You [EDITING]

Chapter Twenty-Four : The First Time I Saw You

~Joe's POV~

A few days later, I brought Cam out for lunch, leaving everyone else in the villa. I just wanted to spend an afternoon together with her if I couldn't spend the whole day with her. Just the two of use, lovebirds, together. Alone. With each other. No distraction. No one else but us.

I sound so dramatic. I know.

I thought, it was time to tell Cam the truth. The truth about myself before I first came into her life. Before I moved to New York from LA. Before I changed to Cam's school.

She deserves to know everything. She deserves to know the truth about me. About the real me. About what really happened. About how I moved here. Everything. Everything at all.

After we had lunch at a restaurant, I walked with her to the beach. We were holding hands. She rested her head on my shoulder. I let her hand go and put my arm around her waist. We took a place under a coconut tree nearby. Haha, coconut tree. So funny. -.- .

"I have something to confess to you," I started.

"What is it?" she asked.

"I had a crush on you,"

She interrupted, "Of course you do. We wouldn't be dating for months if it weren't you who had been sticking around me all the time in school since you came out of the jungle,"

I chuckled,  "Seriously, you have to lend me your ears,"

"About what?" she asked.

"I had a crush on you since I first saw you four years ago,"

And there goes my 'fairytale'.

-FLASHBACK-

It was Christmas eve. I went out with my sister, Andrea, to buy some gifts for mom and dad. We celebrated Christmas in New York. Mom's parents wanted to see us. They said Andrea and I has grown up really fast. Surely the last time they saw us were a few years ago.

We took a cab to the city. We asked to driver to drop us at the Times Square, and he did. Times Square was sick on Christmas eve. Andrea pulled me in to a nearby mall. I guess it's the Times Square mall. It was so full of people. You can't even stop to tie your shoelace without getting kicked or even worst, stepped by people.

I was thrilled by the huge Christmas tree that was placed in the middle of the mall. People surrounded it to snap some photos as a token of memory. Andrea did the same. I gladly took some photos of her. 

We entered a gift shop. Andrea left me to explore other aisles. There were so many people. I can hardly breathe. I looked around for something but nothing in this shop suits mom or dad. So I decided to walk randomly around the gift shop.

As I was walking down an aisle, I was trapped in a congestion. I can hardly move. People keep pushing me out of their way. Suddenly, I lost my balance and fell on someone. Shit shit shit. I don't know who I have fell on.

"What the hell?!" a voice echoed.

A girl's voice. Oh shit I was on a girl. I stared at her for a minute. Her hazel brown eyes were really attractive. I was stunned by her beauty. Is this what people call it 'love at first sight'? Well that's kind of ridiculous. Haha, but really. 

I stared at her while I still got the chance to stare. She stared back, wide-eyed. I smirked at her. She gave me the you're-looking-so-weird-don't-smile-at-me face. I purposely kissed her cheek, trying to act as if I did it unintentionally.