You Know My Name, Not My Story

Something Old XIV: Back To Normal

Alice's POV

"So what's up with Edmund?" Philip asked a bit worried.

"Everything is just fine. I cleared up things with him." I said calmly.

"That's good!" he said in a cherished tone.

"I told him that you are my boyfriend." I added with no further words.

He looked at me panicked then blushed.

"What?" I asked.

"Boyfriend." he repeated and smiled.

I smiled and rolled my eyes and hugged him.

"Listen, I talked with Edmund and I realised a few things." I said hesitantly.

"Tell me, love." he asked perplexed.

He just called me love. I don't deserve him, he is adorable.

"He doesn't hate you at all." I said.

"He just dislikes me very, very much." Philip laughed.

"He likes who you are." I said smiling.

He looked at me in shock.

"But he doesn't like who you are to me." I said and stopped smiling.

"You want to break up with me?" Philip asked in total disappointment, he seemed like he was about to cry.

"NO! What the— Philip, you are my world. I love you." I screamed immediately.

He sighed in relief.

"You just need to understand why he doesn't like it." I said and took a deep breath.

Philip held my hand and we both sat down.

"Edmund has always been there for me for the last 16 years. He took care of me. His 'job' was to make me happy, tease me, play with me...He was and he still is very attached to me and so am I but since you entered our lives, you slowly took all his titles, you were the one to make me happy, tease me and you got the only thing Edmund couldn't give me; love. But not love as in sibling-hood, love as in commitment and relationship between two people..." I said as I took a deep breath.

Philip looked at the inexistant object on the ground. He looked ashamed.

"Edmund felt like he was not as important to me as you were. And you know the Williams' temper." I laughed.

He was still facing the ground. He didn't wanted to look at me but he chuckled a little.

"So now you understand why he is that obsessive, right?" I asked hoping he would look at me again.

Philip's POV

How dumb could I ever be? I just took all those years away from Edmund. I'd hate myself if I was him, honestly.

"It might be nice if I could meet with him one day to apologise and restart from the beginning." I said and smiled in pain.

I wasn't judging Edmund nor Alice nor any of the Williams' for their temper. With the loss of their closest one, they were all damaged.

Alice was always pretending that she's totally fine when somebody ever mentioned her mother but I could sense that she was drowning in pain. But I will never force her to talk about it, it's something quite delicate.

"Yeah. I hope one day soon." she said and sighed softly.

I looked at her and held her hand.

"I really missed you a lot. Please don't go anymore." I sighed and got closer to her.

She wrapped her arms around my neck and put her head on my chest.

"Me too, Pip." she said and smiled.

I wanted to kiss her so bad but it has been weeks since we haven't and I didn't wanted to go too fast because I felt like we just calmed down.

Alice's POV

I couldn't stop looking at his eyes. They were shining and I got lost in them. And his freckles were beautiful.

I really wanted to kiss him but I felt like it was too soon. I thought it'd be weird but not kissing was weirder. We were just standing in each other's arms for so long. I felt safe though.

I played with his curly hair. It was so soft and bouncy. And then we got even closer, if someone accidentally pushed me, our lips would touch kind of close.

"I want to kiss you so bad..." Philip whispered without realising he actually said it then realised it real fast.

"I mean, if you want to because maybe you think it's too soon—" he started but I cut him off and kissed him.

We were back after so long, even though we never stopped dating, I felt the reunion between us, it was so powerful.

I missed him and being with him. He made my days so much better and I was going to go back in England for the summer again and I was going to be alone for a few months until I move in America.

After our long kiss, Philip widened his eyes as he remembered something then reached his pocket. He pulled out a ticked, a boat ticket for England the same day as mine.

"Philip!" I screamed in happiness.

"I wanted to do something with you to celebrate our friendship anniversary but since you were going to be in England, I wanted to surprise you..." he said quietly.

"I can't believe you're actually going to come in England with us! I will show you around!" I said happily.

"I know! And also, I have another surprise. I was going to wait until we arrived in London but you know I'm too impatient!" he said and couldn't stop smiling.

"Tell me! I want to know!" I begged him.

"My aunt Angelica's husband, John has a small cottage out of town in the country side. It's not really big but I used to go there with my parents and my sister, Angie when we were really small, before all my other siblings were born." he said excited.

"I asked them if I could stay there and well, I want you to come stay with me there. It's not that far from your house and we can pack your stuff on week days but I want to spend the summer with my girlfriend so you're already taken the weekends by me!" he finally finished and looked at me for an answer.

"Wait a minute, are you telling me that we will have a cottage house only for the two of us for the whole summer?" I asked.

"Yes...But if you don't want to, it's okay." he said quietly.

"Philip, of course I want to! Do you really think I will spend my whole summer packing and boring myself in my empty house?!" I said and hugged him.

"And we will get to know what is it like to actually have our own home together one day." he whispered and smiled.

I blushed and hugged him even more. I couldn't wait to marry him one day.