The Calm in the Storm // caden conrique

six

•Berlin•   

2 weeks have gone by since I've talked to Dylan an Caden. I'd have let it go on longer if school didn't start back up again today. I spent what felt like all of Summer break dwelling on the fact that I'm supposed to fall in love with my best friend's brother. 

"Germany?" I hear a faint voice call from outside my bedroom door which was shut. Only one person called me that.

"Go away Caden," I say as he pushes the door open. 

"You've been avoiding me for almost a month now. This is the exact opposite of what's supposed to happen," He sighs, sitting on my bed right next to me.

"Well, maybe if you would've been open and honest from the beginning we wouldn't be in this position," I groan, scooting away from him.

"I had a good reason for why I didn't tell you," He says. I scuff.

"I'm sure," I say while rolling my eyes.

"I do," He says, turning to look at me. 

"Fine. Let me hear this lame excuse," I sigh, turning to look at him as well. 

"I didn't want it to be superficial," He says. I furrow my brows at him, quietly asking him to explain. "I knew how obsessed you and Dylan were about finding 'the one'," He goes to continue but I stop him.

"We weren't obsessed," I say, defending Dyl and I. 

"It was all you talked about," He sighs.

"So that's why you did it then? You didn't want to tell me cause I was obsessed with finding you?" 

"You didn't let me finish. You guys were so obsessed with finding the match to your tattoo you didn't care who it was. I wanted you to fall for me. Not be with me because a stupid tattoo said you had to. I wanted you to want to be with me," He says. 

"I would've wanted to be with you without the tattoo telling me to," I tell him. He looks at me with an amused look on his face.

"So you're telling me that you had some sort of feelings for me," He says.  I shake my head.

"No. I never had feelings for you," I say.

"Exactly. We're only having this conversation because you know it's supposed to be me. You didn't have any feelings until you found out it was supposed to be me. It's superficial, Berlin. You don't want to be with me. You want to be with the tattoo. I just got stuck with it." 

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I'm back from the dead :) Sorry. My laptop is currently broken and the only reason I'm able to write is because I'm at my grandma's house and using her computer. As soon as my laptop is fixed I'll be updating on a schedule but until then, I won't be able to update for a while. I'll try, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I hope you like the update! I know it's short but I'm trying to prolong the book a little because it's moving a long a little faster than I would particularly like. So, yeah. But I hope you liked it!