Let You Love Me - Seaycee

VII

"It hurts so bad, Sean." Kaycee whimpered on the car ride home back from surgery.

They had fixed her nose and got all the broken pieces off her bridge. Kaycee said on the bright side she would be able to choose what her nose looked like from now on. I'm just glad she can find some humor in all of this.

"I know, Kace." I held her hand as we rested at a red light. "But at least from now on you'll get to heal and once you heal you can leave this whole incident in the past."

"Sean, I've been thinking about what you said. About pressing charges."

"Yeah?" I quickly glanced at her in surprise before looking at the road again.

"Last night it all hit me. Being away from Josh has given me time to reflect and get a clear conscious. What he did was wrong and he deserves to pay." She said firmly.

I felt so much joy. It made me so proud to see Kaycee sticking up for herself. Kaycee was so kind that she often time got pushed around and taken advantage of by others, but now? Kaycee isn't gonna be pushed around much longer.

"I like this determined and confident Kaycee."

I smiled at her and she smiled back.

Kaycee's POV

Sean smiled at me, but it was different than before and I know exactly why. Last night Sean thought I was asleep when he came to bed, but I wasn't. I heard him whisper that he loved me, but I wasn't sure if he meant it in a friendly way or not.

I mean this is Sean Lew. Sean who has been my best guy friend for so many years. Sean who always teased me and made jokes about my hair when it was messy from dance. But he was also Sean Lew, an incredibly attractive, confident, and talented human being.

Was it possible I had feelings for him too?

I never thought about it since we were always just friends. Then once Josh and I started our relationship, things shifted between Sean and me. The day I told him the news I had sensed something different, but could never put my finger on it.

I asked him if he was okay once I was done rambling about the grand gesture Josh made to ask me to be his girlfriend, but he just gave me a short 'yeah, i'm fine'. I almost sensed some sort of jealousy or anger that day. Those were emotions I had never seen in Sean before. At least not so intensely.

The thought of Sean having feelings for me made me blush. I mean any girl would love to be with someone as amazing as Sean. Let's face it, he's practically a genius, even though he doesn't like to admit it.

"What're you over there blushing about?" 

Sean gave me a sly smile which caused me to blush even harder.

"Uhm, nothing." I cleared my throat. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Soon we were pulling into the parking garage of Sean's complex. When he put the car in park he immediately turned to me and shook his head.

"Kaycee, I know you. What's going on in that beautiful head of yours?"

Beautiful? Sean had never used that word to describe me. Cute was used mostly and maybe I got a pretty on a special occasion. GiGi Hadid he called beautiful and even Emma Watson, but me? The girl he referred to as rice cake? That word has never been used.

"So my head is beautiful to you now, all of a sudden?" I questioned, just to see what his reaction would be.

His eyes went wide and he began doing a nervous stutter that I always thought was adorable.