AN: This is just a random story I found I'd written a couple of years ago. Please comment. I hope you like it.
"Your
smile is beautiful. So are your eyes, so are you."
"You've
told me all this before," She lowered her head.
"Then it
only confirms it's true," he replied jokingly.
He saw her
glance at him, then look away.
He placed his hand below her chin
and lifted it so that she was staring at him full in the face. "I
love you, isn't that enough?"
She stared
at him then looked away, embarrassed.
He let go of her. She turned
to face him.
"I never quite prepared myself. I never thought
I'd see you again. I've never thought of anyone else since. I lost
interest in my studies. My parents because worried, I hardly slept
and when I did, I dreamed about you."
"I always thought you'd move on. You had always been the most beautiful in the class. Nearly every boy was interested in you, even Mike Newton." A smirk reached his face as he remembered his old friend. He continued. "You were bound to find someone more suited to you, someone who was more worthy of you. But I still wished we could be together.
"I
thought of all that time I had wasted while I was with you. I never
made the most of my time with you. And I hoped that you moved on. I
hoped with all my heart. I knew that I hadn't, you see."
Bella
rubbed her eye and brushed away a few tears.
"You
never contacted me," she told him. "Everyday I checked my
emails, I checked the post. I checked with Alice whether you'd even
said my name yet. She said you hadn't. I was hurt. Had every
compliment you ever game me been false? Didn't you miss me at
all?"
He opened his mouth to say something, but she hastily
continued before he could utter a word.
"This
continued for years. I felt my heart rip, as if torn in half. I
longed to find you and re-claim the other half, for I knew you had
it."
"I hoped you would forget me," he replied.
"I'm confessing to it now. And I tried with all my heart to
forget you too."
She shook her head slowly. "I could never forget you. You were my first love. My only love."
He sighed and ran the back of his hand across her jaw. "As you were mine," he whispered back. Bella felt her knees buckle but she quickly worked to hold herself up. "I love you, Bells." He told her, his lips moving to trace her lips carefully. Bella didn't trust herself to speak. Then, slowly, he leant in then paused. She could feel his cool breath against her chin but she couldn't move. Not even an inch. Finally, he pressed his lips to hers for just a moment, then pulled away.
"Edward," she said, a small smile forming on her lips. "I love you too."
