2. Imposible
One-Shot
The first time Sofia looked at Cedric as something more than a mentor, or even a friend, she was 16 years old. It was one morning, while she was sweeping his workshop and he was ordering some papers. As soon as the idea appeared in her mind, she blushed and laughed silently. It had been just a simple thought, an impossible and probably fleeting thought.
By the time she was 17, she became worried. It was supposed to be a product of her adolescence, or at least that's what she had force herself to believe.
Then why couldn't she stop thinking of him?
Anyway, it was her guilty pleasure, and she enjoyed putting scenarios in her head based on the romantic novels that Ruby and Jade used to lent her.
She found herself often distracted and humming some melody while walking down the halls, lost in her thoughts. A teen romance, people had supposed in the castle, when she passed with a smile and a distracted look.
When at 18, after many attempts to forget the subject, and countless mental slaps, she still had the same dilemma, she took weight on the matter. Apparently, she had fallen in love with the royal sorcerer. And just apparently, because she didn't know much about love. All she knew was that at the balls she could not pay attention to the suitors who wooed her because none of them were Cedric; when they prepared potions together, her heart raced with their proximity and her face boiled inside; listening to the low tone of his voice always put a smile on her face, even if he was tell her to leave his workshop and stop bothering him.
Sofia knew that nothing good could come out of her feelings: first, he would never look at her as anything else than a little girl. Besides, confessing her feelings would not only traumatize her insecure friend, but ruin their friendship. And finally, she was not just messing around, she knew that sooner or later she would be chosen a prince or noble to marry.
So, she decided that every time he thought of Cedric, she would remember these 3 points so that, even if it broke her heart, she would not come out even more hurt in the future.
When Cedric first looked at Sofia as something more than his pupil, or even a friend, she was 18 years old. Just as soon as the thought was transmitted from neuron to neuron, the man panicked. That same day he began a secret campaign to get away from Sofia, and that same day the campaign ended: Sofia didn't plan of turning away from her best friend, and he had never been able to say no to her. He informed her, via Baileywick, that afternoon classes were canceled, and of course she came in anyway to know the reason. Needless to say, classes, of course, continued on as usual.
For that very reason, his feelings only grew, frightening him more and more, but also causing him to care more and more for the princess.
Was he crazy? Yes. Only a madman was able to risk his career, work, reputation and head for a woman. But this woman was Sofia, and he was sure, even if it made him boil on the inside, that for her, probably many were crazy.
Confessing his feelings? Ha! Of course not. He was not that stupid. What was their age gap? twenty? 25? He would scare her. Maybe not, but things between them would definitely never be the same were, and he was not willing to risk that.
Anyway, in either case he would end up with a broken heart ... and maybe some bones, if not his neck, in case King Roland found out.
And so was the situation: She was in love with him and he was crazy about her. Both incapable of confessing it and suffering by containing it.
Looking back, it was pretty obvious. For 10 years they were inseparable friends, and the one knew the other like the palm of their hands. They had spent the best and worst moments together and had seen themselves grow up: She becoming a woman; he, a skillful sorcerer.
And yet, a relationship between them was impossible.
Maybe things were better that way. Not for them, of course, but in general. Maybe someday in the future, they would confess it as a past memory, but for now, all they had left was to suffer in silence.
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