Written by KristalWhitehead

Emily's POV

As Adrian left Kristal's room, I followed him without even saying good-bye to anyone. He was walking slowly for some odd reason, so I had no problem getting beside him.

"I didn't realize you left too," he said as he glanced over at me. I shrugged, not feeling the need to speak.

When I did finally speak, I grabbed his hand and said, "I really like being alone with you. You do know that, don't you?" Wow, I thought to myself, that has probably got to be the deepest thing I have ever told him before.

"Actually," he said running a hand through his messy hair, "I always hoped you did, but you never said anything. I kept getting mixed signals from you and I didn't know which one to take." His face was kind of red and his head was tilted to the floor. He was probably realizing that this was the deepest conversation that just the two of us had ever really had too.

Tears stung my eyes as I realized this was probably true. I looked out the doors we were passing and saw a dark, moonless night. I knew the ground was covered in snow, but I couldn't see it, but yet I stared I stared out the doors, trying to picture the great big trees and all the people running around out there.

"I'm sorry," I apologized, starting to shiver. He pulled me toward him and we stopped walking. We stood there for a few minutes with him just holding me. I continued to speak, "I never meant to give off those signals. I love you, I really do. I just don't know how you feel, and that's always stopped me from saying anything," I felt him smile into my neck as he pulled away to look at my face.

"I love you too," he said trying to hold back his smile. He leaned down and kissed me for just a second before pulling away. "I have another question," he said while wrapping his arms around my waist, "you were just afraid to tell me anything because you didn't know if I like you back?"

I shook my head yes and looked down, quite embarrassed now. He let out a great sarcastic laugh and shook his head.

"Stop laughing at me," I teased him as we started to walk again with me in front of him and out hands around each other.

He stopped laughing, but continued to shake his head.

"I just can't believe that you were actually afraid to tell me," he stopped then since we were in front of my door.

"Hey, other people wouldn't blame me, but I am pretty happy that I did finally tell you the truth."

"You better be," he replied and leaned down to kiss me. This time it was longer and when we split apart we were both smiling. "Long day tomorrow," he said making it obvious that he was trying to make small talk again.

I laughed at his attempt and said, "Whatever, I'll see you tomorrow too." He smiled and was still there as I opened my door and closed it behind me. I heard his light footsteps walking away right after that. I went toward my bed and collapsed on it. Tomorrow would be a fun day.