Vic sat in front of the fireplace in on one of the loveseats in the small coffee shop, staring into the hypnotic blaze and simply enjoying the silence. Well, at least the silence that was surrounding her. She sighed as quietly as possible but she still felt him stir beside her.
"You okay?" He asked in his sweet, caring, attentive way, his too caring way.
"Yeah," She tried to smile at him but she knew that he could tell that her heart wasn't in it. Actually, lately Vic wondered if Jude hadn't already figured out that her heart wasn't in much of anything at all because after all, how could you put your heart into something when it belong to someone else, especially when the someone with your heart wasn't the one you were cuddled up with. But that was the problem, wasn't it? It wasn't that Jude was too caring or too nice, it was just that Jude was too Jude and he wasn't Teddy.
Teddy, the boy who was her best friend and her worst enemy at the same time, the boy who could manage to make her so angry that she wanted to punch him in the face and made her love him so much it hurt. He the boy who drove her absolutely insane but she couldn't imagine a life without him. Although that was what she had right now, she hadn't seen him in months and hadn't talked to him in weeks, and it hurt. She felt like she had swallowed bluebell flames and they just kept burning.
Vic shook her head and nestled her head into the space between Jude's arm and chest taking a deep breath of his cologne, this was her new happy. This was the new Victoire who was going to be determined not to need Teddy Lupin.
As the door opened Vic got another whiff of Jude fragrant scent and couldn't help but wrinkle her nose. She had always hated cologne.
