Zach laughed at me and told me that I was being ridiculous. He kissed the top of my head and told me
" you know I've wanted to do that since I met you?"
" You're crazy" I said rolling my eyes.
I looked down at our intertwined hands, wondering how that came to be, but also just curious as to why Zach likes me.
"Zach?"
"Hm?"
"Why do you like me?" I asked.
"I don't know how to put it..." Zach replied.
"try, try to put it into words." I said.
"Cammie, from the first time I saw you in the coffee shop I wanted to get to know you. You never asked me for an autograph, never expected me to give any part of me to you. Your life, it's so different and nice. Everything about you makes me want to stay with you." He said.
"oh."
"Thats all you're going to say?" He asked
"I don't know what to say Zach..." I said.
"How about what you like about me?" Zach smirked.
"No way" I said.
"Why not? What was your first impression of me?" He asked
"Nothing, you wouldn't want to know. Lets just leave it at that I didn't like you very much." I said.
"Why wouldn't you? Everyone likes me! I'm a celebrity! All the girls in the world would kill for your spot right now." He said in a matter of factly tone.
"Exactly that is exactly why I didn't like you. You are arrogant and walk around like you're so much better than everyone because you're famous!" I said.
"I was only joking. c'mon Cam you can't expect me to be what the magazines and stuff say."
"Well I've never met you. I didn't know! For all I could expect you could be this arrogant ass of a celebrity like all the other ones out there!"
Zach laughed and stared into my eyes. I felt really insecure all of the sudden and blushed like crazy. I've never had an encounter like this with a celebrity or even another guy. I mean I have many guy friends around campus and stuff, but the only relationship I've ever been in was with Josh.
"CAMMIE" Bex screamed walking into the room.
"huh?" Zach and I both jumped being suddenly startled is not in my book of likes.
"OMG guess who I just saw around campus." She said.
At this point I was kind of terrified of the answer.
"Idk, who?"
"Josh is back from his exchange year and apparently he is getting really close to Deedee." She said.
"I saw them walking around campus today and asked Arie if they were together since she would know everything right? She says they are seeing each other very casually as of right now." She added.
"oh" I said.
That was the moment I realized there was no more feelings for him. I looked at Zach who had confusion in his eyes. I shook my head towards him and told him I would tell him later.
"Cam are you okay? I thought you would just like to know" Bex asked
"Be I'm going to be honest. I've spent too much time regretting that relationship. I hope they are happy together, I don't need to hang onto that relationship anymore. I've truly moved on wit my life." I said happily.
Bex nodded her head and gave me two thumbs up with a big smile on her face. It was supposed to be a look of approval. I then turned back to Zach and explained to him
"Josh is my previous boyfriend. We dated from junior year of high school to freshman year of college on and off. We broke it off last year around November. I brought up the idea of breaking up because he wanted to do a foreign exchange in Ireland for a year and I don't believe in long distance."
"Okay so why is it nasty now?" Zach asked.
"Well, Josh and I broke up the first time in senior year for 4 months because the other girl Deedee had a thing for him and people were telling me that he was cheating on me with her because they saw him kissing her and stuff. He got mad when I brought it up and I dropped it and told him we should break up. He agreed and one week later he stared to actually date her." I said.
"Oh lord, no way" Zach started to get angry and I put my hand on his arm to try and calm him down a bit.
"It's okay because he broke it off with her side she got really attached really fast and I was walking to my car one day when he was standing next to it and told me he wanted to get back together. I gave him another chance and then we dated until the whole foreign exchange thing. Now apparently he is seeing Deedee again" I said with a smile.
I realized that this was the first time I told the whole story without getting sad or mad. I looked at Zach who seemed to be thinking.
"What're you thinking about?" I asked curiously.
"I'm thinking if I ever meet that jackass I will give him a piece of my mind." He said
"Hey now, I'm over it, I regret dating him thats all. No feelings or anything still there. I like you now Zach."