The boy I fell in love with, by Emily Evans
"Perfect? No our relationship is not perfect. I still haven't told Daimon I love him." Maya tood there stunned. Daimon and Emily seemed so happy together and Maya knew that Daimon had told Emily that he was in love with her the previous week. Maya wondered how they managed to avoid ending up like her and Josh.
"Does that mean that you don't love him then? How come you're still together with him then? Don't you feel like you're being cheap?"
"No, he knows that I like him and I think he suspects that I love him too. I do love him, I just can't tell him. It's not me to pour out my feelings for a guy. There are more ways to show someone that you love them though. I have something planned for tonight, something that will finally show him how I feel."
"If you have something like that planned then don't you think that you should just go the two of you alone so that Josh and I don't intrude on the special moment?" Maya knew that if it was her then something like that would be something she'dwant to keep private and just between Josh and her.
"No, I'm fine with this actually. I think this will help you and Josh too. If I'm right then that's all the reason I need to show you." Emily stepped back and took a look at Maya.
"We do have to do something about you though, we can't let Josh see you with a tear stained face. Especially not when the plan that I have is going to leave you smiling in the end."
"But we don't have time." Maya tried to wipe away the dried up tears and started towards the door.
"Oh we do, I just need to send a quick text to Daimon and we're in the clear."
"That boy would do anything for you." Maya told her and smiled.
"As would I for him, as would Josh for you."
"I know." Maya smiled shyly and her cheeks turned red.
"So, Emily said that they would be half an hour late right?" Daimon sighed, Josh had been pacing around the dorm room ever since Daimon got the text from Emily.
"Yeah, which means that they're going to be here right about now." Daimon held up three fingers counting down before opening the and grabbing Emily's hand which was about to hit him in the face. "Hey Beautiful." he said and pulled her in for a hug.
"Sorry that we're a bit late, I needed Maya's help to get my hair right." Emily lied. Maya stepped in and Josh immediately focused on her. She was wearing a simple white dress that stopped just above her knees and her hair had loose curls at the end. It was such a simple look, 'a simple look for the least simple girl in the world.' Josh thought.
"You look beautiful Maya." Josh barely managed to get out.
"Thanks, " Maya smiled shyly. "you don't look too bad yourself either." Josh thought she had to be seeing wrong because compared to her his simple look wasn't even worth mentioning.
"So, are you ready to go?" Daimon broke the moment that was rapidly turning awkward for the pair and they all headed out the door.
"So, Maya beat us all at every game? I need to come here more often." Daimon said, he was sitting with an arm over Emily's shoulder.
"You know," Emily started as she turned around to look at Daimon. "there are more important things than beating everyone at arcade games."
"are you sure? Like what?" Daimon raised an eyebrow.
"Like me of course. Which reminds me, I have something for you." Emily reached into her small purse and pulled out a book." the binding wasn't particularily fancy, but at the spine of the book Maya saw something that made her gasp. It only took Daimon a moment to notice it as well and he turned to Emily.
"Are you serious? Are you really serious Emily?" when Daimon turned the book around so that the other two could see the cover they read the title and the author "The boy I fell in love with, by Emily Evans. "You really wrote a book?"
"Yeah, I want to be an author. You know how I've been dodging this topic ever since we got together? I wanted to surprise you with this. This is what I've been working on on my computer Maya." Emily turned to Maya and it was clear that this part was meant for her. "There are several ways to say something Maya, a book is my way."
"You mean?" Daimon pointed to the title of the book with his eys trained carefully on her as if the moment would disappear if he took his eyes of her.
"I changed two things in that book, I changed our names and I changed something about your confession. Otherwise I left it the same, it's our story." Emily gently took the book out of Daimon's hand and turned to the final page. "Read this Daimon." she held the book out for him to read and Maya saw he was tearing up. When he was done reading Emily surprised Maya by handing her the book.
"What?" Emily asked staring wide eyed at Daimon. Maya too was shocked, she'd told him that she would handle talking to Emily but here he was blurting out a love confession in front of a large crowd.
"I'm in love with you Emily and I don't care what I have to do to prove it to you, if saying it to you like this where there's no way that I can take it back is what it takes then fine by me. I just can't stand the idea of you not talking to me. I love talking to you, you challenge me to be a real person and not just the dickhead that I've been for the lest few years." Daimon said stepping towards her. The crowd that had gathered where whispering to each other, no doubt surprised by this new side of Daimon.
"Why did you say it out loud here with all these people?" Emily murmured so low that only she, Maya and Daimon could hear it. "You won't be able to pick up another girl now, what are you going to do when you're done with me."
"Don't you get it? I don't want to ever be done with you. I love you and I don't want that to change, I know that the feeling that I get when I talk to you won't disappear and I won't feel like that with anyone else. I don't want to fell like that with anyone else. Please Emily, you don't have to say it back, but please let me have another chance. I know that I screwed up last night and went too far, but that won't ever happen again, I promise. Please be my girlfriend" Daimon had gotten close enough to grasp Emily's hand and he stood there waiting for a reply. Emily looked down towards the ground and for a moment Maya feared that she was going to reject Daimon, but then she looked up with a smile on her face and sparkling eyes showing that she was on the verge of crying tears of joy. She nodded and Daimon pulled her into his arms.
"I love you too Daimon." she whispered just loud enough for Daimon to hear.
I'm serious guys? Girls? I think my readers are mostly girls anyways. You have to tell me if i mess something up or if you notice something strange. I just noticed I'd left this kind of huge mistake about 13 chapters ago so shame on me, luckily I fixed it now so no need to worry. This has to be on of the chapters that I'm most happy with. I hope you all enjoyed it. So until next week I assign you the task of telling me what I did wrong and what you all thought about the chapter.