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13. One Plus One Makes Two
The
bell rang and everyone grabbed their bags. Eve looked at Lizzie.
"You
realize this is the last time you're gonna work on the poster
together?" she asked.
"Yes, I do," Lizzie said, while they
left the classroom. "Why?"
"You also realize this is the
ultimate chance to sort out your problem?"
"Which problem?"
Lizzie asked, although she perfectly knew what Eve meant.
"Your
luv problem," Eve
said with a meaningful look.
"Which luv problem?" Lizzie
asked, although she perfectly knew Eve was right.
"Bennet!"
Eve exclaimed, "face it: you like William since day one, but you
had never really the chance to show him, because of George's story
and now you know he doesn't like your family, but-"
"Exactly!
He doesn't like my family! So we can't be, Eve, we really can't
be."
"Why not? He fell in love with you and not them... Your
own words."
"Stop it, will you?" Lizzie said frustrated,
"It's my business and I don't think it'll help if I go to him. Do
you think he forgot the hit I gave him? I hit
him!"
"And he hit you – with his words. He knows that, and
I'm sure he wants to sort the problems out. And I'm also sure that's
what you want, too."
"That's not what I want at all!" Lizzie
answered, with fierce. But deep inside, she knew the truth.
"Then
what do you want?" Eve asked.
"Eve!"
They looked up and
saw Michael standing in front of them.
"Mike!" Eve smiled,
"eh, Liz..."
"You go," Lizzie grinned, and Eve grinned
back. She walked away with Michael, and Lizzie frowned. What did she
want? Well, that was simple... A happy ending. That was all she was
asking for.
She sighed. The last few weeks had shown her life's
not always perfect. Take Lydia for example, she thought. But...
didn't Lydia end up fine? Hadn't she grown? And what about the
beautiful James or Susan? Maybe happy endings do exist, she thought,
but they're probably just not the way we expect them to
be.
"Lizzie?"
She froze and then turned around.
"Hey
William," she nervously greeted. He smiled back and she was
surprised.
"Shall we go to the maths classroom?" she asked,
"Hoffman said we could finish the poster over there."
"Sounds
fine by me," he said, "but how do we get in? We don't have got
the classroom's key."
"Oh, he said we could ask the janitor to
open it," Lizzie looked at him, and wondered what this afternoon
would be like.
"You wrote the text about the Oath of
Medical Ethics, right?""Yes, I did... Calm down," William
laughed, "you're panicking!"
"Sorry... We've got only an
hour to finish this!"
"Yes, and we will do that in time, trust
me," he smiled. Lizzie's heart made a flipflop.
"Please, stop
it," she softly said. He looked up.
"What do you mean?"
"Don't
act like nothing happened... This whole day you ignored me, and now
you're laughing and making jokes."
"What's wrong with
that?"
"Nothing's wrong with that,
the pretending is wrong! Look... I didn't mean to hit you," she
confessed, and she watched him. She saw his expression softened.
"And
I didn't mean to say all those things about your family... It wasn't
fair, and you were right – there's nothing weird about them, I'm
weird. I mean, who says those stuff about the people someone like you
cares about?"
"Someone like me?"
"Yeah," William
stepped to her and took her hand, "Liz, I'm a cow. I know it, I
admit it and I hope you don't blame me for being like that. And the
whole situation with Lydia and George only made things worse, and I
felt guilty. So I freaked out and I insulted your family. I totally
understand you feel offended by me, but I actually hope..."
"Forget
it," Lizzie softly interrupted him. He looked
confused.
"What?"
"Forget everything... Everything..."
she said, and their gazes met. She saw the way he looked at her, and
she realized there would be a happy ending.
William bent to her
and their lips met. He grabbed her waist and their kiss deepened.
Lizzie stoked his hair and was only aware of the amazing feeling the
kiss gave her. When they finally let go of each other, they
smirked.
"I never enjoyed working on maths that much," Lizzie
said, and she flushed. William laughed and caressed her cheek.
"You
were the one that talked to Georgia, right?"
"Uh..." she
didn't know what to say.
"She told me 'Eve with the funny
sunflower skirt' brought my maths results – you're the only one in
the whole class that has a sunflower skirt, miss Bennet," he
smiled. "And then she told me I had to give it a try... What did
you say to her?" he curiously asked.
"She really thought I was
Eve... And then she started to ask me about Lizzie," Lizzie said,
"And she told me you were in love with me..."
"I am," he
looked her in the eyes, "and what about you?"
"What are you
thinking?" Lizzie laughed, "I'm also in love with you,
silly!"
"Do you wanna go out with me?" William asked, and he
brightly smiled.
"Of course I want to!" Lizzie exclaimed. Her
head was dizzy of happiness, and she got only more and more dizzy
when they kissed again.
the (happy) end