Hey everyone! I've had such a stressfull day---and I'm REALLY tired. Good news is that MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW. Haha! I'm very muchly excited about that, you can SO not tell right? Haha!

Anyway, I really liked writing this chapter. I like writing the really dramatic ones, or the really calm ones. I think that's really fun. I also liked it when I read over it when I finished writing. I think it's the best chapter in the WHOLE series, except for one in the 7th story, that made ME cry. Haha. So yah, iloveit!

By the way, this is really random, but if you like MY stories that I post, you should REALLY check out THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton. That book is so amazing, and teaches such a great lesson, with alot of cool action things too. It's really good, I read it about a couple months ago in English. It's also a movie, but personally, the book is better. Both made me cry though. HAHA! I'm such a sissy.

iloveyouguys----julia

--Chapter 7 "I always have loved you."

They all looked at me like I was crazy, and like they didn't know what I was talking about. Dylan did, but Cole and Pia didn't. "What are you talking about?" Cole asked me, turning to look at me. I think that he knew, but he didn't want to know.

I paused, and then said, "Cole, you LOVE her. That's what I'm talking about here." I told him this, with Dylan beside me, just standing there quietly.

Pia was startled by what I had just said, "You love me?" She turned to Cole, and asked him, not knowing if I was telling the truth.

"I always have. Of course I do. But, you don't want to be with me." Cole answered her. I stepped back in the corner of the room with Dylan, about to watch the whole thing unfold.

Pia stepped one step closer to Cole, but they still weren't very close together. Then, she said, "Who said I didn't want to be with you? Of course I do, and I love you; I always have loved you."

A tear came down the side of her cheek, but she was silent while it did, with no quivering or anything. Cole didn't understand it. He didn't get what she was talking about at all. It didn't make any sense to him. Why was she being like this? He didn't know.

Cole took a step closer to her. "If you love me, why can't you be with me? Why can't you tell me that you love me? If you want to be with me, why aren't you? I don't get it."

Another tear slid down her cheek, slowly, down her tan skin it went, trickling down, like a small stream forming. Cole noticed, and wiped the tears away with his thumb, and while he did this, he said, "Why Pia? Why can't you love me, or be with me?"

She didn't say anything, and then finally said, "Because…Cole…" Her voice was quivering now, and she sounded like she didn't want to tell him the reason why she was acting like she was.

"Because WHY Pia? I don't know." Cole said, trying to get through to her some way, some how, maybe he could. Cole took another step closer to her, but she took a step back from him. More tears fell from her eyes. "Why?" Cole asked her once again.

"Because…Cole, because…" She muttered to him, walking off, away from him. He grabbed her arm, and she turned around to face him, only a couple inches keeping them apart from each other.

"WHY?" Cole said, almost yelling it to her. "Why can't you be with me when you know that you love me?"

"Because I'll hurt you!" She yelled at him, and it was definite that she was yelling at him, you could tell.

"Is that why? You'll hurt me? You're already killing me here!" He yelled back to her, as she had to him.

"It's better this way Cole." She said, walking away from him again, but then he grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him gently.

"How is it better when you know you love me, and that I love you too?" Cole asked her, almost yelling to her.

"I don't believe in love anymore Cole! All love does is hurt people, and break people's hearts. That's IT. And I can't be with you for that reason." Pia yelled back to him.

"You think I'll hurt you? Is that it?" Cole asked her, turning down his voice, and no longer yelling at her.

Pia didn't say anything. She stood in front of Cole, and then another tear came down her cheek, and she still didn't say anything.

Cole continued, since he knew that she wasn't going to answer him. He put one finger under her chin, and lifted it to meet his face. "If you think that, you're wrong. I would never hurt you; you have to trust me on that."

She waited, and then said, "How do I know that I can trust you not to?" Her voice had stopped quivering, so maybe it was getting better.

Cole was shocked. "How can you say that? Why would I hurt you, when I love you? I WOULDN'T. That's the thing, I wouldn't." He grabbed hold of both of her hands lightly, thinking she would let go. Surprisingly, she didn't.
Her head looked down at the floor. The tears fell from her eyes lightly, and she looked like she was about to say something through all of the tears and the quivering in her voice.

Then, she finally said something. "I…I love you." The tears still fell from her eyes, down her cheeks, just as they had before.

Cole leaned into her, and kissed her lightly. Then, she pulled away, and said, "What are we doing here Cole?"

"I don't know, I mean, why did we break up?" He asked her, still holding both of her hands in his own.

She paused, and then said, "I don't know, you tell me." She looked up to him, and he smiled down to her.

"Maybe so we could get back together again." He said, smiling at her, and then kissing her lightly again, and then, the kiss grew deeper and deeper.

They both came out of the kiss, and then Cole asked her, "You know I'll never hurt you, right?"

"Yah, I know you won't." She said, kissing him again, knowing that he would never hurt her, and that it was love.