To Love you More
By: Kary G.
Chapter 2
Sunrays penetrated the darkness of Sydney's room. Sydney opened her eyes and moved her body to the other side of the bed. "Gage, I wish you were here next to me," she whispered feeling a pain in her heart. God, she needed him so much more than Dahlia. She looked at the clock next to her bed, it was early. She decided to wake up and take a shower.
She put a sleeveless blouse and some sweat pants and a pair of tennis shoes and walked out of her apartment to jog a little bit. After, walking for thirty minutes, she started to run, not knowing where her feet were taking her. Until, she saw Gage's apartment. It took all of her willpower not to run to her partner's apartment. She turned around ready to disappear from that place, but a familiar voice stopped her.
"Hello, Sydney," a short female with long and brunette hair, green eyes and a small waist greeted her.
"Good morning, Dahlia," Sydney reply and forced a smile.
"How are you doing?" Dahlia asked Syd.
"I'm doing well just running a little. How about you?" she answered.
"Pretty good and happy," there was something in Dahlia's eyes that Sydney saw but what was it? "Can I ask you something Sydney?"
"Of course, shoot," The female ranger waited for Dahlia to talk.
"What's your favorite color?" This question made Syd a little confused.
"My favorite color is red," she told Gage's girlfriend.
"Red it is," Dahlia took a small notebook and a pencil out of her purse and wrote the color in the small paper.
"Red it is? For what?" Sydney's brain didn't seem to pick up.
"Bridesmaids. Gage asked me to marry him," It took Sydney several seconds to pick up the words.
Her face became pale and tears burned behind her eyes. Anger and sadness begin to consume her. Dahlia immediately put a hand on her shoulder looking how pale she was. "Sydney, are you ok? Gage!" Dahlia called the blonde ranger. Gage hearing his girlfriend voice ran to her side and saw Sydney with her hands on her knees, he approached to Syd and saw her face pale.
"Syd, Are you ok?" Gage put an arm around her shoulder afraid that she might collapse. Sydney took a couple of deep breaths and nodded her head.
"Yes, Gage is just that I didn't eat," she tried to control her breathing but couldn't. "I-I just need to rest, that's all," she decided to go back to her apartment but Gage stopped her.
"You're not going anywhere. Dahlia, I'll be back, let me take Syd to my apartment and then I'll come back," Dahlia nodded her head. Gage took Sydney's petite body in his arms and walked upstairs to his apartment. He opened the door easily and deposited his partner in his bed. "You need to rest; I'll be back shorty," he closed the door and headed downstairs. After saying goodbye to Dahlia he ran back to his apartment to see how his partner was doing.
The moment she saw him coming to her side she smiled and tried desperately not to look sad. "Congratulations," she said not looking up.
"Thanks. Although, I still need to buy her a ring," He said not knowing how much damage he was doing to Syd.
"You know what?" she looked at her cell phone. "I need to go and…" Gage cut her off.
"You still look pale. How about I make something to eat and we watch a movie?" he looked at her.
Sydney felt uncomfortable and her hands were beginning to shake but he didn't seem to notice. "Gage, you don't have to,"
"Come on, shorty," he looked at her again with those puppy-sad eyes.
"All right, I'll stay," she said rolling her eyes.
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After eating and watching the movie. Gage took Sydney home but before she could get out of the car he stopped her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
"For the third time, I'm fine," she tried to get out of the car but he held her wrist tighter.
"Before you go, I wanted to ask you something. Two days ago, I received an invitation to a wedding. One of my friends of high school is getting married. I asked Dahlia but unfortunately she's going out of Dallas. Being a flight attendant, you know how business works. And I was wondering if you'd like to go with me just as friends,"
'Just as friends' that phrase began to repeat inside her mind. Why was so hard for her to accept him as a friend. After all he was getting married, wasn't he? "Of course, just tell me when and where,"
"The wedding is tomorrow, around seven. So, I'll pick you up at six. Is that ok?"
"That's fine with me, thank you for bringing me home," She told him.
"Anytime Syd," he let go of her and waited until she saw her opening the door to her apartment. After that he went home. Gage parked the car and got out. He stopped for a minute and thought about Syd and noticed that his heart was pounding by just hearing her voice or her name. Was he falling in love with her? No! He couldn't, he was getting married with Dahlia. What the heck was wrong with him? He hurried to his apartment and went straight to bed trying to erase what he was feeling at that moment…real love.