EPOV:
When I realized it was him, I shouted out "Finn!" and threw myself into his chest, burying my face into his neck. He raised my chin with one finger, staring at me, and placed another finger to his lips telling me to keep quiet.
We turned around to see if the knights had heard me. Of course, they had, and we heard movement in the bushes to the left us, alerting us that they were sending scouts our direction. Finn took my hand and pulled me swiftly away.
We ran as fast as we could, not knowing where we were headed, and when we guessed had finally lost them and they wouldn't be able to find us any time soon, we slowed down. Eventually, we stopped, and fell to the ground laughing.
He was the first to stop laughing, and I could guess what he was thinking about. He was started in with the inevitable questions. "Enna, where on earth have you been?"
I sighed and looked down at my hands. I knew this was coming. But how to explain in a way that let me retain what little sanity he imagined I had? "I've been...around. Just wandering."
"Wandering? Enna, you went so far from home."
"Yea, i did." I looked at him, trying to look guilty while I asked my next question. "Were my parents worried?" He knew me too well, though, and as I struggled to keep a straight face, I knew he could see the hint of a smile on my lips.
"Yes. I suspect that's why the knights were out here. They were looking for you. They're here to bring you home."
"Well, I'm not going back. So they'll have to get used to it."I expected him to object, but he just nodded like he understood perfectly. Huh. Maybe he wasn't too happy with his own situation at home.
After a long, comfortable silence, Finn said something that shocked me.
"Enna, you didn't leave because you disliked me, did you?"
My mouth gaped and I at him. I burst out laughing and managed to convey through my hysterical gasps and giggles that, no, I would never run away from him.
"Then why did you leave?" he asked, bewildered.
"I couldn't bear to listen to my parents. I just could not give in to their wishes."
"But they only wanted for us to be together! Didn't you want that all along?"
Enna thought about this, trying to decide which meant more: Finn? Or disobeying her parents? Staying with a person for which she felt so strongly for? Or sticking to everything she had known and based her whole existence upon?
FPOV:
"But they only wanted for us to be together! Wasn't that what you wanted that all along?"
A long pause followed. I started panicking. She doesn't feel that way about me. I cursed myself inwardly. She probably thought I was stalker, the way I had been acting. Of course, I was only acting like that cause she had been leading me on... But I couldn't possibly blame this on her. I must have misunderstood everything between us.
"Enna? I..." She looked up at me. When I didn't continue, she looked at her hands again.
You could see the thought on her face, and watch her brow furrow with concentration. I wished I could know exactly what she was thinking. Besides the fact that I was in a slow torture knowing that I had been falling in love with the girl across from me, who didn't even think of me the same way, I might add, I found myself mesmerized just looking at her. Her gorgeous blue eyes were intensely focused while she was thinking, and her dark, straight hair fell down about her shoulders, silhouetting her face. I came to the realization that, if she told me to leave her alone, I would be heartbroken.
I was so engrossed in watching her that I forgot I was waiting for an answer. I was snapped out of my reverie when I heard her let out a little sigh. Oh no. Here it comes... I spoke quickly, interrupting her before she could break my heart. "Enna, if you don't feel the same way about me, then that's fine. I'm sorry... I thought you did. I'm a little embarrassed, so I'll just go now..." I got up slowly, not wanting to meet her eyes. I had to retain what little piece of dignity I still had.
As I was walking away, I heard her get up and move towards me. I turned around, instinctually.
EPOV:
It was like had punched me from the inside.
He thought that I didn't like him! How little he knew. He had no idea that my hesitation was just me thinking. About him.
I had thought long and hard and come to several conclusions.
First, I knew I would hate myself if Finn thought for one second that I didn't care about him. I realized that that was what he thought now. I hated myself! I hated my parents! They ruin my life even when they aren't around. They could cost me Finn. Without Finn, I was empty. He was my life anymore. I couldn't live without him, and just thinking about it made me a feel hollow.
Sometime during my thinking, I had an epiphany. I felt a wash of emotions as I thought about it. It was that I loved him. I love Finn. I love him I love him I love him. My heart just about exploded right then and there.I wanted to tell him, but I couldn't make myself say the words. Instead of confessing everything to him, all I had been able to do was sigh. He had taken that sigh badly. He must have thought I was going to tell him goodbye.
I didn't know what to do, but I needed to do something, before it was too late. He was already leaving. Thinking about my sad excuses for parents couldn't rule my life like this, I wouldn't allow it. I would make my own choices based on what I wanted, and I wanted Finn. More than anything I had ever wanted before, and anything I would ever want, I guessed, I wanted him. Needed him was probably the more appropriate description.
He began to walk away. Oh, Finn, what have I done? Come back here. It took me a moment to realize that he couldn't hear my internal monologue, and was still under the wrong impression.
I stood up and started to run after him. He must have heard me because he turned around to look at me. He's such a beautiful man! I didn't know what to say, or maybe it was that I couldn't say anything good enough to explain what I was thinking. So, instead of talking, I just walked over to him, threw my arms around his neck, and kissed him.