Author´s note:
Hi! So here is this chapter, which I am pretty sure is the last one. *sobbing*
But I hope you enjoy this chapter, I am going to dedicate this chapter to all of those people who review throughout the story because you guys inspired me to keep writing! Well, with no further ado, here it is, and I hope you enjoy it!
Also, I think some of you might want to get a pillow to punch, because you haven´t seen the last of Nyuk.
*evil smirk*
Also a shout-out to Long262, thanks for helping me reach 50 reviews, you were the 50th reviewer!
Chapter 13- Stay
Po walked home alone and went to his room. He took out his books and started doing his homework. Well, that was after he went to the fridge and got some food.
He was thinking about apologizing to Tigress, about telling her how much he missed her, how she was amazing and he needed her. He was going to do it afterschool, so he had the time to do it and there weren´t people. Also so they wouldn´t do a scene about it.
As he was thinking about her, Tigress was also thinking about him.
With Tigress…
She couldn´t get over him. She was sure he didn´t like her anymore and he just wanted to tell her that he wanted to break-up with her. She was sure that she shouldn´t love him anymore, she should hate him for what he said about her. But she couldn´t, she loved him and she could never let go of him.
She sighed, and took out her homework and turn up her music. She took her phone and she started checking the texts between Po and her. She smiled at them as tears were rolling down her cheeks. She started sobbing, she would do anything to be in his arms one more time.
She wiped them away and took a deep breath, trying to keep her emotions to herself. Once she calmed down, she started doing her work. It only took her about an hour to finish everything. After she was done, she took out her sketchbook and opened it to the page was working on for her project. She remembered that she crumbled it up and got mad at herself for doing so. She started doing another quick sketch of Po, and one after another, she kept drawing. She looked at her finished drawing and with her fingertips, she caressed the paper, this was all she had left, her memories and before she could forget them, she was going to draw everything out.
She finished the drawing and then ripped all of them. However, she didn´t crumbled them up. She just stared at them. Then she started putting them on one side of her wall. After taping each one of them into the wall, she lay down on her bed and just looked at them, satisfied. And slowly drifted into sleep, forgetting about putting her pajamas on, or even eating dinner.
With Po…
He continued finishing his homework, he took longer than Tigress though, because she used to explain this kind of stuff to him.
As he finish, he went to the kitchen to have some dinner, which his dad had already prepared. They both sat down and started eating in silence. His dad was stealing quick glances at Po, who was poking his food around and once in a while taking a bite out of it.
"Did you talked to her today?" He asked. Po shook his head.
"I tried but she thinks I hate her and I just want to say other stuff" Po explain.
"Well, are you going to try again?" Mr. Ping replied. Po form a small smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I´m not giving up that easily." Mr. Ping smiled at his son´s comment,
"That´s good, for what I see, none of you have stopped loving each other, so is not late to fix things" Mr. Ping explained, as he was standing up and cleaning the dishes. Po stood as well and helped his dad.
"Yeah, I really hope so" He finally muttered before going to his bedroom to sleep.
The Next day…
Po woke up and after doing all of his activities, he went to school. He knew Tigress wasn´t going to go to his house, so he just went on.
Tigress did the same, she woke up and did all the things she does in the morning, she took her jacket, and then headed to school, as she was walking she felt an urge to go to Po´s house, but she knew she couldn´t. So she just kept on walking.
Once she got there, she went straight to her locker, she turned around, to see if Po was there. And she was right, Po was already there taking out his materials, and surprisingly, he was already looking at her. Tigress couldn´t help but shoot him a small smile, but then regret it.
What am I thinking!? Smiling at him. He wants to break up with me and I… Smiled! No wonder I get hurt! She thought. She turned her eyes away from him, shut her locker and then started walking away.
Po felt a spark fly when she smiled, but then his reaction changed when Tigress quickly looked away and started walking the opposite direction.
He knew he still had a slim chance on fixing things with Tigress, and he was going to take it. After school, he was going to go up to Tigress and tell her everything, literally everything. He just had to wait, and for the first time, he understood why Tigress hated to wait.
The day went by really… slow. It was normal, at least the new normal. Tigress ignored him, he sat alone at lunch. But the thing that liked during the day is that once in a while, he stole quick glances at her, and she was already looking at him.
7 period…
Tigress was drawing as she always was. Po decided to get started on his art project. He started drawing Tigress, he tried his best, but the drawing end up being really bad. He decided to do something else, something that represented her. He started to draw a pencil, a red pencil, thinking how she liked red, of course he didn´t know that her favorite color was actually purple and/or green. But red reminded him of her. He kept drawing, until the teacher stopped and was watching over his shoulder.
"If I remember correctly, you were going to draw a person" She said gently.
"Yeah, I changed my mind" Po answered.
"And how does a pencil is important to you?" She said out loud. Everyone turned around to see what she was talking about, some people started laughing, and some were curious to hear the answer. Tigress kept drawing, she was the only one who didn´t turned around.
"Because the person who is special to me loves to draw" Po answered, looking at Tigress. Tigress could sense people looking at her, but she kept on drawing, which wasn´t really helping.
"And care to explain why it is red?" The teacher asked, she definitely didn´t know who Po was talking about.
"Because that person has red in her hair" Po replied, with a smile on his face, staring at Tigress. You could hear people saying ´Oooh´ and some girls saying ´Aaaww´. But Tigress was not going to turn around. Her cheeks were burning, she could feel it. The bell rang and she quickly packed up her things and left the classroom without saying anything to anyone.
Po sighed and went to his locker, not losing sight of Tigress. After he finished putting his things on his back-pack, he started to walk behind Tigress, who was starting to walk towards her house. Po was going to go speak to her, but then he saw that someone else approached her. It was Nyuk.
Tigress ignored him and kept on walking, her house wasn´t really far away, and she had already walked about 5 minutes (meaning she was by the stairs of her house) before Nyuk approached her.
Po stood behind, watching the scene unfold itself. Nyuk was trying to speak to Tigress, but she kept on climbing up the stairs, ignoring him.
"Tigress! Please listen to me" Nyuk pleaded, Tigress almost reached the top, she sighed and stopped.
"What do you want?" She answered annoyed.
"I just want to say that… I´m sorry." Nyuk said, looking down.
"I shouldn´t have done that, or told Po that stuff. And I don´t know what I can do to make things better, but I want to make things right. I know you already have a boyfriend, so I was wondering, if you still want to be friends?" Nyuk said, he sounded so sincere and honest.
"One, thanks to you I don´t have a boyfriend anymore." She got cut off by him.
"I´m sorry, I know this might seem inappropriate but, do you want to go on a date with me since you are not dating anymore?"
Unbelievable! Both Tigress and Po thought. Po was hiding behind a tree that was by the stairs. He was listening to the whole thing.
I can´t believe that Nyuk seriously asked her out! She is basically heart-broken and here he is, ready to go on a date with her! Man, he is lucky I´m hiding because if not I would be punching him on his face for even thinking about it!
Tigress was also mad at him, but she was near her house, and she didn´t wanted to punch him because her dad might find out, and that wasn´t going to work out well for her.
"Seriously!? No! I´m not going out with you ok?! See here are the reasons, 1) you literally just ask me after a break-up. 2) You are such an insensible jerk! 3 and most importantly) I still love Po." She yelled at him.
Nyuk nodded, and had an apologetic face. Po smiled at her last reason.
"Sorry for asking, and sorry about your relationship. Anyway, I hope we can still be friends and maybe one day if you are not dating and you are ok then we" He got cut off, but this time by Po. He was literally running out of patience with this guy. Tigress was surprised and part of her glad that he was here with her.
"Don´t you get it!? She won´t date you! She deserves a better guy. You just want to date her that you don´t even notice how hurt she is!" Po yelled at Nyuk.
"I think I´m just going to go now" Nyuk said shyly, but before fully disappearing, he turned to Tigress,
"So about..." He didn´t got to finish because he got a death glare from both of them. He quickly shut his mouth and ran away.
The weather was cold and it was starting to rain. Tigress was still standing outside. Po was staring at her,
"Go ahead, tell me you want to break up with me" Tigress said sadly, looking down, trying to remain strong.
"No, I came to apologize for… everything. For thinking that you cheated on me, for insulting you, for all the things that I did these past few days that hurt you. I didn´t mean anything that I said, except the fact that you are different" Tigress looked up "No, I mean a good different, you know" Po quickly added. Tigress chuckled a little.
"Tigress, I know you don´t want to see me. But I need you. I love you" He said, as rain came pouring down on both of them.
Tigress let some tears roll down her face.
"Tigress, I just want to know. It´s ok if you don´t want me in your life anymore, but I just want to know, I promise that I will leave you alone if that´s what you want. I told your dad that I would do anything to make you happy, and if leaving you makes you happy, I don´t care, I will do it" He said, looking straight in her eyes.
Tigress was speechless, she felt sad and happy, and confused. But she also felt love. She couldn´t deny it, she felt it in her heart loud and clear. She couldn't believe that Po was willing to do that in order to make her happy.
She started crying, she stepped closer to him, and she suddenly couldn´t stop crying, she was sobbing in his chest. Po was startled at first, but then he wrapped his arms around her waist. Letting the rain wash over them.
Tigress felt his arms around her. She felt warm again, she felt complete. She felt happy again. She then pulled back a little, and whispered,
"Stay, please stay. I love you Po." Tigress was looking into those green gems that make her feel lost in space but at the same time, those eyes made her feel special and as if she could accomplish anything.
They were both looking at each other, they were both wet but they didn´t care about that. Po grabbed hold of her hands, it was as the first time. Her hands were cold as he expected them to be, but with his hands wrapped around hers, she could feel them starting to warm up.
They were both smiling at each other,
"I love you too" Po replied, he leaned in and gave her a passionate kiss. Tigress kissed back. Po put one hand around her waist, the other one was caressing her cheek. Tigress couldn´t help but smile during the kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck, which only deepened the kiss further.
After a few minutes, they broke the kiss and looked at each other once again. Breathing heavily. They were both smiling. Tigress rested her head on his chest,
"Just stay and you will make me happy" She whispered to his ear. She pulled back when he felt that Po was taking something out of his pocket. She looked curiously at his hand. When he opened it, she smiled. It was the necklace.
"Tigress, I love you. Would you be my girlfriend…again?" He said, like he did the first time. Tigress smiled and nodded, she took the necklace. She turned around so Po could put it on her.
She turned again and opened the necklace, looking at the picture she had long missed. She sighed in happiness. Po lifted her chin and pulled her into another kiss. The both stood there, outside, letting time pass, letting the rain wash away the sorrow and replace it with love. Both knowing that they would be all right, as long as they had each other.
Wow, I can´t believe is over. I think this story was my favorite writing. I hope you guys liked it as well! I hope that my reviewers who I dedicated this for liked it! Thanks again for everything and leave your reviews! I will be working on another story as well, so look forward to that! Again, thanks for everything and please leave your reviews, they inspire me to write more!
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