I ignored him the whole car ride home. I partially felt bad because we drove almost an hour to get to that place and I made us leave after not even 10 minutes. He didn't even know what he did wrong.
He probably thought I was a bitch now. Great. And I'm now upset with myself.
I lean my head against his window and close my eyes for the ride home.
"Are you ok?" Christians asks, giving me a concerned look.
"I- uh. I'm sorry. I'm just not feeling well."
"Oh. That's okay. I'll take you home."
He holds my hand the entire way back. That brings me back to what I was concerned about before. He's too good to me.
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Christian's POV
I planned out this time for us and Anastasia's mood took a one-eighty. I don't even know what happened. I kissed her cheek and all of a sudden she got upset.
Maybe she's uncomfortable with that kind of affection.
I should take a step back. The car ride home was silent. It was uncomfortable to say the least. She seemed angry.
Thirty minutes later, I pull up in her dorm building parking lot and park my car. I look over and she's sleeping peacefully, free from her worries. Her long lashes fan out against her cheek and her usually furrowed eyebrows are relaxed.
I brush her hair behind her ear and gently wake her.
"Anastasia. We're back." Her eyes flutter open. For some reason, she looks sorrowful rather than her earlier irritation while we were at my secret spot.
"I'm sorry," she hesitates, struggling to spit out her words, "I just didn't know you had a girlfriend."
WHAT
"What are you talking about?"
Who is she to make assumptions about me? I would walk to the ends of the earth for this girl who I just met and she thinks I'm lying to her? Anger courses through my veins. I grip the steering wheel that is in front of me and stare blankly at the front of the dorm building.
"I accidentally saw the text from your girlfriend. I- I didn't mean to. Your notification popped up and it was from her." She looks down, sadly and her lips start to quiver. "It wasn't right of me to assume th-"
"Damn straight," I mutter quietly, but I know she hears me as she sucks in a breath. "You don't know anything about me so don't act like you do," I say harshly. I guess my defense mechanism was just to push everyone around me away. That's how I always remembered it.
"I apologize. I overreacted over nothing. It was wrong of me." She opens the car door and begins to walk into her dorm building.
I sit there, sulking for a minute until I realize that it was getting dark and that she had to still walk through a dark, long hallway to get to the front door of her building.
I understood where she was coming from. I was from the revelation of her speculation but she had good reason to. I pull out my phone and search through my recent texts while running around the building to find her. It was getting dark and I didn't want her to walk back alone. It was a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to her room, but anything could happen in 3 minutes.
I walked the route she usually took to her room and didn't see her along the way. Waiting outside her suite door, I looked closely at my text messages. Elena texted me.
"Fuck!" It all makes sense. Elena asked when I was coming home, what else was Ana supposed to think. "Arghh." I raise my fist to punch the wall beside the door, but the door suddenly swings open.
Paul stands there with his arms crossed.
"What did you do to Ana? She walked in here in tears."
"This is none of your fucking business. I need to talk to her." I make a step to enter the doorway but he blocks my way.
"Look. Take a breather. I care about Ana a lot. She's like a sister to me. I don't know what went down but she's really upset. You shouldn't make her even more upset with your emotions and behavior." He hesitates, but then steps to the side of the doorway to let me in. "Think about what you're gonna say first."
I nod, giving him a grateful grin. Taking a deep breath, I walk in the direction of Ana and Kate's room and I hear sniffling and some muffled words behind the door.
I knock on the door and wait. Few seconds later, Kate swings open the door.
"Fix this," she says sternly, giving me a death glare.
I slowly walk in and see Ana is face down on her bed. All of the anger that radiated in me vanishes. With all of her tears, she still has never looked so gorgeous to me. She just looks breathtaking all of the time.
"Kate, who is it?" She sniffles and turns her face to see me.
"Hey." I say. She rushes to sit up and wipes her the tears from her eyes and the hair that is matted to her face from her tears. "Hey, hey it's okay. It's just me." I sit down next to her and pull her into a hug, holding her head to my chest. Her beautiful, chestnut hair with her wonderful floral scent wafts under my nose, and I can't help but place a kiss on top of her head.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't be crying right now. I just- I'm going through a lot right now a-and you're just so good to me. Why are you even here? You should be furious with me. What I said to you was so wrong." She sobs harder into my chest the more she speaks. "And now I've ruined your shirt. I feel like I messed up everything."
"It's not a big deal." I rub my hand up and down her back, trying to calm her down. "Shhh, it's okay. Deep breaths. Don't cry over me, baby."
She starts to calm down, hiccuping in between her breaths.
"Elena doesn't mean anything to me." I start, holding her tighter to me.
"We were together when I was in high school and that was three years ago. Every time there's a school break, she texts me and I've always made it clear that we were no longer together when I left for Harvard. However, she doesn't seem to get the message." I say sorrowfully.
She nods, "I was just so angry in the moment, because I thought I could trust you and then when she texted that. I thought you had told her about our plan, and I just felt so betrayed." She looks down regretfully.
I nod in understanding, pushing her to reveal her feelings. "I haven't told anyone about our arrangement. Only you and Elle know."
"I know I've said it so many times, and I want you to know that I really mean it. It's not something I throw around meaninglessly. I'm really sorry."
"I understand. Anastasia, in order for this to work I need you to trust me. We need to trust each other. We can go around wondering if the other has revealed our arrangement."
"I realize that. I just got so carried away, with you and my feelings for you and-" She gasps and covers her mouth with her hand in astonishment."I mean-"
"You have feelings for me?" My eyes widen and my heart beats 10 times faster.
"I-"
I cut her off in excitement, "Because I have feelings for you."
She giggles and gives me a wide smile, making my heart thump through my chest, and my emotion reflects hers. I stare into her ocean blue eyes, wiping the remaining wet tears from her face with the pad of my thumbs.
With my hand at the nape of her neck, I pull her closer, closing my eyes. Our lips meet in a chaste yet sensual, sweet kiss. I pull back, leaning my forehead against hers.
"Wow," she says.
"Wow indeed." I smile, pulling her in for a multitude of kisses.
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Wednesday morning came, two days after our admission and I've never been happier.
We have a morning meeting with Elle to catch up and be on the same page as to what our plan, going forward is. With our youtube channel of course.
I leave my apartment, going over to her dorm once again to pick her up. I walk down the now familiar side walk and enter her building. I had texted her that I was on my way over, and I see her already sitting in the lobby of the building.
She looks stunning. Wearing a sweater dress that ends a little bit above her knee, thigh high socks, and some boots, she makes me nervous. How could a girl like her end up with a guy like me?
"Hello, beautiful." I've always said it genuinely, but now I don't have to hide under the pretenses that it was for arrangement and we were in front of people. Now, it was just us.
"Hi handsome." She reaches up to give me a quick peck. However, that's not enough for me. I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her tight against me.
"Kiss me." I say. She reaches up again, this time wrapping both of her arms around my neck, giving me a hard, passionate kiss, her lips warm and soft and her tongue sweet. I will not ever get enough of her.
"Let's get going."
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We sit in the two chairs across from Elle's desk as she goes through our documents and figures from the two videos. We sit in a comfortable silence as I sit there holding Anastasia's warm hand in mine.
"So how have you two been?" She asks.
"We have never been better," replies Anastasia. I nod in agreement.
"I'm looking at your views and subscribers rate right now, and it seems that with the rate you're going at, you'll reach 1000 subscribers by the end of the month. We just need to continue the set schedule we have right now."
"Will that be when our checks come in?" I ask.
"That is correct. However, the amount depends on how many views you guys have." She puts all of the paperwork on her desk back into a folder and puts it away. "Now, we can get this project moving faster and it's up to you guys. You guys are the young ones here and you guys know what the people would want. We need to have an outbreak video. One that blows everyone's mind."
"I think we can probably think of something. We can do some research as to what is usually trending and do a similar video to that." Ana responds.
"Great idea, Ana. I think another thing you guys can do is start sharing your videos on your social medias. The more views you have the better."
"That means our friends and family will see it?" I ask.
"Assuming you have your friends and family on social media, yes." Elle gives a warm smile.
Great, now I really have to tell my family about our relationship.
"We can do that," Ana replies for the both of us.
As of now, we are considered exclusive, but we haven't put a label on our relationship.
I know just how to rectify situation.
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A/N Thank you so much for the warm welcome back everybody! I was so motivated by all of your reviews! I hope you guys liked this chapter! Please tell me what you'd guys like to see or if you have any guess for what's gonna happen in the future chapters wink wink ;)
