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Love Princess Leasha.

Chapter 31

Charlie's POV

"Really?" she asked quietly, not entirely ready to believe what I had said.

"Yes really. Alexis I have wanted to tell you that for so long but I was always too scared. I thought that maybe you wouldn't like me and I'd ruin the friendship that we had. I couldn't bear the thought of losing you. When I took you to Romania I was hoping that I could work up the courage to tell you but then there was the little mishap and it all fell apart."

I reached out and gently touched the scars on her face; she shivered slightly but didn't pull away. My hand travelled down to the locket that hung on a delicate gold chain around her neck, when she didn't object I opened it. As she had told me there was a picture of Lucas, he was holding his dinosaur and laughing, I smiled before focusing on the other picture. As Lucas had said, it was me. It was the night of the Yule Ball at Hogwarts, I remembered it vividly. I had kissed her and told her it was a mistake.

"You looked so beautiful that night," I told her.

"I was so insanely nervous. I thought I was going to fall down the stairs or trip on my dress. Or all of the above," she laughed.

"I was nervous too," I admitted.

-Flashback-

"I don't think you understand Vali. I can't go through with this anymore. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. I don't know if I would be capable of restraining myself."

"Charlie, stop pacing. You are going through with this. You said you'd go with her. You want to go with her. There is no one else in the world you would rather go to this ball with other than her. Dance with her, it is a ball after all. Talk to her, just like normal. Tell her she's beautiful, like you've always wanted to."

I stopped my pacing and felt myself pale.

"I can't I could ruin everything."

"Charlie ai sa-i spuna. E obisnuita pentru un om sa va spun ca data ca e frumoasa. Femeile petrec multe, multe ore sa obtii reaady pentru aceste lucruri, ele aproape ne asteptam sa aud asta."

"I do not have to tell her. Regardless of what is customary and what women expect to hear. It's not my fault they spend so bloody long getting ready."
"You have to tell her, she won't even suspect. Besides, she's probably just as nervous as you right now," Vali smiled.

"She has no need to be nervous. She's beautiful and amazing and breath-taking all the time, tonight will be no different."

"I think you're ready to go," Vali said, straightening my collar one last time, "Noroc."

"Thanks, I'll need all the luck I can get to survive the night."

-End flashback-

Alexis suddenly threw her arms around me, hugging me tightly.

"I missed you Char," she whispered.

"I missed you too," I told her as I gently stroked her hair.

"I'm sorry for being so stubborn. I shouldn't have said all of those things and I shouldn't have left. I really should have let you explain then. I'm sorry."

"It's okay Lexy."

We sat in silence for a few minutes, just holding one another, enjoying being together for a change.

"Lexy, any chance I can convince you to come to dinner at my parents tonight?"

"Are you kidding? Your mum's food is amazing. As long as Lucas is invited as well. And everyone will be there."

"I had already planned for that. But I have a condition as well."

"What is it?" she asked suspiciously.

"I want to be able to introduce you as my girlfriend."

"Charlie Weasley, are you asking me out?"

"I guess I am," I smiled.

"It would be awesome to finally be introduced as your girlfriend," she grinned.

"Alexis Fuller, are you accepting my condition?"

"I guess I am," she laughed.

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