It's Still You

Chapter 2: The agreement

Staciel

"Stace, please talk to me." Jace is knocking on the door of my room. The last thing I did was to run away from the living room. What I did was rude, but I felt heavy. I don't want to hook up with someone I don't have feelings for. I love Jace, but not in a romantic way.

"Stace, I am telling the truth. I have liked you ever since we were kids and I am planning to marry you when the time comes," Jace continued while he was outside of the room. The knocking stopped but he talked to me and made sure that I heard whatever he wanted to say.

"Leave me alone," I said, and put the pillow in my ears so I could not hear him anymore.

He did say something else which is vague now. I didn't know when he would leave because the next thing I knew I fell into a deep slumber.

The next day seemed gloomy. A knock on the door woke me up and my uncle came in.

"Good morning sleepyhead," my uncle greeted him.

"Good morning uncle," I greeted him back.

"Are you feeling all right? I hope the news last night didn't bother you so much," he said, reminding me of the conversations last night. I bit my lip at that thought.

"Uncle, about what happened last night, I still don't understand. I felt betrayed how you gave me up like that." Tears started to form in my eyes and I tried not to let them be visible in front of my uncle. My chest tightened as I looked away.

He sighed before he leaned on the door. "Staciel, there is something I wanted you to know. Your parents said that you will be engaged to Jace when you turn 20. I think they planned it all along. Unfortunately, an accident happened and both your parents and sister left the world early. I may be your legal guardian now, but I don't want to break the proposal that both yours and Jace's families agreed upon. I'm sorry," he said, and my lips tightened.

"I understand. I want to be alone for a while. I need some time to think about this situation," I finally said. He nods at me understandingly and slowly goes to the door. He gave me an apologetic look before he finally shut it.

I wasn't even aware that my future was already arranged. What are they thinking? I can't possibly marry a man whom I only consider as a friend. I know Jace is a nice guy and he may be handsome, which could make every woman kneel their knees on him, but not me. I've known him since we were kids and on those days that we were together, I did not feel any romantic feelings towards him. Plus the fact that he did play with a few women when he was in high school.

Now that I remember, there was once a girl who came running towards me looking for Jace. She's crying and said that she didn't want Jace to break up with her, which is clearly a lie because Jace said that they were just flings. Everyone knows that he and I are close. I've also met a few of them who are clearly jealous of me for being close with him and saying something bad to my face. I would complain every time, but Jace just laughed at it all. I sometimes feel him staring at me and he is always clingy on me, which Raptalia noticed immediately. We just shrugged it off and didn't take all of it too seriously. I didn't even know that he really did have some feelings for me, which is very confusing, because if he liked me, then why did he hook up with other women? I don't understand men at all. Not that I cared.

My phone suddenly rang and Jace's name popped up. I was still not in a mood to talk to him, so I stood up to take a shower, but before I could enter the bathroom, there was a sudden knock.

"Uncle, I told you I wanted to be alone," I complained while opening the door, but my eyes went wide when I saw Jace.

He is wearing a formal business suit. It is not surprising since he is training to be the next successor of their company.

"What are you doing here?" I asked. If this was a normal day, I would have hugged him for visiting me.

"I just wanna check on you before I go to the meeting," he said. His eyes are straight at me and I feel uncomfortable under his gaze.

"I have to go take a shower now so you may go," I was about to close the door but he stopped it with his hands and pushed himself inside the room.

"Didn't you hear what I just said?" I pushed him out but he just grabbed both of my hands and pulled me against his broad chest. I looked at him with wide eyes.

"Let me just hug you for a minute," he lowered his head on my shoulders and hugged me tighter. I tried to get out of his grasp, but he is just stronger than me that I didn't even budge in my position. I sighed and let him do what he wanted. It's just a hug anyway.

Or not.

I almost shrieked when his head suddenly went to my neck and he planted wet kisses.

"What do you think you're doing?!" I said loudly and squirmed in his arms. Luckily, this time I got out and looked at him with a shocked expression. He had never done this to me before. His moves are only limited to hugging and kissing my cheeks and forehead.

Instead of answering me, he just placed a broad grin on his face like he usually does when he's with me.

"I gotta go. See you later Stace," He waved his hands goodbye and went outside the room. I stood there not knowing what to do.