In Blue Water

Chapter 13

Filippos pov

“Your girl is out of town why don't you want to go out with us?” one of my colleagues Frank asks me

“I can't. I have a few papers to see”

“You never go out with us alone” I sigh, they always invite me over when they are all guys but every time I say no. Is pathetic I know but I always want to stay with Phoebe. Now that she is out of town for her article I don't feel like going out.

“I can't tonight sorry. I promise the next time”

“Ok, I'm holding that. Don't let me down next time”

“I won't, good night,” I say and I end the call. I walk to the kitchen to make something to eat. We talked with Phoebe before but I want to hear her again. Damn it I can't call her, she is a restaurant to write her reviews. I fix my plate but I hear the doorbell. Who could it be? I open the door and I see the last person that I wanted to see. Christine, she is a pain. She never understands no, all these months she tries to seduce me but with no reciprocation. I will never do that to Phoebe even if there is a small chance to like Christine which I don't. Ok, she is beautiful but she isn't my Phoebe.

She smiles seductively

“Hey, sorry for the hour but my mother sent me to take her medical papers,” she says and I frown

“I told her that I would give her tomorrow”

“She needs them today. She didn't call you?” she says biting her lower lip, it could turn on any guy but not me.

“No. She didn't”

“Well I'm here now why don't you give them to me”

“Fine wait here,” I say and I walk to the coffee table in the living room. I took the file that I had left there when I returned from her doctor. She had a job in the afternoon and she asked me to get her medical answers from her tests. Her doctor is on my way home. I take the files in my hand and I turn around when I fall into Christine. Agh this woman

“I told you to wait at the door”

“I didn't hear you. Why you don't want me here?” she says with a fake sad face

“No. Here are the files take them and leave”

“You are always so mean to me. Why?” she says and touches my chest. I stop her hand

“You know why. I have rejected you so many times. You don't take the hit”

“I don't understand why?”

“I'm in love with Phoebe, why don't you don't get it” I see her taking a step back ready to explore

“What she has that I don't?”

“You will not understand. She makes me feel different from any other “

“Let's see what you will feel after that,” she says, and before I can do something she pushes me onto the couch. She ends up sitting on my lap, damn it. I lift my hands to push her back but before I do it the front door is open and I see Phoebe. When she realizes what she seeing, her eyes water, and her bag falls from her hand on the floor. The rest is like a blur. I push Christine and chase Phoebe to the elevator. The look on her face and the words that she sees me like the other men are heartbroken. I tried all this time to show her that I'm different, that I will never hurt, and all for nothing. But I don't blame her if I see her under another guy I will react the same.

The good thing is that she wants to talk to me, she texted me so I guess that is a good sign.

The next day at the university I was anxious all morning. Phoebe didn't call until my lunch break. Usually, we talk between my breaks from classes. She didn't call, she is still mad? She said that she would call me to talk. I look at my phone, the screen is black, no calls no texts.

“Please call me” I whisper praying

I hear someone knocking on the classroom door, I lift my head hoping it is Phoebe but no. She is still hunting me

“Hi,” she says all sweetness and seductive

“What do you want Christine? I'm not in the mood” I say looking at my phone again

“That's why I'm here. To cheer you up”

“You can't. Please leave” I say but I hear her heels on the floor and she is walking toward me

“Christine leave,” I say annoying and I stand up

“No. I can make you feel good” She makes a move to touch me but I walk around her and I keep my distance between us.

“You can't. Please leave, I will not say it again”

“I don't understand. You are the only one I have to chase. What she have that I don't?”

“First of all Phoebe is your sister so I don't understand why the hate towards her” I take a deep breath

“And second I don't think I owe you any explanation. The only you need to know is

I do not want to leave her no matter what happens. I will choose her whatever happens. Sometimes words are not enough to say much. I will choose her every morning when I wake up. And last night, to have slept in her arms, to feel her breath in my throat. She and she again. So whatever you do you will not achieve anything.” she moves to me but I push her

“Leave me alone damn it. I'm trying to be gentle but you make it harder and harder. Leave me alone”

“I....”

“Christine I think you should leave. No one wants you here” I hear Phoebe's voice. I don't like that she sees all that but is good that she knows that I push Christine away

“You think you won?”

“Oh, Christine. He chose me don't you hear him?” I smile and I walk to Phoebe, I take her hands in mine and I smile back

“I met you and I know many new things about life itself. Even when I get lost in your beautiful eyes, what I feel at that moment is unprecedented for me. You made me a new person. You made me a mature man. You made me realize what I want out of my life. And what I want from my life is to be in it. Every day. It is to live the rest of our lives together. With the quarrels, the irritations, the nerves but also the love without exchange that developed between us.” she kisses me full of love

“This is what keeps us going and will keep us together until the end. Two words so small that with you they found their true meaning I love you.” I caress her cheek and she leans to my touch like she always does

“Thank you for coming into my life. Thank you for being on the edge of the cliff and reaching out to me. Thank you for making me see with your own eyes "my eyes", to hope, to dream, and in addition to myself to see my fellow man. Thank you for teaching me the offer. Because you are the most wonderful person I have ever met. I am ready. And I want to live this journey only with you.” I hear Christine behind me curse, but I don't care.

“I love you,” Phoebe says and she kisses me hard. My hands hug her from her waist pulling her closer to me.

“God I missed you” I whisper

“I missed you too”

“I'm still here”

“And?” Phoebe answers Christine.

And finally, ladies and gentlemen she left the building.

“God I thought she would never leave. You said you would call no come from the university”

“Well I finished early and I believed was better to talk in person. I knew what hour you have your lunch break so here I am” she says smiling and I kiss her again

“And I'm happy that I came at the right time”

“Me too.”

“Did she...?”

“What?”

“Bother you for a long time?” she asks and I sigh

“Yeah. I didn't want to make you feel insecure. There is no way to go to her. So there was no reason to worry you”

“You always choose me”

“Always,” I say smiling

“I will always choose you too,” she says and I kiss her again and again, her kisses are my drug.