Fall in love and other problems

Chapter 17: "Together?"

2 weeks later

   We are sleeping with Cameron in my room, my parents started letting me come to my apartment only if I come with someone else, so I usually come with Cameron or if we get together with our friends, we get together here lately because we have more "privacy" than I know. translates to that we can put the music as we want. And yes, the truth is that I went from not even saying hello to my dad and my mom, to asking permission for some things because even though I'm 18 and older, and I thought I could do anything without permission from Nobody for that, I do not want to make another mistake like that so as many say "better safe than sorry."

   By the way, the graduation was just great and very memorable, we danced, we had fun, we had a great time with friends and family. We laughed a lot with each other because our family was practically half the room with all of us.

"Returning Sara to earth" Cami asks, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"Yes?" I ask half deconcentrated.

"Do you already know which university you want to go to?" that question completely comes as a surprise to me because clearly I was not expecting it and because I still have no idea about it.

"I still don't know, what about you?" I am sincere although I am afraid of her answer.

"I don't know either, but what I clearly do know is that I want to go with you" I smile and hug him, I love him so much. I wish he was my boyfriend but ... well, there's always time. "Do you want to go to dinner now?"

"Sure!" I get up and have him do it too.

"Change, I'm going now for the car" he goes and leaves me there, it seems that I can't go out to eat in my pajamas.

   After he leaves and closes the door on him, I go back to my room to choose what to wear and dress. I put on a short black and white skirt, a long-sleeved black bodysuit, and black bootie heels.

   Once we got to the restaurant, he already had a table reserved which I thought was weird but I guess he might want to surprise me or something.

   We order food and begin to talk.

"I tell you the truth and it is that 7 months ago I could not have imagined this. None of this" I speak while we wait for the food to arrive. "Why were you like this the last days before you left?"

"As well as?" he asks with his look in my eyes again.

"That distant".

"And you still don't realize?" I shake my head while I make a face with my mouth. "By God, Sara" laughs and keeps talking; "I was like that because I was jealous, I was jealous of Chad, because at times I thought he was going to take you away from me, you had never dated a boy or had a boyfriend so I never thought he was going to react that way. I didn't want to tell you how I felt about you because I didn't want to ruin our friendship but I didn't like seeing you with him, I think that's more than clear".

"And I have another question".

"Aren't you going to tell me anything I told you?" I laugh while I deny.

"No, because I understand you, because I felt the same" he smiles.

"Well, tell me your other question" I hesitate for a few seconds before saying it out loud because I don't know how she will take it.

"Why didn't they tell us about the races? Or how long ago did they go?"

"Because we didn't want to involve you, we didn't want to see you there. I know we told each other everything but I didn't want you to know, or feel ashamed or anything like that about me. Chad saw us only 2 times out of the 4 total we went" that reminds me of what he had told me.

"When I asked him he told me that they had been going there for about a couple of months" he laughs dryly but I can tell he's angry.

"What told you what? I can swear to you, I swear it with all my heart, I swear by my family and yours that we only went those 4 times, I admit that we had planned to go a couple more but when we saw you there we were all afraid and well, We assumed that if we didn't go you wouldn't either".

"But the day I went, you didn't speak to me, you weren't even able to look at me. I thought you hated me" I look down remembering that moment.

"Because I saw you there with him and I hated him, I didn't hate you, but I hated the fact that you were there with him. And that you hadn't even told me you were going".

"It is a joke? You didn't tell me you were going either, why should I have done it?"

"You're right, but hey, let's leave this there, okay?"

"All right".

   He is right, because continuing to talk about this would get us nowhere and that is definitely not what I am looking for.

"Thank you" we both say when a waitress with our respective dishes interrupts us.

"Any other question?" says Cameron in a funny way.

"Did you have a girlfriend in Spain?" that question hurt me thinking that the answers would hurt me the most, but I received a laugh from my companion.

"Are you seriously asking me that?" I nod half smiling so he doesn't notice my bewilderment. "How could I even think about having a girlfriend if I couldn't stop thinking about you?"

   I smile at him and we keep talking about trivial things, or remembering moments we have spent together.

"I wanted to ask you something" he says at one point during dinner when I was with food in my mouth and on my fork, so he didn't grab me in a very cute pose. "Of those coincidences of life, do you want to be my girlfriend?"

   At that exact moment I accidentally threw my fork in the middle of the plate and started coughing from the food in my mouth that I choked on, I was choking. Cameron gave me a glass of water and I managed to calm down a bit. I'm still in shock ...

You're going to lose your chance to say yes ...

   Stop, for me to recover.

Tick tock, tick tock

   I have already listened.

Answer him.

   I know!

Answer him.

   I KNOW!

ANSWER NOW!

   I KNOW!

NOW!

   IF YOU STOP TALKING.

Fine.

"Yes I want to be your girlfriend" I answer with a huge smile trying to silence my damn conscience that distracts me from the moment. My best friend, or now as of this moment rather my boyfriend gives me an even bigger smile if that's possible, which I don't think so but hey.

"That makes me very happy" neither of us can stop smiling, I consider that these are the moments that one does not forget in their life, I am not a corny person but I can swear that I feel love in the air.

"Me too, you don't know how long I was waiting for him" if only I did, I think.

"Sorry about that, but I wanted to do something nice. And it should be noted that I have also been waiting for it for a long time".

"I love you Cami, for a long time. And I do not mean the love of friendship" I say still smiling while we are holding hands above the table.

"I know, God, of course I know. I also love you for a long time".

Phone call

"Hello!"

"Hello?"

"Daughter? Sara? This is mom, I'm mom".

"Yes, I know who you are. What happens? I'm here having dinner with Cami".

"It was to let you know that the answers have already arrived at the universities. So if you want later come see".

"Right at this precise moment we were talking about that, but if I don't keep ..."

"I took care of everything" I glance at Cameron between amused and excited, I must admit that my mother is a genius and I love her with all my heart.

"Thank you ma, thank you, thank you, thank you".

"You're welcome, little girl, well I'll let you have dinner and come when you want. Kisses".

"Same".

End phone call

"What happened?" ask as soon as I leave the cell phone on the table.

"Mom was in charge of sending applications to all the universities for me".

"That's great, shall we?" he asks more excited than me.

"But..."

"Then we continue, but, let's see which ones accepted you!" he interrupts me, and I affirm again that he is more excited than I am.

"Well Mr. Celous".

"If I'm not jealous of anything" he says confused but with a smile on his face.

"But it was funny when you got like that, I love you".

"I am the same" he kisses me one hundred and goes down to my lips with a soft and delicate kiss, I affirm and reaffirm, and I reaffirm and reaffirm that I love him with everything I am.

   Sitting on the bed in my room we talked, we had already opened the letters from the universities downstairs being with Mom and Dad, and he had not entered all of them but with Cameron we agreed on some of them so that later we will see and talk with our friends.

"Can I stay the night?" he asks with a face so sweet that it is almost impossible to say no.

"No".

"By?" I laughed out loud at his disappointed face.

"How can you not stay to sleep? I mean, how can you not stay to sleep? After so many times, it's the same" smile like a child who just got a giant ice cream with their favorite tastes.

"Thank you" he kisses my lips again and he is going to change, because yes, part of his clothes are still here in my room.

   I feel like I stabilized my life again, I feel like I was always on the straight path of life but I strayed for a few months which was definitely not good for me or for anyone, and now I returned to the original path which glad.

   I waited so long for this moment, so many years waiting for it, and some of them would already be tired but I am happier than ever.

This is your moment.

   Our moment, and yes, it is. I can finally say I feel good, really good.

And that is the most important thing in life, to feel good, to feel good about others but also to feel good about yourself.

"Are you still alive?" Cameron asks me once he comes out of the bathroom while he runs his hand over my face.

"For many more years" I smile at him.

"That's how I like it, it's what I love the most, that we stay together until old people together" that melts me with love so I hug him and we fall on the bed while I kiss him all over his face. "I love you".

"I love you, and I hope so, that we become old people" we laugh and go to bed.