Sophie’s pov

I’m a bit lost for words. A bit startled. A bit dumbfounded. I’m not sure what I should say. Or what I should do.

I’m lost.

I’m confused.

But my heart leaped, twice, three times. I draw air into my lungs and continued to stare into his stormy gaze.

Was he speaking the truth?

The hard veil that had concealed all his emotions behind was torn. Vulnerability.

He was vulnerable.

Which meant, those words were true.

I gasped. Finally, my mind was working back, my body, my reaction. Late reaction, but can you blame me?

For a second there I thought he had frozen me completely.

“Wha-t?” Stammering words…..

He takes a step forward, eating up any bit of space that was left between us. My wet hands are fisted by my sides and my eyes have not left his face not once.

every emotion that crosses

lies, I would be shattered.

a little so our eyes would be leveled and he whispered. “I’ve loved

pulling in a shaky breath. My tongue is tied, but my heart beats like a

My knees are also weak, and I

eyes bored into my own, searching for anything.’

I stared into his unwavering eyes, words finally formed

I asked in

he loved me this long, why did he wait now to tell me

making any

Sophie, but every time I’m in your presence I can’t think properly and

than they’ve ever been

at me.

and my stomach

did you bully me all those years

he had confessed this long ago, maybe then we wouldn’t have gone through so much. Maybe we could’ve been

me go through all this instead of confessing. Yet

which emotion to latch

I loved you then but wanted to hate you. I was angry at you. Those words you said to Mila that day…..it haunted me. I didn’t know they held so much weight, but they did. And they turned me into a monster I’m not proud of,

high school years weren’t the best and I wasn’t my best then. I was someone you should’ve hated, hell loathed. I was a fucking bully. You had every right to hate me and keep hating me. Those things I said to you and did were things I regret with my entire being. But there were times where I

got to

days were the best.

realize that was the karma I got for all those times bullying you and I fully accepted that.” He stared

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