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• F O U R T E E N •

•Chastity

I wasn't sure if I had heard him correctly. Maybe my ears were deceiving me.

"W-what did you just say?"

He sighed and held onto my hands.

"I said I love you Chastity."

There he goes again with that word. He can't be serious. Its only been a few weeks and... I just don't understand. It's way too soon.

"You have to be kidding. " I chuckled.

"I'm serious. And I don't appreciate you laughing at me. Its already hard for me to say this to you in person."

I looked away from him and loosened his grip from my hands.

"Chresanto, I-I'm not sure how to respond to that." I said while shortly being choked up by my words.

"You could always just say it back."

"But I don't feel that way about you." I said realizing that I probably shouldn't have said that.

He dropped his head and looked at the ground before finally saying "I know."

I watched him intently as a smile curled up on his face. I lifted an eyebrow as I watched him smile at me.
"Damn. Rejection hurts like shit. But that doesn't mean I can't make you love me. " He chuckled.

I furrowed my brows at him and glared at him. "Love is a choice. You can't force me to love you Chresanto. "

He forced his face into the crook of my neck and placed kisses there like he always does. I tried to push him away, not wanting someone to catch us. But I failed, being in bliss when his lips were anywhere on me.

"Watch me." He said against my skin.

"Chresanto, g-get off." I moaned weakly.

He got off of me, with that smile that always had me weak in the knees.

"Well, since you don't love me, does that mean you still can't spend time with me?"

"No, not at all."

I thought if I answered with no he would take things better because he still had hope I guess.

"Okay. Well because you don't love me, does that mean I can't kiss you?"

I see where he was going with this and I didn't know if I was giving him the best answers.

"No."

"Touch you?"

"No."

"Hold you?"

"N-no."

"Fu- "

"Okay okay. Enough with these questions. Chresanto all I'm saying is I don't feel that way about you but that doesn't mean we can't hang out like before. Maybe not as much b-"

"Tonight at my place then. 7 O'clock. "

"I can't. I um.. Have plans with Brion."

"Cancel them." He said swiftly.

"Chres-"

"Do you just not wanna be with me or something? Cause it looks like you're throwing excuse after excuse.Like what the fuck ! All I wanna do is show you what you mean to me. Is that so bad?"

I sighed. He was so good at making me feel bad about decisions he didn't approve of.

"I always crack when it comes to you. Ugh fine. I'll be there." I sighed.