What I've been doing for the past one week is to be moping around. I'll check my phone and become devastated when I see that Liam still hasn't called. I mean Liam used to call for almost anything and everything. Like one time when he called to ask if I picked up two coffee latte, like he already knew I always picked up two, he later confessed that he just wanted to know if I was alright.

Or the time he called to asked if we still had A4 papers in the office, like he was literally with me in the office.
So for someone who always calls everyday not to call for a week, at least to know if I'm still breathing. I said he should think of it, that doesn't mean he should totally shut me out.

For the past one week I have been moping, Brie and April let me do my thing like binge watch sappy movies, cry, pig out, but this week Monday they ganged up against and made me go back to work, that is the fashion industry.
Everyone welcomed me wholeheartedly, while throwing 'I miss you' and 'welcome back', honestly it made me a tad bit better.

When Chris saw me, he enveloped me in a hug.
"I heard what happened." He smiled sadly.
"Which part?" I questioned suddenly curious about what he heard.
"Everything," When he sees my questioning glance he added, "Brie filled me in. I'm so sorry you had to work as a p.a in order to stand up to your sister. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed when I heard that it was Liam 'cause I have worked with him twice and he's a really nice guy. At least you finally told him the truth. I'm proud of you." He said, hugging me tighter. Like he was offering me a comfort shield. Honestly I truly appreciated it.

"Brie is such a tattle-tale. Since when did you and Brie make up, that she's telling you all her secrets and mine too?" I grumbled, looking suspiciously at Chris.
He blushed slightly and mummured something and walked away like his pants were on fire. There's something they are not telling me, and trust me I'll find out.

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"Ahn, I knew that something was suspicious." I declared triumphantly, when I found Chris and Brie making out in the closet. They quickly disentangled and looked at me with guilty expression.
"No...no... you can continue, don't stop at my expense. Love is beautiful, and I never needed to know that my two best friends started going out. I mean, I'm not that important so I don't need to know," Brie started shaking her head in disagreement and opened her mouth to explain but the only thing she could manage to say was, "We never wanted to hurt you."
"What am I? A procelain doll? I would have been happy for you guys, I mean I always tried to match-make you both since college. Did anything change?" I asked a rhetorical question as I glanced up, after sometime I faced them, "I can't do this right now." I shook my head and walked away. I was so hurt, how could they not tell me?

I was in my office for two hours before Brie entered, she probably waited  for two hours thinking that I wasn't angry anymore, well she has another thing coming.

"I'm still mad at you, no rather I'm still furious at you. You've got two minutes to explain yourself." I declared.
"We really wanted to tell you but you've been sort of a recluse since you and Liam stuff happened," She muttered, but when she noticed my angry stare didn't lessen she quickly added, "We really wanted to tell you Lettie, believe me." She said, and she looked at me pleadingly. I didn't even have the strength to be mad again.
"I forgive you," She was about to hug me but I held my hand up signifying that there was a condition, "Only if you tell me the juicy details." I said in the best announcer voice. Brie nodded vigourously as she finally hugged me.

She then launched into details, how one day they started arguing and Chris asked her why she hates him so much and she yelled back that she doesn't, she was just trying to suppress the feelings she had for him. When she realized what she said, she tried to take it back but Chris was not having it, he kissed her senseless and she didn't have much resistance after. The next day he asked her to be his girlfriend, and no big surprise there, she said yes.

"How long have you guys been dating?"
"Just for a week. So you can see why I didn't tell you. You were having this breakdown about pushing Liam away, so I didn't want it to seem like I was rubbing it in your face ." Brie smiled sadly.
"I would have been happy for you guys, it would have been my time to say 'I told you', and you took that away from me." I pouted slightly.
"You can still say it, I know it's been killing you since you found out, so just let it out." 
"I told you. I knew all that hatred was just sexual tension." I wriggled my brows suggestively as I smiled triumphantly.

"You don't say." Brie muttered dryly.
"He's the Yin to your Yang. Don't deny it. I always knew that you guys were meant for each other." I smirked.
"You're really milking this, and overdoing it. I'll take this as my cue to take my leave." Brie started walking towards the door.
"Kiss me harder baby, love me longer baby..." I said teasing Brie. I made smooching noises and kissy faces.
Brie scurried out of my office as fast as her leg could carry her. I laughed so hard, don't blame me. I have waited so long for this, so please excuse me if I wanted to milk my moment.
I knew that when love hit Brie in the face, she wouldn't even see it coming.
I'm actually happy for Brie, but seeing her and Chris made me realize how stupid I was to have let Liam go.

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"Just say yes already! Goddammit! You are going to become miserable if you say no, so stop playing hard to get." I yelled.
"I was going to say yes, you moron."

The lady in question gave me a stink eye, probably for ruining her moment. Don't blame me though, she was taking too long to answer or maybe twenty seconds of her being speechless was too long for me since I asked Liam to think about if he still wanted to be with me after for two weeks, and this is the third week and he still hasn't gotten back to me. Moral lesson- Never let a guy think about anything.

I was afraid that the twenty seconds she's wasted, they guy may just realize marriage wasn't for him. So forgive me lady, for trying to help you out.
So you are wondering how we got here? While I have been emotionally drained since the third week, Liam hasn't gotten back to me. I even tried his numbers, but it wasn't going through. I tried Chris, but Chris said Liam said not tell me where he was... Ouch.

So I was so hurt after that phone call, so April decided to take me to an ice-cream and cake shop. Immediately we walked in, we noticed a proposal was going on and the girl was wasting too much time to give an answer.
April immediately dragged me out of the shop and looked at me with anger blazing in her eyes.

"What? She was taking way too long to answer." I weakly defended myself.
"This has dragged on for too long. You need to get your shit together, or else. What is your fucking problem Leticia," April swore, and honestly that frightened me but April wasn't even done with me, infact she was just getting started. "You like someone? Then why let the person go and go around moping like a woman who lost her child. You have worked with someone for three months, met him when you were younger, he knew who you were yet he still employed you, never judged you for never telling him the truth, and after everything you told him he still wants to be with you. If you ask me, Cupid never shot a more perfect arrow than this, but you decided to be stupid and set up stupid rules. He has been with your weird ass for three months and he still likes you, so how will two weeks make a difference? Have you ever thought that maybe the reason why he hasn't gotten back to you is because of your indecisive ass? 'Cause from the way I see it, you are the one who doesn't know what she wants or is rather too afraid to pursue what she wants. If I were Liam, I wouldn't get back to you either because I'll like sometime for my broken heart to heal before it gets shattered again."

I gulped in tears because I knew everything said was was so true.

"I'm sorry." I apologized tearily. I honestly felt so bad that April and Brie put up with my shit for three weeks.

April looked so sad that she made me cry, "Don't apologize Lettie. Just get your shit together and I'll be so happy for you. I'm your best friend and I just the best for you and I know Liam makes you happy. I've seen the way your eyes lit up anytime you talk about him, even way before you found out his girlfriend cheated on him. Why push away someone that makes you extremely happy? There isn't a time speculation for when to fall in love with someone, it's your love story so who cares if you married after two weeks of meeting each other, the most important thing is that you both are happy. Okay?" I bobbed my head in agreement.

She smiled widely, "You know what?  Why don't you take a walk in the park nearby and clear your head. Trust me you'll feel much better."
That didn't sound like a bad idea and besides it was just a bit past seven pm, I nodded in agreement as I waved her bye. I really needed to clear my head.
When I got to the park, it was very quiet. Exactly what I needed.
I sat on a bench and replayed April's conversation in my head and the glaring truth kept coming back, I was scared.
Liam was everything I wanted to see in a person I loved and he was even more. I cried for a really long time at the thought of Liam never coming back to me. I never even gave it a shot and he already left me.

I don't know how long I cried or was there, but I soon felt someone sit down beside me. The person pulled me to the person's chest, and by the time the person's cologne hit my nose I already knew who it was.

"You came back?" I gasped in surprise.
"I'll always come back no matter how many times you push me away, but please don't push me away too much 'cause I don't know how long my body can stay without oxygen."
I glanced up at his face and he smiled sadly at me. Liam really picked the right timing to come back, because I've lost my fighting spirit and was so glad he came back.

"I'm so glad you came back." I hugged him tightly meaning my every word.
"Me too." He kissed the top my head lightly.
It felt like all my energy sapped out of me, I became limp in his hold. All the sleep I missed for the past three weeks hit me with full force. I think it's because I finally had peace of mind.
I could barely keep my eyes open and Liam noticed it, so he picked me up in his arms and started walking.

"Will you leave me once I fall asleep?" I mummured groggily. The sleep was making me bold and asking things I would have been too shy to ask on a regular day.
"I'll be right by you when you wake up, so go to sleep love." He whispered in my ear.
That was the only encouragement I needed cause my eyes on their own, as I settled into his embrace.

April was right when she said Cupid shot the perfect arrow. Nothing was more perfect than Liam.

A/N- At what stage did you get into a relationship with someone and realized you can't help falling in love with them?