Decide (Declan Reede: The Untold Story Book 0.5) by Irwin Michelle

Author:Irwin, Michelle [Irwin, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE END OF SILENCE

“AND THEN SHE said that Ben told her that he loves her!” Alyssa gushed. “Isn’t that great?”

I pretended to not care, but my blood burned and boiled within me. That fucker, Ben, had stolen my thunder. I’d spent the better half of the week telling him how I was building up to saying the big “L” word to Alyssa. How we’d danced around it for long enough and that I knew how I felt and was ready to voice it to her. How I had planned to do it for Valentine’s Day but decided against it because it just seemed far too cliché—not to mention the bad memories that day dredged up. I didn’t want to fall into the trap of doing what was expected when it was expected. Instead, I wanted to surprise her with the words at a time when I meant them the most.

Instead of letting me have my moment though, he’d obviously decided to beat me to the punch. It was ridiculous, and he’d backed me into a corner. After he’d already made that leap, if I just said the words to Alyssa, she’d think I was only saying them in order to keep up. I didn’t want our relationship to be driven by the speed of other people.

As I read through Alyssa’s math homework, checking her answers and helping make corrections, I tried to think of some way of telling her how I felt without having to just come out and say the words so soon after Ben had released them into the world.

Taking a chance, I scrawled, Declan Reede is at the bottom of the page.

“I mean, that’s a huge step for them. Don’t you think?” Alyssa pushed, distracting me from my work.

Honestly, I couldn’t feel too congratulatory when it was my idea that Ben had just stolen to use first. “Yeah, it’s great. Whatever.”

“‘Yeah, it’s great, whatever,’” Alyssa mimicked me. “Are you kidding me?”

I shrugged and pulled her book out of her line of sight so that she couldn’t see what I wanted to write before I’d finished it.

“I just don’t see what the big deal is, Lys,” I said, trying to sound nonchalant, all while trying to finish what I was writing on her page. Madly in. “It’s just a word.”

My heart pounded as I wrote the letters that spelled the word. Love.

“Just a word? How can it be just a word? It’s the word. The word that defines where you place in your partner’s life.”

I shrugged again as I finished the sentence, with Alyssa Dawson, and nudged the book back toward her. I even tapped the page with my pen. “I just don’t see it that way. Surely actions speak louder than words.”

My breath caught in my throat while I waited for her to look down.

“Are you freaking kidding me?”

“What?” I said.

“You don’t think people need to hear that someone loves them?”

I rubbed my hands through my hair. I was losing control of the situation, and my grand gesture had failed.

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