I can’t believe I actually said that.
Everywhere was quiet for a while before she speaks up.
“Wh….what..I mean why?” Ava asks
“You should know why”. I say quietly
“I don’t know why” she replies.
Well, here it goes.
I summon up courage.
I look at her and open my mouth but a phone rings….
Ava’s phone.
“Sorry”
“It’s okay” I say and let out a huge breath that I didn’t realize I’ve been holding.
She waits for the phone to stop ringing.
“Who is it?” I ask curiously wondering why she didn’t pick it.
She hesitates a bit.
“It’s David”
I sigh.
“I knew that boy was trouble”.
She chuckles.
Few seconds later…
“So…uhm…you were saying…..” Ava says
“I….I” my breath gets caught in my throat.
I’ve never been so nervous in my life.
I lost all confidence.
I’ve never lost confidence talking to a girl before although most of them throw themselves at me.
Ava just keeps looking at me in a calm way.
How can she be calm in this situation?
I just have to talk so I do seriously praying in my head that I get a positive answer.
“I love you, Ava. I really do. I don’t know how or when it started I just realized that I never want to be apart from you. I….i…want you in my life Ava, so bad… Please say yes.”I say.
She didn’t say anything.
She just keeps looking at me.
I’m getting scared by the minute with different thoughts in my head.
‘Maybe she doesn’t love me, maybe she only sees as a friend or a brother…maybe she will say no”
A lot of maybes run through my mind.
“Ava, please say something you are making me nervous” I speak up.
After what feels like forever.
She suddenly smiles and hug me and say in a beautiful voice.
“I love you too Kevin, always have, always will”
She says it so quietly that I almost think it’s my imagination.
“For…for real?”
“Yeah, for real Kevin.. I love you”
I start smiling so much that I think my cheeks will tear.
We are smiling widely at each other after we release each other from the fierce hug lost in our world and then the we are interrupted again by her phone.
“Don’t tell me it’s David again”
“Now you know his name, huh? Yes it is David”. Ava says with a mischievous smile.
“That little punk…”
I groan and place my head on the steering wheel.
Ava laughs and I join her too and hold her hand.
At that moment, I bless the day the Professor paired us up together.
I got saved.
I got love.
The End.
