CHAPTER 2: I LOVE YOU

LOU

I knocked on his outside door, hoping he is prepared go. I watched his mother leave an hour ago, around eight. It had been about nine currently, therefore hopefully he was awake. I smiled as he opened the door.

"Hey," I said.

He smiled and replied, "Hey, come on in. I am preparing some breakfast...have you consumed any food yet?"

"Yeah," I said, "I've already consumed some. Thanks by the way."

Andrè nodded and led the way into the cooking room. I watched as he pulled out some Pop-Tarts. He grinned and mentioned, "This is what I mean by preparing breakfast I am unable to cook to save lots of my life."

I laughed, and smiled. The manner he had aforesaid it, needless to say that he was preparing eggs and pancakes or waffles or one thing else nice and fancy.

I watched as he placed the wrapper from the Pop-Tarts within the trashcan and walked over to me and tell, "Come on, let's go get some CDs from my sleeping room."

"Okay," I said, as he showed me the direction to his sleeping room. "What type of music do you wish to listen to?" I asked him as we walk down the hall upstairs. The house was all too familiar to me, even if I hadn't been in there in a very little over a year, I still knew it pretty much. Andrè's sleeping room was Fumiya's previous sleeping room. I felt weird being in there currently, the last time I had been here in this room; Fumiya and I had been having sex. Pondering this was making me feel awkwardness.

"Here's my CDs," Andrè aforesaid, "I love a lot of forms of music." I nodded and checked out his assortment of CDs. Most of them were burned copies. I grinned; I simply kept finding reasons to love him.

"Cool," I said, as I pulled one or two of CD cases and gave them to him. "Let's take these."

Andrè took them from me and aforesaid, "Alright. Let's go then."

Driving there once more I felt like we'd already fallen into a routine. I told my mother I was going out with an acquaintance, she did not ask for any details. I wasn't positive what Andrè was. I could not find out if he thought of me as his girlfriend, or simply an acquaintance who happened to be a woman. I looked over at him and smiled. I did not care now if he caught me staring at him. My window was down midway and a song was playing, things felt way more typical.

"So what else do you do once you go out there?" I asked him.

He shrugged and said, "I do not know to be honest. I simply walk around and look for a decent place to take my lunch, and talk over with anyone who strikes up conversations with me. There are some guys who see me in there nearly each day, and they've started asking me things like 'what a decent looking young man, like myself, is doing in there, rather than out with my girl' or one thing else as silly as that. There is this one guy who has likes to fish, his name's Hannie and he is very well. He is solely out there sometimes tho', because he got a girlfriend, Jane something. He says he loves her; however I am putting a bet that they are going to break up sooner or later...sometime before this summer ends most likely."

I can't help however smile; he is so cute once he sits and talks regarding these things that he extremely cares about. i believe it's cool that he is really letting me into his life; i really like all these things he talks about, however I quite marvel why he cares such a lot concerning if Hannie and Jane break up.

ANDRÈ

Lou's hair was blowing within the wind as we tend to stood on the pier and she ate the frozen dessert I bought her; she looked so stunning a bit like she forever did. I hope I had a camera. I cannot believe this. This is the seventh day in a row that I've gotten to spend time with the woman I believe I actually do love.

"Lou?" I said to get her attention.

"Yeah," she said, looking up at me.

"After the sunset do you wish to go?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure," she said. "Do you wish to go to the mall with me tomorrow? I think I am planning to call Tori and see if she desires to come, I have never talked to her since we started going here every day."

"Sure," I said, even if I am undecided if I actually wish to go to the mall together with her and her friend. I knew Tori, and that I did not extremely care for her a lot.

Lou finished her frozen dessert and threw the cone into the trashcan and came back over to me and threw her arms around me in a hug.

I hugged her back and indrawn the smell of her shampoo. I hope we were more than friends; however I used to be the one who told her that I believed we must simply take it slowly and get to understand one another first.

I kissed the highest of her head and that we simply stood there like that for some minutes, embracing one another. She turned her head to the facet to check the sunset and that I simply watched the sunset, together with her in my arms. I smiled, it's like fairy tale, too good to be true.

Lou Riley could not probably have an interest in me. That kiss the other night, it must have been a slip-up.

"Andrè?" she called quietly.

"Yeah," I answered.

"I don't desire to be simply friends," she aforesaid within the same quiet voice, pulling off from me a bit to look me within the eye.

I leaned down and kissed her softly. She kissed back and that I smiled, as I force away, breaking the kiss.

Standing at her exterior door awaiting her to return an answer it's rather nerve wrecking; I am hoping her mother does not answer. I do not know how much Lou has told her mother regarding me, if she's even mentioned my name to her mother and if her mother would even keep in mind something Lou aforesaid to her or not. I stood there waiting. Lou had called and told me that Tori would be meeting us at the mall which Tori's lover, Wakim Jones, would be joining us too.

I knew Wakim from school, he was a jerk, and that I did not like him in any respect. That was okay tho', because he did not like me either. He even told me thus often last year at school. I doubted that may change simply because I was about to mall today with Lou. I did not tell Lou that Tori's lover might have a problem with me, I did not know how.

"Ready to go?" she asked, I checked out her for a flash.

"Actually," I said, "I'm not...I need to inform you one thing."

Looking disquieted Lou sat down on the porch steps and patted the place next to her. "Come here, what it is?" she asked with full of concern tone on her voice.

"Um," I started, "Wakim...he does not like me a lot. He, uh, was sort of...mean to me last year."

Lou nodded understandingly and kissed me. "Do you not wish to go with us?" she asks, "Because that is fine, me and you can go somewhere and do one thing else or something."

"No! No! I simply, did not wish you to be so shocked if he is mean to me or something..." I said. I did not need to be the reason for her not attending to see her best friend.

LOU

After the mall, Andrè took me out to the stream and that we walked on the walkway that overlooked it, and that we simply talked regarding anything that came to mind. I could not believe that it had been already the middle of July.

As we tend to stood there looking at the water within the stream flow downstream, Andrè checked out me, and said my name.

"Yeah?" I replied, looking over at him.

"I-I love you," he unvoiced it. I did not even apprehend if I had heard him right.

"What?" I questioned in disbelief.

"I love you," he said once more. I blinked, and looked off from him. I did not know what to try and do. No guy had ever said those words to me. What was I presupposed to do now? Say them back? What if he did not extremely love me? I did not simply say 'I love you' to anyone; did not he understand that?