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Penulis: Angel
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Nico’s Point of View

She stood there looking like a goddamn dream.

Black dress hugging her soft curves, makeup done just right  but it was her eyes that got me.

Red. Teary.

Like she was holding in a scream.

“You ignored me,” she said, voice shaking.

Fuck.

Guilt stabbed through my chest like a knife I deserved.

“Baby girl” I took a step forward, slow, trying not to spook her.

“Come inside, you’re gonna get cold.” I reached for her hand, and when her fingers touched mine  warm, small it felt like I could finally breathe.

She walked in without a word, and I shut the door behind her.

I watched her eyes sweep over my place like she was searching for something.

Maybe answers.

Maybe just a piece of me I’d been hiding.

“I thought you were mad at me,” she whispered, still not looking at me. “That you didn’t care.”

“I care too fucking much,” I said before I could stop myself.

She turned around, finally facing me, and I swear time paused.

“I thought you were on a date,” I added, voice low, laced with something bitter I didn’t want her to hear.

“I was.”

Her lip trembled.

“But it wasn’t what I wanted. It’s not who I wanted to be with.”

I blinked.

She was serious.

“Then why go?” I asked, hating how desperate I sounded.

“Because I thought maybe I could forget how I feel when I’m around you. I thought if I pushed it down hard enough, it’d go away.”

She walked closer, slow and sure, until she was standing right in front of me.

Looking up at me like I held the goddamn universe in my hands.

“It didn’t,” she whispered.

I reached out, brushed a thumb under her eye to wipe away the tear that slipped.

“You deserve someone who can show up for you. Who doesn’t hide behind excuses or walls.”

She shook her head. “I just want you.”

God.

I couldn’t hold it back anymore.

I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her tight into my chest, breathing her in.

She fit.

She always fit.

“I was scared,” I admitted, lips near her ear. “Of how strong this is. Of fucking it up.”

She pulled back just enough to look at me.

“I’m scared too,” she said. “But I still came.”

And damn it if that didn’t break me.

Because she did.

She came for me.

I stared at her lips. At the way her chest rose and fell.

At the girl who walked into my life like a hurricane I never saw coming.

“I love you, Missy,” I whispered. “Even when I try not to. I do.”

Her eyes widened.

Then softened.

And when she leaned up and kissed me soft and sweet and everything I didn’t know I needed.

I knew there was no going back.

This girl was mine.

And I’d burn down the whole world before I ever let her go again.

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