“I love you, but I can’t stand you.” (brooks/bianca), “Do you love me? It’s a simple question.” and “Do you think that everyone was right? That we just don’t work?” (ash/leon) , “I don’t know if this is something we can fix.” and “I want us to be together, but I don’t know if we can.”(ken/harri)
“I love you, but I can’t stand you.”
Bianca narrowed her eyes at him. Was she overreacting? She didn’t think so but then this whole relationship thing was entirely new to her. She didn’t know how to behave, she was still finding her way but then Brooks kept getting on her nerves. “You can’t stand me?” She repeated, glaring daggers at him, “Then by all means, feel free to whatever girl you were chatting up at the bar. No accounting for your taste but see if I care.”
“Do you love me? It’s a simple question.”
Bianca didn’t know what to say in reply. It wasn’t often that she was left utterly speechless but somehow it seemed to happen around Brooks. Her mind was whirring; images flashing in her mind. The first time Brooks had asked her out, their first real date. The look in his eyes when he had seen him. How he made her laugh when nothing could. Seeing him made her day just that much brighter. The warm feeling in her chest when she woke up with him. She knew she was taking too long and Brooks would read the silence the wrong way. “I-” she shook her head, biting her lip, “It’s not that simple and you know it.”
“Do you think that everyone was right? That we just don’t work?”
Leon trailed a finger down her arm before pressing a kiss to her shoulder. Moments like these were his favorite. Them alone and talking like nothing had ever changed. He never felt as comfortable with anyone as he did with Ashley. She understood him in a way that no one else did and despite their fights they somehow managed to end up like this, all tangled up in each other. “I don’t know,” he finally answered with a shrug, before pressing another kiss on her shoulder, “But I do know we won’t work with anyone else but each other either.”
“I don’t know if this is something we can fix.”
Harri shook his head, pursing his lips in reply. He didn’t want to give this up, what they had. He knew it was special and he wouldn’t find it with anyone else. It was the one thing in his day that he truly looked forward to, that was free of all the expectations. He turned towards her finally, noting all the signs of worry on her features that he had come to know so well. He knew there was nothing she hated more than not being able to fix something but he also knew that between the two of them there was nothing they couldn’t do. “So our families will probably find out soon and there’s nothing we can do about it,” he said, taking her hand and intertwining their fingers, “I guess we’ll just have to deal with them then. Together.”
“I want us to be together, but I don’t know if we can.”
Harri didn’t let go of her hand, if anything he just tightened his grip on it. He had heard this so many times, and he could admit their worries were valid. He had no idea how their families would react but he knew it would be worse than they could imagine. He didn’t want to think about that though, for once he wanted to live in the present without worrying about the expectations. He brought her hand up to his lips, pressing a kiss to the back of it, “Of course we can,” he replied, shaking his head as his lips stretched in a smile, “We’ll deal with everything as it comes. I just - I don’t want to let you Ken. I don’t want to make that mistake.”