Love In Between
Chapter 18

**After that fateful night I just wanted to be alone and not think about anything, but my real world was calling me… I had to fulfil my commitments and go to work. What I also wanted to do was to get away from it all and try to forget about it. I didn’t understand how in only two months Gael had got into my heart in such a deep way? The only thing I understood was that I had to get him out of there and move on. **

The next day: September 14th

I don’t feel like talking to anyone, if I came to the office it’s only because I have to sign an important contract, otherwise I would have stayed at home hugging my pillow and crying because of how sad I feel.

I walk to my office without saying a word and as I enter I lock the door so that no one will disturb me until the manager of the firm I am waiting for arrives. I sit behind my desk and just rest my face between my arms on it. I shouldn’t be so hurt by what has happened, but I can’t help it either; I’ve fallen in love with him, and what happened last night has inevitably hurt me.

I just want to be like this… in silence, alone… but apparently my outside world doesn’t want that.

-I know him too well, if I don’t open up to him he won’t stop.

I stand up, I go to the door and as soon as I open it his eyes look at me expectantly. – What has happened to you? – He asks worriedly and without answering I return to my chair. -Flaca, you look terrible, have you been crying? – He asks sitting down opposite me and I just sit down.

-I had a very bad night… a bad week actually, I think I will sign the contract and take a few days off,” I inform him and his face tells me everything.

-I know you well Serena, I’ve only seen you like this once and that was when you broke up with Peter,” he comments and yes, he’s right.

-Joel, I don’t want to hurt you by telling you my sorrows. – I explain.

-You’re not going to hurt me, tell me,” he insists.

I sigh, trying to find the order for my words… -Let’s say I fell in love like an idiot with someone who’s only played with me, but I’m partly to blame too,” I confess.

-Gael?” he asks, taking me by surprise.

-How did you know?” I ask, surprised.

“I don’t understand, was it really that obvious?

-I noticed a lot of things when he came to do the photo shoot and then the other day when I made him come into the office,” he confesses and as I have always underestimated his powers of observation.

-I’m sorry, you don’t have to listen to all this, do you think you can stay in charge of everyone for a few days? I really need to go and clear my head. – I ask.

-Where do you plan to go? he asks me with a lot of interest.

The truth is that I didn’t have a destination in my head, so I have to improvise. -Maybe Barcelona,” I say and he smiles.

-Nice city to go to clear your head…. I’ll take care of everything here,” he agrees and I really thank him.

[…]

End of the day for me, I pack my bags and leave the house to take a taxi to the airport to finally leave for Barcelona. I really need to get away from Madrid for a few days and try to forget about Gael. He doesn’t know what he wants and I can’t be his hobby while he decides.

I read on my ticket and keep walking down the aisle until I get to my seat.

“Perfect, I’m last.

I look at my seatmate and wow does he have super cute eyes, green? -Sorry, that’s just my seat. – I say pointing to the seat next to me.

-Sure, let me. – He speaks very kindly and stands up to let me pass.

-Thank you. – That’s all I say once I’m seated.

I take my phone out of my purse, plug in my headphones and simply press the play button to start the music playing to bring me into my own little world as the plane takes off.

A Kings of Leon song plays and I let myself be carried away by the melody as I watch Madrid get smaller by the second.

A tap on my shoulder makes me turn around and I realise it’s my seatmate. “Excuse me, but what’s your name,” he asks me once I remove my headphones so I can hear him.

-Serena, what’s yours?” I ask so as not to look bad.

-Emanuel, do you live in Barcelona? he asks and I deny.

I don’t understand his interest, I look at his face and he doesn’t look like a man who would want to do anything bad. His suit and neatly groomed black hair make me see that he is a professional man.

-No, I’m going there to clear my head for a few days, are you?

-To a surgeons’ convention. – He answers and now I understand a lot of things.

-So you are a surgeon, are you? I ask with interest.

-Yes, more precisely a cardiovascular surgeon, and you? he asks smiling.

-I answer proudly.

-Interesting… And may I ask how old you are? he asks shyly and smiles.

-Twenty-seven, you? I ask and I think it’s mostly to follow his conversation.

-Thirty-five,” he answers and then for some reason pulls a business card out of his pocket and hands it to me.

-And this?” I ask hesitantly.

-I’ll be staying at the Hilton Diagonal Mar; if you want we can meet for dinner or something,” he proposes bluntly and I laugh at the coincidences of life.

-I’ll be staying at that hotel too, I’m sure we’ll run into each other. – I confess and also give him my business card.

-What a coincidence,” he says as he puts my card away.

-Yes, quite a strange one,” I reply.

**That day Emanuel appeared in my life, a coincidence? A ray of light to take away the pain? I didn’t know… The only thing I did know was that maybe it wasn’t such a coincidence that he was my travelling companion.

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