Love Is Only a Myth

Anthony still wouldn’t tell me where he was taking me, while we were in the car. I didn’t try very hard though. I was annoying myself again, with my whining.

“How do you feel about Italian Food?”

“Are you seriously asking me that? I love Italian food! It’s my second favorite type of food,” I said with a smile.

“What’s the first?”

“Seafood”

“Really?”

“Yup” I replied popping the p.

“What kind?”

I smiled at him. “It’s a surprise” He rolled his eyes and smiled. I couldn’t help but to giggle.

We ended up pulling up to a restaurant whose name I couldn’t pronounce. Anytime, you can’t pronounce the name, then that means it’s a fancy restaurant. That means that I wasn’t over dressed for where he was taking me. I inwardly sighed with relief. Now I can relax and simply enjoy myself.

--

There was nothing but laughs between us during dinner. It had to be one of the best dates that I’ve been on in a while. Anthony definitely out did himself this time. He was a great guy. I couldn’t believe that he was mine. A guy who I have so much in common with, not to mention how fucking sexy he was. I couldn’t believe it. It was almost to perfect.

Nevertheless, I’m not going to over think it. If I do, then I will find something wrong and end the relationship. I didn’t want that to happen. I wanted to enjoy it while it lasted. I wanted it to last as long as it could.

Anthony and I were about to leave when I looked out the window. I couldn’t help but notice that there was a beach within walking distance of where we were. I can’t believe that I didn’t notice that before. I love the beach. I love swimming so of course I’m going to love the beach. It just so relaxing and beautiful. I turned to Anthony and was about to ask him if we could go but he spoke up. “I remembered how you told me that you liked the beach so I figured that this would be perfect” He stood up and offered me his hand.

I couldn’t help but smile. He knows me way to well. I took his hand and we walked out of the restaurant hand in hand.

“So did you like it?” he asked before opening the door of the restaurant open for me.

“Ugh no the food was horrible what would make you pick this place”

I saw his face fall a little until he realized I was joking. He smiled and picked me up by my waist. I laughed as he spun me around. “Okay, okay I liked it” I said in between laughs. “Now can you put me down?”

“I don’t think I will”

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We walked along the shore of the beach with a slight breeze blowing. The sun was setting along the horizon. There was barely anyone on the beach. I wasn’t expecting my people on the beach though. Many people come to the beach during the middle of the day, when its hot.

Anthony was holding my right hand and my shoes were in my right. I didn’t want to mess up my shoes and I wanted to walk bare foot on the sand. I loved the feel of the sand between my toes. I started to swing Anthony’s hand back and fourth. “Hey I have an idea”

“That’s a first” he joked.

I let go of his hand so that I could push him. I smiled before I grabbed his hand again. “I was thinking, and don’t say anything about that. Anyway I was thinking that we should each ask each other one question that we really want to know,” I explained.

A cool breeze blew sending goose bumps down my arm. I remembered everything except a jacket. As if he could read minds, Anthony took off his jacket and put it over my shoulders. I smiled and hugged the jacket closer to my body. It wasn’t as comfortable as his shirt was but it smelled like him just the same if not more.

He put his arm around my shoulders and pulled my closer to him. I smiled, enjoying the feel of being close to him. I didn’t have to look up to know that he was smiling. It seemed as if in a matter of short days, we knew each other better than anyone else did. I wasn’t sure if this was true but it felt like it was. He leaned down and kissed my cheek causing the heat to flow to my cheeks.

“So what do you want to ask me?” he asked.

“Well remember that night when we were back at your dad’s house, well the one on campus,” I asked while looking up at him. He nodded his head. I looked forward again before continuing. “Well I asked you why you transferred here during your senior year and you said you would tell me when you were ready--”

“And you were wondering if I was ready to tell you yet right?” he interrupted taking the words out of my mouth.

“I mean you don’t have to if you don’t want to, I don’t want you to be uncomfortable or anything I was just asking, but you don’t have to answer. I could ask another question; yeah I’ll ask another question--”

“Babe calm down, calm down. I haven’t even said anything yet” he interrupted again.

“I know but you didn’t want to talk about it before and that was just a few days ago so I shouldn’t have expected you to want to talk about it now--”

“Babe its fine”

I looked up at him. “Are you sure” I was searching his eyes for any lack of doubt. He looked down at me and smiled. I couldn’t fine any doubt in his amazing brown eyes. Instead, something else was there, something that I couldn’t quite place. He nodded his head before looking forward again.

It was silent between us as we walked. I didn’t want to rush him to tell me. I wanted him to tell me when he was ready. I could tell that he really was ready to tell me, but he didn’t know how. I would wait as long as I needed too. I wasn’t going to rush him, this must be important since he doesn’t know how to say it.

He suddenly stopped walking, so I stopped as well. I didn’t want to leave him, and I wanted to hear what he had to say. He turned to face me and our eyes locked. “Well” he said breaking the silence “To put it simply, it was because of heartbreak”

“Oh” I didn’t exactly know how to respond to that. I wasn’t expecting him to say that. If anything, I was expecting him to say something along the lines of I own the school so why not. Not only that but if anything, I would expect him to brake a girl’s heart rather than the other way around. “I’m sorry to hear that” He simply nodded and motioned for us to continue walking. I continued to walk along side him. “It must have been hard if you didn’t want to stay at the school”

“It’s not just that” he explained. “We dated for our sophomore and junior years. That is, until I found out that she had cheated on me out entire junior year with one of our female teachers. I couldn’t stay there knowing that. Knowing that I would have to see them both everyday killed me.”

Damn. If cheating isn’t bad enough, you do it with a teacher. I understand why he would leave. Knowing that you dated someone for 2 years and that they cheated on you for one of those years is just painful. This girl was obviously a bitch, a huge bitch. I mean damn who the fuck does that shit. “As cheesy and girly as this is going to sound, she was my first love”

I tensed up once the words left his mouth. He believes in love like Eric. What if this becomes the same situation? I actually have feelings for Anthony though; I don’t want him to end up breaking his heart. Maybe since he knows that I don’t believe in love, he won’t fall for me. I can only hope.

“You okay babe” his voice broke me from my thoughts.

“Hmm? Oh yeah I’m fine” I lied.

“You’re tense and you’re lying” Damn. Can I get away with just one lie?

“Just don’t worry about it babe” he opened his mouth to speak but I spoke up again. “Besides it wasn’t cheesy, it was understandable. Anyways” I said changing the subject “Is there something that you wanted to ask me”

I could tell that he noticed that I was changing the subject but he didn’t press any further. “Yeah I do”

“Okay”

“Well I was just wondering…” he trialed off and nervously rubbed the back of his neck. It was somewhat cute to see him nervous instead of his normal confident self. I tried my best to hide the smile slowly creeping onto my face.

“Why don’t you, you know, believe in love?” he asked.