Sitting alone

"Gah!" He was really taken surprise by the hug, but smiled when Amelia hugged him. Wait! Why am I doing this! Why am I in the hugging situation again. (Make quote on Percy)

"I love you Valentine, your my best friend." His forehead grew hot, what had she said? That she loved me? Oh...that she is my best friend. But what if she meant both! Darn you Percy! You just had to be right! He looked down and then hugged her back. He would break her if he hadn't said, "I love you too, Amelia." He had, but only in the friendship way. Valentine only wanted to be friends, he didn't want to risk being caught up in a relationship that went awry.

He had never really heard of a god, for his parents died and Valetine also when he was adopted, he had Bhuddist foster parents. He had found the wrongs in that religion. It just didn't fit him. Valentine also thought about something. Does she like me like Percy told me, or am I just over analysing this?

Valentine, I'm sorry if I embarass you. It's just many years ago I prayed for a friend like you. I wasn't religious then or now but I heard tell of a God and I guess he is real." She said still hugging him. She didn't want to let go, she never had felt so happy.

He was shocked, Valentine's mouth burst to a smile. "Y-you really don't embarass me. B-but you really prayed for someone like me?" Valentine really didn't know what to say, but only something that popped in his head and splurted out. "Me and Percy were talking-I mean debating, about if you loved me...not like a friend though, and then...we debated whether I loved you." He looked down.

"I don't know what to think. All I think of now is that, but...I guess I can let fate carry these things out..." The eighteen year old looked up and saw the blue sky...so peaceful it was.

He looked down, scared by her embarrassed look.

"I've got to kill Percy, I sware he's always saying everything I wish he didn't. Just my luck he told the truth again. And most likely now you don't want me as a friend because of it." She said turning away. "He probably told you everything I wouldn't want him to, it was bad enough the first time but it's just getting to be a habit." She looked down. "If it possible I guess you could try and forget whatever he said. I don't want to lose you as a friend... Or is what he said is ture for you as well.." She asked

He was shocked, it was true!? He couldn't believe it, but then again, he could never read people's body language that greatly. "Really? So you do like me as a friend? Uh...I don't know what my conclusion is though...I mean...I really...really like you, and being in a relationship with you wouldn't be bad. Really, it wouldn't, but I just wouldn't want anything to make the relationship go awkward. I would also really not like it if we ever broke up...I would not have any friends then." He never registered in his head that he just said he liked her too. "But...I have never done anything, kissed a girl, asked her out, anything like that. I never did anything of the sort, I never even hugged a girl outside of my family until I hugged you that one day." Valentine grew as red and bright as the sun itself, he had never shared this with anyone but her just now. "I do love you...but...there are so many risks...I want to marry the person I date...."

"I do love you, more than a friend." He laughed lightly. "Funny...how I realized this just a couple minutes ago...when you said I love you...." He sighed deeply, jeez, would they really be friends if they ever broke up. Probably not. Not in his mind anyways.

"I do...but...we have to...make things slow...I can't just jump into soemthing liek this. Last time I was in a relationship like this it was when I was about sixteen, and the girl broke up with me because she lost feeling for me overnight. I don't want that to happen...not again. So, as a favor, can we make things go slow?" He looked down, wondering, Have I done the right thing?

He smiled as she began to cry in happiness, the tears making the grass sparkle as the eighteen year old rose. Slowly difting towards her, Valentine wrapped his arms around her and drew her close to him. "Hey, even when you are happy, I don't want you to cry." His head leaned upon Amelia's then, his eyes looking to hers. "No girlfriend of mine is ever going to cry. But, we are going to take things slowly, alright, no matter how foolish or stupid my ex was. Even though she took something, she also gave me insight. She taught me that...even though I mix up courting and dating...that...I should still consider taking things slowly, even though I wish to marry them. I need to enjoy the relationship."

His head continued to lean on hers. "So, are you ready for that commitment? If not, we can always go back to friends who happen to like each other. It would prove to be fruitful..." Valentine was too content though to back out now. Amelia...going to be his girlfriend...this was something that he ran away from. It was so odd....stupid Percy. He practically set them up. How did he know...how did he know....

A slight giggling was heard from beyond the lawn, in the brush just outside. Shaking his head he could only have heard it from the girls in the dorm. Sheesh...they were all right...it was so odd. How so many people could be so right. Was this relationship the right thing to go to? Was he just succumbing to the pier pressure?