"Long Awaited" Chapter 26: "Tickets"

Omniscient POV:

Virginia and David were glad to be reconnecting after such a long time and thinking of each other so often. You would be jealous if you were Justin and to see your girlfriend and some other attractive guy getting along with her better than you did. He was getting extremely jealous. He kind of wanted to tell David to leave, but he didn't. He thought that David had his chance and Virginia would never go back to him. The two talked mainly amongst themselves during the time at the mall. David never drew attention to himself because he wanted to stay as inconspicuous as possible. He also wanted to spend as much time with Virginia as humanly possibly before he had to tell her something. While the two and the third wheel, Justin, were in the food court, David thought it was time to tell her something. And it was not going to be that he loved her. She had a boyfriend and if he were to say that in front of him, he would certainly get into a fight. When David was just about to open his mouth to say something, a bulb lit in Virginia's head and she blurted it out before anyone could say another word.

Virginia's POV:

Justin said he had to go to the bathroom and excused himself from the table. I thought of something as soon as he did.

Me: "Oh David, what were those concert tickets about?"

David: "Oh, you got them already?"

Me: "Yeah, why?"

David: "I wanted you to come and bring a friend or something to the concert in two days."

Me: "Aww!! That's so sweet! Who else did you send them to? I must've done something really good to get free tickets to YOUR concert!" I joke around with him.

David: "Well, I sent them to you really."

Me: "Why just me? Don't you have family up here?"

David: "Yeah, but it's like they live really far upstate."

Me: "Oh...well, they would take a trip to come, don't you think?"

David: "I guess, but I don't really want them to because...it's..." he doesn't finish the sentence.

Me: "It's what?"

He looked at me with piercing eyes that I knew were trying to say something, but he just couldn't because he thought it wouldn't be right. I didn't know what he wanted to say and it kind of caught me off guard. "Just Tell Me" was what I wanted to say, but it looked like he couldn't...

David: "inconvenient." He finishes his sentence with an obvious lie to cover something else up.

Just then, Justin came back to the table and said "Hope you two didn't have too much fun while I was gone." and he laughed.

Me: "No way! Not while you were gone, honey." I lean over to him and playfully hit him on the arm. I felt bad that I had set that in front of David and I didn't know why.

David's POV:

When she said that to her boyfriend, my heart ached a little. All this time and all the planning, it was killing me and now that I've seen her again...my worst fear has come true. She was in love with a nice fellow, but I have to be truthful:

Love. It was a beautiful color on her. I just wished it was love she had for me. I have to be honest, I was kind of jealous of Justin. But envy is not a good color on me. I try to be as happy for her as I could, but I visually and emotionally fail in truth. Really, I just learned to except my feelings and now I should cover it up. I didn't want to give up on her just yet. I wasn't planning on giving up so fast and I wasn't going to. But my mind was counteracting what my heart said.

Mind: "I know you love her, but it can never work out. She loves Justin and vice versa. We don't want you to go through heart ache again. Give her up."

Heart: "There is always hope and God always has a plan. She still might come back to you. You two have a history together it might still work. Just keep on believing. You might win her over at the concert with your song. Never give up on love, David."

* To Be Continued *