Anonymous Secrets [completed]

☆ Part 8 ☆

As I woke up I had no idea where I was for a moment. I realized that I was in Dubai when I felt the beach wind and smelled the salty smell of the sea. It was already dark and there was no one on the beach anymore. I looked up at the sky, but saw only a few stars.

Slowly I tried to roll over on the sun lounger I fell asleep on when I noticed that a blanket was laying over me. I was sure that I had no blanket when I fell asleep, because it was almost 25 degrees. "Hey." Someone said with a little shyness in his voice. I looked next to me and saw Charles sitting on the sun lounger next to time. "Hii." I answered, trying not to smile. "I thought that maybe it would become too cold here outside without a blanket." Charles said as he pointed to the blanket. I couldn't hide the smile anymore and looked him in the eye. ''Thank you.'' That thank you meant so much more than only thank you for the blanket. Yes, it was amazing and really cute, but it wasn't everything. It was for my job, for hugging me back, for giving me a little hope, basically just for being around...

I sat up and wiped my legs over the end of the sun lounger so that I sat opposite of Charles. I was still only wearing my bikini and I pulled the blanket tighter around me. "You had a nice sleep?" Charles asked and he seemed to be a little nervous. "Yeah, I guess so." I wrapped the blanket even tighter around me. "Are you cold?"
"I'm okay." I assured Charles, but I was really cold. I just didn't want to leave him. "Camille?" I looked at Charles questioning. "Yeah?"
"I ummm... Well... I want to talk with you." He histinating said. "Is that okay?"
"Of course it's okay. Go ahead." I answered and tried to smile comfortingly at him. In fact I was a little stressed. Where did he want to talk about? Charles nervously looked at his feet and sat down twice again. Then he finally looked up at me. In a reflex I had always before looked away, but I was done with that. I truly loved him and I didn't want to hide that anymore, not for him at least. That's why I stared back at him, into his beautiful brown eyes, until he sadly looked away.

"There is something I have to tell you, something I already had to tell you ages ago..." A weird feeling ran through my stomach. Almost like my body knew earlier what he was going to say than I knew it. I felt nervous, was scared for his words, but really badly wanted to hear them too. "I have hid it for too long now and to be honest, I'm kinda done with that. I'm sorry that I haven't told you before, I really had to, but I was just too scared I guess... After what happened two weeks ago something changed for me. I'm still so scared to tell this and hopefully it's not going to change anything between us. Not that it can change in a bad way..." Charles hadn't looked at me while talking, but looked up now. My heart was racing in my chest and I couldn't wait any longer. I would probably go crazy if he wasn't to tell me what he had to tell right now.

I put my sweaty hands under my legs, but undo that again when the blanket fell off my shoulders. In a reflex Charles' hand came towards me, but he stopped before touching me. We both stared at his hand that was floating between us too. "Camille, I-" Charles started after he put his hand down again when we suddenly got interrupted.

"Heyy, you woke up." My brother said and sat down next to Charles. "Uhh, yeahh indeed." I answered and looked down. Charles seemed to be a little annoyed by Pierre's interrupting and only looked more worried and nervous. "I went searching for you two, because it's pretty late already." Pierre continued and checked his watch without telling us what time it was. "Were you talking by the way? Did I interrupt any important or interesting conversations?"
"So funny. But no, nothing important." I said sarcastically, but my stomach hurt because of the lie. Maybe it wasn't an important conversation yet, but it felt like it was going to become one. In fact it already was an important conversation.

I could feel Charles' eyes burning on me, but I didn't look back at him, knowing that I wouldn't be able to control my emotions. The two boys in front of me stood up from the sun lounger. "Let's get to our rooms." Charles said with a softer voice than normally. I stood up too and walked after them towards the hotel. The blanket Charles had brought me, I wrapped tightly around me. I was really cold while only wearing my bikini. When I started fantasizing about Charles' arms around me to warm me up I quickly shut my mind up.