United Stars

My Rose

Chapter 30
My Rose
Shade P.O.V.

Tomorrow will be the day we hear about our scores. This is going to be our last score this year and it feels very nerve wracking.

I still feel guilty about everything I've done to my precious friends, but then I think about what could have happened if I did tell them.

The positive things about it is that Rosemary and Cole would have never gotten badly injured. Everything would have been fine, but then there's the negative side.

We would have never met Angelica.
Just thinking about it makes me feel sad. She's the whole reason that Cole was able to get back to his usual self.

Not only that, but she was also the one who helped me realized that I should have more faith on my friends instead of anticipating on their trust.

I see that now.

Which is why I am currently heading towards the cabin in the woods where they found me.

Every time I come here it makes me realized how important each and one of them means to me. I guess that's how much of an impact they've had on me for a while now.

As I got closer, I noticed that someone had been cleaning the house. Or at least tried to anyways.

Once I made it inside I looked over to my right to see who the culprit was.

"Rosemary, what are you doing?"

She looked up at me from the floor and began to giggle.

"'Nice to see you too Shade."
She then got up from where she was sitting at and headed towards the couch nearby.

"Come here for a minute." She said while looking at me.

I complied to her demand while tilting my head a little to look at her clearly.

Ever since we were kids she's always looked beautiful. The day I found out she was at the hospital in a coma would have to be the worst days of my life.

I told Cole that everything would be okay and that he should be happy she was still alive, but in the inside I was suffering.

We didn't know for how long she would survive and that made me feel even worse. So every night, I would sneak into her room while holding her hand and whispering to her softly to come back.

When she woke up, I had to act like nothing happened because I didn't want anyone to know that I also had feelings for Rosemary.

I was so scared to tell her how I truly felt because I didn't want our friendship to change.

The day Cole told me that he was going to ask her out was a dreadful day. I literally had to force myself to encourage him to do it, but in reality I wanted him to not even get near her.

I look back at myself right now and I honestly wish I could go back and strangle myself for not having the balls to tell him what I truly felt.

Then again I shouldn't be talking, look at me I'm literally sitting right beside her and I still don't have the balls to ask her out.

"Shade? Did you hear me?"
Rosemary asked while touching my shoulder.

As I looked towards her, I noticed that she looked so cute trying to look angry at me. Her little pout is almost making me burst out smiling.

"Sorry Rosemary I wasn't listening." I said while looking towards her.

She then sighed and looked at the floor. She almost looked sad for a moment and I couldn't help but grab her chin while directing her face towards me.

"What's wrong princess?"
She began to look flustered and I couldn't help but smile.

"Shade... I saw videos of you from the hospital these past few years."

Words couldn't describe how embarrassed I felt at that moment.

"Don't tell me..."

She then began nodding her head slowly.

I began to let go of her chin, but before I did she grabbed my hand quickly while pressing it to her flushed cheeks. I widened my eyes a little to see this action.

"Rosemary..."

"Please hear me out."
She said while looking towards me.

I nodded my head slowly since I was too speechless to think.

"Shade... I-I always was afraid of loving someone, because I didn't really understood what it was. At first I thought that Cole was the right person for me, but I was wrong."

She began to close her eyes while still holding my hands.

"I always thought of Gabe and you as my brothers, but then I soon came to realize that my feeling towards you was extremely different from Cole's and Gabe's."

I then noticed that when she opened her eyes that she was beginning to cry.
So I placed both my hands to her cheeks while wiping away her tears.

"I realized that I... that I um..."
Feeling her trembling I began to hug her tightly. That's when she began to cry.

"I-I'm sorry Shade, I-I just feel like that if I tell you... you won't... you won't..." I began to squeeze her tightly so that she wasn't able to finish.

"Princess you really shouldn't cry." I whispered softly to her.

"First of all it doesn't suit you,"
I began to release her from my arms and began to wipe away her tears again.

"Besides my Rose, you don't have to worry about anything."

I then began to lean towards her while smiling gently.

"Because I've always loved you from the beginning." I said while tilting my head.

She soon began to smile brightly with flushed cheeks.
"Thank you so much Shade..."

"No, thank you princess for becoming my eternal Rose."

As I leaned in and kissed her, I made sure that all my emotions that I felt for her was directed towards that kiss just like how I felt her emotions in that sweet and blissful moment.