The kiss

"I loved you and I still wait for you..." Joem halted in his outburst, realizing that he was getting caught up in the moment again.

Avia couldn't believe her eyes, the love of her life was admitting that he loves her. Joem was being vulnerable with her and expressing his heartfelt feelings. Letting his guard down and showing her his heart.

The negative feelings that Avia felt were brushed off. Carried with the wind, a new hope blooming in her. Hope that it was yet too late for her to get her love back.

"I've waited for you too," Avia found herself saying. She woke up every morning with the hope that the tides of fate would work their magic and allow them to cross paths again. And cried herself to sleep every night when her wish didn't come true.

She missed their love, she missed how they used to be with each other. As Avia has never met anyone who loved her as much as Joem did. He showed her the dedication of true love, their love wasn't perfect and neither was Joem a saint but he was better for her.

Avia swallowed nervously. She ambled forward closing the distance between them. The misunderstanding in Joem's mind was hurting both of them. So she decided to explain everything. For him to understand that the words she spoke to him on the bridge that day were so that she could push him away. It was never that she grew out of love with him.

"Not a single day passed by without me thinking about you," she confessed. Her voice dropped low to a whisper. Her heart which was in pain moments back felt fine. To hear that Joem missed her, took all her pain away.

Avia took Joem's hand in hers. She led his hand to the left side of her chest. Right above her heart. "The beat has never changed JJ," she whispered lovingly. Her eyes softening. Joem's breath hitched.

He wanted to believe Avia's words more than anything else. Nevertheless, he couldn't bring himself to trust her. She broke him once and it was hard for him to come back from that.

"You've crossed my mind every day since we parted ways. I love you, JJ," words flowed out of her lips from her heart. Avia let herself feel all the beautiful emotions in her heart. Emotions provoked by the man she loved, still loves and was certain would always love till her story ends.

Joem froze.

Getting lost in Avia's eyes and words. His reserve melting away. Avia released a soft breath. "I have never stopped being yours Joem."

The way his name flowed out of her lips made him swallow greedily. It attracted his gaze to her lips. His lips feeling dry with need. The parts of his heart that yearned for Avia threatened to overpower him. It was overwhelming. All the feelings he had buried underneath the anger and hatred for Avia came rushing to the surface.

Avia inched closer. Her body touching his, she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. Joem watched her movements, struggling to fight the urge to hug her back. He remained still. His heartbeat racing rapidly. Thundering against his chest, it was so loud that he was sure Avia could hear it.

Hear how she affected him. How weak he gets when she gets so close to him.

Joem's heart started to beat and everything started to move in slow motion all of a sudden. Every noise inside the room was suddenly gone and all he could hear was the sound of his heartbeat.

It was exactly like those times when he was near Avia. In the past, thinking of her and being around her causes his body, heart, and mind to go crazy.

Her lips, the way they felt when they kissed. Joem can neither forget it nor stop thinking about it. He had left longing for more of that kiss. He was aware that it is wrong to think like that about Avia but he can't help it.

It is only the first day and already he had lost his mind to the point that he had started to betray Beabianca by thinking such thoughts about Avia. There is a charm about her that makes her so irresistible to him. One soft glance from her and his love for her was blooming once more in his heart.

The magical feeling was addictive, like a drug. "Now I am more than confident than I want to be with you. Our love can grow to what it used to be and even more," Avia claimed.

She lifted herself slightly off the ground. Stopping inches away from his lips, her breath tickling Joem's skin. Desire written clearly on her face. It was strong and determined. Her eyes asking him if it was okay for her to kiss him. Joem had no clue what came over him so suddenly that he leaned his head down and locked lips with her. Avia closed her eyes and let the feelings course through her.

Joem wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer. The silence in the room forced Beabianca to come out of hiding to check what was going on. Her jaw dropped at the sight that met her eyes. Beabianca held back her sobs and watched as Joem betrayed her trust.

"I hate her to the moon and back," she recalled his words as he spoke of Avia. "My desire is to see her broken to a point of no return," Beabianca felt like a fool for trusting his words and getting Avia back into his life. As it didn't take him long to find comfort in her arms.

Beabianca wiped her tears. Her pained expression casted on Avia's back. The first woman she had come across that makes her fade into the background, turning her into a supporting character in her own story. Beabianca's mind was racing with ideas.

"Isn't this a happy reunion," her voice echoed in the room. "I'm jealous," she added.

Joem broke the kiss and ambled back three steps to create distance between himself and Avia. His heart beating loudly in fear, he understood that he messed up.

"It seems every time I turn around the two of you have your arms wrapped around each other. It makes jealous," she admitted.

Avia played with her fingers, avoiding eye contact with Beabianca. Joem on the other hand had his stomach in knots, the look in Beabianca's eyes promised revenge for the kiss. And he didn't want to imagine the ideas running through her mind.