UnPlanned Love

Chapter 34


"For who?" I laughed at the pure insanity of what he just laid on the table.
"For me and you."
"Are you kidding me?" I walked from the table.
"No, that�s the only real hope we have."
"Have you lost your ever loving mind?"
"No, think about it. We could actually win this. Alex would be ours."
"No, Nick."
"Liz, you have to think this through." Nick walked to me.
"No Nick, I won�t marry you. I won�t. No matter how much you sweet talk me, or try to rationalize it; I won�t marry you." Nick took hold of my arms gently and I jerked from him walking away from him again.
"Liz, I want to marry you. I�m not asking you to do this because of Alex alone."
"No, Nick. No. No. No. I won�t do it. Marriage is a scared bond between two people who love each other. You don�t do it because of the convenience of the situation, or because you need to. You do it because you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, because you can�t live without waking to their face each morning. You don�t do it because you need to beat someone." I stared up at him. I thought that my romantic side had died the day Aj showed up to see Alex for the first time. Nick started to close the distance between us again. I held up my hand, "No Nick. Don�t. I don�t want you to touch me right now." I turned and left the room.


"Liz, I�m sorry. I didn�t mean to hurt you." Nick said quietly through the door a few minutes later.
"Go away, Nick." I don�t know why what he offered hurt so badly. It was almost a slap in the face.
"Liz, open the door. I have a key to every room in the house. Open up and talk to me or I�ll just open it myself." I sighed and stood from the bed. I opened the door and looked at him.
"Thank you."
"Don�t thank me yet." I turned and walked back to the bed sitting down heavily.
"Liz, I didn�t mean to hurt you."
"I know you didn�t, but you didn�t think how it would make me feel." I didn�t look up at him. I didn�t want him to see the hurt in my face. The knowledge that the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with couldn�t care less about me hurt me to the core. Until Nick proposed this stupid idea it hadn�t hit me just how little Aj cared. I don�t know why it hadn�t really sank in until that moment but when it hit it me, it hit with the force of a freight train. I felt as if my heart was shattering all over again. I couldn�t fight the tears any longer.
"Liz I�m so sorry. I didn�t mean to hurt you." Nick sat down beside me on the bed taking me into his arms.
"It�s not just you, Nick." I said between my sobs. "I just realized how much Aj hates me." Nick didn�t reply. He didn�t have to. He knew it was the truth.

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