The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

| kissed her last night. | now know how her lips taste like, and the thing is, I've been craving them ever since. |

wish | could kiss her again, but when we pulled apart, the first thing she said was 'this is a big mistake. | didn't

know what else to say except to agree with her. Deep down, | know that this is not a mistake. It was never a

mistake to me. She tasted like she was made for 1 A surge of jealousy takes over my body when | imagine her

kissing anybody else. It doesn't seem right. Rosie should be mine. | know how to treat her right. | won't hurt her

like her

CX.

A knock on my door pullsout of my thoughts.

"Cin," | say, squeezing the grey stress ball in my hand.

Mum walks inside and by the look on her face, she seems like she wants to talk about something. | sit up straight

on the bed as my eyes stay glued to her while she takes a seat at the end of the bed. "Did you kiss Rosie at the

party?" My eyebrows rise in surprise. How did she find out? | didn't tell anyone. Did Rosie tell her? Why would

she do that when she was the one who toldnot to mention the kiss to anyone? "Who told you?" | ask.

"The news," she replies, handingher phone. | look at her screen and find a picture ofand Rosie kissing.

An article is written beneath the picture about how the Kensington sweetheart managed to makechange

how | view dating. "We... we did kiss, but we agreed on forgetting about it," | tell her.

"Don't you like her? Why would you want to forget about it?" My eyes widen when she says that. | haven't told

her anything before. "What? Do you think | don't know?" She laughs.

"She doesn't feel the sway, Mum. I'm just the guy who irritates her." | sigh, squeezing the ball harder.

"Then stop irritating her. Make her see that you have feelings for her!" she

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exclaims.

"Cany

you helpout?" | ask helplessly.

"I have never thought that you'd askfor dating advice." She laughs.

"Only when it comes to Rosie," | mumble, looking down.

"Lucky for you, I love this girl, so | will help you out, but I think y check your phone first," she tellsbefore

leaving.

need to

When | check my phone, | see tons of messages and e-mails. Sare from my friends, happy that I finally

managed to find a girl I like. But others are from sfamous brands, inquiring about havingand Rosie as

their brand am**ors or just being the faces of their new campaigns. What is going on?

Why do people care so much about my love life?

I look through the messages and find one from Rosie. It is a very simple 'We need to talk' text.

I'm certain she wants to talk, but | have no clue what she may want to say to

me.

"Where would you like us to meet?" | quickly send back.

Her reply is rather quick. 'My place seems fine."

| take a deep breath and get up to change my clothes. How am | supposed to face Emily and Julian? | don't want

them to think that I'm toying with their daughter.

It doesn't takelong to arrive at her place. When she opens the door for me, it's easy to detect how nervous

she is. Neither of us expected that to happen. It was just a kiss that meant a lot tobut was only a mistake to

her.

"Do you want something to drink?" she asks me.

"Coffee would be great," | say, following her to the kitchen. "You've seen the news, haven't you?"

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"Yes." She nods without looking at me.. And?"

want to know what's going on in her mind.

"I think we should let people know that this is nothing. We can say that we were fooling around and just wanted

to know how it would feel like if we kissed," she says, finally turning to look at me. "Why did you kiss me, Silas?"

"You... you looked kissable," | answer her question. My answer. ms to startle her for a second. I'm aware of how

s**id my answer seems, but what else can. | tell her? Do | tell her that | can't get her out of my mind? Do I tell

her that she's all that | think about and the only girl | want?

"It's one thing to prank each other, but it's completely another thing to play with my feelings." Her tone is stern

and her words are painful.

"Is that what you think of me? Do you think I'm capable of playing with a girl's heart?" | say. | know | haven't

exactly portrayed the best image ofin her mind, but | have never thought that she thinks so low oflike

that.

"No! This isn't what | meant!" she exclaims, covering her face with her hands for a moment before brushing

them over her blonde hair. "We don't kiss. people because they look kissable, Silas!"

"Then why did you kissback?" It's not like she didn't reciprocate. | might have initiated the kiss, but she

kissedback.

"Il... It was..." she sputters, looking down. "I don't know. It was the heat of the moment," she mumbles.

"Okay, Rosie." | nod. There's nothing else to say. "How would you like us to deal with what happened?" | ask her. |

will do whatever she wants.

"As | said, we can say that we were fooling around. It's widely known that we're in the ssocial circle and our

parents are close. We can just say that we are. close friends, and we wanted to see how we'd react to kissing

each other. That's it." She shrugs. "Fine. | If this is what you want. | can post a story, and you can share it or

whatever. If you want to write your own statement, do it," | say, getting up from my place.

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"Where

are you going?" She frowns.

"I have somewhere to be," I reply, making my way towards the door.

Maybe Mum is wrong. Maybe | can't have her.

"Silas, are you upset?" | turn to face her before | open the door. | look at her face, taking in her features. She is

absolutely stunning in the most effortless way. It is impossible to stay mad at or be upset with her. Not when she

looks atwith pure innocence.. "No, I'm not," | tell her. It "Are you... mad atme?"

re

How can | be mad mad at her?

"I thought you couldn't stand me, Rosie. | chuckle. "Why do you care?"

"I don't know, but... | care," she says. The more | look at her beautiful face, the more distressed | find her.

"Chere." | sigh as | make my way towards her. | take her in my arms and surprisingly, she quickly hugs me

back. I'm not sure what's going on in her mind, but I want to calm down the loud thoughts in her head. "This

changes nothing, Rosie. | will still annoy the hell out of you, okay?" She laughs in my embrace, and | smile. If this

is all I can be to her, then so be it.

Maybe I'm destined to be nothing but a friend to her and | just need to accept my fate.

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