Chapter 18

ARIANA’S POV

I kissed him back but suddenly stopped and pulled away, reclining now in the passenger seat.

I wished he would say something. We were going to be stuck here for a while and nobody had exited the ball as yet.

There was something about the night. Perhaps it was the torrential rainfall beating the roof of the car and the lightning tearing the skies apart and the booming thunder but the atmosphere in the car was charged.

He then said, “Do you think in another universe you and I could be in love?”

I was quiet for a while. Wondering if to answer.

“I do not know Rob but I know that in every universe, I love you, perhaps more in each one because I've loved you from the first day I saw you Rob”, I finally said.

It took a lot of willpower for me to say those words to him.

The rain began to trickle to a stop and I said, “Take me home Robert”.

We drove home silently all the way. I stared at his serious profile for a while. I could tell that he was holding his desire back, and so wa