Page 140 of The Rules Of Attraction
Chapter 25
Alex
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Opposites don’t just attract, they belong together.
I was the last person to lie to myself.
I tried in the past and failed. I found it to be a pointless activity that wasted a lot of time.
I sensed from the other day that something had changed between Summer and I. I’d relished it for what it was because of the newness, but I never stopped until today to acknowledge what I was feeling.
I was in love.
I remembered sitting in my room back at Princeton thinking I was so clever to come up with myrules of attraction.
I thought I was freaking Einstein coming up with my own theory that I thought was comparable to relativity.
The hot headed twenty year old I was figured that there was this thing that existed between two people and it didn’t have to have the label of a relationship if they didn’t want it to be.
It didn’t have to be the standard coming together where you hoped for love, or anything complicated.
Attraction, as I’d bottled it, would just be this intense feeling that connected you. I made up the rules to make it more exciting. Like it really was a damn game.
What I never imagined was the day, today, heading my way.
I used to laugh at my father when he spoke of love. I’d laugh at the absurdity of me, of all the people, finding one woman that would capture me that way.
That was something I didn’t really think could happen, but then I met her.
The beautiful angel who lay on my bed, tangled in my sheets with her gorgeous mass of hair sprawled out around her. The moonlight bathed her in its light and the stars serenaded her like the goddess she was.
I’d been sitting here on the window ledge watching her for over two hours. Watching her and thinking about life.
I didn’t deserve her. No one did.
There were just some women who were too good to live in the sphere of this earth with everyone else. Summer was one of them.
All this time she’d captivated me with her beauty inside and out.
No, we didn’t know each other long but we never needed to.
That was never an issue, even when we thought it was.
We just bonded and gelled, connected like we were meant to fit. As if we were made for each other.
I’d made love to her. That was what that was earlier, and all the other times that followed.
The feeling was something I wanted to commit to memory and keep locked away in my heart.
The reason why I hated relationships before was because I hadn’t found the right person.
She was it for me.
However, I was in a state of conflict with everything going on at Sullivan’s and the fact that I didn’t know what to do from here.
She shuffled and turned on her side. My spirits lifted when I watched her reach out her hand in her sleep searching for me.
