When In Cancun

Emma's P.O.V

The next morning I woke up with dry, puffy eyes from crying myself to sleep. I felt pathetic. I needed to get a grip. I knew Niall for such a short time and I'm acting like we were dating for three years. I'm done with the crying. It's time to get back on track. It was still early morning so I got up and went to the campus gym, a few blocks from my apartment.

When I got there I ran two miles on the treadmill before going to the abs room. I put my headphones back in and started my favorite crunches work out. I was almost at 50 when I felt someone standing over me. Confused, I looked up and met the eyes of someone I really did not want to see. I should have guessed he would be here. I decided to ignore him, I closed my eyes and continued my crunches until the headphones were pulled out of my ears.

"What the fuck do you want Seth?" I spat at him.

"To talk to you."

"Too bad, now if you'll excuse me I'm kind of in the middle of something here."

"At least let me explain myself Emma. We've been friends for two years I think I deserve that."

"Two years of lies, is Seth even your real name?" I know I was sounding childish but I didn't care, I was really pissed off at him.

"Come on Emma stop."

"Fine, I'll come over when I'm done here and showered."

"Thank you."

"I'm expecting breakfast."

"You got it!" He called over his shoulder as he walked away.

I huffed and continued my workout. Although I'm so angry at him he still means a lot to me. I just want to know why he did it. Why would he pretend for so long? If it was to see me naked I'm going to punch him in the face. I got back to my apartment and quickly showered. I through on jeans and a black t-shirt and walked out. Andie was at the breakfast bar with a cup of coffee in her hand reading some magazine. I sat down next to her, I needed some advice before heading over there.

"Hey, what happened to you last night?" She asked concerned.

"It's a long story." She motioned for me to go on. "Well basically, we were at the bar and I was dancing and making out with Cole before Seth pulled me off of him. I got angry and then he kissed me and told me he wasn't gay. Oh, and that he loves me."

She stared at me for a moment letting it all sink in before smirking.
"I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!" She sang. I looked at her like she was crazy. "Oh come on the boy's crazy for you it was always so obvious."

"Then why would he pretend to be gay? In my book that's not exactly the best way to get a girl."

"I don't know. Why don't you go find out?"

"I am, I'm supposed to go over there know."

"Well then go!" She pushed me off my chair.

"Alright no need to be rough." I joked before walking out to the front door and to the next apartment over. I knocked and not five seconds later the door opened to Seth. His messy hair was wet from his shower and he was in nothing but jeans, showing off his perfect abs and biceps. He was so doing this on purpose. I tried not to stare for to long, but come on it's pretty hard. I looked up at his face and he was smirking. I knew he caught me.

"Come in, foods almost done." I followed him inside. His apartment was identical to mine. I sat at his breakfast bar and watched as he finished making chocolate chip pancakes. He knows those are my favorite.

"Chocolate chip pancakes really? Suck up much." I teased.

"Hey I just wanted to make your favorite. Maybe it would decrease my chances of being slapped again." He grinned over his shoulder.

"Wouldn't count on it."

He brought the hot plate stacked with pancakes over to me and a can of whipped cream. He's really trying to get on my good side. I took the whipped cream from his hand as he took the seat to my left. I piled my plate with three pancakes and drowned them in syrup and whipped cream before digging in. I had to suppress the moan. He was a fantastic cook.

"So," he started. I looked at him with my eyebrows raised sassily, expecting him to go on. "I'm sorry Emma, I really am. I'm an idiot."

"Yeah, no shit. Why would you tell me your gay? What about all of the guys I tried to set you up with."

"Why do you think I never wanted to go, or if I did I always said it wouldn't work out. And
I never actually told you I was gay you know? You just assumed."

"What? How?"

"When we first started hanging out and would go to movies and the mall or lunch, I actually thought we were kind of dating. Then one day you said to me, 'I always wanted a gay best friend.' I almost choked on my drink in the middle of the restaurant."

"But, but, you always went into the girly stores with me. And we always saw chick flicks together. And your just so beautiful, half the time pretty boys are gay."

"Thanks on the beautiful part I guess, I would prefer rugged and handsome from now on. And as for the girly stuff I just wanted to make you happy. I was going to ask you to be my girlfriend but then you called me gay and my confidence was shot. Plus you were all excited to have a gay best friend I didn't really know what to tell you."

"Wow I'm a bitch."

"No your not, I was never angry with you. I was happy with how close we got, although I was falling for you as more than a friend and you just thought I was gay. Recently I've been getting annoyed with myself, if I had just told you back then, things could be so different by now. Then when I saw you with that asshole pop star I knew I had to tell you."

I don't know why it angered me when he called Niall an asshole pop star. He's really not an asshole he just made a bad mistake that I can't forgive him for. Plus he seemed to get over it pretty quick, already having another girl in his bed.

"Well I'm still mad at you for lying. I may have been the one to assume it, but you still went along with it and that's lying. You've practically seen me naked!"

"Well that was just a plus," he smirked and I slapped his arm giving him a death glare. "Oh come on, you know I always tried not to look, it was just hard, your gorgeous."

I blushed slightly and muttered a thank you. When we were done eating I helped him clean up breakfast.

"Well I should go get my books ready for class tomorrow." I said.

"Yeah, me too."

"Kay, bye then, thanks for the food."

"Wait, Em, Where does this leave us? I don't want to lose you. And I don't want things to be awkward."

"We can still be friends, I wouldn't give up our friendship. I just can't be anything more. At least not right now. I'm still pretty upset over Niall and I just can't deal with anymore drama right now."

"I understand, friends it is." He kissed my cheek longer than necessary before walking me out.

I went back to the apartment and filled Andie in on the Seth details. We spent the day on the couch watching movies and getting ready for class the next day.

The next three weeks went quicker than expected. I spent at least an hour or two at the gym everyday. I listened to an absurd amount of Taylor Swift. I went to class, came home cooked dinner with Andie, then at night Seth came over for a movie. It was a little weird with him at first but it slowly got back to normal. It's not like much actually changed apart from him now being straight. I try to block out the fact that he said he loved me. Whats hard to block out is that today is the day Niall was supposed to come visit me. The end of the semester is coming up which means finals. At a cooking school finals are just preparing your best dish that goes with each class. Andie and I have been running around the kitchen like mad women the last few days making dishes and tasting them for each other. I can't help but think how much Niall would have enjoyed being our taste tester. Although he would have probably just thought everything was good.

Anyway today is the thursday I was supposed to see him again. I was looking forward to this day more than anything a few weeks ago. Now I've been dreading it. I know he won't show up, he wouldn't do that with the terms that were on. It's just knowing that he's here in New York just makes my heart race. After class I got back to the apartment and found Andie already cooking. We each had about five new burns on our hands from all of the cooking we've been doing. We haven't been making an official dinner either since all of the sampling basically fills us up. Plus all of the pastries Seth has been bringing.

I had just finished making a vegetable dish for my sautéing class when there was a knock at the door. Thinking it was Seth I skipped over with a spoon of it for him to taste. I opened the door and my big smile faded to shock.

"Surprise!"

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