Gianna sighed before leaning on the pillow behind her. "You already feel like this for him. What can I say?" she huffed. "But Wenna, have you never thought that thing between you and him is going way too fast? The way you are falling ...sorry I mean, feeling for him is still so early given how recently you met with him?"

    Arwen stared at her. She understood what she was implying to say. And of course, she had felt all that Gianna had mentioned. She knew the way her feelings had changed for Aiden over time; the way she had started to feel for him was way too fast than it should be.

    But had she had control of it?

    From the very first day, she hadn''t had any control. The moment her eyes fell on him; the moment she saw him —she turned to be the moth who couldn''t hold herself back from getting bewitched by the fire.

    She drew closer and closer to him, carrying an inkling in her heart that maybe in future she might end up destroying herself. But even knowing so, she couldn''t control herself from feeling the way she had started to feel for Aiden.

    It was like when it came to him, she never had many options. There was only one choice —and that was him.@@@@

    Arwen''s lips curled up in a small nonchalant smile as she shrugged. "I am amused to see you are feeling this way seeing us. Shouldn''t you instead be motivating me to fall hard and faster for him? After all, you were always been trying to set us up together. Remember, how much you have bragged about him?"

    "Ryan?" Arwen took that name as a question. "He no longer stands as an option, Anna. Or, maybe he was never one before as well. You know it better than anyone else that even though I was trying to get our arrangement to work, it never held my heart."

    Of course, Gianna knows that. She didn''t mean to use Ryan''s name. But apart from him, Arwen never truly showed any interest towards anyone. Her mother never let her have that freedom.

    "I know, Wenna," Gianna felt frustrated in herself. She wanted Arwen to know a few things without her getting hurt, but no matter how she tried, she couldn''t find an easy way. "Ryan may not be an option, but there are many others. I just mean that you have not explored them yet. How can you be so sure about him? What if tomorrow —"

    "I don''t need to explore many to know who is the right one, Anna," Arwen interjected. She could tell that her friend was struggling to put something forward to her. She didn''t know what, but there was definitely something —and she could tell that already. "I don''t know what you are hesitating about. But if it is truly about making a haste decision, I assure you even in haste, this is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. I am sure that I won''t regret it later."

    "Not even when you don''t find him falling for you as hard as you fell for him?" Gianna could no longer hold it in. "Wenna, I know love was never the foundation of both of your relationships. But as the years will pass, you will find it hard to make do without love. At that time, are you sure, you won''t regret it?"

    Arwen paused at those words, for the first time hesitating in the entire conversation.

    Gianna could read the hesitation on her face as easily as she was able to read love in her eyes. Placing her hand over hers, she slowly said, "Arwen, I want to tell you something. My intention is not to deter you from feeling what you feel for my uncle. I just want to know everything before you end up committing yourself."