Anna's pov:

I finally roll on my side so I can see William's face. It's nice to see pleasure on it opposed to the anger I've been so accustomed to seeing recently. But I also see something else. I see a slight glimmer of tears in his eyes. I'm surprised yet happy he's comfortable enough not to hide them; also I want him to know its ok and just how much I value his new found openness with his feelings.

I reach out my left hand from off the bed and bring it to his right cheek. Using the back of my hand I wipe his cheek just under his eye feeling his soft skin on my fingers. I then take my hand away and use it to prop myself up on the bed. I lean over and place a delicate kiss just under his eye where my hand just was. I'm hoping he'll let a tear fall just for me but I'll love him even if he doesn't.

Sadie's POV

I finally arrived at my new home, an apartment block in one of the Bellingham suburbs and had only just got out of my car to be growled at by someone for parking in the wrong space.

'Hey, leave her alone' a girl with ponytailed brown hair called to the man. 'She's the new tenant you idiot. She won't know anything about the parking arrangements'

She turned to me her eyes flushed with tears of anger.

'Don't worry about him.' She said. 'He's a moron. Which is your flat's

'Number twenty' The girls face brightened.

'Your next door to me.' She wiped her eyes with her thumbs. 'I'm Liz, your space is next to mine, left hand side.'

'Sadie' I introduced. I moved my car over and Liz helped me with my luggage. 

'We don't have a lift unfortunately' Liz explained taking my case upstairs. 'It's an older building see. Mr Pedantic across the road has one, because his block was built later.' She was having to raise her voice a little as the noise from both our boot heels was considerable. 

She showed me my door which was indeed next to mine and invited me to dinner that evening. I agreed and entered my flat to settle in.

It was a modest room, only $400 a week rent, but that's all I needed for the present. Although I couldn't return Gemma's romantic feelings, I did at least respect them. And I knew that she wouldn't want me to be careless with her gift. 

I sat down on my new sofa to take off my boots and send Camilla my contact details so She could get hold of me if she wished. Then I decided to get a shower after my long journey

William's POV:

As I felt my tears start to drain inside my eyes, Anna softly caressed my upper cheek in a way so loving, I don't remember the last time it happened, then, surprisingly, leaned over and kissed right where her hand had just been.
I felt so loved that as soon as she rolled back after the kiss, I rolled over her and kissed her lips. I felt shocked, as gravity played a trick on me, when I rolled over her I felt a droplet escaping my right eye, straight to her skin, not leaving a trace on my cheek.

I was so unfamiliar with my "new self", I never used to cry out of love, I didn't know what I was supposed to feel or what to do,  I broke the kiss and knelt in front of Anna, to my surprise (and embarrassment), and without warning, I felt a tear escape each of my eyes, down the middle of my cheeks, fast at first, then slowing down at mid-cheek, I was so in shock, I didn't even move.

Anna's pov:

I rolled back onto the bed after I kissed William but to my surprise he surprised me by rolling over to return my kiss. As he was kissing me I felt a warm droplet hit my cheek and start to roll towards my ear as I was still lying in my back. It took me a min to realize what it was. It was a tear from William. I looked at his face and couldn't find any trace of a streak.

As he finally broke the kiss I saw him kneal in front of me. To my surprise I saw a tear escape each of his eyes and roll down the middle of his now flushed cheeks. I didn't want him to feel embarrassed as there was nothing for him to feel embarrassed about so I sat up and cupped his chin in my hands using the pads of my thumbs I wiped from just under his eyes down to the middle of his cheeks catching his tears as well as the streaks they left behind.

"I love you too." I said lovingly as I noticed a new stream of tears appearing where I had just wiped. So using my thumbs again I wiped his new tears and streaks away delicately just like the last ones.

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Jarrod and I sat down to a lovely dinner. After a few min of silence I felt the need to ask.

"So how is everything. I hope I did you justice. You deserve it after everything you've done for me lately."