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"That sounds good," Noelle answered automatically.
Yuyu beamed, taking Noelle to one of her favorite cafes in the area. Since it was one of her favorite places in New York, Yuyu knew the entire fifth avenue like the back of her hand.
As they reached the cozy little French café, they each took a seat and ordered a desert, a coffee for Yuyu and a milkshake for Noelle.
"Yuyu, how did you and my brother get together? I know you worked for him for a long time, but how did it happen?" Noelle suddenly asked, curious about the matter but also eager to learn anything she might use to her own advantage later on.
Her meeting with Blue—though it had been entirely one sided—has been nothing but serendipitous. Noelle was absolutely sure of it.
It had been…fate. There was no other explanation for it when it had been the perfect combination of moments in time—the drawing, his promise, and her sudden idea to go out. The succession of events had happened in such a manner to ensure that the two of them would be in the same place, at the same time, and that Noelle would be able to recognize him in the flesh.
Maybe she'd known he was meant to be hers before, but this one encounter solidified everything in her mind until she knew that she needed to plan everything carefully so that he would eventually be hers.
And now that she had her goal foremost in her mind, she only needed to think of the steps she needed to take in order to get there.
"It took us a long time to give in to our feelings," Yuyu said, tilting her head to the side as she remembered the past. "For the longest time I thought I was the only one in love with him. But that's only because your brother is like a robot. You can't get anything out of him," she shook her head in amusement. "We were best friends first. Partners. We shared everything. The rest… It sort of happened organically, even though we both knew we couldn't be more."
"Did he make the first move, or did you?" Noelle probed.
Knowing herself, Noellewould likely be the one to make the first move with Blue—but that was only because when it came to him she seemed to have no patience whatsoever. Yet at the same time, she found she wouldn't mind it ifhetook the initiative. In fact, she might prefer it…
For once she wanted someone to gauge her needs and desires and act before she even rationalized them—someone who knew her so well, he intuited what she required before she ever had to vocalize it.
"Both?" Yuyu chuckled as she took a sip of her coffee. "We were on a mission and one thing led to another and things happened," she explained nervously, a blush marring her cheeks. "But it was even harder after that. Cisco was all but engaged to marry someone else while I was a man to everyone's knowledge. Of course, you know your parents' opinion about me. Everything was against us, so I didn't think we would ever be together. But it happened," she smiled fondly. "Against all odds, it happened."
Simultaneous attraction, Noelle nodded thoughtfully to herself.
She might be the one concocting the plan behind the scenes, but if she played her hand right, then maybe she could get him to thinkhemade the first step.
"How? I've always wondered about this. My brother is a stickler for order and discipline. For God's sake, the man doesn't ever change his breakfast preference. I can't imagine him going against the status quo when it seems to be the only thing that keeps him…sane."
"You're right," Yuyu nodded, her entire face lighting up at the conversation. "Cisco is…a difficult man, and I'm sure he can seem quite unyielding to everyone who doesn't know him."
"But does anyone know him?" Noelle interrupted, raising a brow.
Her brother seemed like an unsolvable enigma. One she was fineneversolving, for that seemed too much of a headache.
"I do," she smiled. "But I'm probably the only one. Your brother… He has difficulties dealing with matters of an emotional nature. It's not that he doesn't want to, or that he thinks it's beneath him as a man. It's simply that he cannot understand emotions very well. He can feel them just fine, but he has great difficulty in conveying them, or recognizing them in others. Quite simply put, he is the epitome of rationality, which sometimes can be quite tiring, and if I'm being honest," she paused, a mischievous smile pulling at her lips, "quite annoying."
Noelle giggled at that.
"It was a surprise to me, too, that he decided to go against the status quo and choose me," Yuyu grimaced, no doubt realizing that his choice had far reaching repercussions that Noelle was going to bear.
Noelle pursed her lips into a sad smile.
"I'll never experience that, will I? To be loved by a man so much he'd go against his entire family for me…" she trailed off.
"Noelle," Yuyu reached for her hand. "I promise you we'll think of something. Don't think for a moment that we're ok with this situation because we're not. We just…" she took a deep breath. "We need to find a way out of this mess so it won't blow in our faces."
Noelle blinked in surprise at Yuyu's words.
"But my brother…"
"Cisco didn't want this any more than I did. But it happened. And I'm so sorry this fell on you when it shouldn't have. But you have my word that we will fix this somehow. I don't want to give you false hope," she paused, looking increasingly troubled. "But I do want you to know that I am not ok with this. I don't condone it and I wouldneverbe on board with it."
There were things Yuyu wasn't telling her. Noelle didn't know the specifics of what had gone in the negotiation, but her senses told her Yuyu was being truthful—she didn't agree with the match, but she didn't know what to do to stop it.
"Thank you," Noelle wet her lips as she regarded her sister-in-law. "Thank you for telling me this."
