ELLIE“Who could that be…?” I asked, as Kai and I were beginning to scramble out of the bed and the room to know who it could have been. There were just too many things on my mind for me to be able to think of a way out of that predicament.“Oh fuck…” Kai let out as he made for the door. “The car probably got spotted. I have to go now.”“But we don't know who it could be…” I was hoping that it hadn't been Aiden at the door. I knew just how destructive he could get if he saw just me and Kai all alone in the house. “There could be a lot of trouble if it's Aiden.” He had totally read my mind with that statement. “I have to head out through the back while you check out who it is.”“Alright…” I said, as we both hurried out of the room and made our way down the stairs. My heart was racing almost as fast as my feet were. My mind was racing with the thoughts of the worst-case scenarios. The doorbell chimed again and that shot in yet another dose of urgency into my feet as I hoped it wasn't

AIDEN“I’m almost there, alright?” I said on the phone, as I was walking through the neighborhood where the weekend party was happening. One of the biggest kids in the school was holding a birthday party and had been anxious to have me over there. Ellie was almost not talking to me at all ever since the last kiss we’d had. The house was suddenly the most uncomfortable place for me to be. I was almost trying to get as far away from the house as I could. I was tired of being in the same house with the cause of my pain. But then, I still had my eyes on Kai. I hadn’t seen him getting closer to her in recent times. Even at that, I was still sure that they could have possibly set up a couple of secret meetings in school. The thought of it all had me drawing closer to the brink of losing my mind.Hence that night was very necessary for me to get a lot of things off my head. I wanted to get wasted and get out of my present predicament, even for a couple of hours before coming back to face i

AIDEN“Whoa…” the whole room went.My heart was thumping rapidly as I was watching the one thing I had been expecting the least. It felt like I was watching something that they had been rehearsing for a while before making an open show of it there in front of everyone.Kai was obviously having the time of his life as he was about to almost swallow Ellie with his kiss. For some reason, they looked like they would end up making out in front of everyone as Kai's hands went down from her face to more interesting places, of which the first was her neck. He held her like he was choking her while making passionate love to her. Then Ellie let out a slight moan and that ticked off the time bomb that was within me. There were a lot of things that could go wrong at that point as his hand was almost going down to grip her breast.He looked like he was about to ingest her whole. But for some reason, Ellie slowly pushed away from him. That reason had most probably been me. She barely raised her

KAI“What the heck are you trying to say?” I was sure that he was back to smoking pot as that could have been the most rational explanation for his sudden change of character which was quite questionable.At some point, I was waiting for him to tell me that he had been bluffing all that time. But nothing like that seemed to be happening any time soon. His eyes were burning with an intense anger which I hadn't seen in a while.“I said what I just said.” Aiden seemed really serious. “It's time you take your eyes and your mind off of my stepsister, and I really mean that.”For a couple of moments, I stared blankly at him as I almost couldn't believe the words reaching my ears at that point. “Tell me you're messing with me right now.” I was starting to suspect he had something to do with Ellie not replying to my texts and my phone calls. Had he threatened her the same way he was doing to me? He could have poisoned her mind about me as well. “You're kidding, right?”“Do I have a fucking c

ELLIEThe weekend made me feel a bit refreshed and rejuvenated— especially because of what Aiden and I had over the weekend. He eventually snuck up to my room yet again and made me explode twice as fast. I still didn't have the words for what both of us were to each other, but then, I was sure that we did have feelings for each other. There were just too many emotions involved for me to try ruining it by asking those serious questions that would ruin everything.Aiden had slowly become a coping mechanism that helped me get my mind off the disheartening news of my mother which had weakened me for the past couple of days. But he had suddenly filled me with a new feeling of life that made me feel strong enough to face everything. I didn't need a mirror to tell me just how beautiful the smile I had on my face was. I took out my phone and dialed Aiden who happened to have placed a bet with me that he would be in school before me. Those fifty bucks we had placed on the bet would go quite