AIDEN“Alright…” I said with a sigh as I had my hands up. “Before you judge me, just realize that I wasn't expecting that unexpected encounter just like you both weren't. I was thinking that I would be at the party for a while…”“What happened, then?” She asked with a sigh as she looked embarrassed. My mother was usually the shy type, and that had me wondering just how much she could have been begging the bed to swallow her while she was on it. The shame was simply unbearable and I was sure that could have been why Ellie's dad stayed inside and wouldn't come out for even a second. It was such a demeaning moment for all of us. I wanted to make a smooth entry but ended up getting busted in the process. “The thing is…” I went over the lie I had been rehearsing in my head as I was trying to make peace without getting Ellie in trouble at the same time. “When I got into the party, I saw that Ellie was drunk already and I had to get her home as soon as I could.”I knew that story wasn't go
ELLIEThere were no words to explain what I felt as my eyelids cracked open for me to see the ceiling of my room. I had been lying the same way I had been when I had passed out after the familiar stranger had saved me from the dealer. I had been expecting to have been left for dead out there in the woods under the tree with no one to help me out. But there I was, under the roof where I lived. Just when I was about to try sitting up in bed, the door went open with Aiden coming through it. He had a tray in his hand which he was nearly dropping from the shock of seeing me awake. It almost felt like he hadn't been expecting to see me awake by that time. I glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table not too far away from me. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like he had everything to do with how I had ended up there. “Ellie…” he quickly got in and shut the door behind him like he didn't want anyone to know that I was in there. He hurried to the table where he kept the
ELLIEI woke up after a while after I had taken the medications and freshened up. I had missed that day at school and I was quite sure that I was left all alone in the house. Aiden surely wouldn't miss school or practice for anything at all. Jasmine was bound to be worried sick about me, as she had called me a lot of times and I hadn't picked up at all. I just wasn't in the mood to take any calls at that time. I didn't know what it was about that moment that had me desiring to be alone with either the right person or all alone completely. But then, there was no way to tell who that right person was exactly. I was confused and I didn't know just when that unbearable uncertainty would come to an end. A part of me believed that it was all part of the repercussions of the poisoned booze that the dealer had given me. I still couldn't believe that I had been so close to being victimized. It was the most uncomfortable thought, having to imagine myself getting plowed by that bastard. It
ELLIEIt almost felt like I was about to have a brand new start as I was waking up the next day. I had to admit it was weird waking up next to Aiden— weird but great. Who wouldn't want to wake up to that charming pair of eyes that could lighten up any heart with just a glance? He was still asleep when I woke up. Had he forgotten that we still had school that day? He was usually up, shooting at the hoop by that time of the day, but he had sacrificed it all to be there with me. That made me feel loved in a way— a feeling I had been estranged from for a long while. “Rise and shine, sleepyhead…” I mused as I put my head in his chest. There were just too many things that made me feel like that moment could go on forever. But then, I recalled that my forever could be cut short by the presence of our parents who could come in at any time and bust us right in the act. That would surely be an absurd end for our love ballad, and that had me sitting up in bed and trying to shake Aiden from h
KAI“She's not in school again…” Jasmine said to me with a voice full of regret and that had me weakened. There were a lot of things that made me feel like something wasn't right. “What about Aiden?” I recalled that I hadn't seen him in practice yesterday and that he hadn't been in class for most of yesterday. “Is he in school today?” My suspicions had been heightening ever since as I just couldn't understand why both of them had been absent the day before. “He's not in school either…” Jasmine said as she was about to get going. “I'll be swinging by her house to check on her. It's got to be something really serious. She hasn't been answering any of my calls at all. That's very unlike her.”“Indeed….” I couldn't agree any further as I had also been a victim of her unanswered calls which were hard to tolerate. It felt like I was some sort of wrong number trying to reach her. “Maybe I would pay her a visit as well as that's the only way that we could find out what's happening.”“Yeah…
ELLIE“Who could be at the door?” Aiden asked as he was soon about to get up from the bed and slip into his clothes which had been all over my room. He seemed quite angry from the interruptions that had hampered our time together. “Are you going to get yourself so worked up over some unexpected visitor…?” I asked as I walked up to him and kissed him one more time before we headed back down to the door. “By the time we're done with the visitors, then we can get back to our action…”“Sure…” Aiden said as he kissed me while grabbing my ass hungrily. “So, who's going to get the door? I don't want anyone suspecting that we are up to anything.”“Right…” I said as I wondered if I would head down and get the door. The sound of the doorbell had my mind going many places at once and it made me feel even more tense as I suspected that it could have been someone I knew who had come to check on me. “Alright… I'll go. You pretend to be sick and I would pretend like I was playing ball.” Aiden qui
AIDENThere were just so many words I could say in that moment, but I held my tongue as I was watching the scene that was going on between Ellie and Jasmine who seemed like she couldn't get enough of her friend's company. I was almost tearing up at the emotions from the moment. I would have teared up, but I was Aiden Castro. There was no way I could be caught doing that. I watched, holding that ball impatiently in my hand and hoping that it would finish sooner than it was taking. As they went on and on about everything, I noticed that Kai was stepping out of there with a neutral look on his face. I had been following the conversation that had been going on between the two of them that made me feel like stepping in there and telling them to beat it so I could return to my even more serious session with Ellie which their impromptu visit had caused. Soon enough, Kai turned around, heading in my direction. There were just too many things that had me feeling like I was about to get to
ELLIEI hated that I was having that moment right in front of everyone which included Kai. I just didn't want to be seen in such a state and that made me feel quite awkward. But then, my rage just couldn't be contained at that point. How could Aiden have done all of that to me?The message that Dylan had left me was still playing back in my head with each passing moment and that left me regretting why I hadn't picked up the phone back then. I had been too heartbroken from everything that had happened back then, and that made me feel even worse for letting my emotions take control of me and causing me to take the irrational decision I had taken back then. It was all a loss that I couldn't make up for with any other thing. The look on Aiden's face had me even more infuriated by all that he had done. It was hard not to hate him at that point. Jasmine was quiet as she took her phone back into her purse which she slung onto her shoulder by its strap. The silence of the moment was absurd