BRANDON*Two Years Later*"Who the fuck told you, you can touch my fiancee?" I hold the guy up against the wall. He's a student who has the same course with Kim, the fucker honestly thought he could touch her hand. Nobody touches what's mine!"Brandon."Kim's small hands pull me back but I don't budge.The moment I walked in and saw him holding her hand and waist I lost it."Brandon put him down,you'll hurt him."He's a nerd. With his funny spectacles,he looks like that character Harry from Harry Potter.I let him go and he picks up his books from the floor in a hurry."Oh my God Harry,I'm so sorry."Well fuck,he is Harry after all.Kim touches his arm and the poor guy's eyes snap to me in fear."Don't worry,it's just Brandon being....well Brandon. He's not always like this, he just doesn't know you that's why.""O-okay, it's alright. See you around."He scurries off so fast he nearly hits in the corner as he turns.Kim spins around with eyes glaring and a hand hiked up on her hip."T
KIMBERLYWhen Brandon placed the engagement ring on my finger,I felt all the pieces of my heart fit together,I thought the only man I would ever love in my life is Killian,my young brother. Kill has grown up to be such a handsome boy, he's now fifteen, recently started highschool at Blackwool royal and part of the football team,all because of his idol, Brandon. Mom is having a hard time accepting that all her babies have grown up,well Killian is still a kid but with his personality...I don't think so. My young brother has grown up to be exactly like Brandon,girls throw themselves at him because apparently,he's a genius,has good looks and is a football Captain.The fact that mom called asking when I'll get to visit because she's afraid of opening the thousands of love letters in our mail because they might blind her eyes, had me rolling on the ground with laughter.Lately, Brandon has been very busy,we barely spend time together like old times,the only chance we have is when we both ge
KIMBERLY"You'll find out soon."Bran smiles down at me,"You know I hate surprises right? What if you're going to tell me you're no longer interested in marrying me?"I laugh smoothly but the sudden tense of his muscles has me pausing, he continues dragging me to the car,I get in and he drives off.The entire ride is quiet, I leave it at that because maybe he's thinking about the surprise. I smile to myself and roll down the window, enjoying the feel of the cool breeze filling the space.We arrive at a museum,I frown then look up at Bran and find him watching me."An Art museum?""Yes, come on."We walk inside and I melt. The place is full of beautiful paintings hanging on the wall,my lips part and I can't seem to close them,one painting grabs my attention. I move forward and stare at it,it's so beautiful,I tilt my head to the side trying to make sense of it.The colors and design are catchy,I don't even really know why I'm so mesmerized by it. "If you keep staring at that portrait
KIMBERLYI see Harry rounding the corner,he seems to be in a rush,I can't catch up with hi, so I call out his name loudly."Stuart!" I use his last name.He looks back and pauses,I wave for him to stop."Hey!" I breathe heavily once I reach him."Uh..hi." he smiles awkwardly and pushes his spectacles up the bridge of his nose."Can I walk with you?" I ask and he looks around nervously."What's wrong?" I follow his gaze but there nobody around."Harry?" I touch his arm and he startles."L-look Kim,there's something I need to tel-""Hey baby."Bran hugs me from behind,I don't answer him as I keep looking at Harry. He was about to tell me something but when he looks behind me,his mouth seals shut."Har-""I should go,see you later Kimberly."Then he scurries off. I frown,he just called me Kimberly and not Kim. I turn and face Brandon,he's looking in the direction Stuart went.He looks down and finds me watching him,his eyes soften and a smile pulls at his lips."How was your day?""It w
KIMBERLY Ever since Matt told me about his bucket list being all about me, I just brushed it off and tried to get rid of him, but he wouldn't stop following me around or pushing me to be friends with him. I honestly don't know what the guy's problem is, there's thousands of girls here throwing themselves at his feet but he just won't stop bothering me.The last thing I want is him getting into trouble with Brandon, if he finds out there's a guy onto me, things won't go well.I place my books on my lap as I sit in a chair in the hall. Suddenly, the feeling of being watched starts to crawl on my skin, I search my surroundings and there's no one looking at me, i frown.That's weird.The entire time, I keep feeling a weight on me but I try my best to ignore it.Once the lecture stops, I get up and make my way to the entrance then accidentally bump into someone."Oh crap." I crouch and start to pick up my books when I catch someone mirroring my position and helping me out."Oh my goodne
BRANDON A two hours drive to the next city was not something I thought I would be doing anytime soon. I told Kimberly I was going to visit my cousin Brent in New York, but the truth is I'm actually going to San Diego to see Xander.In a few hours, I get to Xander's apartment, I pull out my phone and call him."I'm here."I find him waiting at the door.He smiles and I return it, then give him a bro hug."Man it feels like ages since I last saw you," he says as he steps inside the house and i follow behind him, closing the door.He offers me a drink and then sits on the chair,facing the couch I'm sitting on."How are you dealing? Still purging?""Yes," I nod. "I hate the fact that I'm lying to Kimberly, I don't want it to be like this."Xander sighs.I've been filling him in over the phone on everything that has been happening since someone from my past life came back, trying to get back into my life. It's not just any typical old fling that I can easily push away and avoid, this was s
KIMBERLYI know this is wrong, I shouldn't be doing this, I'm supposed to trust Brandon but with what Jonathan said and how he's been acting lately, I'm sure he's hiding something.I call Lydia and ask for Anna's phone number."Hello?" She picks up on the first ring."Hi Lydia, this is Kimberly.""Oh, hi Kimberly, how've you been doing?" she says with a tired voice.I look at the time and it's 9pm, so that means she must be asleep."Oh my god, I'm so sorry I woke you, I totally forgot about the time.""No, it's fine." There's shuffling in the background. "Is everything okay?""Yeah, yeah, I'm actually planning a surprise for my mom and was wondering if you could give me Anna's number?""Oh, sure, I'll send it to you right away.""Thanks."I hang up.Anna is Brandon's cousin's girlfriend, Brent, who he said he was going to visit in New York. She's one of the most famous event planners in New York.A message from Lydia with her number reaches me and I call her."Hi Anna, it's Kimberly, B
KIMBERLY"He's lying to me, he's lying and I don't know why.""Kim," Nao places her hand on top of mine. "Are we you sure you want to do this?""Yes Nao, I want this whole mystery and lies to come to an end." I suck in a deep breath. "I think he's seeing someone," i finally say the words that burn my throat."Kim.." Nao shakes her head."If what I think is true, I don't know what will happen to me Nao, I won't be able to take it."Tears slide down my cheeks, Naomi stands and comes to my side, holding me in a side hug, she leans the side of her head against mine."It's going to be okay."* "Hours Later* *After leaving campus, i meet up with Nao, we have lunch together and Sam later joins us."Hey, what took you so long?" Nao asks."I was handling a few things, whatsup?" She settles down and places her book on the table."I think Brandon is seeing someone."She eyes Naomi, I frown and look between the two of them."We have to tell her Nao," Sam says."Tell me what?" I ask."Hello ladie
KIMBERLY I take his hand and get to my feet. We dance around for what feels like forever and everything feels better, so much better. The Weeknd's song I Feel It Coming starts playing and something in the air changes as the lyrics go on and on. Matt's hands are on my body, touching,tracing,everywhere. He turns me around, my back to his front. A tingle zips through my vagina and my legs clench but his hands slowly move to my inner thighs and he parts them open. His fingers press down on my clit over my panties and the feeling intensifies. Why am I so horny? I ask myself the words that don't leave my mouth. His lips come to my neck and he nibbles at the skin there. This isn't right, it isn't and I don't want to do this, but why does my body say otherwise? Why can't I say no? He plays with my belly button and then his fingers are pushing down my panties, cool air blows on my skin then his finger is inside me, my back arches and he slowly moves his finger in and out until all I
KIMBERLY There's a knock on the door, I straighten from the couch and head over to open only to find Harry standing in front of me. "Harry?" I gasp then wrap my hands around his neck. "Thank god you're okay, I've been trying to call you for weeks now." "Yeah," he clears his throat. "I was away." I lead him to the living room and sit, pulling him down to the empty space next to me until we are facing each other. "What happened to you? The last time I saw you, you were in a hurry and didn't look good." "Oh, that. I got your messages that's why I came here. I was going through something and needed to go away for a while in order to clear my head." I nod. "Well, you're not the only one going through a lot." "Why? What happened? Are you and Brandon having problems again?" "Long story short, Marisa followed him in Andy's diner toilets and forced a kiss on him then revealed it using the classic game truth or dare and made it seem like something else." Harry sighs. "I'm fed up of
KIMBERLY You know when you cut yourself so deep they have to stitch you up and then you mistakenly end up getting the stitches open? Yeah, that how I feel right now. I was healing, but then I feel like I'm moving backwards from the progress I was making. My vision becomes blurry with all the tears forming. I look to my left and see Matt and his friends chatting, I jog to them, when he sees me, he pushes off the car with a smile on his face. "Please take me away from here." His smile drops. "Hey, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" "Just take me away from this place." I wrap my hands around my middle. "Okay, okay, come on." "Catch you later man." His friends walk away. I get in his car and turn my head to the side, rolling down the window because i really nee the air, i feel so suffocated right now. These stupid tears won't just stop flowing, I wipe at them angrily and Matt starts the car and drives off. This isn't the way to the girls condo but I can't seem to care about tha
BRANDON "Truth." I glare at her. She grins and I find everything wrong with this whole situation, it makes me uneasy and I don't know why. What the fuck is she playing at? "If you were told have sex or like kiss with Brandon." My head snaps to Lily but she keeps staring at Marisa. "In any diner's toilets, would you do it?" "Oh for fucks sake!" Jonathan says with annoyance lacing his tone. I look at Marisa, ready to pull her up and drag her out by the hair if I have to but she keeps smiling and then takes a sip of whisky. "Well, I wouldn't say no, I mean we actually-" "Marisa." I say through gritted teeth. She ignores my warning and keeps going, her eyes briefly moving to stare at something over my head. "We actually did it recently and I must say I enjoyed it quite a lot, so doing it again wouldn't be a bad idea." "Marisa!" I call out angrily and get to my feet. "What? She asked, I'm just playing the game." She shrugs her shoulders. "It's the truth anyway." She mumbles.
BRANDON Kim has been down for a few days now, she must have caught something when we went boat cruising five days ago. I step out of the pharmacy from getting her her meds since the ones she was taking got done last night. I stop at the gas station to fill my tank, then Andy's to get her favourite food. I leave the order and enter the bathrooms, exiting the stall, I feel hands wrap around my waist. I flinch away and turn only to be met with Marisa's eyes. "Whoa, there's no need to act like that, it's just me." "Yeah, it's just you and that's the problem. It's not supposed to be." "Oh come on, Brandon." She throws her hands up. "You're overreacting." "Get out of my way, Marisa." As if my words entered from one ear and left through the other, Marisa gets on her tiptoes and quickly crashes her lips to mine, sucking on my bottom one. The act makes me freeze but I push her away with my hands tightly gripping her shoulders. "What the fuck is you problem?" "Brandon," she fo
BRANDON "Did you tell Sam about your outing with Shiloh?" I ask when Kim stays silent for long. "No, why?" "Just asking, since you girls tell each other almost everything." "I didn't." She sighs. "I don't know how she'll react to that." I pause flipping through the papers and look at her over my shoulder. "I think it's great that you and Shiloh hang out, she's Xander's girlfriend and everyone agrees that they've moved on, it's only fair that she's made to feel welcomed." "Yeah, and I do want to hang out with her for Xander's sake and the fact that she's nice, but the last thing I want is to make things awkward if I decide to bring her along at the barbeque and Sam is there. You know, the 'the ex I hate's girlfriend thing'." "Maybe you don't have to bring only Shiloh, Sam's boyfriend can come too." "That's okay with everyone?" "If you mean Xander, then the answer is yes. He wouldn't mind." "Cool," is all she says. After a few beats of silence, I hear her stand. "Do you wa
KIMBERLY I grab my books and head out of the café when someone steps into my path, blocking me from moving. I sigh, starting to get tired of the repeated shit. "What do you want, Lily?" "You know exactly what I want Kimberly, my only problem is why you haven't yet done it." I roll my eyes. "If you're here to talk about Brandon, then forget it because I'm not leaving him." Her eyes harden and if it were possible, I would be seeing smoke coming out of her ears just by how mad she is right now. "It wasn't enough that you almost got Marisa killed? All that empathy for her I saw I'm your eyes was just a façade, wasn't it?" "Look, I was really sorry for what happened to Marisa, but it wasn't my favourite, so stop trying to pin it on me." I try to move around her but she grips my arm and pushes me back. I grit my teeth, finally annoyed. "You know, Lily, there's one thing that surprises me more in this whole little dynamic of yours. You seem to hate me more than even Mar
KIMBERLY I jump to my feet and throw my hands around Brandon's neck. He wraps his around my waist, after long minutes, I pull back and meet his eyes. "I-i didn't know this would happen, you need to be at the hospital and not here." His worried eyes look over my shoulder at the girls. "What the fuck did Lily say to her?" Nao repeats what Lily's exact words were and I wrap my hands around my middle and repeat what I just said to him when he entered the room. "You need to go to the hospital, Brandon." His eyes move back to mine and soften, then he places his hand on my cheek. "Where I need to be is here, with you." "No," I shake my head. "I know you say you don't but you do care, Brandon. I won't be that selfish to stop you from checking up on someone who attempted suicide because you shut them out." "Baby, what Lily said is bullsh-" "Please," I cut him off. "Please." Contemplation dances in his eyes. "For me." His eyes search mine. "Fine, but you're coming w
KIMBERLYI hug my books to my chest, leaning against the wall and smiling at Harry."Sooo, you will make it, right?"I sigh."I don't know, Harry. But I promise I'll try my best to make time."His face falls and I instantly feel bad for turning him down."Hey babe," Brandon says from beside Harry and he goes tense.Bran's eyes find Harry, but instead of scaring him off, he smiles at him and says,"Hi." I'm taken aback for a second there and so is Harry."Uh, hello. Kim, I better get going.""Sure, see you around."He walks off and I'm left with Brandon. I turn to him and smile with amusement."Well look who's being nice."He corners me until there's no space behind me and the wall. He places his hands on the wall behind me, caging my head between them, then he leans down so close such that I have to cross my eyes to get a better look at him."For you, I'd be nice even to the devil."He smiles down at me and I'm reminded once again that this man is the only one for me.I smile back an