ELLIE“I fucking knew it…” Dylan said as he saw the rain had begun, and it poured heavily like it had been held back for quite a while. “Well if I had been your friend, and I knew this rain was coming, I would have left you without a second thought.”The smile on his face disappeared as he saw the annoyed look on my face, which made it clear that I was in no mood for any of such jokes.“Okay, my bad…” he said, as he took up his hands in subtle surrender. Then he started the car and was ready to move Good thing we were in the car already. I had never been glad about making any decision like I was glad that I had decided to get in Dylan's car. I would have been struggling to find some sort of shelter in the park while getting even more lost in the process. He looked pretty nice and acted pretty nice, even though I couldn't help but suspect that his niceness had been for a reason. It seemed like he had some ulterior motive for it. I still couldn't get my mind off what Jasmine and th
AIDEN“Who are you?” For the next couple of moments, I didn't look at Ellie. All my attention and hate had been directed towards the dude who had been standing there with her under the same umbrella. I just couldn't keep my jealousy from exploding at that point. It was hard to put up an act of coolness while seeing her standing so close to him. Being drenched in the rain, her clothes clung to her, and that made them a bit more revealing. That went a long way in inciting more jealousy in my heart than I could take. “Aiden, calm down…” Ellie let out, making me sound like I was some sort of mad dog who had willed himself away from its chains by mistake. “Hello…” Dylan was smooth and cool while Aiden was being as annoying as ever. “Nice to meet you, Aiden. That's quite a way to thank someone who gave your girl a ride home in this pouring rain. You are welcome and I appreciate it.”“He's my stepbrother…” she was quick to correct the impression I had created, even though she looked like
ELLIE“Yeah…” I had been saying yes to almost everything he had been requesting to do. I just didn't know what it was that came with the cold that made my will to resist liquidate rather too suddenly. I was watching him as he was slowly taking it all off. There were a lot of thoughts running through my head as I was invited by the cold.Aiden seemed ever-ready to fulfill every single one of those desires to the best of his ability. He seemed like he was staring at a wonder when he was glaring at my naked body. “Which dress would you like to slip into…?” Aiden asked as he knew that the weather had made me weakened and I needed someone to at least keep me warm from the cold as I was all alone there.“Just keep me under the covers while I think about what I want to wear…” I said as I let him carry me away to the bed. He slipped me under the covers and he hadn't gotten into the bed for some reasons which were best known to him. “Why aren't you joining me…?”“You want me to…?” He seemed
ELLIE“I'm sorry, Ellie…” Jasmine's apologies weren't amounting to anything as I didn't want to hear them to begin with. She sounded like she was more focused on justifying herself instead of making up for her misdeeds which had left me helpless at the hands of a stranger. I had been trying to tell myself that I wasn't affected by it, but then, I knew more than anyone that it was going to take quite some time before I would get to trust Jasmine ever again. “There were a lot of things that happened, and I was pressured into making that decision… It wasn't entirely my fault. They threatened to leave me behind if I didn't join them… Ellie, please say something…” “You know more than anyone that there's nothing for me to say…” I said as I was trying not to get even madder than I was already. It would possibly lead to me saying things that I didn't want to. Words couldn't describe how I was feeling at that point, as I was trying not to see Jasmine as an enemy even though she had treate
AIDEN“One more…” I muttered to myself as I sunk yet another shot. I was frustrated and I had been trying to get away from it all that time. I wasn't sure what it had been, but I was sure that frustration had been setting in ever since I sent that text to my mother, who hadn't gotten a reply in almost forever.The close contact experience with Ellie also made me frustrated as I had been trying not to let it get to me. But it did get to me. “Fuck!” I yelled out loud as I went over to where I had kept my phone to see if there had been some sort of reply from my mother. ***ELLIEI had never thought that I would ever need to sneak out of the house for a man up until that moment. It felt like I was breaking some sort of unwritten rule somewhere.But at the same time, I was keeping my eyes and ears open for any signs of Aiden anywhere close. I could still hear the sound of his ball bouncing audibly, and it looked like he would be stuck there for a while. That gave me an open path to go
ELLIE“The rules…?” I was wondering to myself as I was making my way back to the house, feeling half disappointed and half pleased. I hadn't been expecting Dylan to be such a handful. He was making himself look like a mystery which I would have to make out time to crack. The more I told myself that I wasn't interested in digging into it, the more I found myself wanting to find out what could be going on with this mystery character that I had run into.I was almost made to feel like I was the guy trying to get a girl's attention, and I hated being put in that position. I strongly believed that it was meant to be the other way around. There were a lot of things I wanted to find out about him, but my pride wouldn't let me ask of it. I didn't want to look so desperate. He was meant to come after me with all he had and hoped that I would be able to open up to him. Why was he such an… I didn't even have the words for him at that point.“Ugh…” I sighed as I opened the door. The fact that I
ELLIE“Where did you go?” Aiden's question caused a deafening silence to fall over the whole house. I was yet to come down the stairs and I just stopped right there as I was watching the whole thing unfold. I couldn't help but wonder what it was all about. First, it had been Aiden being overly curious about seeing his mother leave, then it was him looking all gloomy all through the weekend. And now, it was him confronting her about where she had been all weekend like he was some sort of jealous lover. It couldn't get even more interesting than that. I tried my best not to feel guilty about acting like I was some onlooker, instead of trying to help them sort out their differences right there. I promised myself I would find a way to intervene after I had at least found out what exactly had been going on all through the weekend. “Aiden…? What's the meaning of all this?” Emily was looking just as confused as I was at that point. “What sort of question is that? I'm not your kid for cr
AIDENAt that point, I was praying the weekend would be over sooner rather than later. I was thinking of what could have probably gone wrong with my phone that made the pictures of the chats suddenly get deleted. It was the strangest kind of shit I had ever experienced. I was trying my best not to lose my cool just yet. Though I didn’t want to admit it just yet, my existence was beginning to get a bit boring without a friend by my side. And even worse, without Ellie. I couldn’t make any new friends, and at the same time, I didn’t want to go back to my life of being a player, even though I could easily pick up from where I had left off. Just like I had done with the basketball team and I was doing pretty good at it. All I had for the time being was that ball and there was nothing else to it. It was beginning to get quite boring, but I wasn’t ready to admit it just yet. I missed having people around me, but then I was about to also push away the last person whom I had by my side at e
ELLIE "Kai, what do you mean you're here to take me out?" I asked, trying to hide the confusion and surprise in my voice. I could feel my heart beating faster, not because of excitement, but because I knew this visit wasn't going to end well. "I'm serious, Ellie. I mean every word I said, I want to take you out," Kai replied, his smile widening, reaching his eyes. "I wanted to spend some time with you. Just the two of us. Away from everyone else." I crossed my arms, trying to appear nonchalant. I didn't know what to say or do. As Kai spoke, my eyes didn't leave the door, as I was afraid Aiden might walk through it. I hated these kinds of visits. "Kai, this is unexpected. You should've called first." I swallowed. "I'm sorry for that, I know," the blue-eyed guy apologized, covering the space between us, "But I needed to see you. In person. And to be honest, I didn't want to give you a chance to say no over the phone." I sighed, glancing around the room as though searching for an
AIDEN It felt like my heart was going to be right out of my chest as I was seeing my tears happening right before my eyes. The phone in my hand grew shaky even though I was still filming the scenery of my mother's betrayal of Ellie's father who had probably trusted her enough to leave her all that time to go handle business somewhere else. Regardless of what I felt while watching my mother kissing another man who fortunately wasn't the cocky Dylan who had tried to have a go at Ellie. But it was still as painful as the betrayal that it was. I didn't know what it was that had me feeling just as hurt as the one who was being cheated on. There just weren't any words for the pain in my heart. With total disregard for repercussions and consequences, I drove the car right to where the car which my mother had been parked. I was speeding like I wanted to hit it from behind. There were just too many things that made me feel like I was about to create the biggest scene ever. The tires
AIDEN There was nothing cinematic about the moment as Ellie had remarked over the phone. The pressure of the moment was simply palpable on me as it was all feeling like I was going to get caught or I was going to catch my mother doing something that wouldn't leave my head in a while. For the past couple of moments, I had been following her from behind from the safest distance possible. There had been a few times when I had been close to losing them in the Manhattan traffic, but I managed to stay on track somehow and that had been something to be proud of as I was simply too good at that. Every single moment had me recalling back when I had been following Ellie and Troy. The heat of my jealousy back then had simply been over the limits and that had me feeling like I had been some hopeless stalker, not knowing that ability would come in handy in an even more important predicament. “Please don't be Dylan…” I had lost count of how many times I had muttered those words to myself and
ELLIE "I just hit the road now, and I'm hot on her tracks as we speak," Aiden said through the phone as though he was in the middle of a theft where he was being pursued by a troop of cop cars. "The target vehicle is in view as we speak." "You are sounding like some secret agent right now…" I teased from my end of the line even though the situation was quite a serious one which would tell him all he needed to know about his mother's deeds. "You can say that again. I'm giving her as much space as I can. I just want to see where this car goes from here." "Are you sure this would work?" I asked, still wondering if it was worth it after he had seen some other women like her. I felt like he would be going on a wild goose chase if he would insist on following her to where she was going. "What if you get caught?" "Ellie I followed you to Troy's house one time and you didn't…" Aiden took hold of himself at once as he just realized that he had given himself away with that misplaced stat
AIDENA new day had come and I wasn't sure of the plan that I had in mind as I was soon trying to get myself ready to face my mother who had been the reason for my fallen mood. It was quite annoying and embarrassing that my suspicions were looking to be true at that point, even after all the drama she had used in trying to get away the last time. As I walked down the stairs, to head for the court at the back, I had my eyes open and ready for any signs of my mother. I could almost tell how it would all end if I dared to confront her upfront. There was simply no means of telling that she had been on the phone with some guy named Dylan to whom she had confessed love. That would lead me to defeat all over again. I would possibly have to apologize when she was the one who was at fault. That was one of the worst predicaments for me. "Be smart…" I said to myself as I was simply trying my best to keep it all cool and calm as I had the ball in my hands ready to take out all of the mixed fe
KAIThey were up to something. I just knew it but I just couldn't prove it. That was the main source of my frustration as I held that ball in my hands while I was still trying my best not to take my focus off the ball and the hoop which was the only thing that I could control at that point..But it was hard not to think of Aiden having a good time with Ellie. There were just too many things on my mind as I was trying not to think of anything that had to do with Aiden and that one girl that wouldn't leave my mind. "Ugh…" it was all feeling like I was stuck in some sort of cycle that just wouldn't end. The cycle always began with the sight of Aiden and his so-called sister whom he claimed not to be screwing. After seeing them, the thoughts would just stick in my head and I would need basketball to get it off my head.I sank the shot, but I still wasn't feeling the satisfaction that I used to get from the sport before it became a means for me to get my mind off Ellie. The only thing tha
AIDEN"I think your mother is seeing someone else…" Ellie said with such a sad look on her face.At first, I had been relieved that it hadn't been the news of my scuffle with Gina. But then, I was even more troubled by the fact that a suspicion that I had allowed to fallow when it had caused a lot of trouble the first time, was now popping up from a source that wasn't me. That aroused all my suspicions which had been buried beneath the layers of my conscience. I had swallowed them up the leg time because of my mother who had been hurt by it. But it was all popping out again. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like I was getting to the bottom of the whole thing that had taken place in that awkward weekend which had happened in almost a blur.The memory of the texts was coming back to my head. The words and the emotions that seemed to have been behind them when they had been sent. There was no way that moment couldn't stay etched in my mind which seemed to be susceptible to
AIDENThere was a rush in my very being as I was trying to make sure that I could get to Ellie before the news of me and Gina would get to her. It felt like my rush would all end up being in vain as I was trying not to let it all get to me. At that point, I was beginning to rehearse the words I would use in explaining myself, just in case it turned out that I hadn't been quick enough. I was almost pulling over like I had robbed a bank. I just hoped I wouldn't be asked too many questions about that as all of that was beginning to make me lose my cool. I was willing to do anything to make that save happen.There wasn't any time to look back as I got out of the car and made my way to the front door which I opened with my key, as I felt like knocking would only go on to waste the little time I had even more."What's all this about?" Mother asked as she was thinking of what could have been making me run like there was some fire I was trying to put out somewhere. "What's gotten into you?"
SANDRA"How dare she?" I muttered to myself as I realized that she had hung up on me yet again as she was making a show of her youthful arrogance. Everything about her seemed to remind me of her father, and it was simply annoying that all I could do was stay behind those bars all day and all night while complaining about how miserable being in there had been for me. The thoughts of her father brought me pain, shame, and regret, and that was exactly what came to mind each time I thought of Ellie. That had been why I had gotten so ticked off when she pointed out that I always took it out on her. It was hard for me to think straight at that point.Right there at that moment, I was feeling the pain that came with all of the memories which I had been suppressing all that time. It felt like the canister that had been holding it all together had been popped open by the way that my daughter had spoken to me. I just couldn't wait to get out of there and come teach her a lesson. Ellie had gro