Never say forever (Never series Book 1) (11 page)

“
Thank you, Aiden. You are a true, gentleman.”

Fuck, am I in trouble.
I will not be able to live with just that kiss. I need more. She has turned me into a fiend. I’m addicted to her.

“
Aren’t you coming?” she asked. I look over and she’s already at the car. I start heading to the car and open the door for her. We get in the car and head back to her house. I’m speechless. I have no idea what to say. I turn the music on. I can feel her eyes keep glancing my way. I want to say something, anything, but the words don’t come out.

We reach her house and words finally seem to come to the surface.

“
I’m sorry I got your clothes soaked,” I say as I glance her way.

“
Its okay, I had a lot of fun. We should do that again.” She leans over and hugs me. I wrap my arms around her, unable to let go. She leans back and pecks me on the cheek. “Thank you for tonight. It was amazing.” Then she walks out.

I grab hold of her arm. She turns around and looks at me with question in her eyes. “I can’t wait to ask any longer. Will you go out with me Serena?” Damn, I just asked her that and now I am fearful of the rejection I have coming. I shouldn’t have asked her. If she
says no, our friendship could be ruined. How stupid can I be?

I don’t hear a response from her. She standing there, thinking. I hope I didn’t make the wrong move. She then leans over and kisses me. She turns around and heads back into the house. She didn’t say a single
word. I’m a little confused now. Was that a yes?

On the drive home, I can’t stop thinking about the kiss. I hope she didn’t think it was unacceptable to kiss me. I hope she didn’t take my silence the wrong way. That kiss was so magical, it left me
speechless. I almost feel like I’m putty. What am I going to do?

I arrive home and get out of these wet clothes. I take a shower and change into my pajamas. I lie in my bed and I smell Serena. She slept here in my bed last night. I can smell the lavender on my pillow. It
smells so good. I am going to sleep great tonight, once my heart stops racing from my emotions. I decide to text her because I need to know for sure that this is the real thing.

Hi Serena

I just wanted to say how much fun I had tonight. I have never shared anything about my mom to anyone. You are the first. I know I didn’t say much on the ride home but it was because I was awestruck. You left me speechless. I enjoyed every bit of it. I am going to take your kiss as a sign that you said yes to
me. Goodnight beautiful, I’ll see you tomorrow.

I stay up awaiting her reply but exhaustion gets the best of me. Before I know it, I have drifted to sleep with Serena and her lavender

scent
invading my dreams.

Chapter 6

Serena

One Month L
ater

I can’t believe it’s been a month since Aiden and I became official. It seems like yesterday he asked me out after our kiss in the rain which made my heart crave for him. How can I say no to a guy like that? One that puts my needs in front of his own and is a true gentleman. A man that sure knows how to kiss. We haven’t gone any further than kissing and he’s been a true gentleman about it. He hasn’t pushed me for anything and that’s what I love about him. He sure knew how to win my heart. I promised I wouldn’t date but how do I turn my back on Aiden?

Over the past month we have been inseparable. We have gone to our secret waterfall place many times.
I’m either at his house or he’s at mine. Larissa still hangs around with us on a daily basis. Can you guess how excited she was when she found out about me and Aiden? I had to cover her mouth she was so loud with her hysterics. She’s good now. She’s happy that I finally caved and I’m no longer the nerd that dives into schoolwork and does nothing else. I guess I have changed. Aiden brought that out of me. I have never been this open with anyone. It’s crazy how a few months can change your life forever.

Everyone at school knows about us. Jeremy backed off after the attack at the beach house. He keeps his distance. I haven’t heard a word from him. In fact, if I’m walking down the hall and he is there, he turns around and walks in the other direction. It really is kind of strange but this is the way I’d rather have it. I don’t need to deal with guys like that when I have my sweetheart.

I don’t think my life could get better at this point. I mean unless Cadence happened to pop back in my life. One thing I have learned over the past two years is that I feel as if I can finally live without her. It took Aiden appearing in my life to realize that. I’ll never stop loving my sister but at this point I’ve stopped caring what happened. Aiden was right. I shouldn’t waste all my time stressing over something that may never happen. I decided to just live my life the way I should and everything else will fall into place. Or at least I hope.

The chants of slut and whore have stopped from the girls. Once they got word that Aiden and I were together, it all stopped. Maybe once they realized because I’ve been with Aiden for a month now, they knew I wasn’t. I’m not all that sure if they know what happened at the beach house. I’m sure they did because Aiden had to carry me out while I was unconscious and I’m sure someone happened to walk in when he hit Jeremy. If anyone knows, they sure haven’t said anything. Maybe it’s out of respect, I’m not all that sure. But one thing is for sure, I will never trust these people at school. Even if they haven’t said anything out of respect for me.

At Lunchtime, I sit at the table next to Larissa. We are both picking at our spaghetti that we really don’t want to eat. That was the only thing left at the counter when we arrived. More food was being prepared but we don’t have much time to eat, so we chose this disgusting glob we call spaghetti.

I start to take a bite when strong muscular hands wrap around me from behind. I can sense Aiden smelling my hair as he leans and gives me a kiss.

“
Hello beautiful,” he whispers in my ear. I feel as if my heart just grew. I’m falling for him hard and he doesn’t even know it. Everything he says and does melts my heart.

I turn around and look in his blue eyes and smile.

“
Hey there.”

“
Oh God, can you people get a room already?” Larissa expressed in her bored tone.

“
You’re just jealous because you’re happy for us,” I teased her.

“
Well, if Mr. Sande was here right now I wouldn’t be jealous or bored,” she fired back at me.

“
You know damn well you can’t do anything with Mr. Sande,” I told her time and time again.

“
I know, I know. A girl can dream though, right? In my dreams I can do whatever I want.”

I’ll let her keep dreaming.

Aiden looks at me and grabs my hand to hold. “So, dance is next weekend. You ready for it?”

I hate that he asks because I really don’t like dances and I wasn’t planning on going. “I guess.”

“
You guess? Don’t you want to go? We can slow dance and you get to see me wear a tux,” he suggested.

That changed my mind. I’d give anything to see him all fancied up looking sexy.

“
Okay. I’ll have to go shopping for a dress. Larissa can help me.” I look over at Larissa and she must be daydreaming because she hasn’t heard anything I said.

“
Wanna go to the waterfalls after school?” He asked me.

“
Sure. Ill meet you outside after school. I’ll send my mom a text letting her know I’ll be home later,” I said as I’m gathering my stuff before the bell rings.

“
I’ll see you later, sweetheart” He leans down and gives me the sweetest kiss that I don’t want to break away from. I’m smiling as I’m kissing him and then the bell rings.

Damn!

***

The final bell rang. I grabbed all my items and headed straight for
Aiden’s car. I saw him standing against the car with his arms folded and a huge smile on his face. I love looking at him. His smile is infectious.

“
You ready?” He asked as he walked up to me and kissed me.

“
Ready as Ill ever be.” Gosh I feel like I’m in one of those sappy romance movies. I swore I wouldn’t be like that. Around Aiden how is that possible when he seems like a true prince charming?

He opens the door for me again, and I enter the car. He starts driving, playing music at full blast. The happiness I’m feeling pours out of me as I start singing and dancing. He looks over at me and smiles. I stop what I’m doing. “What?”

“
Nothing. You’re just so carefree and so happy. I love it. I love seeing you this happy and having so much fun.”

Even though he likes it, I stop. Now I’m feeling a bit self-conscience.

We arrive at our secret place and make it to the waterfalls. He rolls down the blanket on the floor and we both lie down. This is our spot to talk. Well, make out too. We have our own privacy, we can tell each other anything. Sometimes we come here just to lie in each other’s arms while we talk and stare up at
the clouds. Weekend nights, we lie out here and stare at the stars. The first time we laid out here at night, he pointed to a star and told me to name it. I thought he was crazy but when I did, he said that was my star forever and now it shines brighter than all the other stars. It’s nice to get away from the house, away from parents who watch your every move.

We lie on the blanket and he wraps his arms around me and holds me. I could live forever in this moment. This is something that is new to me. I’m not used to feeling this. He must be very tired because I start to hear a light snore. I guess he’s really comfortable. I am always comfortable wrapped up in his arms, my body against his. I start to drift off as well when I hear a faint “my Violet”.

Seriously?! Who the fuck is Violet?! Does he have another girlfriend? That just turned my mood sour. All I want to do is go home. I can’t ask him about Violet because he’s just going to tell me what most men tell me. I don’t know any Violet. He just turned out to be just like all the other men. My momentary bliss just turned into heartache. Just as I was falling for him, I get reminded that sometimes it’s just too good to be true.

I decide to do the only thing I’ve ever known how to do my whole life: Run!

***

Aiden

I woke up suddenly, just realizing that I fell asleep. How could I fall
asleep? I must have been comfortable. I turn around and Serena is gone. I know she was here before I fell asleep. I remember holding her. Why would she leave? I tried calling her, but no answer. I tried texting her but she hasn’t responded. I’m at a loss. I have no idea what happened. The next step would be to call Larissa. I scrolled through my phone and dialed her number.

“
Hello?” answered Larissa.

“
Hey Larissa, Have you seen or talked to Serena today?” I really hope she’s talked to her. I don’t have a good feeling. What if something happened to her?

“
No, I thought she was with you?” She’s starting to sound worried.

“
She was. We fell asleep, or I did anyways. When I woke up she was gone. She’s not answering her phone and she’s not replying to my texts. I’m worried. What if something happened to her?” I say with shakiness in my voice.

“
Ill drive over to her house. I’ll call you as soon as I find something out.” She said.

“
Okay. Please call me as soon as you can.” I end the call.

I’m pacing around not really sure what to do. I don’t want to leave here in case she walked around and got lost. I don’t want to leave her alone. It’s a struggle to not just hop in the car and search for her. I’m pacing back and forth through this damned forest awaiting the phone call to set my mind at ease. My mind is going crazy. What the hell happened?

My phone rang, disrupting my thoughts. I quickly turned it on. “Did you find her?” I ask.

“
Yeah she’s at home. She said she doesn’t want to talk to you. Did you guys have a fight or something? She won’t tell me why she’s mad at you or why she doesn’t want to talk to you.”