Guessing Game | d.s

twenty five

my girls😩

avery♥️
hey im gonna fix it with him
i don't need u to help
thank you babes

mads🥰
look at my baby😢
all grown up

bails🤍
our baby**

mads🥰
right ours
go make it right babe
love you

avery♥️
i love you both so please
call off project dravery

mads🥰
WHAT?!?!
HOW DID U KNOW?!?!

avery♥️
im not that much of an idiot

bails🤍
i-
i don't associate with those people

mads🥰
WHO SNITCHED?!?

avery♥️
texas

bails🤍
WTF AUSTIN
JUST EXPOSING US LIKE THAT

mads🥰
revenge time

avery♥️
while u guys do that
i've got to go apologize

bails🤍
okay!!
good luck!!

mads🥰
sending all of my love

avery♥️
bye im in love w both of u

seen

REAL LIFE

Avery knew that out of all the places, Drew felt most comfortable at the beach. He often told her stories about how he would just sit by the beach, kicking sand and watching the waves move. He said that it was his quiet thinking place. Where only the sounds of seagulls squawking and the waves crashing along rocks settled in the air. No annoying chatter from people, no cars honking. Just peace and quiet.

So that's when she found herself walking to the beach that her and Drew had occupied multiple times before. She liked the smell of ocean breeze because that was what Drew smelled like. He used a generic shampoo that Avery found a liking to.

Avery walked with her sneakers on the dry sand as she saw a tall figure that appeared to be Drew Starkey. He was sitting on a log that was covered in barnacles that gave Avery trypophobia. But she sat there, not complaining just so she could be with him, together, like they always should have been.

"Hey" Avery said, catching his attention as she watched him stiffen.

"Hi" he said, an underlying coldness in his tone as he continued to throw rocks in the ocean. He didn't turn around to see her, but he acknowledged her so he wasn't being rude.

"You have every right to be upset at me, but I just want you to know I'm sorry" Avery sighed softly, taking a seat next to him as Drew shifted uncomfortably. "I'm so sorry for what I did, lying to you and overall leading you on when that was not my intention at all. I guess I was scared, of hurting. Of being hurt."

Drew scoffed, finally turning to the girl. "You know I would never hurt you. You should know that.....At least I thought you did."

"Yeah I do, I just was scared" Avery said. "I've been hurt, multiple times. Physically and emotionally. I thought that giving into these feelings for you would subject myself to the same torture that I've been through. There's a reason I don't talk about my parents. There's a reason I don't like speaking about my past. So I'm sorry for not trusting you when I knew I should have and I'm sorry for getting us into this situation in the first place."

Avery felt the tears sliding down her cheeks before she could turn her head to catch them before they fell, but now Drew was here, to catch her everything that fell down and to pick her back up. He didn't know any of this, and now Avery opening up to him felt like one step forward. His heart ached as he wanted to reach out and wipe the tears off her face and hold her forever.

"I'm sorry too" Drew said, watching as she sniffled and removed the tears from her eyes. "I should have been straight forward with you from the second and just admitted my feelings. I guess deep down inside, we're all afraid of rejection."

"I was scared too and I probably could've communicated better too" Avery sighed.

"I have to know" Drew said, "Was it all a game? Teasing me with the obx account and knowing that I liked you for so long. I won't be mad if you say yes, but I just have to know."

"Of course not" Avery gaped at him, "I wouldn't do that to you. At first I was teasing you because you had no clue who I was and saying those jokes were ways that I could flirt with you through the internet and not in real life because in real life I'm not like that. I just don't have that type of confidence and well, I always liked you. I guess, I just didn't really know it myself until we started hanging out more, and when we kissed."

And the tension was flooding the air again. It was filled with awkwardness and the type of communication that they had before. Avery thought it was time to speak on it. They couldn't keep playing these games with each other anymore and they had to decide, if they were going to try being together, or not.

"Yeah, the kiss" Drew breathed out slowly.

"I didn't really remember it. I still don't. I just know that we did kiss" Avery said, "Can you show me what happened?"

"Uh" Drew coughed, "Sure."

Avery nodded, scooting closer to Drew as he felt nerves wash over him. She was in close proximity now and all he could smell was her wonderful strawberry scent. It was intoxicating.

"So well, I said you smelled good and then you said the cookies smelled good. Like the idiot I am, I said that you were pretty and then you said—," Drew blushed, "You called me pretty boy and I asked to kiss you. You said yes."

"So what, like this?" Avery moved Drew's hand to cup her cheek as she leaned in closer. She could feel the change of pace in his breathing as his throat hitched and the heavier his breaths got, fanning her lips.

"Y-Yeah, exactly like that" Drew said, a dazed look on his face as he was mesmerized in her hazel brown eyes.

"And then what pretty boy?"

"And then I kissed you."

"So show me" she said, a new found confidence in her as she felt Drew curve his arm around her waist and pull her in  closer that she was almost sitting on his lap.

He molded their lips together in perfect harmony. He felt her immediately kiss back, her arms cupping his face as she pulled him impossibly closer. The feeling of pure elation flowed through the both of them as Avery felt fireworks explode inside her for the second time. It was deja vu.

Their lips moved against one another as Avery moved to his lap and he gripped her waist tighter. Her lips were soft against his and she tasted like strawberry, just as he had imagine. He was relentless with her, wanting to get as much time with her before she slipped away from him again. He hoped he wasn't dreaming because when he woke up, reality was going to be that much more dreadful.

But he wasn't dreaming as she felt Avery straddled him, her tongue slipping into his mouth as their tongues moved together as one. He would never get tired of kissing Avery, and it was something he knew for sure.

Unlike the woman from the shop, Avery only learned one thing. That Drew Starkey was her soulmate.

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