"Our Secret"

Chapter 13

After making out for ten minutes but felt like hours, she finally had to go.

"I'll text you." She says "Just please come get me? Like I said, my mom won't even be home."

"Okay! I already told you I would." I said in a soft voice, moving the hair from her eye, behind her ear. "I'll be there. What time?"

"I'll text you." She said before kissing me and walking towards the door. "Bye, Mrs Parker."

"Goodbye, Mariah."

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I walk into my apartment at about 5:30. I was grading a lot of papers after Mariah had left, so I stayed there a while. I sat on my couch waiting for a call. Finally, at 9:30, I get that call.

She had called me a little later than I anticipated, but I just went with it.

"Hey beautiful." A greatly familiar voice says. "How are you?"

"Hi, I'm good, how are you?" I say.

"I'm good, now I'm talking with you. And soon, hopefully I can be even better, when you pick me up." She says in a flirty tone.

I laugh "Alright. I'm heading out the door now. Address?"

"Oh right." She says as I hear tapping on the phone. "There, I just sent it."

"Okay," I say as I'm walking out the door. "I'm going to hang up now."

"Ugh. Okay fine... I'll see you soon." She says before hanging up the phone.

I giggle a little as I open my car door. I look to my left and see someone walking towards me.

"Grace!" I said shocked at the fact she was here. "What are you- what are you doing here? I was just about to leave..."

"To go where? I just want to talk to you." She says as she puts one hand on my waist.

"Nows really not a go-" she stops me mid-sentence.

"Why? Where are you going this late?"

I panic, and start to sweat a bit. "Uhm... Grace ... please. Not right now I really have to get goi-" I get cut off by the sound of my phone.

It was Mariah. "Shit." I whisper underneath my breath.

"Please can you just let me go with you so we can actually talk?" She pleads.

"Grace, I really, really can't. I'm in a hurry i have to go. I'm sorry. I'll call you, or something." I said getting into my car.

I hated having to lie to her, really.

"You never told me where you're going!" She screams through my closed window.

I roll down the window a crack and say "Grace, please go home." Then drive off.

I called Mariah to see if she'll pick up, considering that she called me in the middle of a Grace confrontation.

"Hey," I start to say "I'm sorry i didn't pick up right away... I was..." I stop wondering weather or not to tell her about Grace. "Never mind, but I'm on my way now."

"Perfect." She said. "That's all i wanted to know. I'm glad your coming."

"Of course." I say "I want you to see my apartment." I laugh "But most importantly, I wanna see you."

"Me too." She says "I'll let you drive. See you soon, sexy."

"Bye." I say hanging up.

I look in my mirror to see a car has been following me. I take a turn, then another, seeing if I wasn't being overdramatic.

"Creep." I say to myself.

As I pull up to what might be Mariah's house, I call her telling her I'm here. "Hey. I'm here. Come out." I say desperate for her touch.

"On my way." She says then hangs up.

I look in my mirror to see that the car that had been following me, was parked behind me. "What the..." I say then stop myself realizing who's car it is.

"Oh shit."

It was Graces.