Broken

Painful smiles (Chapter 12)

Bethany's POV
I start crying soaking wet in the rain and he is just standing there looking at me, "I love you unconditionally but I don't think this'll work this isn't the end of us but it is a break for a while, I will never forget you" and he grabs both my hands and kisses my forehead. "I have to go, I'll miss you" and he lets go of me and gets in his car. I can't even move, I just start crying even more and my clothes and my hair are absolutely soaked. I slowly walk towards my house, when I get up to my door step I run inside and my parents are there staring at me as I run up the stairs crying. I run to my room and slam the door shut and lay on my bed and cry. I've never felt this upset In my life,the fact that at some point in the future another girl will have him breaks my heart. I burry my face in the pillow and I squeeze it tight,I've never felt the feeling of dyeing but this feeling has to be close to it because I feel terrible. I get a text from the boy Derek who ditched me at prom. "Hey Bethany I'm so sorry, I ditched you I didn't mean too I had family troubles to deal with involving my parents.. Do you wanna hangout tonight or tomorrow?" Sure I'd love too we can hangout tommorow I can drive over to your house at like 1:00? "Yea sure that's good I'll see you,goodnight" night. Was I making a mistake? I didn't know what to think I go on my phone and go into pandora and put in my earbuds and close my eyes and fall asleep.•I wake up the next morning listening to Jack and jack "wild life" and I get out of bed and look at the clock and it's almost 12:00. I get out of bed and get a pair of black leggings and a plain red crop top and my black uggs. I put on basic eyeliner and I brush out my hair and go and brush my teeth. I get my black Victoria secret hoodie and my car keys and my phone. And I run down the stairs noticing nobody's home, I walk out and lock the door and walk to my car. I start driving,his house is about 5 minutes away I drive for about almost 5 minutes and I park in the road and walk up to his door. I lightly knock on his door and he opens it quickly like he was waiting by the door. He has a blue tank top on and tan shorts, "hey!" And he pulls me inside. He doesn't know about Crawford and I don't really feel like talking about that. We sit down on the couch, "can I tell you something??" Of course "I just wanted to say that I like you, like I want there to be an us" oh uhmn I just recently was kinda dumped by my boyfriend, you don't know him we only dated for a few days till my parents kinda forbid it. "If you don't feel comtorable with us dating maybe we can take it slowly, just please understand id never hurt you" in my head my mind is spinning Derek is so sweet to me as a friend and the way he looks at me explains how he feels about me. "Please just one chance" okay, and I smile goofy like and I can feel the butterflies in my stomach.

Derek's POV
I feel weird dating her after a guy just had her, I can tell she's broken but I might be able to fix her hopefully. I hug her and she lays her head on me,I know I'll sound crazy but I've loved her for a while but I always believed she was way too good for me. She lays down and I hold her legs over my lap, well do you wanna do something wanna go to the beach? "Sure haha" and we both get up and we walk out the door and to my car. She gets in and I start my car and drive with the radio on. She looks over at me and smiles, we get on a highway and our hands are so close to touching. And it's almost like magic it's like we both wanted to hold hands because we both move our hands together and lock our fingers. She looks down and laughs, we get to the beach and I grab a blanket out of my truck. We pick a spot, there's barley anyone here so it's quite, we sit down and she sit in between my legs and I hold her. I wanna tell her how I feel but I don't wanna go too fast for her.

Bethany's POV
The way he holds onto me is the kind of way where it's like he's scared to let go because he thinks I'm gonna go somewhere. Then he gently pushes my hair away from my ear, "forever??" My heart stopped and I turn to him and face him, are you asking me to be with you forever?? He grabs my hands and holds them tight. In response he kisses my cheek and says, "I wanna be with you until the sun stops setting, the waves stop crashing, and the whole world just falls apart. I want you to be mine until the world stops turning" I I don't know what to say.. "Just say yes" and he grabs my face and kisses me. Honestly at this point I don't even know what I want, he's just staring at me like what am I supposed to do. I lean in and kiss him and he falls back onto the sand and he pulls me on top of him. He pushes me off him and lays me down and leans over me kissing my neck.

I hope you guys like this story I work really hard and I hope you guys like it!! -Anna xoxo