Dramatic Summer Love Story

A Horrible End

The last two days of our trip are very chill, we relax on the beach and by the pool and go shopping, out to dinner and get drinks at a bar. The trip has been very enjoyable and we're just finishing it now when Gabe is dropping us all off in Hampstead before he goes back to Westminster and returns the rental car. We checked out and started driving very early, earlier than we did when we went to Floride and so when we get back the clock is just eight.
Gabe stops the car in the middle of town so we can all walk home, we're all fine with it, we help each other get our suitcases out of the car and then hug each other goodbye after a great week together.
"We'll see you guys!" Gabe and Aaron get back in the car after bidding goodbye, they drive off and leave us to walk home. I quickly hug the girls, usually, I and Soph would walk in the same direction but she's going to her mom's work before going home so we separate.
"I'll call you tomorrow okay?" Thomas hugs me and kisses my forehead.
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you to call so you better do it," I say, the girls have already left us so we're standing alone in front of the town's gym. I reach up and kiss Thomas's lips, they're soft and his hands on my waist give me butterflies. My tongue is sliding over his when a car honks at us and stops. I break away from him and look over to the car to recognize the driver as Sarah's brother Evan. He waves me through the window and he's offering me a ride, I quickly kiss Thomas once more and tell him goodnight then I get in the car with my suitcase.
"Hey, I didn't know you were here," I say and buckle my seatbelt.
"Yeah, we made a spur-of-the-moment decision this weekend and took a week off and got here yesterday," Evan explains as he starts driving home.
"So where are you coming from?" I ask.
"I was getting cold sauces for dinner." He points to the backseat and when I look there I see three containers of cold sauces laying around.
"Why's dinner so late?" I asked even though it's not very unusual for dinner to occasionally be late.
"We estimated when you would be back and decided we could have dinner then with you!" Evan says cheerily as he makes a turn onto my street.
"You're so considerate!" I return in the same tone and we banter for a few seconds before we park the car and get out. I stumble out of the car with my suitcase and behind me, Evan has all three containers in his arms stacked on top of one another and I get the urge to push him to make the sauces fly all over but I resist it and into the house, we go.
"Look what I found on the street!" Evan yells.
"What are you bringing here from off the street?" Comes from his sister, Sarah sounds angry and shouts at him to bring it to her to show her what it is. We take off our shoes and I leave my suitcase in the foyer, Even quickly throws the sauces onto counters in the kitchen and then when I'm about to walk into the living room he runs up from behind me and picks me up, he runs into the living room with me shrieking and throws me onto the tongue of the couch where no one is, he makes a show as if he's bringing the thing he found on the street to Sarah, which is me.
When I look up Sarah is wide-eyed and realizing what's happening, their mom is smiling and Dad is out on the balcony peering through the window to try and see what all the commotion and noise is about. A few milliseconds later Sarah hits Evan before hugging me, I'm still on the couch but when I stand up I hug Kirana, Sarah, and Evan's mom.
"Andy, come inside!" Sarah yells. Dad closes the grill and comes in, a big smile spread on his face when his eyes land on me, he opens his arms up and wraps me up.
"Hi Dad," I say as he squeezes me so hard I can barely breathe.
"How was your trip!" He asks and I sit down while he stands back in the doorway of the door out onto the balcony.
"It was great, better at times but fine," I tell them and then they egg me on to tell them about the trip in detail. I do but leave out the traumatizing experience, along with all the sex and clubbing with fake IDs we're not supposed to have.
"Let's go unpack while your Dad finishes up grilling, you can show me all the stuff you bought!" Sarah pulls me up from the couch and we grab my suitcase and go downstairs to my bedroom leaving Dad, Kirana, and Evan to chit-chat alone.
"So tell me, I know you went out at some point, did you meet some guy and hook up with him?" Sarah closes the door before she asks to make sure my Dad doesn't hear anything. I open up my suitcase and throw the dirty clothes on the floor, I'll move them to the laundry room after unpacking.
"No, I didn't because I'm kind of taken," I say with a smile on my face as I make a pile of new clothes and put the others into my closet immediately.
"What!" Sarah sequels. "Who?"
"Thomas Harley," I tell her and her face is still bright with a smile.
"You're kidding, right?" She asks and I shake my head, that's when she must realize I'm being serious and her smile fades away into a serious expression. "You better be careful." She says.
"Why? He's a great guy and would never do anything to hurt me." I say. "At least not on purpose," I add.
"Honey, he's a player, he's dated so many girls and I've heard rumors about him, bad ones."
"Don't tell me what they are, as you said they're just rumors, anyway let's not talk about him, let's talk about my awesome fashion haul," I say and change the subject and start showing her the clothes I bought, we do so for ten minutes before we finish right on time for dinner.
Throughout dinner, many things are discussed mostly Kirana and Evan's lives back in Washington, I barely listen as my mind continues to wander to Thomas, am I in denial of him being a playboy, I can just ask him, hopefully, he'll be honest with me.
We start playing board games after dinner but when the clock strikes eleven I tell them goodnight, I discover my big bed feels empty without Thomas in it and I get the urge to text him to talk but I push it away and close my eyes because I have to go work tomorrow.