"Well hello Mr. Grace. I didn't know you were coming in today." Emily stated after she walked to the table, she kept smiling at Aiden.
"Please call me Aiden and I come in every day. You know that."
"I know but Kelly said you weren't coming in today." She kept smiling, "I'll be right back to get your orders."
"Okay." He chuckled.
"Kind of looks like someone has a crush on my brother." Stella whispered once Emily walked off.
"Who Emily? Yeah, she does have a small crush on me, but she's only 19 and I'm 32."
"Age is just a number." Stella giggled.
"She right." Madison piped up.
"Hi, what can I get you guys?" Kelly walked over and asked.
"Hey Kelly." Aiden said to her.
They told her what they wanted then after she came back with their drinks, Aiden introduced Kelly to the girls.
"So you're the infamous Stella Grace." Kelly spat out.
"What do you mean by that?" Stella asked her confused.
"I know who you are."
"Yeah, Aiden and my parents were one of the richest people in this town."
"I don't know you through that. I believe you know my fiance."
"Your fiance? I don't know you and so I don't think I know your fiance."
"Oh yes you do. Well he knows you that's for sure. His name is... Shane Myers."
"Wait, you're... you're engaged to Shane Myers?" Stella choked out.
"Yup, we've been together for 2 years now." Kelly said to her, "He's never stopped talking about you to or, well his friends."
"Oh." Stella frowned.
"I was told you really broke his heart, but I mended it up. You should have just stayed away."
Aiden jumped up, "Kelly, that's enough."
"I'm just stating the truth."
"She right, I should have just stayed away." Stella stood up and walked out with MacKenzie and Madison following her.
"You can just go ahead and clock out then head on home."
"You're firing me?!"
"For what you did, yes. That was uncalled for."
"You can't fire me for that."
"I am the owner of this place. I can do what I want when it comes to how my family and my customers are treated."
Kelly groaned and stormed off. Aiden walked outside and seen his sister with her friends sitting in the bench outside.
"I'm sorry sis, I didn't know she would say that stuff."
"It's okay, it's not your fault. Anyways, she was right though, I shouldn't have came back."
"Kelly doesn't know what she's talking about." Aiden told her.
"You're brother is right." MacKenzie agreed.
"Maybe she's just jealous because she knows you were Shane's first love. She said he hadn't stopped talking about you. And the fact you came back might make her feel threatened." Madison explained as Aiden and MacKenzie nodded.
"So who started this whole rumor about me running away?" Stella asked her brother.
"Our mother, people started questioning why you left. She didn't want to say the real reason so she came up with the lie that you ran away. Of course dad just went along with it. How about we go back to the house to finish this conversation."
"Okay, let's go."
"Hey, can you drop Madison and me off at the hotel this way you two can talk and spend time alone?" MacKenzie asked.
"If you want you can take my car back to the hotel but you two can also go sight seeing or whatever you want. Aiden can bring me to the hotel later. You don't mind do you Aiden?"
"Of course I don't mind."
They went back to Aidens place and then the girls took Stella's car and left. Aiden had a latte maker so he made him and Stella some lattes. They sat down in the living room and finished the conversation they were having.
"So why didn't dad speak up and tell the truth about me going away. Tell people mom sent me away because I was pregnant."
"I don't know why but I wish I did know. I tried telling the truth but something always got in the way. Like right when I would tell someone the phone would ring or someone else would walk in that I didn't want to know the truth."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah and with mom saying you ran away it brought up questions because the same day that you got sent away, Shane took off. So of course mom decided to say that you and him ran away together. Well as it turned out he didn't run away. He went to Washington DC to visit his grandparents. He had proof of that also."
"Wow."
"I never told anyone but I did talk to Shane after he came back. Well he was asking where you went but I couldn't tell him although I wanted to. He said that he went to our grandma's house and you were freaking out about her passing away. He said that you had fallen asleep. That mom and dad showed up. Mom threw a fit because you two were with each other, but anyway he told me when dad took you out to the car that mom told him to either go away and leave you alone or pay for the consequences."
"What are the consequences?"
Aiden shrugged, "He told me that she didn't say what they were. And dad told him if he loved you that he would go away."
"Oh."
"Listen, I know for a fact he's not over you. A part of him still loves you Stella. I don't know how big of a part but I do know there's a part of him that still does."
"Well. " Stella reached into her shirt and pulled out the necklace Shane bought her years ago, "I'm not over him neither. This is the necklace he bought for me for my 16th birthday. I never told anyone but you, MacKenzie and Madison that I have it or how I got it. Hell, I never take it off."
"That's cool that you still have it."
"Mhm, I feel so bad because I never got to say goodbye. Before I fell in love with Shane I always heard that you never forget your first love. Well I know now that's true."
"His parents still own that deli."
"You mean Myers deli is still open?"
"Oh yeah, they still have a lot of business that come through the deli."
"That is just amazing." She exclaimed as the doorbell rang.
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Gone Without Goodbye
Mystery / Thriller⚠️ I own All rights to story ⚠️ ⚠️ Contains Smut ⚠️ Stella Grace was born into a rich family and fell in love with a middle class boy. Not long after she turned 16, they sent her away to a school for girls because she became pregnant. She didn't g...
