The Quiet Sister✔️

43. Ronan vs. Drew

Nola POV

"I'm sorry I missed your birthday." It was a week after her birthday when she called up Ronan wanting to hang out. When he saw her new car she told him it was a gift for her birthday. "I wished I could have spent it with you."

Why was he so darn sweet?

She reached over and kissed him.

"It was very nice. I should have invited you to the party. I'm sorry." She looked down at her feet. "Sometimes I don't know who I can trust anymore."

He took her hand. "You can trust me, No."

They walked a bit in the park. That was easy for him to say, he had not been pushed into the limelight unwittingly. People friended her to get close to her family, for their personal gain. Tori wanted to get close to Icee. This Ishii girl seemed like a super fan of Tennille, and she was skeptical of that. Now she was working for Tennille and going to live in her house. Not to mention she was in love with CJ.

She could see it in her eyes. CJ was not meant to settle down with one person, the poor girl.

But it was not her business.

"Did you have fun? Get everything you wanted?"

"I have no idea what that means. I didn't want anything. No, let me rephrase. The things I want are not physical. I just want to be left alone."

"You're always so closed off Nola, keeping everything inside. I can't imagine what you've gone through in the last year, but trust me, everyone is not the enemy. You have to trust someone."

She trusted no one. Not even herself. Maybe she trusted her family, and they would not try to harm her. Everyone else was into her for their selfish reasons.

"Why do you like me?"

"What do you mean? I think you're gorgeous and-"

"Beyond the physical things Ronan, because that can change. Tell me what you like about me that is more than my appearance."

"I tell you all the time but you don't listen." He touched her temple. "This right here. You have something special. I don't even think you see it in yourself yet. Trust yourself."

His words resonated in her brain as they finished their walk. Then she did something she was not sure she was ready to do.

"Want to come back to my place?"

He had been to her house, but that was Thanksgiving with her family there. She had never invited him there just the two of them. Maybe she was ready to move things up a notch.

He followed her back to her place and parked his car behind hers. They walked to the front door and she opened it and he followed her inside.

"We should have stopped to get something to eat. Pizza or something, so we could watch a movie and-"

She grabbed him into her arms and started to kiss him. "I am not interested in eating anything." She rubbed her hand down his chest. "Do you want to go to my bedroom?"

She was ready to kick things up a notch.

"This is a surprise," he said with a smile. "And I like it but-"

He pried her away from him, walked to the sofa, and sat.

"But what?" She walked over to sit beside him. "What is it? You don't like me anymore, right? I waited too long and now you're just...you found someone else."

"No...and even if I met someone else the only one I will ever want is you."

She smiled at that.

"I'm crazy about you Nola, and I want you, in every way but I don't want you to just rush things along because you think that's what I want. I'm in this for the long haul."