Nathan Kingston has been forgotten by the world. A dad that fucked off when he was young and a mother gone days at a time with work he feels alone. Especially since he goes to the most elite private school in the city on scholarship. He's falling do...
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Nathan Kingston
I thought I was going to be late and miss the whole thing when I got home from school and while trying on my tux for the last time, I completely ripped the back of my suit jacket down the center. Then to add insult to injury when I tried to bend over slightly to assess the damage and see if it was salvageable, my pants met the same fate.
I guess that's what happens when you put on 10 pounds of muscle in a little over a month because you have nothing else to do but work out.
After I realized my suit couldn't be fixed I ran around the city to find a new navy blue tux to rent in my size, which is an almost impossible task in itself. I was this close to texting Jackson and calling the whole plan off when the very last shop I could find had a navy blue tux in my size hiding in their backroom.
Swear to god, I almost kissed the saleswoman on the mouth.
Since I didn't even have time to run home, the store let me use one of their dressing rooms to change and I threw the new suit jacket on over my collared shirt, and slid into the pants as fast as it would be humanly possible
I stumbled with the bow tie and after several failed attempts to tie my bowtie, I asked the saleswoman if she could help me. She tied it gleefully, telling me that I reminded her of her grandson before his prom and she was happy she could make the night right for me.
I didn't tell her that only one thing could make my night right, and it wasn't the suit.
It was standing right in front of me, draped in sparkling navy blue fabric.
Ivy's face looks in utter shock as she opens the door to reveal me and I'm in shock for a totally different reason, feeling the breath be knocked out of me as I take in her beauty.
"Nathan?" She whispers in a question.
"I love you." I blurt out, saying the only words my brain can think of now.
"Thank god you got here when you did," Jackson buts in, "we were about to leave I was getting worried." He crosses the room and slaps me on the back, completely ignoring the moment happening in front of him.
Ivy is still staring at me in shock, her brother's words doing nothing to knock her out of her trance.
"What?" She whispers a few moments later when she regains her voice.
I shrug myself out of Jackson's friendly hold and take a step towards her taking the hand that's not wrapped around the door handle into my own, "I love you, Ivy Matthews."
"You love me?"
"I love you," I say with a nod, "and I waited way too long to tell you that I do."
"I love you, too." She says, her voice stronger and her eyes sparkling as she looks up at me.
