The Preacher's Daughter

Her Past

      My dad was completely mad at me at this point. I never thought I'd ever hear him yell at me that loud before; lucky my mom had stopped him.
      I didn't have my phone, that was one of my punishments, the other was I wasn't allowed to leave the house unless it was to school and my job.  Which I didn't really mind, I got to see Alex in both places, so I was good.
      Alex would still drive me to work considering we both had almost the same work hours, thanks to my boss. But standing behind a counter while she was only five stores away was pretty distracting.
Costumer after costumer would come in: take orders, give price, take money, give change, make tea, give tea to costumer, repeat. Same old thing over and over.
    My shift ended finally came and the second that it did I bolted down to Hot Topic to wait only fifteen minutes till Alex got off. I sat at the bench directly in front of the store, being the most stalkerish girlfriend I could be.
    Alex looked at me from behind the counter, giving me her adorable side smile and like always I  couldn't help but smile back.
      I finally noticed her walk my way; her shift was over. My smile grew bigger the closer she got to me; closer and closer she got. Only five feet away now and out of no where a voice cried out, "Alex! Alex!"
      A girl about five foot three ran towards her. She wore a tight black Sleeping with Seirens shirt, black vans with white laces, and super tight black skinnys. She had Alex's style, exactly her rocker style.
    The girl got in front of Alex and wrapped both of her arms around her neck. I could see Alex's face over the girls shoulder: her eyes were widened, her jaw slightly dropped a bit, her arms to her side. She was frozen.
     The girl finally let go of her. I started slowly walking over to Alex. As I got to her side the girl was looking straight into her eyes smiling like crazy, her eyes slowly shifted to me then back to Alex. "What are you not happy to see me? Come on." He voice was high, yet slightly perfect.
   Alex was still frozen. Not saying a word, not even moving. The girl turned to me, giving me a strange look. "And you are?" It wasn't hard to pick out the additude in her voice as she questioned me.
     "I'm Nellie. Nellie Vern. And you?" I put out my hand being nice as I always was.
     "I'm Abby. Just Abby; you don't need to know more. Mkay." She took my hand trying hard to tighten her grip.
    Alex disconnected Abby's and mine hand. "Come on. We're leaving. " Alex took a hold of my waist.
     Abby followed. "Oh come on Alex. You can't ignore me. "
     Alex walked faster, each step got bigger. It got harder and harder to maintain her speed all the way to the Jeep; Abby still behind us. "Wow," Abby stared at the Jeep, surprised to see it, "this piece of junk still exist?" She walked to the back of the back window looking through them as she stared at the seats, "we had some fun times back there, didn't we?" She girl winked, looking directly at Alex.
    I turned to look at Alex, as she took a deep breath opening my door, she whispered, "get in, please."
      "Oh don't tell me." Abyy got closer to me, "her? Is she your new girl toy? " she jumped in front of Alex slamming the passenger door hard, "tell me, Nellie, how many time has she took you tot he back of that jeep huh? Seven? How many times in her bedroom?" She gave me an evil smile, "how many in yours?"
     "Enough!" Alex's voice filled with anger. "Stay away from me got that, and most important. Stay away from her!" She took a deep breath, "get in."
      I opened the door, sliding in the seat as Alex got in on the other side. She quickly turned in the car and drove off, driving faster than ever. I didn't say a work not yet, I wanted to wait.
       She pulled up to the drive way, and as she shut off the car she still had one hand gripoung the steering wheel like crazy. I took a deep breath, "Alex?" She nodded. "Who was that?"
       Her head dropped. "Aleclx please tell me. Why was she asking me about-"
       "She's my ex," she cut me off, not daring to look at me, " the last girl I dated before you, she was a mistake. She used me, all I was to her was.." she pasued.
    "What?"
   She turned to me, her eyed saddened, "all I was to her was a sex toy cause that all she wanted from me." She looked away, disgusted in what she had just said, "I hated myself every time, I never wanted it to happened not in the way she wanted it. All she every liked about it was the fun, it was never about love to her, it was just a game. " her voice cracked.
     "Is that why you stopped me, when we first met, back there?"
     She looked at me again, taking a hold of my hand planting a kiss on the top of my palm. "I didn't want to use you like that. And well," she paused again, "I didn't want to do it again without it meaning anything. "
    I looked her straight in the eyes, "Alex." She nodded once again looking away from me, "you know, if we were to ever, you know, it would mean something to me," I took a small pause, "would it mean something to you?" She turned her head slowly, looking deep in my eyes.
     She took a while to answer, soon a smile appeared on her face, "of course it would. "
     I leaned forward, pressing my lips against hers. I slightly pulled back smiling like crazy. "I better get inside. " I reached towards the handle, then I felt her hand touch my shoulder, I turned towards her.
    "Nellie," she took a deep breath, "I love you. "  
      My eyes widened a bit, my cheeks flushed red, a smile began to firm on my lips. "I love you too. " I kept looking into her eyed not wanting to look away. I leaned once again towards her, kissing her again, she pulled me closer and I did the same to her. I pulled back, my eyes still closed.             
   "You should get inside sweetheart."
   I smiled, reaching for the door handle again, I turned around before closing the door behind me. I turned my head to the house, looking up at my window, I pointed to it, "you see that window right?"
      "No. Where. " she laughed.
      "That's my room, and tonight, that windows gonna be unlocked. If you wanna stop by and sneak in, its all yours. "
      She gave me a confused face, and before she could speak I stopped her, "no its not for that, just in case you miss me and wanna talk and all. "
      "What time?"
       "Make it around midnight, or whenever you see all the lights off.  If anything I'll leave a ladder next to-"
       "Don't need it. It should be easy to get up there. See you then cutie. "
     I closed the door, letting her drive off before I walked in to the house.
                             ***
      Me as an idiot had let it slip to my mother that Alex was gonna climb up my window tonight, and surprised to know, she was happy about it. She was gonna help me out in fact and make sure my father stayed in the room.
      Only one minute till midnight and she would walk I any second.
      My heart kept beating fast as the minute changed. She was gonna be here, in my room, me and her for who knows how long. Me in her arms all night even, looking at her, talking to her. Just her presents would mean the world to me.  And I just couldn't wait.
      Minute by minute went by. It was 12:25 and she was still not here. My hope started sliding down. I got up from my bed and walked over to my bathroom, finally losing my hope and admiring that she wasn't coming. I walked through my bathroom door, removing my shirt and pants to change into something more comfortable. I picked up my back tank top from the back of my door. I search around to find my cheer leading shorts I've head for a year now, but couldn't find them. 'I'm so stupid' I thought, remembering I threw them on my bed this morning, I walked back to the door, putting my hair up in a pony tail at the same time. I lifted my head up to see Alex standing right there in front of my bed. She look me up, head to toe. "You know they juts invented these things that go around you waist and cover your leg and all. They're called pants. " she laughed, I looked down, then quickly back up.
     I grabbed I sheets from my bed and warped them around my waist. "You're late. "
     "I know. I'm sorry, jeep broke down. Wouldn't start. Parents caught me taking the bike out from the garage."
     "And you're still here?"
      "Yeah. They didn't care. After all they do know about you."
      My eyes got even wider. "Really? They do?"
      "I tell my parents everything. And telling them about my girlfriend is a big thing. " she smiled, taking a small glance at my door.
     "Its locked, and my mom knows you're here, she promised to keep my dad away from here and in the room. "
  We sat on the floor, talking for hours. She told me about living pretty much everywhere. I told her about living here my whole life. She made me a promise to take me traveling with her once we bother turned eighteen; a promise so big our Pinky's were involved.  By four in the morning we ended up in my bed. Her laying flat on her back with her right hand being her head. Me laying on my side with my head on her chest using her as a pillow and my left leg wrapped in top of both her legs, my left arm around her waist as her left arm was holding me tight I didn't want this feeling to stop. I fell asleep with her, feeling safe, like no one nor nothing could hurt me as long as I was in her arms. I didn't want the morning to come. I wanted to stop time, to keep this moment and never let go of her and her never let go of me.
    This wasn't a normal little puppy love, or at least it didn't feel like it to me. I've only been dating her for a small amount and yet I feel like I truly want her to be mine forever, and that feeling slightly scared me.