My Next Door Bully

Chapter 17

CHAPTER 17 - I LOVE YOU

I don't take myself as someone who does big gestures or goes around gifting people with my love and affection.

I'm a very conservative person, to say the least. I don't share my deep dark secrets with randos or go around skipping through town spreading my joy.

Last year I got my mom and you're the best, mom! mug. She knows me, she knows that's my way of saying that I love her and appreciate everything she does.

So of course, I'm not going to go all 10 Things I Hate About You on Ashton and start singing on the bleachers to confess my love, I highly doubt someone would want to listen to my not-so-beautiful voice.

So I'm going simple, I'm going to go up to him—after I've collected the plastic daisy that was on my car this morning—and tell him that I love him and kiss him on those kissable lips.

It's Friday, game day. I've been to a few of his games, he always plays his best and wins.

And today is no different. I found him standing with his friends (of course not including Cam) near the bleachers getting ready for his soccer game. He's wearing a black and gold striped shirt with black short and sexy white socks (don't blame a girl for thinking socks are sexy).

I run to him and he glances at me, then smiles. He probably thinks I'm going talk to him to tell him to scram and leave me alone because soon he sees me walking pretty fast towards him and he furrows his eyebrows in a confused manner.

"Tessa what—" I cut him off before he could say anything and before I chickened out as I launched myself onto him.

I wrap my arms around his neck and smash my lips against his, he doesn't do anything for a few seconds and I worry that he probably doesn't feel the same way anymore. But he soon wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closer to him (as in pick me up so I can wrap my legs around his torso in front of all his teammates).

Ashton is kissing me back—and quite passionately, might I add.

I pull away slightly and tell him those three big words that I was too much of a coward to say, "I love you."

His grin widens, if it's possible. "God, I love you so much, Tessa."

And he pulls me closer, kissing me again. And once again it's like everything around us disappears and it's just him and I in this world. It feels like a volcano could erupt and we wouldn't notice if our lives depended on it.

I cherish this moment, because in this moment I realize that I found Him. I found the person that makes me happy and drives me crazy and makes me feel a type of way that nobody else can. I found Ashton and I won't let him go for dear life.

"Be my girlfriend," he asks.

"Of course."