It Was Always You

Chapter Thirty Two

Six Years Later - 2010

Mila unlocks her apartment door and then shuts it behind her. She went to her coffee table and set down her files, purse, and keys. She turned the tv on and went into the kitchen to get herself some iced tea. She was tired from a busy day of work and wasn't quite sure she was cut out to be a receptionist for a law firm. She spent four years of college at the Arizona State university to become a professional business owner.

She had high hopes to run her own Photography company. She loved taking photos of various kinds. Family photos, holidays, special occasions but the ones she loved the most were the baby portraits. She had interned with a magazine company. She loved the photo shoots and meeting with some famous models and celebrities, but she just wanted to do local portraits with normed people. It was too much stress and demands to be a big shot photographer. Too much pressure and competition.

She leaned on her countertop and looks over at a photo of her and Selena and smiles. After she landed at the airport in Arizona, her aunt Sara and uncle Jeff were waiting for her. She didn't say a word as she ran right into her arms and burst into tears. They didn't say anything but collected her bags and headed to their home. Her Aunt gave her till the next day to tell her about everything and she started from the very first day she met Jared and Evan.

She even told her about the kiss that left her embarrassed and humiliated by Jared, something she never told anyone about. She desperately wanted her aunt to understand her situation and hopefully maybe figure out what Mila couldn't.

Her aunt sat there silently, understanding more than Mila could possibly know. She raised her eyebrows when Mila discussed about the night of the dance and Mila told her what Jared did when he took her home. She told her about Selena and Ian, told her about her cousin Kristan and even Evan. She talked about her doubts and uncertainties of being Evan's girlfriend, about her constant arguments with Jared. She even told her about that her best moments were when her and Jared were actually civil with each other.

"So let me understand this my dear, you told Jared that you were going to break up with this Evan boy, but you didn't say this to your best friend?" She had asked her.

Mila frowned. "Well no I didn't."

Her Aunt nodded her head and smiled. "Please keep going."

Mila frowned some more but kept going with her story. When she finally got to the part of Jared walking in on them she became embarrassed and ashamed. Her aunt laughed at her.

"It's alright honey, I put full trust in the fact that even if he hadn't walked in you would have stopped it. Besides, there's nothing to be ashamed about. It didn't happened."

Mila smiled at her and felt a whole lot better. When she got to the part of the fight between her and Jared and the official breakup with Evan her aunt stopped her, "So you're telling me that you were more upset over losing the friendship with Jared then the breakup with Evan?"

Mila felt tears coming on. "Aunt Sarah, I've told you I was already planning on breaking up with him, besides I really value Jared's opinions"

"Yes I know that but like you said to me, you constantly argued all the time and after the way he treated you... " She starts out letting the sentence drop with a slight frown on her face.

Mila didn't understand what her aunt was trying to say. Honestly she didn't quite get it either, but it was the way she felt. She told her the rest of the story and her aunt grabs her in a hug. "You poor thing, and to think your own cousin! If she was my child..."

She let the sentence drop again, feeling angry. "Well you can stay with us as long as you need to love."

After that they enrolled her into high school. She talked to Selena every day as she promised. She met some new friends. She didn't date anybody during her last two years of high school. She was more focused on her work for school and running the doughnut shop her uncle owned. When Selena told her that Jared accepted a college to Oxford in London Mila was shocked and well she didn't know what else she was feeling. All she could tell her was that she hoped he has a good experience.