Destination: Beautiful (It's back!)

Chapter 13

The question lingered in the air. As the seconds ticked on, the tension built. By the time I regained the ability to speak, I could cut it with a knife.

Hollis cleared his throat and I watched his emotion change from hopeful to accepting. He looked away, and shifted from me. I leaned against his shoulder and kissed his cheek.

"Of course." I whispered, and I swear I hadn't seen someone smile so brightly. It felt good to mean a lot to one person. Even if it is a bit selfish.

He kissed my cheek eagerly and removed me from his lap.

"You want to stay?" He asked hopefully.

"I would, but I have to go home tonight." I smiled, and he smiled back half-heartedly.

We said our good byes and I left my boyfriend's (eeeeeeep!) house.

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Hollis' POV.

Elle left at ten, I really didn't mind seeing I would probably be seeing a lot of her now.

I hadn't had a girlfriend in about two years. Kate didn't count, I just liked to fool around with her.

Elle is different. I'm a guy, so I can't explain it like I'm one of those faggots with long flowing locks in a romance novel, that would be strange.

I felt like I had to tell someone, but I don't really know who.

I could call my sister, but she has a girlfriend, and they're not even the hot kind of lesbians, they're the grungy kind.

My brother is in the army. I would love to talk to him, but we don't know where he is.

My last resort is my friend Levi. We haven't talked since he moved to long island, but when we do talk, we pick up right where we left off.

I picked up my piece of crap cell phone and dialed his number.

"Hello?" He answered groggily. He sounded like I woke him up or something.

"Hey Lev, its Hollis."

"Oh hey bro."  He sounded less than enthusiastic.

"You alright man. Is that a...baby?" I heard small, muffled cries in the background which sounded like it could be the T.V. or a live infant.

"Uh yeah,"

"Why?"

"You remember Sadie?" Sadie was a girl that lived in our neighborhood. She hung out with all the guys, never with the girls in the neighborhood, until we grew up and she found it awkward when we checked out said girls.

"Yeah."

"Well, we met up for dinner, you know, to catch up, and one thing led to another..."

"You got her fucking pregnant?!" I said,more shocked than anything.

"Yeah. His name is Aiden, hes 3 months."

"Well, congrats." I said blankly, no way was I sharing my news now that he cracked that one on me.

"Yeah, It kinda sucks. I need to get out. You feel like getting a few beers?"

"I wouldn't mind it."

"Good, meet you at Blue Zoo in an hour." he said and hung up.

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Elle's POV

I walked the warm New York streets a happy person. I had a boyfriend. A guy who I really liked, and was going to treat me right. No games, no shit.

I walked quickly up the steps to my apartment. I hoped Holly and Amy would approve. I knew Holly wasn't the biggest fan of Hollis, but she could grow to like him like I did.

I fiddled with my key in the lock. I tried four times but it still didn't work. I jumped when the door knob turned and someone opened the door.

"Ella."

"Will?"

"Hey," he let me into my own house and sat on the couch, I sat next to him and gave him a perplexed look.

"Your roommate let me in." Of course she did. I'll never get through to that girl.

"Why are you here?"

"I wanted to talk to you." He said innocently.

"I told you I didn't want to talk about it." I said, my voice raising an octave.

"Ella calm down. I just think its important that we do."

"You can't force me to talk, Will."

"I can't. I know. But I can try to make you listen."

I nodded for him to go on. He cleared his throat.

"I missed you Elle. When I was gone, I thought about us a lot. I know I can only blame half of it on hormones and being young and reckless. The other half was because I loved you, I-"

"You didn't love me. You used me as a plaything. I was there, so you took advantage."

"That's not what it was. Ella, I did things with you because I wanted us to be real. You just never acted like you wanted it. So I tried to persuade you."

I didn't need to hear this today. Not today.Maybe a week down the line, but Today was my rainbow happy dance butterfly day. (Great name I know.) I just wanted it to blissful.

"I think you should leave." I said coldly, not looking at him.

"I want you back." He pleaded.

"You never had me."

"Please Ella."

"I'm not single." I said sharply and I saw the pain in his eyes. I didn't mean to hurt him, well I sort of did, but it didn't feel good like I thought it would. I guess when you have those feelings for someone, they never really go away. They're just replaced by a fondness, never regret. You should never regret anything, because at one point, it was exactly what you wanted.

He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by my phone ringing.

I rummaged through my knock off Prada bag until I found my  buzzing phone.

"Hello?"

"Heyyyy b-baayyyybe." It was cutting in and out and they're was loud music playing in the background.

"Hollis? Are you okay?"

"I'm betterr than okay" Oh, he was drunk.

"Where are you?" I sighed.

"A-a-a Beatles concert..."

"Hollis the Beatles broke up in 1975, two of them are dead." He wasn't making sense. I heard the phone make a noise and some guy scream something about someone named Hank.

"I loveeeeyouu" He slurred.

"Hollis, I think you should go home."

"Naw. Imma gonna stay at the party."

"Alright, just stay safe, don't drive. Bye."

"Bye bayyybeeee"

I sighed and leaned my head against the couch, what a night.

"Is everything all right?" Will looked at me in that way where it looks like he can look inside your head, and just knows whats going on in there.

"I'm- I'm fine.Could you please go though?"

"Sure." He gathered his things and left, looking back to give me one more indecipherable look. I collapsed on the couch and let out a cry that was years late.

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Hey:) Sorry its short and the POV switched a lot, It just had to be there.

Love and Kisses

-Abbi