Forever Immortal

Chapter 44: Forever Her Boyfriend

"Riley you okay?" I looked up from the bench I was on. She stood there in her cheerleading uniform. "You look super pale, well then normal." She brushed her fingers in my hair away from my face.

"Think I could be sick." I felt terrible. Uncle Kevin says it could be from the moon getting closer. I went to sleep in most my classes. "I can't ride the bus with you today and walk you home. Standing with my grandparents since I'm sick and my mom won't be home." Sophia kissed my forehead.

"That's a good idea." I took her hand and looked at her.

"I need you to do something for me." I didn't give her a chance to ask what. "Don't go out Thursday night." She looked at me.

"Why?" She asked.

"I have bad feeling, I just don't want anything to happen to you and I'm not there to protect you." Which was true, she was human. I didn't want her to be out during the big full moon. She made a face, one that I've never seen before. "What's wrong?"

"Sometimes, I get this feeling you're not telling me something." Sophia pulled her hand away from mine. It made me feel bad.

"Sophia, I would never do anything to hurt you. I care about you alot. Sometimes people do things to keep the people they love safe." Which I now see what my parents were doing. "They don't do it hurt, but to protect yet it still comes off as hurtful. What I'm saying, everything I do is for good reason." She raised an eyebrow at me.

"Is it another girl?" Her question was so blunt, it took me by surprise.

"No." I answered back.

"Drugs? Something illegal?" She really want to know.

"No and no." I wanted to know what she was thinking, but I told myself I would never do that. Her thoughts were her own.

"But there is something you aren't telling me?" I couldn't lie to her.

"Yes, there is something I am not telling you." Sophia's eyebrows arched into a mix of frustration, confusion, and anger.

"Why can't you tell me?" I pulled her hand and she sat next to me. I could see her eyes that down the road I would have to say something to her. I couldn't keep this from her forever.

"Because, I'm honestly not ready." She looked at me. "I can't tell anyone and it's not anything like abuse or rap or with my sexual orientation. It has to do with me as a person. Once I tell you, it will change everything between me and who ever I tell. And I'm just not ready for the change that happens after. I'm not ready to look at a world where my secret changes how you see me. Or where you aren't in my life because of it." We both sat there not say anything. But she let me hold her hand.

"What if I'm ready to know?" Sophia asked softly. "You're my boyfriend, and I would like to know. Whatever it is I can help you."

"Sophia, it's not as easy you think. I'm not ready for you to see me as anything other than your boyfriend Riley. I honestly don't think you can handle it." I don't think she would ever see me the same.

"You would still be my boyfriend no matter what Riley." I looked at her.

"Even if I was a vampire?" It came out before I knew it. Sophia smiled.

"Yes, even though they aren't real. So whatever it is just tell me." If only she realized I just told her. If only she knew I really was a vampire. I could play the "if only" game all day but no matter what she still couldn't know.

"I'm not ready." Was all I could answer. She looked at me not knowing what to really say, but thinking really hard.

"Will you ever told me?" She asked next. I came closer to her and put my arm around her back. I pressed my lips to her. I deeped the kiss pulling her close as moved my lips against her's. I could hear her taking in a deep breath. She squeezed my hand a little. I let go and looked her blushing face. I never wanted to see a day where I couldn't kiss her or she wasn't in my life.

"I promise I will, but will you wait till I'm ready." I could hear her heart beating fast and her hand was shaking. "No matter how long it takes, will you wait till I'm ready?"

"Yes." She said softly. I smiled softly and kissed her cheek.