Be My Forever [COMPLETE]

Chapter 99

I got home from work, wanting nothing more than a long nap before picking up Valerie and Claire. To my shock, the front door was open. I walked in, with caution, and searched the house. I hoped and prayed that nobody else was- or had been- in my house.

As I was searching the kitchen, I felt a pair of arms wrap around my body. Startled, I let out a scream.

"Guess who," I heard a familiar voice say, followed by a kiss on the cheek.

I turned around, and there he was. I was greeted by the familiar piercing blue eyes I fell in love with.

"Toby, what are you-" I start to say, completely in shock.

"I quit. Look, Spence, I thought it over. I was a huge jerk. I'm sorry I left. I love you so much."

"I love you too. I'm sorry I got angry." I said.

Toby kissed me, then picked me up and spun me around. I felt like I was seventeen again. Then I remembered about Alexander. I can't just act like that kiss didn't happen.

Toby took a bouquet of flowers that had been sitting on the counter, that I just now noticed, and handed them to me. "These are for you." He said, kissing my cheek.

"Toby, there's something I need to tell you." I said.

"Can it wait? I want to take you and the girls out for dinner." He said.

I felt the guilt eat me alive. It felt like a stab in my stomach. "No, actually it can't."

I could see Toby's facial expression change immediately. "What's wrong, baby?" Toby asked, taking me to the couch.

I sat close to him, and all of a sudden, I began to cry in his arms. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I said.

"Spencer, talk to me. What's bothering you? Why are you apologizing?"

"When you left, I thought you hated me. I thought you didn't love me anymore." I started.

"That's not true, baby. I love you so much. Don't ever doubt that."

"But I did, Toby. And it made me do something awful."

Toby looked confused. "What?" He asked.

"I kissed someone," I admitted, "but Toby, I swear, it meant absolutely nothing and I felt terrible the moment it happened. I promise it'll never happen again. Toby, I love you. Please don't be mad." I explained the whole story to him. I told him about how Alexander was hitting on me, and how I kissed him.

Toby looked hurt for a second, but he nodded his head. "I'm not mad. Who was it?"

"What? Toby, it doesn't matter."

"No, it does matter. You may have thought he was flirting with you, but Spencer, this sounds like it could've been sexual harassment."

"Toby, your making this more complicated than it needs to be."

"Okay, fine. Maybe I'm crazy. But I want you to say the story again."

I sigh, and repeat myself. As I talk, I slowly start to remember what happened today.

"It's fine. It's not everyday I'm visited by a beautiful woman like yourself." His blue eyes were glowing, and his dark hair looked soft.

It wasn't until now that I had realized that his hand had been slowly crawling up my leg, until it reached the end of my skirt. His breath didn't smell of peppermint as I remembered before. As I look back now, he reeked of an unexplainable foul scent. His eyes weren't glowing, either. They were beady and rat-like. His hair was oily and greasy, and not soft like I once thought.

He wasn't adorably hitting on me like I thought before. I saw what I wanted to see. I heard what I wanted to hear. He wasn't calling me beautiful, like Toby does every day. He was calling me 'hot' and 'sexy', and treating me as if I were an object. He asked me to do things with him- things that I didn't even know existed.

Toby was right. This wasn't flirting. This was sexual harassment.

I looked down at my phone, and somehow, Alexander had gotten ahold of my phone number and had called me seven times.

"I'm going to the school and getting that creep fired." Toby said.

"Toby, please don't make a scene." I begged.

We went to the school, and sure enough, Alexander's office was completely empty. There had been no signs of him anywhere.

"Hi, what happened to Alexander Thomas? He was working here earlier today."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, we don't have anybody by that name who works here."