It’s Saturday now, Aaron bought the excuse of the birthday but he only knows that Jake is going to meet up with him and we’re meeting at Starbucks outside his college. My parents know that me and Kate are going, they weren’t quite keen on it but they let us anyway. I told Kate about the plan on Thursday after the phone call with Aaron, and at dinner we told our parents. Right now we were in the car, me, Jake, Kate and Becky, we’re dropping Becky off at the cousins before going to meet Aaron at 3. Since it’s a 6 hour drive we’re staying overnight but in a hotel which our parents booked and paid for, even the Middleton siblings. We’re in Durango now, on the way to the hotel,
“Becky, we’re going to drop you off at Aunt Ellen’s house because we need to meet someone, yeah. At the end of the day we’re going to go back to the hotel, and leave tomorrow morning after saying goodbye to our relatives here,” Jake explained, she nodded back at him. After about 5 minutes we found the hotel and parked the car, on our way to the entrance. It’s not that fancy but it was looked great and was good enough for us right now, we got our room keys and headed upstairs with our bags, Jake and Becky were sharing and me and Kate were sharing a room. We freshened up and decided to meet up in 15 minutes at the entrance, according to our GPS it would take 20 minutes to get to the relatives and another 20 minutes to get to Starbucks giving us 5 minutes extra just in case there’s any traffic. I dropped my bag on the bed and took out my phone, I quickly texted my dad that we’ve reached at the hotel, I took my charger out of my bag and plugged into a socket near the bed, 15 minutes of charging should help a bit. Once Katelyn came out, I went and freshened up, so it meant washing my face, reapplying my mascara and eyeliner and fixing my hair. Kate’s hair was in French plait whilst my one was combed and left out. I was wearing a maroon jumper with skinny jeans and a dark red beanie on my head. I took my phone out of the charger grabbed my black shoulder bag to go with my black combat boots and my black shades. Did I mention I have a tattoo? It’s on the back of my neck; it says τα αγαπημένα πρόσωπα θα μείνει για… (The loved ones will always stay…), it’s only one half Ron has the other half and Brendon has the full message on his neck but in English and in cursive writing. It’s usually covered but you can only see it if my hair’s tied up, my parents flipped especially my dad since he abides by the laws and that but I didn’t care. I got it when I turned 15, I’ve always wanted one so when I turned 15, Brendon took me to get it and it was someone that he knew so we didn’t have to worry about the fact that I was underage.
Becky and Jake were already downstairs waiting for us, when we came into sight we all headed out to Aunt Ellen’s.
The GPS was right, we got there in 20 minutes probably even a bit less since there wasn’t any traffic,
“Jake, Becky it’s been a long time. Your mum’s told me you need to go meet someone so hurry up and come back quickly, it’s been a long time since you last came here,” Jake hugged his aunt and came back to the car following the GPS towards Ron’s college.
“You nervous? It’s been what 2 years since you last saw him,” Kate asked, am I nervous?
“I’m not really sure, it’s just I haven’t seen him in a long time, he could of changed.” Jake and Kate nodded, Kate should understand how I feel, we both haven’t seen him and we’ve had a lot of times spent together. We pulled in front of Starbucks, and from the window of the shop I could see Ron inside waiting at the far end for someone to come through the doors, now I’m nervous. What if he doesn’t want to see me? He was wearing a white Ralph Lauren shirt with some faded out jeans, his ginger hair was messy as always. See what I mean he is like Ron from Harry Potter! I took a deep breath and we entered the café. Ron stood up, oh god is he angry? What am I thinking I should have just left him alone but I can’t now!
“Danielle? Is that you?” He asked hesitantly, I nodded my head without being able to say a word.
“Katelyn? What are you guys doing here?” Now it sounded a bit harsh.
“Ron…”
“Don’t, my name’s Aaron! Can you just leave?” he asked, seriously the Harris siblings need to stop thinking that I’m going to do that, or am I? I don’t know myself… I shook my head,
“We just want to talk to you Aaron, please?” Katelyn asked, he looked at her and hung his head low and sat back down in his seat. We took a seat opposite him,
“Do you guys want some space? Just call me when you want me to pick you up,” Jake offered.
“You don’t have to, you’ve helped me a lot so you might as well just stay,” I replied.
“Jake you told me you came here to organise a surprise for my sister, please tell me this isn’t it?” he inquired, Jake just shook his head,
“Emily knows we’re back I go to her school now, we both do,”
“I thought when I left, I left everything behind. You guys, what we did, how we were and heck even our enemies.” He assumed.
“Look at your neck Aaron, you should know that isn’t possible,”
“How the hell am I meant to read my neck? It’s bloody written in Greek and I only have the second half,” he questioned,
“You might have the second but you damn well know what it means, don’t use the Greek as an excuse, I said Latin at the time but you wanted Greek so I went along with it. With Us Till the Very End!” he looked back down at his hands in his lap. Jake looked confused, but before he could ask I answered his question.
“We have a tattoo at the back of our neck saying the loved ones will always stay with us till the very end in Greek, I got half of the saying while Aaron has the other half.” With that I showed pulled my hair to the side and showed him my neck, when I turned back Aaron showed the back of his neck that had the rest of the saying.
“I’ve been meaning to get rid of it,” he said bluntly, I shook my head and let out a little chuckle,
“But you wouldn’t, one it’s too painful and two you would never forget the past. You’re the one who got rid of all contact with us, Katelyn can you go to the counter and get me a latte? What do you guys want?” I asked, but they both shook their heads, once she got to the counter, I turned back to Jake.
“He’s here,” I whispered, I had to get rid of Kate if she knew Hell would take over in our house.
“F**k! Here? As in Durango?” he kind of shouted whispered,
“No in Denver where we live, he even came up to me.”
“But he still can’t be after that. I swear if he touches Emily I will kill him,” he choked out.
“Calm down he ain’t gonna go after her, you should know that by know, he wants to challenge me again but I told him I don’t do that no more. Even if I wanted to I can’t, not here,” I stated,
“Does he…” he said moving his head towards Jake but I shook my head. I heard the chair next to me pulled out,
“Here’s your latte, Aaron the Starbucks signature hot chocolate and Jake I got you a cappuccino since I don’t know what you like I got the same as myself,” we all nodded and Aaron gave a small smile to Katelyn for the fact that she remembered his favourite drink when we used to come here. For a few minutes we were just sitting there in silence just drinking our beverages until I felt someone tapping my knee, I turned my head to look at Kate but she was looking outside,
“Do you see him as well?" I gulped. I took my sisters hand in mine.
“It’s ok, I told you we’re in public he can’t do a thing,” I replied softly, I saw Jake and Aaron turn their heads to look out the window and I’m pretty sure I heard Ron swear.
“He really is here isn’t he?” I nodded feeling gutted that he just ruins my sister like that.
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You guys finally met Aaron, found out she has a tattoo, and what it is and why. She finally tells Kate that James is really there, what do you think the secret is and what does James want a challenge for?
τα αγαπημένα πρόσωπα θα μείνει για πάντα μαζί μας μέχρι το τέλος (the loved ones will always stay with us till the very end)
