Pull Me In Like A Riptide (Wesley Stromberg Fanfic)

Chapter 3: What Are We?

**Kayla POV**

I woke up to the sound of construction workers next door drilling away on their tools. It was still pretty early so I laid in bed for a while and checked my social media accounts. Nothing really exciting was happening on Twitter, or Instagram, so I decided to go get some breakfast. I walked downstairs to see my mom already awake and cleaning the house. "Morning, honey! How was your sleep?" "Um it was pretty good, the construction workers are being loud next door though." I said.

I continued to make myself a bowl of cereal and sat down at the table to eat. "So Kay, tell me about your little date last night with Wes.." My mom started to trail off. I just kinda laughed at her, " It actually went pretty good, mom." She smiled at me and said "I hope you two last, me and Lauraine always hoped you two would get together." I gave her a little smile and she went back to cleaning. My mom was definetly my best friend. Especially ever since all the stuff happened with my dad, she's all I have.  

Breakfast was kinda silent, I could tell my mom had been acting different since my dad left, but I knew she was slowly recovering. I still feel bad about what happened. All of it was my fault, or at least that's what my dad said. But I didn't let him bother me anymore.

**Wesley POV**

Today I had absolutely nothing to do. Which is a good thing, Live Shows start in about a month and a half, so we had some time off. I walked downstairs and sat on the couch beside Keaton.  "So you and Kayla really hit it off the other day, huh?" Keaton said looking at the ground. "Yeah, I hope we did. I think she likes me and I definitely like her." I said back.

"That's really great, Wes. It's so weird seeing her all grown up now. Like, we all used to be so close! It's good to have her around again." "Yeah, bro. I agree. I mean, our moms used to talk all the time about us getting married one day, but I never actually thought we would end up even liking each other. I mean, I think we like each other." I mean, I hope she likes me. it would be nice to be her boyfriend. I decided to call her and see if she wanted to have dinner tonight. Mainly because I really wanted to see her again.

"Hey Kayla"

""Hey Wes! What's up?"

"Um do you want to come over for dinner tonight? Your mom can come too if she wants, but I just really wanna see you again."

"Um, sure that sounds great!" She said.

"Cool. So I'll see ya later" I said before I hung up the phone.

**Kayla POV**

After I got off the phone with Wes,  I decided I would go ahead and get ready before I went to the Stromberg's tonight. I invited my mom to go with me since I knew she would want to. Plus, she's leaving for a business trip tomorrow for a week, so she probably would want to see Laraine again before she left.

I took a shower and put on my makeup. I picked out a white tank top and some jean shorts. I decided to leave my hair curly, only because I was to lazy to straighten it. I spent the next few hours on the internet because I didn't really have anything else to do today.

 "Kayla are you almost ready to go?" My mom said, while knocking on my door. "Yeah just let me get my shoes." I said while digging around for the sandals I wore last night. 

I grabbed them and slipped them on and we headed out to my moms car. I shot Wes a text that said

*Hey my mom is coming with me, you sure that's okay?*

He responded  *Yes! That's totally fine. Would get my mom out of our hair too, lol*

I put my headphones in and listened to music the whole way to Wesley's house.

**Wesley POV**

I was just chilling on the couch talking to Keaton when the doorbell rang. My mom got the door and I walked over to give Kayla a hug, so did Keaton. "Kayla remember Drew?" Keaton said pointing at Drew. "Oh yeah! You look so different! I haven't seen you in so long!" She said as she walked over to give Drew a hug. Her and Drew started talking and our moms headed into the kitchen. I walked over to Drew and Kayla and stood there for a second. "Hey, Kayla, lets go upstairs to my room okay?" I said grabbing her hand as we walked upstairs alone.

We got to my room and I shut the door behind me. We went out on my balcony again and sat there for a while talking about basically everything. "So Kayla," "Yes?" she said turning to look me  in the eyes. "I just wanted to say, that I'm glad our moms started talking again, and I'm glad we started talking again." 'Yeah! Me too. I'm glad we have gotten to spend some time together.  I mean I haven't really had 'friends' to hang out with ever since my dad left and stuff so it's nice to have your family around again." She said. I sat up from my chair and put my arms on the rail of the balcony and Kayla did the same. She leaned in and put her head on my shoulder. I was really starting to like her.

I looked at her and she looked at me and giggled a little. "What?" I said smiling. "It's just, this has all been so weird." "A good kind of weird." We both smiled at each other and then I kissed her. The moment was so perfect. I realized that she was the girl I wouldn't mind loving forever. And I never would have thought it,

**Kayla POV**

I didn't expect that. I mean, I did, but I didn't expect it to feel like that. I didn't expect to fall for Wes. But I totally was. Hard.  We went downstairs and ate dinner, which was spaghetti, and we hung out with Drew and Keaton for a while. "So, are you guys like, together now?" Drew asked curiously. Me and Wes looked at each other because honestly, we didn't know. "I guess so!" Wes said with a smile. I looked at him and smiled and then Keaton said "Aw! I remember when we were little and you used to get mad at Wes for trying to hold your hand!" We all started to laugh and I laid my head on Wes's shoulder and we all continued to talk for a little bit.

"Kayla, I'm leaving are you ready to go?" Mom said suddenly appearing in the living room. "Actually, could Kayla stay a while and I'll bring her home later if that's okay?" Wes asked. "That sounds fine, bye Kayla I love you." My mom said blowing me a kiss as she left. "Love you too!" I said kinda loudly as she walked out the door.

"So do you guys want to watch a movie?" Keaton asked. "Sure! Which one?" I asked. "Um Final Destination?" Drew suggested. He put in the movie and Wes and I had the couch to ourselves. While Keaton was on the smaller couch and drew sprawled out in a chair, the movie began to play. I cuddled up to Wes and got comfortable. Probably 10 minutes into the movie I began to drift off into sleep.

I woke up the next morning in Wesley's room next to him. I guess I was so sound asleep he brought me up here instead of taking me home. My eyes were only opened for a few seconds and then my phone began to ring. I didn't recognize the number but I answered quietly trying to not wake Wes.

"Hello?" I said with a froggy voice, still half asleep.

I dropped the phone and started to cry when the voice on the other line began to explain why they had called. "Whats going on?" Wesley asked rubbing his eyes. I told him and he wrapped me in his arms as I started to cry harder.

My world became blurry and I didn't know how to react. Was this even real? Did it really just happen?

WOAHH what do you guys think happened? Cliffhanger I knoww. Keep your eyes out for the next chapter. It will have some answers. Sorry if this chapter is kinda..not written well. I didn't really know how to say some things and it was getting kinda.. I don't know. Feedback? Thanks for the reads! Comment what you think happened :D LOVE YOU ALLLLL