Her Brother's Best Friend - Aching Hearts Series #2

Unspoken Answers

CHAPTER 12 - UNSPOKEN ANSWERS

"Son of a ..." Jason roared, launching towards the corner they'd just left in a hurry because Emily was heading right there. Though they lingered in there enough to witness his sister entering the cave he didn't even know about (their corner being just a few feet afar), then his best friend entering the same cave and now ...

"I'm gonna chop off his head, I swear!" Jason hissed, ready to wage war, so Vanessa held him back, wrapping her slender arms around him, also trying to calm him down. She'd seen what he had, but differently from him, she was glad about it. Finally Emily was letting herself go. Well, at least enough to enjoy her very first kiss.

"Let me go!" Jason roared, but she didn't move. "Vanessa, let me go! Now! This is his last day on Earth, I swear!"

"No. Don't be stupid. Let them be." He groaned, wanting to push her off him, and he did, seizing her skinny body in his arms like nothing, but she kicked his shin to be put down and he growled in pain, cursing loudly.

"It's none of your business what they do." Vanessa chastised him, arms crossed over her chest, standing there menacingly, as if to dare him to walk past her and go spoil his sister's moment.

Jason glared at her. "It is my fucking business what my fucking best friend does to my baby sister! I told him she was off limits! But no, he's the same asshole he's always been! Ughhhh!" He accompanied that hiss with a violent punch against a tree, so violent that the birds were scared off and flied away.

Vanessa sighed, knowing it wouldn't be easy to calm him down now. He was always so overprotective over Emily. He never showed his love for her in any other way but that one. And judging by how he was losing it, he loved his sister deeply. Well, when was that ever doubtable?

"I'm gonna kill him. I swear, I'm gonna kill him!" Jason continued, pacing back and forth while Vanessa remained there watching him and listening to the obscenities he kept muttering along with painful ways of murdering his best friend.

Vanessa glanced back towards the cave and smiled. Emily was still there, sitting on Riley's lap as they kissed, him seemingly having no intention of letting her go. Vanessa was sorry for Dean, but hey, her best friend's happiness was worth her brother's small heartbreak. Dean liked Emily more than a bit, he was completely crushed, possibly really in love with her, and while it had seemed like Emily liked him too, it was as clearly as the sun that it was Riley to cause her stronger emotions, therefore why divide them?

That's why she stood there like those gargoyles guarding the entrance to a gothic church, waiting for the moment when Jason would try again to leverage on his stronger frame to bypass her. let him try, the feelings she had for him wouldn't let him win. Not this time. For the first time since she knew her, Emily was letting herself go, even only a little, and Vanessa had no intention of letting her overprotective brother spoil all of that. Sure, Riley was bound to get at least a punch in the face at the very least, but for now let them be.

Meanwhile, Emily was still there, in her Riley's arms, him gently roaming her back while still kissing her. possibly, at least five minutes had passed. At some point she'd gasped for air, but he'd only given her a few moments to catch her breaths, then he'd assaulted her lips once more, unable to retain himself.

Emily felt really weird, there was a whole ensemble of emotions swimming inside her and she couldn't really pinpoint them all. All she knew was that she loved being in such situations and she didn't want to pull back, not so soon anyway, but she was also afraid, because the more he gave her such feelings, the more he was bound to hurt her.

He'd leave soon, as a matter of fact, in a few days, and she'd be left alone with her maddening emotions and thoughts again. Riley would abandon her. Like he already had once. And in Boston he'd build up a new life – a real one, that didn't involve her. There was too much distance between them. They'd been really close once, and maybe they could be again, but in a ... friendly way. She was too young, too insignificant to be more than that.