I stood on my porch frozen while staring at biker boy or should I say Ryder, playing the encounter we just had. I knew it! He was way too familiar, but I just didn’t expect him to be Ryder.
I watched as he walked up the path to his front door, my eyes were glued on him with every step he took and I could barley make out the stupid smirk playing across. Oh, but I knew it was there!
Wait I should probably explain all this to you, so earlier on I explained how my father owns a company with his friend Stephan Strong. Well as soon as their business began to skyrocket they both decided to settle down in Charleston. It just so happened they picked out two houses next to each other, coincidence? I think not. So basically my brother and I spent our whole lives growing up with the Strong kids up until my parents split when I was twelve. The Strong’s had three kids Lynn, Ryder, and Sean . Lynn was the oldest Strong , she was three years older than both Ryder and I , Ryder was obviously the same age as I and then Sean was 5 years younger than the both of us. We did everything together, I considered Lynn and Sean my other siblings, but then there was Ryder he was my other half. I don’t want to go all girly girl here but he was everything to me we didn’t do anything without one another. Also, yes he was my first crush but shhh he doesn’t need to know that. It will just go up to his big head. Now I totally despise them well mainly just Ryder. Being the stupid egotistical boy he is, Ryder just had to go along and ruin our twelve-year friendship, but ill explain that all another time. Up to this current day I have hated him and I vowed that till the day I die I would still hate him. Lets just say I hold grudges really easily.
Back to reality now…. How dare he! He thinks he can just swoop in and save the day and pretend were friends again? Well if he does he is in for a rude awakening! I can’t stand him the thought of him just makes me want to scream. Ughhh.
I stood on my porch for three more minutes until Trish opened the door.
“Aria! You need to come in before you catch a cold!” Trish said while pulling me threw the front door. I thought step-moms were supposed to be cool? “What took you so long to come home? I was getting worried.” Yes, there goes her cool status.
“Sorry something kind of came up?” I replied more of a question than a response.
“You could have called us.”
“ I could’ve if my phone wasn’t trashed.” I said while pulling out my LG Cosmo that was now flooded. I know, I keep it classy with out of date phones.
“Well I understand now, but good news is that I can take you phone shopping tomorrow!” Trish exclaimed with excitement. She has been trying to take me shopping at least once for the past three months I’ve been here but I wouldn’t budge.
I gave her a simple eye roll in response.
“Go up and change, like I said before I don’t want you to end up with a cold.”
And with that I ran up the stairs. With ever step I took I could hear the sloshing from my wet shoes hitting the carpet. After passing what I felt was about a thousand doors I finally made it to my room at the very end of the hall? My room was one of the smaller rooms in the house all it had was a desk, bookshelf, dresser, closet, night stand, and queen bed. But the view from it was amazing, there were three enormous windows that consumed a whole wall and I could see the ocean perfectly. Also every night I could watch the light from the lighthouse on the edge of town spin. It was my own little paradise!
After changing into sweat pants and a plain red tee I made my way downstairs to the kitchen, finding my dad and brother watching a rerun of CSI: Miami on the flat scree in the living room.
“I hope you know it was the brother in law” I said ruining the episode for dad and Tyler. I was trying my best to contain my laughter, which was pretty damn hard.
“Dad!” My brother spoke with a whinny tone.
“Aria…”My dad sighed. Is it sad I find it funny to annoy my brother? Nah.
“ Please, you know you saw it coming” I said laughing.
“Of course I did. So how was looking for a job?” my dad asked quickly changing the subject. He had gotten up following me into the kitchen.
“It was fine. Didn’t Trish tell you she found a job for me at her friends’ new boutique opening down town?”
“Are you talking about Emma?”
“Yea, her.”
“That’s exciting.”
“Not really, but on another note I didn’t know the Strong’s still lived next door. I went all summer without running into a single one of them.” I pointed out trying to pretend I didn’t care, but it was obvious I did.
“ Of course they do. Did you really think they would just pick up and leave Stephan’s whole life and career here? ”
“Eh, I wasn't really thinking about that.”
“Oh, well they just came home a few days ago from spending the summer in the Hamptons. You should really go say Hello, they ask about you and your brother all the time. Especially Ryder, I knew he has always had something for you.” My dad said while shaking his head.
“ Of course he doesn’t like me, its kind of hard to like someone after never contacting them for 5 years.” I spoke with an all knowingly tone. I might have been a bit too dramatic, but I couldn’t help try to hide a smile in after hearing my dad say Ryder likes me. WAIT! Why am I smiling? I hate him and will forever, I made a promise to myself.
“Aria…” My dad sighed…again.
“Goodnight.” I said while opening the fridge grabbing a Pepsi and closing the fridge.
“See you in the morning.” My dad said while walking back to the living room where my brother was currently waiting for him.
I turned off all the lights before making my way up the back staircase that led up to the end of the back hall right where my bedroom was.
I closed my bedroom door, flipped my light switch off and opened my windows before hoping into my bed. I loved to hear the ocean breeze, it was probably the only thing I love here...just kidding. It helped me sleep though which was a bonus.
I grabbed my iPod, which was sitting on my nightstand placing my Pepsi down in spot of the iPod. After turning it on, I checked the time to see that it was 5 minutes to 11:00pm, which was the exact time the lighthouse lit up.
Before putting my iPod away I checked Instagram and noticed I had a new follower request from Stongman12 , I clicked on the name and of course pictures of Ryder came up. He had the typical Mr. Popular account. Nearly a thousand followers while he was following only a hundred or so and all his photos were basically of him and beautiful girls partying. I quickly declined the request before tossing my iPod on my bed. I noticed the lighthouse light up, before I went into a deep sleep.
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