I'll Stand By You

Chapter 11

 Cory smiled at me.

"This..." He said before kissing me.

Those lips. Those perfectly soft lips were on mine once again and I loved it. As we kissed I had major butterflies in my stomach. I could feel him smiling as we kissed so I moved my hands into his long hair.

When he pulled away, he was smiling. I leaned in and gave him another quick peck on the lips.

"I love you."

I think he let that slip because he looked away quickly.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I didn't mean to say that. It slipped." That kind of hurt. "No, no. I didn't mean I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to say it right then. I do love you, trust me." He said, hugging me.

So much had happened the night before. It was one hell of a night. There is one thing that made my night, when Cory told me he loved me.

I was making my way downstairs to go talk to my dad about the night before. He had texted me while Cory and I were parked on the side of the road, told me that we needed to talk the next morning and to tell Cory to be there too.

Cory came around 10 minutes after I woke up. Dad was in the kitchen waiting for us.

Cory looked a little nervous, for what? I have no clue. He done nothing wrong.

"Have a seat." Dad told us.

We both sat down then Dad followed his own directions and sat in front of us.

"First off, Cory, I'm sorry for yelling last night. I just figured it was you, since you two have gotten so close. Second, Thank you for taking care of my daughter." He nodded at Cory. "Now Delaney, we'll talk later." He got up from where he was sitting and left the room.

Cory gave me a small smile and got up from his seat.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"I don't know. Where do you wanna go?" He asked.

"Let's stay here and watch a movie." I smiled.

We went to my room and put in a movie. We laid on my bed to watch the movie and Cory wrapped his arm around me.

"You're amazing." Cory whispered to me.

I smiled up at him and began watching the movie.

Even though Cory and I weren't together, he made me the happiest person in the world. I just loved being around him, he made everything better.

"Thank you for giving me a second chance." Cory told me. "Well, a third chance." He added.

"Thank you for making things right between us. I use to have so much anger built up towards you."

"I had anger built up towards you too."

"Why? What'd I do to you?"

"Made me have feelings for you and I didn't know what they were for. I didn't want to admit to anyone that I had strong feelings for you. I made it look like I hated you so no one else would know how I felt." He paused and lifted my head up so that I was looking at him. "And I am sorry for that. I'm so so sorry for putting you through hell. For making you sick, everything."

I had a major case of butterflies as he told me all those things. Cory had to be the strongest person I had ever had in my life.

Cory stood up and held his and out for me. I stood up in front of him and he wrapped his arms tightly around me. I wrapped mine around him and we just stood there for a while hugging each other.

I could tell that Cory was still upset about the Damon thing and I wanted to ask him about it. As we finished watching the movie I tried to think of a way to ask him about it. I didn't want to start another fight, I just wanted an answer.

After the movie ended, we decided we'd go for a walk.

"You're still upset about me and Damon aren't you?"

"What? No."

"Cory, you can tell me. It's fine, I know I screwed up."

"I am kind of bummed."

"Can you tell me why?"

"Because that could have been me, that should have been me."

Well, that hurt.

"So, it's not the fact that I had sex with someone you didn't like but the fact that he had sex with me before you?"

"No, hell no. I am bummed because if I hadn't left, you could have been mine. You would be mine."

By now both of us were sitting on the cold sidewalk that we had been walking on. I sat there in silence playing with a piece of grass that had grown through the crack in the sidewalk.

"I didn't think that me leaving to get better would take that long. I'm still trying to make that up to you. But don't ever think that I was upset that he had sex with you first." Cory told me.

"Okay."

"I'm not going to have sex with you just because I can like Damon did. I would wait a million years until you had feelings for me to sleep with you."

I smiled at him but said nothing.

"I really did miss you while I was gone. I missed you so much I thought about leaving."

"I'm glad you didn't."

"Why?" He asked.

"Because you would most likely still be doing what you were doing. Then we wouldn't be where we are now."

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Trust me, I am."

"I wouldn't be able to do this either."

He leaned over and was about to kiss me when someone behind us laughed. It was none other than Damon.

"That's a load of bullshit you just told her and you know it. You wouldn't have sex with her just because you could, that's a lie brother. You had sex how many times with different girls for what reason? Oh, that's right just because you could. So, don't fucking go around bashing on me when you are the same as me." Damon laughed in Cory's face.

"Why the hell are you here?" Cory asked.

"I was just in the area and seen you two. Decided I'd come say hello."

I couldn't believe what was happening. I was hoping that the whole Damon and Cory war would be over by now. It was like a never ending thing with these two.

"Well, you did. So leave." Cory growled.

"Actually, I was hoping I could take Delaney to go have some of that sex again." Damon laughed again.

Cory grabbed him by the shirt collar and slammed him into a tree that was behind them. Then he raised his fist and was about to hit him in the face when one of Damon's friends came. I think his name was Anthony. Anthony grabbed Cory from behind and slammed him to the ground. I was about to go try to help Cory when someone grabbed me. They held me there and made me watch as Damon and Anthony kicked and punched Cory until they couldn't do it anymore.

With all the power I could gain I slung my head back and head-butted the person holding me. They almost instantly dropped me.

"Fuck!" The person yelled.

I didn't know who he was. Damon and Anthony stopped when their friend yelled and walked away, laughing.

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