My Sunshine

Chapter 11

A/N: Hi guys! Sorry I haven't updated in forever, but here it is! I want to dedicate this chapter to @fanfic84 for inspiring me to finally update. I'll keep this author's note short, but I just also want to say thank you so much for reading my story and I hope you enjoy!

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Zach led us up to his bedroom, which I remembered from the lunch with his family. I was surprised to see that there was no one on the second floor of the house. Zach must have closed it off so nobody could get up there. 

As soon as we got entered his room, Zach shut the door and walked over to sit on the bed. For a minute, there was a silence, and all that I could hear was the faint sound of the music playing downstairs. 

"I've been trying to get ahold of you for the longest time," Zach said, his voice barely above a whisper. He didn't look at me, he just kept his head down, staring at his hands. 

He looked and sounded so sad, and even though I had no idea why he could possibly be the sad one, it still broke my heart. "I know."

"So, you've just been purposely avoiding my calls?" He said, louder this time. It sounded like he was accusing me of something which annoyed me, but I ignored it, trying to remember the reason why I came here in the first place.

"What did you expect me to do? Pick up and hear you tell me all the reasons why you just want to be friends?" I sighed, crossing my arms over my chest. "I was a mess after you rejected me, Zach. I wasn't ready to talk to you so soon."

"But, you were ready to talk to Cason," he spat out. He sounded angry now, and when he finally looked up at me, his blue eyes were filled with rage.

Seeing him get angry over me hanging out with Cason just pissed me off even more. He was the one who rejected me, and even if he hadn't, he had no right to tell me who I can and can't hang out with.

"You can't be serious," I scoffed.

"Are you two a thing now, is that it?" Zach asked, getting up from the bed now, to stand in front of me. "You couldn't get what you wanted from me, so you go to Cason?"

My jaw dropped open. I could not believe he just said that to me. I had never heard Zach be as harsh as he was being to me in that moment.

"Cason and I are just friends!" I shouted at him. "Besides, why would you care if I was dating him? It's not like I mean anything to you."

"You honestly think that you don't mean anything to me?" Zach said, moving closer to me. "After all the phone calls and voicemails, you still think I don't care about you?"

"Don't you get it Zach? Even if you do care about me, it's never going to be the way that I want you to. I want us to be more than friends, and no amount of phone calls is going to change that. But, you've made it very clear that you don't feel the same way that I do. I can't just be your friend, Zach, and if that's all you want from me then maybe I shouldn't have come." 

I sighed and turned around to walk out the door. If Zach didn't feel the same way about me as I did about him, then there was no point in torturing myself by just being his friend. It would hurt, but I had to do it. And even though I knew the rest of this summer would probably be hell, there was nothing else I could do. 

I hadn't even made it two steps away from him, when Zach reached out and grabbed my arm, spinning me back around and pulling me in for a kiss. 

As soon as my lips touched his, it was like everything went in slow motion. I hadn't kissed many people in my lifetime, but I could only imagine that this was as good as it gets. His lips were soft as they moved against mine, and I finally understood what everyone meant when they talked about sparks flying.