Only You

Chapter 11: Come Away With Me

"So, where are we going?" I ask Liam and change his radio station. I don't like heavy rock that much, I prefer pop or country, I hope he doesn't get offended though. After changing the station several times, I finally leave it on 93.3, it is currently playing Hands to Myself by Selena Gomez. I love that girl so much, I have since I was a kid and watched her on Wizards of Waverly Place.

I finally get to calm myself down. I keep taking deep breaths to control my thoughts and my tears from coming back again.

I know that ditching school isn't something I should be proud of, but I am really feeling sad and angry, and confused. Besides, I don't think that I'll miss that much today, and if I do I could care less right now.

"It's a surprise." Liam answers and makes that beautiful and charming smile I love to see.

"Okay." I simply say. I know he's trying to be nice and gentle with me but I can't stop thinking about Rebecca and my parents, what if we never get to be the family we used to be, that's what will probably happen but I don't want to and I'm freaking out. Nothing like this happened before, so I'm scared.

Liam realizes I'm having mixed up thoughts and by the look on his face he knows exactly what's on my mind, "Allie." He says and I look into his deep blue eyes, "Stop thinking about it just for a minute." He tells me with a soft and comprehensive voice.

"Sorry." I say in a low voice even though there's no reason I should be apologizing. I face the window to prevent myself from crying in front of him again.

"Don't be." He says, "We're almost there." He tells me and puts his hand on my thigh. I look at him and try to smile even though his eyes are on the road. I don't know if this is the right thing to do, leaving school and going somewhere I don't know with a guy that was or is ashamed of being seen with me.

I think I prefer this rather than thinking and crying about my sister at school while everyone stares at me.

When the car stops I take a minute to see what's surrounding us. It looks really pretty, there are a lot of trees, bushes and flowers, a little fountain in the middle of the place, some benches and birds singing and flying around.

We get out of the car and walk to the enormous park, "What is this place?" I ask Liam.

"My dad used to bring me here when I was little." He answers and his look changes, as if he was remembering something.

"It's beautiful." I say, "I've never been here before." I tell him. We start walking into the park in tiny little slow steps. This is relaxing.

"That's because it isn't popular. They were going to destroy it a few years ago and build something else, but something happened at the end, everything was canceled and the park was restored with new plants, trees and more stuff. It was a good change actually." Liam informs me and I smile. I am amazed by the beauty of this park, it looks pretty big and I would love to see it all.

"Can we take a walk?" I ask and he nods. We walk a few feet and without knowing I was holding his hand already. This feels nice, very nice.

"And you visited this park frequently?" I ask.

"Yeah, I spend a lot of time here." Liam says looking directly into my eyes, "When I was younger my sister and my mom would have huge fights at home, screams and yells would fill the entire house. My dad always tried to help, but he would just make everything worse because both of them would end up mad at him even though he was trying to help them." He explains, "I was young but I knew what was happening and I would end up locked in my room trying to picture a normal family." He says with a worried look.