You Only Ever Who You Were

Ariana's house

Mika’s POV

            I don’t know how long we were sitting there. In front of the school. Me and Ariana. I think she began to fall asleep while leaning on my chest. The sun was starting to set. Her face was so peaceful, so beautiful, and so perfect. She was my angel. She started to stir when my phone started ringing.

“Mika?” she said softly.

“Sorry. I have to take this.” It was Yasmine. Ariana smiled and wrapped her arms around me. “Kay, kay.” she said. I answered the phone and Yasmine was screaming so loud that I hoped Ariana wouldn’t hear it. “Mika?! Where are you? You’re two hours late! Where in the hell have you been?” I tried my best to be calm and said

 “Relax. I’m just hanging out with a friend.” I glanced at Ariana and she was still holding me. I smiled. Yasmine started speaking again.

“Oh my gosh. Why didn’t you call me? I had to ask my friend for a ride home!” Oh crap. I forgot to drive her home.

“Look, I’m sorry Yasmine. I’ll be home soon.”  I hung up and Ariana started to sit up a little.

“Do you need to go—oh God Mika!” Her eyes widened when she looked at my face. I grabbed my face and my check still hurt from Russell’s punch. She started to reach for my face and stroked the bruise.

 “I’m so sorry Mika. This is all my fault. What are your parents gonna say? Oh they’re gonna hate me, huh? Oh god Mika I’m..just so sorry. I can’t explain. I’m just…” she started crying again. I hugged her and she stopped and she started hugging back. She jumped and let go of our embrace and said, “Hey! I’ll just bring you to my house and I’ll do something to help that. I’ll try to cover it up or something. Yeah that’s what I’ll do. Come ‘on let’s go!” She grabbed my hand and we left the school in her car.

Ariana’s POV

            When I saw Mika’s face I felt my stomach drop. There was a terrible purple bruise left on his face from Russell. I felt my eyes start tearing up. I practically did this to him.

“I’m so sorry Mika. This is all my fault. What are your parents gonna say? Oh they’re gonna hate me, huh? Oh god Mika I’m..just so sorry. I can’t explain. I’m just…” I covered my face and cried. I felt so bad for what happened. It was all my fault. I wish there was a way to cover it up. And that’s when I said,

“Hey! I’ll just bring you to my house and I’ll do something to help that. I’ll try to cover it up or something. Yeah that’s what I’ll do. Come ‘on let’s go!” I took his wrists and pulled him off the ground and we ran in the shadows to my little white car.

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            When we arrived at my house fifteen minutes later, I saw that my brother’s car was in the driveway. Frankie, my brother, was kind of protective of me so I wasn’t sure how he was gonna react to me bringing home a boy. I pulled into the garage and Mika and I got out, and then went inside. Mika was looking around the garage fascinated. He looked especially at the picture of me and Frankie as kids. And then at my parents’ wedding picture…

“That’s my family.” I said softly. It was just my brother and me now. My brother was amazing but he would always be found at work. He was mega talented and I adore him. He is the perfect brother. He takes care of me and loves me. He kind of has to. He’s all I have left. My parents. My glorious parents; they passed ten years ago in a fire at work. They owned a little sandwich shop and it burned down. It was the most horrific day in my life. Mika looked at me and smiled “They look so nice. Will I see them inside?” He was looking kind of hopeful. He was so adorable. I stuttered, “Uh-u-um. Well it’s just Frankie and I now…” I said looking down. His eyes turned sympathetic. He walked towards me and lifted up my chin. “I’m so sorry.” he whispered. I reached out and wrapped my arms around his waist. Geez he was tall. And slender and adorable and nice and funny and amazing, and sweet and… But I didn’t like him. I loved him. As a friend. As a brother.  He hugged me back and hung his head so that it touched my shoulder. Then we heard the door open and the light from inside the house flooded in the garage.

“Ariana?” Oh no. Frankie. Mika understood and let me go and so did I. “Hi!” I said and ran into him while he attacked me in a brotherly, loving hug. When we let go Frankie looked Mika up and down and then asked, “Who’s your friend with the bruise?” I looked at Mika and felt my stomach drop again. Ugh. It looked really bad. “This is Mika,” I said walking towards him and we linked arms, “he’s just a friend.” Mika waved to Frankie and said “Hi. You must be Ariana’s--”  

“Brother.” Frankie said abruptly. Mika paused politely and offered his hand to shake. Frankie looked at it and turned to me again “Why is -ahem- Mee-ka here?”  I noticed that Frankie said it very seriously.

“I brought him home to introduce him to you and I wanted to help his cheek recover.” I said touching Mika’s  face tenderly. Frankie straightened out and said. “I need to talk to him first.”

Mika’s POV

             Ariana’s brother was quite rude to me. I don’t think he trusted me. Or even liked me. After he told Ariana that he needed to talk to me, she looked at me and walked into the house while Frankie shut the garage door hard. It was just he and I in that quiet dark room. Then he got close to my face and hissed “Listen you, Ariana is my sister and if you do anything. Anything! To hurt her, I’m going to be so angry with you, that I can guaran-tee that you will never see her again. Under-stood?” I nodded and said “I swear on my life that nothing will happen to her.”

Ariana’s POV

I listened through the door to whatever they were saying but there was nothing. I heard footsteps and backed away from the door quickly and Frankie smiled at me and whispered in my ear, “One hour and he’s gone.” He walked away and I welcomed Mika, finally, into my home. We went straight to the kitchen and I grabbed and bottle of water for me and a fruit iced tea for Mika. “How did you know?” he asked when I handed it to him. I laughed and said “I see you drink it every day, silly.” He laughed and said “Thanks, love.” I tried to ignore that. I knew he liked me but… I just didn’t know if I could like him that way.

I lead the way to the largest bathroom in the house and scooted a chair from my room into it. “Sit.’ I said pointing to it. He obeyed my command while smiling. “What are you going to do?” he asked me.  “Shh. The master is working.” I whispered while pressing a makeup brush to his lips preventing him from talking. I began to apply concealer to his bruise and it disappeared. I finished it off with a little powder and the bruise was not noticeable at all. I stood back and gave him a mirror.

“Wow.’ he said looking at his cheek from all angles. I dusted off my hair and said “I’m so sorry, Mika. Hopefully your parents won’t notice anything.” He looked up at me and said, “oh my dad left us a while ago. And mom’s on a trip right now. But my sister is probably pissed that I’m not home right now.” he added with a cute crooked smile. I smiled back. “Okay, good. Now, I’ll come by your place in the morning and I cover that up for school tomorrow. But later tonight, wash that off and ice it, kay?” he nodded and stood up. He put his gentle hands on my waist and kissed me on the top of my head. Wow he just made a bold move. I looked up at his eyes and smiled. He whispered “I should go.” I grabbed his hands from my waist and held them in front of us while I leaned in to peck him on the cheek. “Yes. You should.”  I whispered back. We quietly left and I drove him home to his beautiful home. It was two stories and had little white lights wrapped around the tall trees in front. The outside walls were covered with brick and the front door was made of heavy wood. Mika unbuckled his seatbelt and whispered “Guess I’ll see you tomorrow then. See ya, Ariana” I smiled and we hugged one last time and I watched him walk up to his house. He was so sweet. Maybe I could like him. As a boyfriend. I think I really liked him actually. I sighed. “We’ll just see how things work out tomorrow.” I said to myself in the dark night of my car. I drove away and couldn’t wait to see him again.

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