bad boy kisses (completed) ✔

34. Protecting Her

"Heaven knows your name, I've been praying to make you, come here by my side. Without you, a part of me's missing."

—The Book of Life

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[M A X ]

"There's something I want to tell you Sophia. It's pretty important...For your safety." I tell her once we both are standing on the doorstep of my place. She looks at me with concern, her pale blue eyes holding so many questions in them.

"What? My safety?" Sophia croaks and I can tell she's worried. I take her hand in mine and press a soft kiss to it.

I'd never ever be tried of kissing her, that, I know for sure.

"Just...be careful at all times, yeah?" I smile at her, thinking that I'm not scaring her too much.

"Max, you're scaring me. What aren't you telling me? Tell me, please." She presses her forehead against mine, our warm breathes mingling.

How am I ever going to tell her that Jack is after her and wants to hurt her so badly?

"I'll tell you soon. Okay? Remember what I told you, be careful at all times and be cautious. Don't leave the house at late nights and absolutely don't get drunk, it's easier to take advantage of someone then." I point a finger at her to emphasise my point, I just hope she gets it.

If something happens to her, I would never be able to forgive myself. I already blame myself for what happened to Leah, and now, if something happens to Sophia, there's no way in hell I'd be able to ignore that.

Sophia smiles at me politely, something that makes me go yada yada for her. "Sure, anything else, mom?" Sophia playfully hits my shoulder, making me laugh.

"That's all I can think at the moment. I'll tell you later if something else crosses my mind. Because," I came closer to her, standing above her figure, "Because I'm not taking any chances with you. For you are mine."

She looks at me, ambushed, but soon recovers, "I should go now," Hearing that, my lips tug into a frown.

"Yeah well...do you want me to walk you?" She smiles at me and takes my hand in her own, entwining out fingers together. "I love you, Max."

It's funny how if she had said that a few months before, I would've laughed straight in her face. Not only her, but anyone, for I knew that nobody truly nobody loved me. But now that I think of it, it feels good to have someone by your side to tell you that that person loves you, and would do anything for you, that you mean the world to them.

I never thought I'd experience that, and with the school nerd? Haha, very fucking funny.

"I love you too, boo." I kiss her cheek as we walk into the distance of the roads bending into the distance. Since she lived just a few blocks away from me, it really wasn't a bother.

Once we reached her doorstep, I pulled my hand back from her warm grip, silently cursing for why I did that.

"I'll go now. You be good and remember what I told you. Okay?" Holding her face in my hands, I kissed her forehead.

"Jax and Darcy are right. We're so gross." She chuckles and I smile.

"Well, let them say that. They don't know what they're talk, talk, talking about." Sophia widens her pale blue eyes at me, gasping.

"What?"

"You know what."

"I really don't." I laugh, unable to contain my laughter now.

"I'll ignore it because of course, the dear readers reading our fucked up love story got that." She crosses her arms on her chest, her eyes turning to slits.

This is just such an adorable sight. I could watch it all day.
"Hi readers, you all are Max's bitches." I wave stupidly everywhere and jam my hands in my pockets after that. 

The cold wind blowing by us. I notice a frown on her face and I face palm, "Okay, fine. Not bitches, fine? God, such a good girl."

"Then what?" She unlocks the door before producing a key from her jeans' pocket.

"Max's princesses.." I kiss her cheek once again and move back. "I'll be going now, Nash is expecting me soon." I tell her and walk off without waiting for a word from her.

Nash is still a sensitive topic between the two of us. I avoid talking about him in front of Sophia because I know she feels uncomfortable with it. Though Nash hasn't even seen Sophia in so long, I trust him with her again.

I'm not blind, of course Nash had feelings for Sophia and who knows if he still has, though I doubt it, with Lucy in the picture with him.

Despite all, I trust Nash. He's more like a brother to me and I've already ignored him much about what happened that night at the amusement park.

My walk from home consisted of thoughts about Sophia and Nash. Did he still love her? Why did he love her in the first place? He knew she was a bet so why? I'm not even sure if he was telling the truth when he said he had feelings for her.

"Ugh! What the fuck!" I groaned and yanked my hair from their roots. It's funny how I had so many questions but no answers to them.

This is what a love triangle is like. Huh.

"Nash." I whispered when I spotted him on my doorstep, a cigarette between his lips, blowing out the smoke in rings.

"Want one?" He offered and I took one, putting it between my lips. He passed me a lighter which a lit the cigarette with.

"Thought you'd never take one. You're the good boy now, aren't you?" He smirked draping an arm across my shoulder. I shook my head, "Nah man, you know what girls make you do. She's got me wrapped around her pinky. It's hilarious."

"Well, then I have got bad news, bro." Nash kills the cigarette but crushing it under his boot as he hands me an envelope.

My name was scribbled on the top.

Fear washes over me and it's not soon when my hands start to shake. "Max, it's okay. I'm here, alright?" I feel my best friend shaking me by the shoulders. I nod at him for I am too numb to utter a word.

"Why didn't you open it?" I ask to which he shrugs.

"It was addressed to you. Why should have I opened it?" He states matter-of-factly.

"You already know who's it from." I tell him and he sits up straight.

"I didn't want it to open without you, Max. Just open the damn thing. I want to know what the motherfucker wants now." He spits. I tear open the envelope and inside, there was a yellow paper which had five words written in the middle of it...

With blood...

"You know who's next Max."

Then the initials 'JM' were scribbled. It's him.

The worst part of it was that I knew who was next, next to be murdered. Nash took the paper from me and read the words for himself, his position stiffens as his head snaps in my direction.

"Sophia." We both whisper at the same time.

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