I Love You... With 1/3 of my Heart

Stolen Kitchen Kisses

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It all started on a Saturday. The first Saturday of our senior year to be exact. The guys and I are hanging out at my house watching movies. This is normal but I can't relax like I usually do, because Chris and Aiden brought their girlfriends, oh joy. I invited them over because my dad seems like he's in a bad mood today and he acts normal when the guys are over. He doesn't think they know. I still remember the day they all found out, I was thirteen.

Flashback

It's getting so hot, I mean couldn't the mall learn about a little thing called 'air conditioning'. Jeez, Lewis' mom had to drive all the way out here to drop us off because apparantly Fairhope isn't big enough for a mall. Right now I'm sitting in between Aiden and Lewis in the food court and it is really hot! Why I am wearing a sweater in the middle of July is between my father and I. Okay no one is looking I can probably roll up my sweater sleeves for a little, just as long as I keep it under the table. Ahhh that feels so refre-

"Hey, Alex, what's that on your arm?" Aiden asked. Of course he would be the one to notice.

"Nothing." I said, quickly pulling my sleeves down I couldn't believe I had just done that I mean how stupid could I get?

"If it's nothing then let me see." he said, this time with a more serious tone.

"No, it's cold. Come on dude let's finish our food I'm starved." Was my feeble attempt to try to change the subject.

"Hey what's going on?" Lewis asked noticing the tension between Aiden and I.

"Nothing." I said way to quickly. Even I could tell I was being way to obvious.

"Alex, let me see your arms." Aiden said with so much severity that I wanted to run and hide.

"You know you can trust me." Lewis said, joining the conversation.

"I know that but can we please just not talk about this, I'm begging you guys." I said as my last-ditch attempt to get out of it.

"No. Come on." Aiden said grabbing me by the arm and pulled me to our secret place Chris and Aiden followed suit.

There's a bookstore in the mall that hardly anyone goes to and it just has rows upon rows of books. We always go to a corner that is completely secluded from the rest of the store to talk about the big stuff. When we finally got there Aiden just cut the crap and pulled up my sleeve.

"Holy crap." Chris muttered when he saw it.

"Who the hell did this to you?" Lewis asked, barely above a whisper.

It looked really bad; from the palm of my hand to my elbow was the word "bitch" in sharp letters spelled out in my now-dried blood.

"My dad." I said not wanting to meet any of their eyes.

"That bastard. Why haven't you told anyone?" Lewis asked steadily growing more and more pissed.

"She can't. He's the DA. There's nothing she can do about it and neither can we. All we can do is be there for her and help her survive this hell that will be the next five years and then she's free." Aiden said with so much sincerity that I know understood why he was my friend.

Aiden isn't just the funny guy in the back. I mean that boy has a heart of gold. There's simply no denying it. He would give you the shirt off his back if you even looked like you needed it.

I looked at him with a new respect.

"I would understand if you wouldn't want to be friends anymore..." I said staring at the floor.

"Are you insane?!? We love you too much!" Chris exclaimed.

"Hey you're too loud I'm going to have to ask you to leave." the bookkeeper said escorting us out.

Once he had oh-so-kindly escorted us out we took one look at eachother and kind started cracking up. When we finally came to our senses we shared a look and didn't speak of it, the rest of the day went just fine.

End Of Flashback

Anyway we're all in the garage on the couch. Lewis has his arm around me, Chris and Mary are having a popcorn fight, Aiden is in a corner making out with his girlfriend of the week, yes I said week. Girls just throw themselves at him, but it's kinda entertaining to watch. This new attention started after winter break in seventh grade. At first he tried to ignore it but when you're a senior that has a six pack and your extremely sweet and hot and to top it off he's in a band, lead singer, so you know he's kinda cocky but girls still like him it must be pretty hard to ignore him. Now let me try to remember her name... Nicole.... Nicolette..... Nikki got it!!!!!!

"Um Nikki, and Aiden we're about to start the movie."

"Oh okay." Aiden said fixing his clothes and hair.

We were watching Inception. It's an awesome movie.

In the middle of it we ran out of popcorn, because we all kinda got in a huge popcorn war. Oh, crap my dad. I'll ask the guys to spend the night again.

"Hey do you guys wanna sleepover, Lewis, Aiden, Chris?" I asked giving them a knowing look.

"Okay" they all said quietly

"Umm Aiden will you come with me to get some popcorn?" I asked

"Sure." he said getting up as he winked at Nikki. Manwhore.

When we got there we stuck the popcorn in the microwave.

"So Nikki seems like--" I started to say but I was cut off by him kissing me.

My immediate response was to kiss him back. I threw my arms over his shoulders and I tangled my fingers in his hair. His tongue made its way to my bottom lip and begged for entrance. I complied. Noticing my reaction, he smiled into the kiss. He then picked me up and put me on the counter. I guess all the feelings I've been represing just exploded into the kiss. He pulled away for a minute to breathe and he said: "I remember the last time we kissed. I've missed this."

Okay this might confuse you guys but this isn't the first time we've kissed. We were in eighth grade, I hadn't had my first kiss yet and I wanted to learn how. Lewis and I were already together but Aiden was my first kiss. So technically I cheated on Lewis. Slut much?

LEWIS!!! What am I doing?!?!

"I can't do this. I have a boyfriend." I said

" Alex I just want you to know that I love you, I always have loved you and I always will love you." he said.

I was just in complete shock over this and had no clue what to say. Right then the microwave dinged.

"Popcorns done." Was all I said before I grabbed it and ran to the garage. HE LOVES ME AIDEN WEBBER LOVES ME! I might love him too. But I can't; I love Lewis. But I've never had a kiss like that with Lewis. I love Lewis not Aiden though... Right?

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Authors note: Okay well not alot of you guys are voting or commenting. please do I would truly appreciate it. I wrote this story when I was going through a really tough time and this and music were the only ways I got through it so I would love some feedback. Oh I changed this from when I originally uploaded it so if you're re-reading it and it seems different that's why. The amazing Aiden banner on the side was made by greydays so a special thank you :) dont forget to....VOTE!!!!