On the car ride back home I find myself snatching glances at Sage when she's not looking. Why wouldn't she tell that her father was in jail? Where was her mother? Were her parents divorced? Then who's Creg? Maybe it's the wrong Sage Foster? Then again I have all of these questions flowing through my mind. I take another glance at her, but this time she catches me. She gives me one of her award winning smiles, then looks down.
"What is it?" she asks beaming.
I open my mouth to say something, but nothing comes out. "It's nothing." I lie blandly looking away.
Her smile drops, and she rolls her eyes. "Alex, I don't really know what happened back at your place. But let's at least TRY not make it awkward or... weird." she says keeping her focus to the ground.
Did she really not think much of our moment? Did really just see me as a frenemy? All of a sudden my heart sinks to the pit of my stomach. She just didn't care...
I shove all of these thoughts to the back of my mind. I make a frown with my mouth.
"It's not that." I say acting as if I didn't care.
"Then what is it?" she asks in slowly.
I think for a minute. I might regret everything that is about to come out of my mouth.
"When I was at the pharmacist. He told me something about your family that I am trying very hard not to believe." I say turning my attention towards her.
She frowns "Like what?" she asks obviously confused.
"Uh- he said" I let out a laugh. Sage looks at me like I'm the craziest human being on the planet. Still catching my breath I manage to say "He- he said that your dad... is in jail!" I say cracking up.
She gets a FURIOUS look on her face. Her big blue eyes were basically bulging out of her head, and her mouth in a straight line. After I see this sight my laughter cools down a little bit. And we're quiet the rest of the way home. I soon start to regret what I said due to her silence. When I pull into the driveway we both just sit there looking out of the window.
Breaking the silence I say "But he was kidding right?" she doesn't respond but looks down "I mean you would've told something like that when we were closer, right Sage?" I ask.
I don't know why that set her off so much "See, I don't really know why you wanna know all about my family tree all of a sudden. Because 2 years ago you sure as hell weren't as intrested!" she states to me.
"So he is?" I ask gulping back.
She rolls her eyes and sighs "Ya, maybe. But it doesn't matter!" she yells looking at me.
" God dammit, YES IT DOES SAGE!!!" I yell back.
"Why do you care?!?!?!" she yells. At this point we're basically in eachother's faces.
"BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT YOU!!!" I scream. That took her back a little, and her face relaxes. I let me head fall on the steering wheel. I hear her loudly lean against that back of her chair. I try to raise my head, but can't. I lift my hand up and turn my head so that I'm facing her.
"That's why I can't let you go back to that. That's why for the past 2 years for me has been a living hell." I start. I find the strength to lift my head up to find her looking at me with her lips slightly parted, and her face confused. Her mouth starts to close as I start to lean against my own chair. She turns her whole body towards me and brings her knees up to her chest. I swallow hard staring into her eyes.
"Because I care about you and I pushed you outta my life Sage. You were like my flash light." I say turning my head away from her "And I was walking through a pitch black cave. And I took your batteries out because I thought I didn't need it." I turn my head back to her to find a tear trickle down her cheek. "But it turns out that getting rid of that flash light was the worst mistake of my life. And seeing someone else use it was the hardest thing that I have ever come face to face with." Another tear goes down her cheek. "And right now," I breath "I'm trying to put together the broken pieces."
It's quiet for another few moments, all you can hear are her sniffles. She starts to wipe her nose with her sweatshirt.
"See, A- A- Alex," she spits out trying to stop crying "No- no one has ever really c- cared about me in my life." she cries. I move as close to her as possible till we are in the same seat. I put my arm around her, and my other coming in front of her. She rests her head on my broad shoulder still sniffling.
"And you're my best friend.' she manages to get out in a high voice.
"Shhhhh, shhhhh." I say soothing her. "Shhhhh, it's ok, it's ok. It's over I won't hurt you." I say putting one of my hands in her super soft, golden hair, slowly stroking it. While securely keeping my other around her small frame tight. Her breaths become less frantic and she stops crying. She stays in my lap for a few more moments, and I keep her in my tight embrace, afraid to lose her.
She looks up at me. Her eyes don't even look as though she was crying. They're still bright and blue. I grin at her.
"Thank you." she says softly.
My hands move to her soft, flawless face"I am never... gonna let you go." I say determinely.
She nods her head, and rests her head on my chest. I lower my lips so that I lightly kiss her forehead keeping pressure on it for a few seconds. "Never." I whisper into her forehead "never."
When we finally decided to go into the house we didn't even change into our pajamas. We just took off our clothes. But we were still in our underwear and stuff. He body was seriously built by angels. Her stomach was flat enough to where her hip bones and rib cages were visable. Heer thighs were slim enough to the point were there was a small space between them. Her hair came down to about her bell button. She was skinny, but not too skinny. Her hair was long, but not too long. Her eyes were blue, and the perfect shade. Everything about her was just... perfect.
We soon turned off the lights and t.v and climbed in my bed. We then again stared at eachother. The midnight moon making her eyes a deep sea blue. She was so seductive. I soon pull her very close to me and wrap my arm around waist. She rested her head on my chest, and her fingers tracing along my abs. Her skin was so soft, and her touch left electricity to my body. We fall asleep around 2am. But we would both wake up occasionally and stare at eachother. Then around 4am, the third we had woken in need of eachother, I lowered my lips down to hers.
We were just a centimeter away from eachother, then she moved her hand up so it was at the base of my neck, and i wrapped both arms around her waist pulling her so that our lips crashed into eachothers. Our lips moving against eachothers' and our hands pulling eachother closer. We pulled away in a matter of seconds. Her eyes staring at mine, a small smile appears on both of our faces. She moves her arms around my torso, and I move mine uo to her face. I steal her lips again for one gentle kiss.
And after almost 3 years of being obsessed, I was in love with Sage Annabelle Foster.
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Forever is a Strong Word
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