Tania's (Mom's) P.O.V I wake up to a really annoying sound: my alarm clock. Great. It's 4 a.m and I'm leaving for a work conference in New York for a week and 3 days. I quickly take a shower and get dressed in comfortable jeans and a short sleeve top for the plane ride, packing my bag. I go to Alec's room and try to wake him, but no such luck. I leave a note saying goodbye. I walk to Adalynne 's room and push open her door. Aww. My beautiful sleeping angel, hair sprawled out in a halo above her head and she's drooling. "Ady. " I shake her arm, "Ady." How do teenagers sleep this hard?
"Hey mom. What's wrong?" Her voice is raspy and she rubs her eyes."Nothing, just thought I should tell you that I'm on my way to the airport and I'll see you in a week." I kiss the top of her head as she incoherently mumbles something. After that, I take my suitcase and head to the airport after leaving money in the old ceramic pot we have in the living room. Adalynne's P.O.VAfter my mom woke me up I couldn't fall back asleep. Since school only starts at 8, I have nothing to do for a few hours. What to do, what to do?. I'll take a shower. Making sure that my door is locked, I start stripping away my pajamas. I walk to my huge bathroom. Goosebumps arise as my warm, soft fingers touch the cold metal tap. I make sure the water is the correct temperature and step in. Mmm. I let out a sigh of relief. The pressure jets hit the right spot. I wash my hair and shave my legs and stand under the warm water for another 7 minutes. Grabbing my fluffy towel, I step out onto the fluffy mat. I dry off and stare at the nasty blue-purple bruise on my face. I touch it and immediately regret it. Stupid boys.I walk to my cupboard and grab underwear, putting it on a shelf as I turn to the section that has my skirts . I decide on a black, knee length skater skirt. I walk to the rack of shirts and look through the button up shirts... Nah. I go to my t-shirts and get a white t-shirt that has a black pocket. Striding to my shoe cupboard I take a pair of black converse and white ankle socks. Taking my clothing, I place it on my newly made bed. I dry my hair and place it in a ponytail. ~~~After I got dressed, I went downstairs and I'm currently making a toasted cheese sandwich. I check my watch: 07:13. Time to wake Alec up. I turn off the toaster and fill a glass with fridge water, then tiptoe up the stairs and to the left until I reach his room. Half of his body is off the bed and the other half is covered by a duvet (which quite frankly, I'm glad about). I tiptoe to his bed. "Alec, wake up," I say, grinning. No response. I tip the glass over his head and sprint away. That should do the trick. I sit quickly and take a bite of my toastie. "Adalynne-Kai, what the fuck did you do?! You little shithead! " Alec booms. "Why, whatever do you mean, big brother?" I say sweetly and bite my toastie again."You know exactly what you did! " He screams.
Uh-oh. Grabbing my food, I sprint to my room and lock the door.
"Big brother, it's time to get dressed, unless you wanna be late for school!" I giggle innocently.Turning to face my bed I scream. Phoenix is sitting on my bed drinking coffee.
"What the hell, Phoenix! Are you tryna give me a heart attack?" I half scream, half whisper . "Just heard your brother screaming and thought you might be in danger." The petite ginger says as she stands up. She stares at my face, but I can see she's trying hard not to stare at the bruise on my cheek. "How bad is it?" I refer to my bruised face."That's why I brought this." she lifts a make-up bag off of the bed, "Sit. I have a lot of work to do."~~~At 7:43 Phee turns me around to face the giant mirror on my vanity. She did an amazing job, but it's still clear that there is a bruise on my face."Thanks, Phee. By the way, where is your douche brother?" I ask."He's on his way to school already, he's actually in our grade." She says nonchalantly. "Whatever, let's go." I grumble as I pull my leather satchel school bag onto my shoulder before fixing my ponytail and proceeding to the top of the staircase. Let's have a little fun. I sit on the banister and slide down. "Are you insane? " Phoenix screams as she runs down the stairs. When she reaches the landing she shakes my shoulders vigorously. "Nope." I say as popping the 'P'. "Alec hurry the fuck up. I think Phoenix actually likes going to school on time." as soon as I say Phoenix, he pops his head around the corner and slides down the banister.
"I'm here, I'm here, chill your tits." He says as he ruffles my hair. Stupid idiot. ~~ When we get to school the bell rings and we all make our way to class.~~The day goes by relatively quickly with a few questions of why I have a bruise on my face, but I waved them off. Currently, I'm putting my books into my locker, when I turn around I am confronted with a wall. An average height wall, wearing clothing and shoes. I look up and my heart sinks. "Adalynne?" The familiar stranger asks. "Liam." I say, out of breath. He extends his hand, I take it and he helps me to my feet. "What are you doing here, I thought you were in California." He says, clearly shocked. "I was. We just moved about a month ago. I didn't know you moved here. I thought you went to New York." "Yeah we were for about a year and a half then dad got a job offer here in Key West." He scratches the back of his head. I frown.
"You started working out." I touch his muscular arm. He sharply sucks in a breath. "Yep. You still have those frown lines. " he touches my forehead and my body immediately relaxes, I forgot what effect he has on me. I slowly exhale."You never called." I say close-eyed.
"Neither did you, what's on your face?" he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear. He cradles my face.I keep my eyes closed in case any tears escape.
"That's a lie, and you know it; I called and texted every day for a year." And that's when I broke down and turned around to walk away, but he grabs my wrist and pulls me to his chest. I sob silently. He cradles my face and pulls my chin toward his own. He lowers his head and softly puts his lips on my trembling mouth, his tongue sweeps over my bottom lip. He tastes like mint and salt from my tears. My knees buckle underneath me. The familiarity is bittersweet. Liam puts his one hand on the small of my back and the other at the base of my skull. He nibbles on my bottom lip making me gasp, he takes the opportunity, his tongue is as swift and agile as a ninja and is suddenly fighting my tongue for dominance. I allow him to win. I break away.
"Liam, stop." I put my hands on his chest and he looks down at me. I take my bag and leave him standing there, wide eyed and open mouthed. I call Phoenix, she picks up on the second ring.
"You have reached Phoenix." I hear her peppy voice.
"Phee, I need you to pick me up; I can't drive." I sniff.~~ Phoenix held true to her word and was with me in under 2 minutes. We are currently lying in the pillow pit, eating pizza and watching sappy movies. I had explained what happened. "Phoenix, pass my phone, please" I ask gently. "Sure." She hands me my new, crack free phone
I go into face time and call Emma. Emma and I speak for about an hour and I introduce her to Phoenix and tell her about the bruise and work my way up to the Liam debacle and by the end we're all in tears. "Well, honey, you guys had a spark. Why not see if you still have it?" Emma sighs and runs her hand through her long, now mouse brown hair. "Hear me out, think about how good you felt when you two were together, think about how good you could feel this time." She waggles her eyebrows. "I think she has a point, Ady " Phoenix says as she takes another bite of pizza, the cheese dropping down her chin.
"The ginger ninja is correct." My long distance best friend says. "You can't say stuff like that, Emma." I tell her off, fighting the blush that I feel arising. "It's okay." Phoenix laughs, "I like the idea of being a ninja, actually." We talk for another 29 minutes and then my phone dies. So now Phee and I are in the pillow pit. Talking about random stuff. ~~I'm awoken by an alarming sound coming from my window. I grab my old hockey stick from under my bed and go to investigate. I'm about to swing when the person grabs my hockey stick and pushes me to the wall, holding me against it with the stick. He breathes on my neck and I kick him in the stomach.
"What the fuck, you stupid woman!" Oliver groans.
I can feel his heat radiating through the thin shirt (which was the only thing I had put on for bed besides my shorts) . Oops.
"I'm so sorry" I put my hand over my mouth. As he lay there on my hardwood floor groaning and holding his stomach, I do the only thing that springs to mind.
"Do you want coffee? " I ask sheepishly.~~~After the incident I invited Oliver to drink coffee with me downstairs. I'm sitting on the counter, my feet dangling off of it and Oliver is sitting on the dining room chair drinking his coffee. "Shit!" He whisper-shouts as he spills the hot contents all over his shirt, pulling it away from his perfectly defined abdomen.
"You know if you wanted me to take this off of you, you could have just asked." I repeat his words I swiftly lift his shirt up and over his head and his gaping mouth and I smirk. I walk to the laundry room and throw his shirt in the washer, leaning in to put the powder in. When I stand up, Oliver is staring from the doorway. Flustered from embarrassment, I try to rush past him but he grabs my wrist and pulls me to him. I hear his breathing becoming laboured. "The fuck you think you doing? " Phoenix interrupts, I silently thank my lucky stars.
"Uhm, nothing... just came to fetch you. Let's go. " Oliver grabs her wrist and they leave.
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Hey my fabulous glitter pumpkins. I've missed you. I just wanna thank you for actually reading this I know it's not fantastic like After or Silently Falling, if you haven't read it go check it out now. Oh and Tania is their momma
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Kittkatt001 Out *hugs and kisses*
