Ava's POV
"Drew, wait!" I called after my brother as I ran barefooted across the front yard.
"Don't talk to me."
"Drew, please.." I grabbed his arm. He jerked out of my grasp and continued to look in the opposite direction
"Ava, I can't even look at you right now. I need to go find Aiden."
"You're not gonna tell him, are you?"
He turned to me, his eyes blazing with anger, "Tell him what? That I caught our sister in the shop, letting Parker Stevens undress her? Hell yes, I'm going to tell him."
"He was not undressing me, I'm in a bathing suit."
"Why the hell were you even out there with him? You had no business being in there."
"Oh and you did?" I shot back, "So what, It's okay for you and Aiden to have sex, but I can't? We're triplets Andrew, I'm younger than you are by 9 minutes. Maybe it's time you starting treating me like an equal instead of like a child."
"I have never treated you like a kid Ava. I had a lot of respect for you because you had respect for yourself. You don't go around acting like what I just saw in there. I don't know that girl and I'm ashamed to call her my sister."
"That's because you don't know me, Andrew, you never have. You know perfect little Ava who does what everyone expects of her. You and everybody else in this damn family have such high expectations of me. I'm supposed to obey all the rules and be home before curfew and never sneak out or do anything wrong... But, I'm not that girl. I want to act wild sometimes. I want to break curfew and sneak out my bedroom window. I want to kiss boys and skinnydip and one day when I'm ready, I want to have sex. Parker is the only one who sees through the act, he sees the real me and you know what, he loves me even if I'm not Miss Perfect. But I guess you can't do that can you?" I asked as tears began to stream down my face, "You're ashamed that I'm finally being myself and that I'm finally making myself happy. You don't like "this girl" but guess what, this is who I am. Maybe you should try and get to know your sister a little better. If you want to tell Aiden and Mama and Daddy, you go right ahead. I don't care anymore. I'm proud of the person I've become and I'm not ashamed of I how I feel about Parker. But if you can sit here and pass judgement on me, after every thing you've done, then I'm ashamed to call you my family."
I let go of his arm and watched as he walked into the house, probably to go announce to my entire family what he had caught me doing. I slowly made my way back to the shed, where Parker was. He was propped up against the counter, staring off into space when I walked in. I didn't say anything, I simply wound my arms around his waist and rested my head against his chest. He returned my embrace and planted a kiss on top of my head.
"Everything is going to be okay," He tried to reassure me.
"I'm pretty sure he is gonna tell everyone."
"Then hug me while you can, Sweetheart, because your daddy and Brandon are about to kill me."
"And I'm about to be grounded until I'm 50." I sighed, "We do have one beacon of hope, at least. Mama knows and she didn't seem to mind."
"So you mean I may just get severely beat instead of killed?"
I giggled, "How about I try to distract them while you run?"
"How about we pay Noel to distract them so you can run with me?"
"I like the way that you think, Mr. Stevens."
He placed a gentle kiss on my forehead, "I guess we should head back out there. It won't do us any good if someone else catches us out here."
I sighed, "I suppose you're right."
YOU ARE READING
Summer Spent with You
Romance"You're not going to see him again, Ava." My daddy told me sternly. I narrowed my eyes at him, "Yes, I am." "No, you're not. It isn't up for debate." "What do you have against him?" I demanded, unable to control my anger any longer. "We're not di...
