Cupid's assistant

Chapter 6

After lunch we just drove around the town, then went out of town. We kept going farther and farther from our town that usually I would have been nervous and begging to go back but I knew where we were going. I love that place, it's beautiful there, it's quite and peaceful. It's our secret special spot.

As Simon turned off the quiet, empty main road and on to the dirt road leading us to our spot I let my hand move to his that wasn't on the steering wheel and gave it an appreciative squeeze. I saw him smile from the corner of my eye and he squeezed mine back. Once the dirt road ended he turned and went through the large path of vegetation and stopped at our spot.

I got out of the car and let it all sink in. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the cool fresh air and let it out again. I hear Simon laugh and I open my eyes to see that he had placed a blanket on the hood of his car. "What? I haven't been here in a while. I've missed it." I say defending my actions.

He smiles and nods showing that he understands and gestures to the car. I smile and run up to the car and right before I run into it I place my hands on it and use it as leverage to push myself up on the car. I look at Simon who was smirking and did the same thing I did and almost made me fall off. I smirk at him and with all my might I shove him off the car and he tumbles over on to the grass. I laugh and he holds his hands up to say that he forfeits and jumped back onto the car.

"Oh Simon! Would you look at that!" I say pointing to the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It was a lovely sunset with shades of red, orange, and a bit of pink. The sun was setting over the city. I usually don't find cities very pretty but when I'm at our spot I find beauty in it. I get a chance to really appreciate it. The city looks so much more beautiful and peaceful when I'm up here. We are far enough to where we don't hear any of the awful city noise, which is another reason why I find it so peaceful up here.

"I really do have great timing don't I?" Simon asks and commends himself on his most perfect timing.

"Yeah you do. God, I really missed being up here. Sometimes it is necessary to just get away from the drama, the stress, the school work, my mother. I haven't really been able to do that in a while. Thank you Si for taking me up here. Even though in a way I wish you didn't, because every time I'm up here I find myself wishing that I could stay here forever. Like I would never have to go home and keep living my busy life, I could just stay here and enjoy the view and the moment." I say looking at Simon to find him starring at me. He wraps me in his arms and kisses the top of my head.

"I know, I feel that way too sometimes. But then I remember that their are people back home who would be worried about me and miss me and need them and they need me too. Plus you can't live in a moment forever that's why they are called moments."

"Yeah, your right but still that won't stop me from wishing to stay here forever."

He smiles at me and squeezes me one last time and then let's me go making me cold and a little empty wishing that he didn't let go of me. He lays down with his knees in the air, "you know what, since you want to be here so much I'll let you dictate when we go back." He says to me making me smile and lay down as well and I pull my legs up to how he has his then I turned my body to face him which made my knees lay on his stomach. I wrap my arms around him and snuggle up to him.

We stayed like that for hours in the comfortable silence even though it only seemed like minutes. I decided to leave when I knew that if we didn't leave now my father would call for a search party for me. I look at the now night sky and bring blinking stars one more time before I got in the car and drove away.

Once we got home I expected my mom and dad to be home but instead I was greeted by my younger sister Hannah. "Hannah! When did you get here? Where's mom and dad?" I ask Hannah completely surprised to see her. Like I mentioned before Hannah is hardly ever home. She is usually at a friend's house or cheer camp or well who knows where she goes any more. She tends to distant herself from our family. I seem to be the only one who is really upset and worried about her. It doesn't help that I hardly ever see her at school.

"I got here about 5 hours ago. I think I'm going to stay for about a month then I'm going back to Rachel's house. As for mom and dad, dad was called in for some emergency at work and he expects to be out of town for a few days," I frown at this dad just got back and then he gets whisked away again it's oh so very annoying. "Mom hearing of dad leaving she decided to go on what she said was a girls weekend but I think we both know that she is going to visit one of her secret lovers." Hannah said in the most bored tone. Where as I think that my heart literally broke. I have known about mom's lovers for years now even dad knows but it still hurts me when it gets brought up like the first time I heard about it.

I force a smile, "well it is good to have you back Hannah. I am going to bed now, good night. See you in the morning."

She waves back to me in response. I run up to my room with Simon hot on my heals. When I get to my room I throw myself on my bed and I start to let myself cry. Once I started there was no going back. The tears came faster and heavier. I felt masculine arms being wrapped around me. I turn and bury my face in the crook of Simon's neck. He holds me and whispers to me as I cry.

When I finally stopped crying because I had no water left to cry Simon got up and gave me a glass of water. I drank it saying thank you, and got up to change into my pj's. When I came out of my restroom I found Simon still sitting on my bed. When he saw me he got up and let me crawl into my bed. He turned around and turned out my light and started to walk out of my room.

"Simon will you stay with me?" I ask him. He turned around and said that he would and he got out of his clothes and left on his boxers and crawled into the bed spooning me. Before I knew it I feel into dreamless sleep.