I Knew You Once

Chapter 2

I started to walk home and Mason followed me the whole way there.

"Come on Julia, at least let me give you a ride." Mason said.

I ignore him. He keeps repeating the same words, but I keep ignoring him. I finally make it home and Mason jumps out of his car and runs towards me.

"Julia, come on baby let me explain." He tries to hold me.

"Don't touch me." I start to cry.

"Oh babe, why are you crying? It's okay. Come here." He reaches his arms out and comes close and hugs me tight.

His hug is strong and warm. His body heat circulates my body and I fall in love with his touch even more. I forget all of the bad and hold him closer against me.

"I am so sorry." Mason kisses my head and tries to comfort me.

"Why?" I ask with tears running down my face.

"Why am I sorry?" He asked with confusion in his voice.

"Why did you lie to me?"

"I was afraid of what you'd say."

"Why did you leave me alone for your own selfish reasons?"

"I'm addicted."

I turn my body to get to the angle where I can see his face. "Do you love it more than me?"

"Of course not."

"Then why did you choose to be with it over me?" I hold him closer to me.

"I can't answer that."

"Why not?"

"I don't know."

Mason leaves and I go upstairs and try to sleep. I am sleeping and I feel so warm. I keep thinking about Mason. Should I stay with him, or should I leave? I still want to be with him, but I'm not sure if it's right. It's just one mistake, everyone deserves a second chance. It'll be a brand new day tomorrow and I will have my answer.

My alarm goes off, I wake up and get ready for school. I get into my car and drive to school. I see Mason waiting at my parking spot as usual. I don't have an answer. What am I going to do? I hesitate to leave my car. I get out slowly and I see Mason looking at me.

"Hey." Mason says coming closer to me.

"Oh, hey." I say in an unsure way.

"About last night..."

"It's okay." I smile and give him a kiss on the lips.

He smiles and puts his arm around me. "How about I walk my girl to class."

I try to smile and nod my head. "Okay."

I am not sure I did the right thing, but maybe everything will work out. My day was great. I looked into Mason's eyes and saw a chance of happiness again. After school, Mason came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Hey baby, how was your day today?" He kisses my forehead.

"It was good." I replied with an actual smile on my face.

"How about we go somewhere tonight."

"Maybe we could hang out at my place instead, just the two of us." I didn't want him to disappear again.

"Um okay, but what would we do?" He gave a little smirk and raised his eyebrows.

"Really, Mason?" I push him away from me.

"What? Come on baby, I was kidding." He laughs and grabs my hand.

"You know how I feel about that. I won't do that until-" He cuts me off.

"You're married. I know" He finishes my sentence. "Baby, you can trust me."

Remembering last night, "Yeah, trust you." I mumble. I feel bad after saying that.

He looks down and sighs. "Look..."

"It's okay. I just ruined the moment, I don't know why I just said that. Let's just have fun tonight, okay?" I give him a long warm kiss and hold him close.

"Oh gosh." He closes his eyes.

"What?" I'm confused.

"I can't believe you're mine."

"Yeah, I get that a lot." I smile and laugh and I reach in for another kiss.

I went home and got ready for the night with Mason. I baked some cookies, got some milk, and a romantic movie. I heard the door bell. Mason's here. I ran downstairs and opened the door. When I opened the door I saw a nice looking guy, it was not Mason. He had light brown hair and green eyes. Snapping out of my trance I asked, "May I help you?"

"Yes, I'm here for Julia Garters."

"I'm Julia."

"I found this cell phone and I saw your picture. I figured it'd be yours." He took out the phone. "It could have been that Mason guy since he's in the picture too, but I thought I'd try you first."

"Oh, thank you." I said nervously. He looked so perfect, and his eyes are so beautiful.

"So, is it yours?" He asked with his perfect lips.

"Oh, yeah. It's mine."

He handed me the phone and smiled the most gorgeous smile.

"Glad I could help." He says.

"What's your name? I haven't seen you at school." I ask.

"Bryan. Bryan Levers. I'm new."

"Oh, hi." I look down noticing how stupid saying hi was.

He shows a crooked smile. "Hi."

I hear a car door shut. I look behind Bryan and see Mason.

"Who's this?" Mason asks out of curiosity.

"I'm Bryan." Bryan reaches out for a hand shake.

Mason shakes his hand and smiles. "Hey."

Bryan left and Mason came inside.

We went upstairs into my room and put on the movie. Mason fed me a cookie and I fed him back.

"Want some dessert?" Mason said smiling.

"Isn't eating a cookie like dessert?"

Mason shook his head and leaned in for a kiss. "This dessert."

We were laying on my bed kissing. I felt so happy, refreshed, and
comfortable. His kiss was sweet and warm. His kiss was like heaven, it felt so good I never wanted it to stop. The kiss kept going. Mason touched my cheek and kept kissing me. I loved it. He pulled me close to his body and held me in his arms.

"I can love you forever." Mason whispers.

"I can too." I didn't want to talk, I just wanted to keep kissing him.

Mason pulls away from the kissing. "That was the best dessert ever." He said smiling.

I was speechless. The kiss was so passionate I fell in love. I think I fell in love with him. I sat up. "I think I love you Mason Huff. I think I'm falling in love with you."

"I'm so glad you said that." Mason picked me up and kissed me some more. I was so happy he kissed me again. Then he let got. Ugh, don't stop! I opened my eyes. Mason took off his shirt and leaned in for another kiss. Woahhh!

"Mason..." The kissing kept me from my words. I put my hand on his body feeling his buff chest.

"Don't worry. You can trust me."

"Mason..." He kept on kissing me. I loved it so much I stopped trying to talk. Mason was on top of me. I touched his back, it was smooth and warm. I was touching an angel. I was so in the moment, I didn't care what happened that night. It was perfect.