jaeden lieberher; i love you.

( i love you )

( the sound of silence )

Lia's POV

Hate me today. Hate me tomorrow. Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you. Hate me in ways. Ways hard to swallow. Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you.

Why am I keeping this secret from them? I can't take this anymore. I have to tell them. They're my friends! They'll be so upset if I keep this from them. I have one problem, will they think of me differently or will they start to believe what everybody else says about me and hate me forever?

My phone dings. Another death threat. My phone dings again. "Go kill yourself". Seven more dings after that explaining how worthless and ugly I am. I should tell someone, but I can't. This is way too hard for me to talk about.

Sitting at the diner with the boys minus Sophia, Chosen, and Jeremy. They're out at a basketball game.

The buzzing of my phone starts to make the boys really irritated so I shut my ringer off. More threats and hate. My phone continues to flash under the table. Jaeden peeks under the table at my flashing phone so I quickly put it in my pocket.

"You okay?" He asks, I nod.

"Who's going to the Ariana Grande concert next week?" Wyatt asks. "All of us except Lia." Finn says making me slightly weirded out. "Why don't you want to come, Lia?" Wyatt asked. "I don't really like Ariana Grande that much. I'm sorry." I slightly frown. "How could you not like our queen? She's so pretty." Jack fake cries. "Maybe because I'm straight and I'm not a lesbian." I shrug with a little bit of an attitude. "Woah, somebody has an attitude." Finn laughs. "I do not have an attitude. You're just mad because I don't like Ariana like you guys do." I slouch down in my seat. "It's okay." Jaeden puts his hand on my shoulder. I stare ahead of me, not acknowledging what Jaeden just said at all.

The boys continue to finish their food and I wait for them to be finished since I didn't feel like eating.

We finally decide to go back to Jaeden's house after eating dinner. The boys start to play Mario Kart while I run upstairs to Jaeden's room.

I read through the comments on my recent posts on YouTube and Instagram.

I start to cry. A lot.

I hear a noise coming upstairs so I quickly wipe my tears.

It's Jaeden.

"Jaeden, what did you need?" I question. "I came up here because I wanted to check on you." He sits next to me. "I-I'm fine." I stutter. "No, you're not. I know you, Lia. Tell me what happened." He crosses his arms. "I-It's really not that serious." I shrug. "Of course it's serious to me! I don't want you to be hurt ever. I care about you way too much." He looks me into the eyes. "Not everybody likes me, Jae. I've been getting bullied lately." I look away. "By who?" His eyes widen. "By people over social media. I have haters and it hurts. It's really hurting me, Jaeden. I don't know what to do anymore." I look at him in the eyes again.

"Lia, you can't listen to them! They're ignorant. You're absolutely beautiful, smart, funny, talented, kindhearted, amazing, loving, you're everything to me. I love you so much and I don't think you understand how wonderful and special you are to me." He grabs my hands. "Jaeden, I-." I start to say before he smashes his lips onto mine. His lips against mine are so passionate and sweet. He pulls away and It's like he really meant the kiss.

"Lia, I love you. I have loved you for so fucking long and I just had to tell you. You are amazing and perfect and I understand if you don't feel the same way, but I will always love you no matter what." He admits. "Jaeden, I love you too and I always have!" I smash my lips back onto his. "Really?" He pulls back and starts blushing. "Really. I have loved you for almost a year now." I admit. "Me too!" He intertwined his left hand in my right hand. "This is a dream come true." I smile and laugh at the same time. "Will you do the honors of being the Leia to my Han Solo?" He smirks. "Yes, you loser!" I rest my head on his shoulder and he smiles. He intertwines both are hands together. God, he's so perfect!

Jaeden and I are in love with each other. Cliché, right? Who cares! My crush and I are finally together!

Author's Note
I'm so cliché omg! But hey. They both are in love. You're welcome btw. I was going to make them admit their feelings to each other from like 15 chapters from now buuuuuut I changed my mind. This will also be the end of this book, sadly. I decided not to continue it anymore. I hope you guys enjoyed this book and I hope you guys continue to read my other books on here. I love you guys and thank you so much for the support. Toodles!❤️

-Hailey