Maybe Something More

epilogue

AYDEN
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TWO YEARS LATER, Juliette would be moving in with me into my two bedroom apartment in Cambridge, where she would be attending Brown University, just an hours' drive away.

It worked out perfectly, that way I wouldn't have to worry as much about coming back home and making sure to call her I mean, I still called her more often than not, but it felt a lot better to know that she would be coming home to me every day.

Did that make me an overprotective boyfriend? Maybe, but I had a whole lot to be protective over, especially since the one girl I fell in love with just happens to be beautiful and continually asked out by guys, albeit the official announcement that I, Ayden Lancaster, the King of Eastwood High even after I graduated two years ago, has been dating Juliette Ashton for like the past two years.

You'd think people would stop hitting on my girlfriend, by now, to be honest.

But I guessed that having Jules with me now was better than anything, so I'm starting to look a little past that now. Just a little, though.

Anyways, Juliette's flight came about two hours ago, along with a small moving truck that carried a bunch of her other stuff over to my apartment where she would be moving in.

Throughout the whole day, I was helping her unload the boxes and helping set up her stuff in the second bedroom, which I had been using as a study, but now that Jules was moving in, it would be her room.

"Ayden!" she called from out the hallway as she kicked the door open with her foot. "Help me get the last of the boxes in, will you?"

Groaning and hastily turning off a random show I was watching, I jumped out off the couch and hurried over, grabbing the stack of boxes she carried in her hands.

"I got it, Jules," I said with a wink. "After this, wanna take a break and watch a movie? I'll even be willing to put on The Notebook, if you want. I know for a fact that girls love that chick flick." Of course, I was only saying that teasingly; I knew for a fact that Jules hated that movie.

She scoffed and closed the door behind her as she carefully laid the last box down. Then, Jules scrunched up her nose. "I don't like watching that movie," she replied pointedly, just proving what I'd said before. "You should know that I'm not a big fan of that chick flick, Ayden. Although, it's probably your favorite, though; isn't it, Ayden?"

I smiled and kissed her on the cheek. "Sure," I told her. "But if you don't want that movie, what other movie do you want to watch?"

"Oh, I don't know," Juliette answered as she plopped down next to me on the couch. "We should just watch Disney movies all day, like we used to when I would sleep over at your place when we were little."

It was fun, thinking of the old days with Jules. And back when we were really little, her parents were always off on business trips and vacations, so she would come over to my house, fighting over what movie she wanted to watch versus the movie genre that I wanted.

Back then, I would fight her for the right over Disney princess movies versus random 'dude' movies like Pokémon or Star Wars or something along those lines.

I smiled just thinking about it.

"Disney it is!" I announced before I selected Snow White and the Seven Dwarves out from Netflix, knowing that was the first Disney movie ever. "But, just to be clear, we aren't watching only Disney princess movies. We all know that she gets a kiss from her Prince Charming at the end and yadda, yadda, yadda."

Juliette rolled her eyes at me. "Not in every Disney princess movie," she said, nudging me in the ribs with her elbow as the opening credits came on. "In Mulan, she never kissed Shang till like ten minutes into the sequel when he proposed or something."