Misfit Love

Finally Together

We stayed out all night. Before we knew it, it was 1 in the morning. We spent the evening talking about What we were doing after high school.

"I was thinking about going up north for college " he studied my face when I said that.

"I never thought about college, I figured that I could wing it." we both laughed.

I held his hand and looked at him. "I don't want to be away from you." Before I could say anything else, he placed his finger across my lips. "I'm going wherever you go, Roxy." That made me feel better. He's been with me my entire life, I'd be lost without him.

I looked at my phone and sighed. "We better get home, It's late." he jumped off the hood of the car and pulled me with him. "Let's go, my beautiful lady." I smiled and kissed his cheek.

As we went down the road, he reached over and grabbed my hand.

I held his hand tightly. "Will you stay with me tonight?" he looked at me and smiled, "Only if you want me to." I nodded and he said, "Okay."

A little while later, we pulled up at my house. Xander jumped out of the car and opened my door.

"Tonight was great, Xan. I had a lot of fun." he kissed my forehead "I did too."

I unlocked my door and walked inside.

"You guys are still awake?"

They all yelled "yep" at the same time. Then after a moment they crowded around us. Xander had his arm around my waist and they all smiled.

"Well It's about damn time!" Tank came in between us. "My brother couldn't stop talking about you miss Roxy." I punched him on his arm playfully. "Shut up and leave Xander alone. " I headed for the stairs. "You guys are welcome to stay. There's food and drinks and plenty of movies and games." I walked up the stairs taking my heels off. I felt Xander come up behind me and grab my arm. I looked up at him and he was smiling.

"What are you so happy about?"

he looked shocked by my question.

"Hmm.. " he put his hand on his chin like he was thinking, "Maybe because I have the girl of my dreams." I smiled and walked into my room. He stood at the door. I sat on my bed and stared at him.

"You can come sit you know." he looked around the room.

"I'll sleep on the floor in here, is that okay?"

I crossed my arms. "It most certainly is not okay. You can sleep in the bed with me. You know that. " his face started to turn bright red. "I've never actually slept with a girl before. And I didn't want you to get mad if I just laid in your bed without your consent. " I threw a pillow at him. "Babe, come here." He caught the pillow and sat beside me. "It's just sleeping. We laid on the car earlier together. it'll be okay. Please don't feel weird. " I kissed his head and he nodded.

"I need to change." I got up and grabbed an oversized shirt. "I have a drawer with some of your shirts and things over there." he got up and walked to the dresser. I hugged him and ran to the bathroom.

When I came back, Xander was sitting on my bed with something in his hands.

I walked to him and touched his shoulder. He jumped a little. "Are you okay?" he studied the object in his hand then looked at me. That's when I saw What it was; a picture of his parents, mine, him, me, tank and Dixie. Before the accident.

when we were about ten years old, our parents were coming to pick us up from school, they were all in the same wreck with a careless driver. They died at the scene. After that Dixie and I went and lived with our grandparents. while Tank and Xander went to live with their aunt. We all four eventually moved out at about 17 and got our own places.

"Xander... " he wrapped his arms around my waist. He was crying. I didn't know What to say or do, but I knew What he was feeling. I held him close to me. I finally said, " I'm so sorry, sweetie.. I didn't know you'd find that.. " he finally looked up at me. "Please, don't leave me, roxy. I can't lose anybody else I love. I just can't. " I sat beside him and held his face between my hands. "I will never leave you. No matter What happens, I will always be here. I couldn't leave somebody who means so much to me." he smiled faintly and kissed me.

We laid back on my bed and stared at the ceiling. Not a word was spoken the rest of the night.

We fell asleep with my head on his chest and our fingers intertwined. This was perfect.

Absolutely perfect.