It's Okay

Chapter 12

     Detective Kim called me back and told me that, thanks to my statements, my father was found guilty, and sent to prison for attempted murder, domestic violence, and death threats. He had about 25 years to serve. I was finally released from the hospital, and was able to live a normal life again (With the exception of taking huge horse pills every morning). Chloe's mom told me that I could live with them until I graduated highschool. I kinda wanted to get my haircut as symbolism of breaking free from my past. I decided to get a messy pompadour haircut because that's what the stylist recommended for me saying that I would look best with my glasses. O came back to Chloe's house. I told her to close her eyes as she was coming down the stairs. "Um, okay that's an odd request," she said. She had walked all the way to me even though I offered to walk to her so that she wouldn't get hurt. "Okay Chloe, you can open your eyes now!" I was so excited to see her reaction. She opened her eyes and looked like she was about to faint. "Is it that bad?" I was worried that I had made a mistake. "No fair," she pouted. "Excuse me," I was confused, "What do you mean?" She was so cute when she pouted. "Why do get to look 10 times sexier just because you cut your hair!" How cute  I thought to myself. "So," she said after pouting and admiring my hair for a while, "Do you already know what you want to for your birthday? Also, what do you want as a birthday present?" "Um," I said, not knowing what to do on birthdays, "I don't really have any friends, so we can just hang. As for my present, you should just get creative with it. I love you, so I'll probably like anything you get me!" Suddenly, Chloe looked as if an idea had popped into her head. She looked at me with a sly grin. "What the hell are you planning?" I said genuinely concerned for my own well being. "Oh," she said smirking, "You'll find out." I gave Chloe a kiss and then got ready for bed. I was half terrified for tomorrow and what Chloe got me. The other half was super excited because this is the first time that I can have a not secretive birthday, trying to dodge around my Dad, so that he wouldn't find out that Mom had wasted money on my birthday present. I fell asleep quickly, quite excited for what was about to come. I was woken up by Chloe singing to the karaoke version of Walking On Sunshine. Her voice was beautiful, it was quite a nice way to wake up. She was also walking in with a stack of pancakes and coffee. "I remember you mentioned hating bacon, so I didn't make any." She knew me so well. It made me realize how fortunate I was to have someone like her in my life. We shared the pancakes and talked about stupid stuff. It felt nice to relax and sit with the one I love."So," Chloe said, looking into my eyes, "I already have our whole day planned out. First we're gonna go to the...." I wasn't listening to her, I was just gazing into her eyes and thinking of how beautiful she was. How did I, Hayden Lancaster, king of the outcasts, get a girlfriend with the beauty of a goddess and a gorgeous personality. "....the last thing that we will do is a secret," Chloe said with a smirk on her face. "Why does it have to be a secret?" I asked, still confused. "Aren't birthday presents supposed to be secret?"She asked. I couldn't argue with that logic. Chloe started walking out of the room. I started to look for clothes to pick out. Chloe stopped and turned around right as I was about to get changed. "Hey babe!" Chloe said, "I already picked out an outfit for you!" She looked very proud as she led me to her room. On her bed was a black blazer, a white t-shirt, burgundy pants, some Timberlands. "The Timbs are my brother's, but everything else was either yours, or bought by moi." I picked her up by the waist and swung her around in a circle. "How do you proceed to amaze me every day?" She started blushing and I kissed her on the lips. "Okay then," she said, "Let's both get dressed and then we'll go and seize the day!" I went in and changed and I had to admit, I looked pretty hot. Chloe came out with a blue and white striped long sleeve shirt, a light brown skirt, and deep red combat boots. She looked gorgeous as usual. We went to go see a movie, then we went to a random arcade down the road, and then we arrived at the park. She gave me a bouquet of white roses. I looked down at them, admiring their beauty. "I love white roses, thank you. This is an amazing gift. We used to grow these in our front yard." I was happy even though she probably didn't know how much this flower meant to me. "That's not all I got you. Look at the middle rose." Chloe pointed out the rose to me and I saw something inside. It was my mother's wedding ring. I started tearing up. "They found it on her body while doing the autopsy, so they wanted to give it to you. You weren't home at the time, so I just thought that I-" I gave her a huge hug, interrupting her explanation. "This is the best present I have ever recieved, thank you," I said still hugging her. She hugged me back and then as we were like that I said, "I tried to kill myself twice, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm so happy that I didn't though. If I did, I wouldn't have been able to fall in love with you." I heard Chloe crying, so I pulled away from her and looked her in the eyes. "What's wrong?" I had no idea why she was crying. "I don't understand how you can be so loving and caring towards me, even though everything bad has happened to you." Well," I said, "Not everything bad has happened to me. After all, I have you. That's one of the best things in the universe." I wiped away her tears and kissed her. "I love you so so so much Chloe." I said pulling away from her. "I love you too, you handsome young man." We shared a laugh and walked home hand in hand.