Secret Love

10

Ariella (Past)

Alex and I have been secretly kissing each other for a couple of weeks now. Once again I haven't told anyone about it, it's been our little secret. My feelings about him have only sky rocketed since our talk.

Alex and his sister are coming over today to hang out. We're probably just going to end up either watching tv or go out to the backyard and play.

Yesterday my cast was finally taken off, the doctor wanted me to use it as much as I could to get the strength back into it. I was just finally happy it was off. My arm would get real sweaty then it would start to itch. But, I had no way of itching it so I was being tortured for weeks.

The doorbell rings downstairs and I get off of my bed. My feet run down the steps and I reach the front door. When I open the door, Alex and Jess are standing right in front of me.

"Come in." I say smiling as I open the door more for them to walk into the house.

"What are we doing today El?" Jess asks.

"I was thinking we could just hang around my room." I said while shutting the door.

The both of them nod and I led the way up into my room. My television was still playing the episode of Pretty Little Liars that I was watching. I'm actually really surprised that my mom lets me watch it because not all of the scenes are PG.

"Hey El can I get on your laptop for a second?" She asks and I nod my head.

"I want to show you this boy band I saw on tv last night, they're really good and cute." she said smiling.

In the corner of my eye I see Alex rolling his eyes then he let out a groan.

"What's wrong with you?" I ask him.

"She's been listening to them all night and day. I barely got any sleep last night." He says and I laugh while shaking my head.

Jess continues typing on my laptop until I hear music playing.

"The band is called One Direction and the song is called What Makes You Beautiful."

The song continues playing for over three minutes and at the end of it I'm smiling since I really like the song.

"They're really good!" I say to Jess.

"I know! Which one do you think is cute? I think Zayn is!" she says but I have no idea who she's talking about.

"The one with the dark black hair and earrings." she says and I let out an oh.

"Well I think the guy with the curly hair and green eyes is cute." I say and I see Alex's jaw clench a bit. What's wrong with him?

"That's Harry!" She says and I nod my head. After that we just decided to watch mindless tv until we all started to get hungry.

"Well what do you guys want to eat?" I ask while standing up from my bed.

"Some chicken and fries sounds good." Alex says while Jess nods in approval.

"Can you come help me Al?"

Alex stands up from my bed and we walk down to the kitchen, with me leading the way. Once we get there I feel Alex pull me back and suddenly our lips touch. Like always with both fall into this kiss as our lips move in sync. We've both gotten better at kissing and I've been loving it.

Soon but far to soon, we both pull away for air while looking at each other. Alex looks at me straight into my eyes and smiles at me.

"I've been wanting to do that all day." He says with a small chuckle behind his voice. My head moves down to look at my feet as I blush from his words.

"So have I." I say.

"Hey." He says while tilting my head back up to look at him. "Don't hide from me."

I turn my body away from him as I walk over to the fridge and I open the door to the freezer part. My eyes fall to where we keep the chicken and fries. I grab both of the bags but when I turn around my back gets pushed against the fridge from Alex.

"Why are you so shy today?" He asks and I shake my head. "I'm not."

He tilts his head to the side as if he's saying "I don't believe you." I walk over to the counter and I ask Alex to grab a pan and aluminum foil. Once he hands me that we both work to get the food fixed.

"Alex?" I say looking at him.

"Yeah."

"What are we?" I ask with curiosity and unknown in my voice. It true though, I have no idea what we are.

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"Well... we've been kissing for weeks now but you haven't said anything about what we are. So... what are we?" I say and he scratches the back of his neck.

"Ella, I've been thinking about that as well. But, I don't think we should be boyfriend and girlfriend." He says and my eyes widen while they also burn with tears once again. I thought he like? God Ariella you're so stupid!

"It's not that I don't want to be with you. It's just that, I think we both too young and immature to be in a relationship, let alone a serious one." He says but his words leave me more confused.

"So, what are you saying?" I asks as he steps closer to me while grabbing my hand.

"What I'm saying is, I think we should wait until we're both ready to be in a serious relationship. Because I don't know about you, but if I'm with you, I want it to be for the long run. Not just some mediocre sappy teenage relationships. I want the real thing." He says and I finally understand what he means.

"Oh, I understand." I say looking at my feet once more. "But when do you think that will be?"

He brushes a strand of my hair back into place and looks at me deep into my eyes. "We'll know." He says while kissing my cheek.

My god, can that day come soon?

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Hello all of my beautiful readers. First, I want to apologize for taking so long to update! Holidays were crazy, there was a lot of birthdays this month (including mine which was today, the 17th!) and I've been sick on and off for the last few weeks.

But, I hope you enjoyed the chapter as much as I did writing it. Please leave your thoughts in the comments and vote if you liked it.

I'll see you all in the next update!

All the love, B ❤️