Loving My Best Friend

Chapter 28

Aiden's POV:

"I'm sorry for yesterday." It was the first thing I heard from Dri as I arrived at school on Thursday.

"It's okay." I slammed the locker door and started for my first class of the day.

"But, it's not on my part." Dri followed me even if it was clear that I did not want to talk to her. "You pushed me away, Aiden. I'm your girlfriend." She sounded hurt which stopped me in my tracks.

"I know and I'm sorry about that. It was not my intention." I felt tired already despite the fact that I was well rested.

"Then, why?" She was almost in tears, right in the middle of the hallway.

I cursed under my breath and said, "Sorry." She seemed to be relieved until she pulled me in a hug and I had to hug her back to stop her from bawling her eyes out.

It was not fair for me. Was it not the situation where people start asking "why me" questions? Why did I have to be in that position?

Enid's words kept repeating itself on my mind. What could he mean by Dri's mask? I did not want to ask him. I wanted him to tell me on his own.

A sudden clearing of throat made me come back to present and let go of Dri. It was Amy and Rick.

Amy was looking at us as if she had come to know of a great secret. Before she could start teasing, I walked away from the scene.

I felt out of place. I felt like I had come from a different planet and I had to learn about the new environment around me and had to get used to it. Everything thing felt foreign.

I felt so alone, except for Enid. Going to his house with rage that day turned out to be quite a good idea.

It was Saturday and I had been tutoring Dri. I tried keeping the touching and flirting at its minimum, but it was hard with even her parents trying to push me towards her. The Friday night dinner with Dri and her parents was so awkward that I cringed every time I remembered it.

I knew Enid was with Sam at the Café House right now. He had told me about his meeting and I could guess that they were planning something big.

I went to his house after being bored all morning, even Ethan was out with Sally. The whole house was empty and just like my house, it felt like it was trying to engulf me whole.

His room was neat as always and without any reason there was a sudden urge to look through the albums that Enid held so dearly to his heart. So, I took out the photo albums from bottom shelf of his closet and sat down with a small smile on my face.

The first picture was of Ethan and Enid when they were born, in their mother's arms on the hospital bed. Then, there were pictures of them learning everything together until they were three. Then, there was me too.

I was with Enid through everything. His laugh, his tears were shared with me and I shared mine with him.

My favourite one was where my ice cream had fallen off and Enid had offered his to me, but Ethan was happily licking his. I knew from that moment that Enid was going to be the brother that I never had.

My eyes filled up and frustrated, I took out my phone and dialled his number.

"Hey." He said.

"Where're you?" I miss you. I might have sounded demanding.

"I'm here in the Café House. I told you, remember?"

"Hmm." I looked at the pic where we were standing under a tree with a ball tucked under my arm and Enid's arm around my shoulder. We were barely eleven years olds. It was taken when we went for picnic with our family for the first and last time.

"What's wrong, Aide?" He asked.

I wanted to say, you, but instead I replied, "Nothing. Be home soon. Bye." And with that I cut off the call.

I knew he was lying. First of all, it was too quiet, something felt off and secondly, Sam would have tried to side comment at least a Hey!

Where're you, Aiden?

I closed the album and placed it where it was and got up.

I went to Enid's bed and lied down. Turning on the music which I had barely liked, but it was okay, it was his favourite, I closed my eyes.

After two hours or so, I heard the door opening. I was bored out of my mind. I was about to ask him where he had been, but he did not give me the time.

He was on top of me in a moment and started kissing me like there was no tomorrow. I kissed him back, letting him know how much I had missed him.

It was another story that I was getting hard and it was embarrassing, although I was reliefe when I found out he was in the same situation. We did not stop until there was a knock on the door to let us know that it was dinner time.

After dinner, we went back in Enid's room. He wrapped his arms around me as we lied down again. He pulled me to his chest tightly.

He seemed troubled, upset and a bit angry. I wanted to ask him about the Dri's mask thing, but stopped myself again.

"What's wrong, Enid?" He kissed on top of my head.

"Nothing." He tightened his grip. "You seemed upset when you called me earlier."

"I was just being bored as you weren't around, so..." I kissed his chin.

"This won't be long." He replied, absent-minded as if he was thinking something too hard.

"How come?" I wanted to know what he meant by that.

"Aiden," he started, but seemed to think of something and changed the topic. "I missed you too, baby. It won't happen again. I'll always be with you." Then he whispered. "Always."

We could not promise a forever ever to each other just now as there were always issues about our parents. How would they react when they would finally come to know about us? Would they accept or not?

Although, despite of everything, I was sure about one thing, I could not live without Enid, never.

"Let's not talk about that. You seem tired." He hummed. "Good night." I said and kissed him sweetly one last time.

"Good night." He kissed back before drifting off.

A/n: I think I am making Aiden clingy too soon. Well, have a belated Merry Christmas from me.