Her secret

Chapter 3

"Psssst" I turn my head and see Azare. "What do you need" I whisper "do you wanna hang out after school?" He says but and I do know why " oh so you come into my room once and we are best friends." He sits there pretending to think. "Yup." I roll my eyes and sigh "I guess..." I always just give up at some point. "Okay good because I was coming over anyways." He says quickly and then the bell rings "wait wha-"and he left the room
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Azare pov

I know that Aspen is hiding something. I just don't wanna be nosy . when she had seen the car pull up yesterday she looked scared to death. I don't know what to do to figure out what she is hiding. As I'm walking down the hall I bump into something. I look down and see Aspen on the floor. I chuckle and give her my hand and when I try to pull her up,she winces and falls back on the floor. I try to grab her hand but her eyes went wide. "NO I'm good!" She say quickly and gets up by herself . I don't know what the heck just happened but Ima go ask her brother.
I go to Brandon's locker and see him flirting with the girl on our bus. While walking to his locker he sees me and dismisses the girl. I walk up to him and we do our own little handshake. "hey what's up Brandon." I say leaning on the locker. "Hmmm well nothing much how about you." "I'm good dude, but listen I bumped into your sister an-." He stopped me to interrupt me . "Hey dude if you came to me to rant about how "hawt" my sister is, don't come to me."  I mean it's not like she isn't attractive... man what am I saying! "Huh no dude,but I ran into your sister and I tried to help her up and when I pulled her up she kinda looked as if she was in pain and fell back on the floor, do you know anything?" His face looked weird and he started to rub his neck "no, but she did go to the gym last night. She's probably just sore " I know that's a lie but I don't want to be overreactive. "Oh okay man."
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Later that evening I was walking to Aspens house and I saw a car out front and Aspen sitting on her porch. She looks up and notices it's me. I walk over to her and grab her hand and run. "WHAT THE HECK WHERE ARE WE GOING AZARE!" She says surprised and I can tell that she wants to laugh. "just follow me ."10 minuets later we are still running and I don't here foot steps behind me anymore. I turn around and see Aspen standing there with her arms crossed. "I will follow you if you tell me where we are going." I sigh she stopped at the perfect time. I turn around and push some leaves from the wood on the tree. She stairs at me with a confused face. "that's just a tree?" She said. It was a tree, at least until I pushed the wood and then it lead her to my hiding spot. I told her to follow and she did. I turn around and see her face full of shock.
It's a magnificent area where there's a beautiful wooden and clear gazebo in the middle of the river. There's also plants and flowers every where. I don't know why I brought her here I guess I feel like I should trust her "How did you find this place Azare?" I gesture for her to follow me and take her to the gazebo. I sit on the floor with all my pillows and my blankets. I sit down and tell her how I found it "well when I was little. My parents fought a lot and I didn't have any money at the time to run away ,so I didn't exactly run away. Every time they fought I would go on walks in the forest and then after a month or two I found this place and I made it my own." She looks at me with shock and sadness. " I understand when I was 6 my mom left us because she couldn't take care of us and she chose
drugs and alcohol over us ." She shrugs "Wow that's worse than my back story...I thought you had a Mom?" She looks at me "I do but she's my step-mom." I nod in response "welp yeah I guess. It's all our fault that we weren't good enough and that we had to deal with going to foster home after foster home while my dad was in rehab." a tear started to fall down her face. I cup her face and wipe away her tears.                "no,no,no. Aspen through these past few days I have seen you're a very  strong, beautiful and definitely a good enough person for anything." I stare into her eyes and see her graceful blue-ish brown eyes filled with tears. When I saw this I felt like I was being called for help. I look down at her lips And she looks at mine. I lean in
And my lips brush against hers and we kiss. You know that feeling deep down inside you get and it tells you that don't lose it cause you'll hate yourself if you do. Yeah that's how I'm feeling. As I kiss her we stay for a little while longer and than pull apart.We stared into each other's eyes in shock. "Wow..." she said "I don't...know." Well the only thing I didn't know is that what I should say next. She looked scared.  "hey, hey what's wrong." I say rubbing her shoulder. "iveneverbeenkissedbefore."
She said quick but I cannot hear her. "What?"
She reddened and wow this girl can blush. "You are my first kiss, and I have never kissed anyone before." My eyes were wide. "You haven't kissed anyone not even on the cheek?" She nods her head no. "Huh... wow." I say while scratching my neck. She does a slight chuckle.
"your almost like my brother when he's nervous, he scratches his neck."  I wanted to try and make a excuse but couldn't get one so I said this "pfffft I'm not nervous..." I kind of chuckle. She picks up her phone and she looks at the time. "Hey we should get back before I get in trouble." I nod and grab her hand to help her up and we leave. When we leave we arrive we get to her house and I notice the car in the front again. "You know what we should do?" I say walking in front of her."What?" She says with a questioning face. "We should teach you how to drive." I say but she doesn't seem excited one bit "are you crazy, plus we don't even have a car." I point to the car in her driveway."what about that car." She laughs "I would die if I did." I walk to the car knocking on it. "Oh come on get in the door is open." She gets in and puts the keys in the engine. "we will just go straight down the street and back to the house" She nods and her hands are on the steering wheel shaking.