Let Me Love You {Jacob Whitesides}

Chapter 3 ~ Choices

Ava's POV

I went home frustrated and confused. Jacob was mad at me and I had no idea why. Myles and I were back together! I know Jake doesn't necessarily like Myles, but he apologized and he was being really sweet about things.

I flopped onto my bed and played with my angel wings necklace that I wore everyday. It was a necklace my brother bought me the Christmas before he passed away. At that point he of course had no idea 5 months later he and my father would be in a fatal car accident. It happened April 19, 2004, only 2 weeks after my 6th birthday. Dylan and my dad were driving to his baseball practice when a drunk driver collided with them. I can still remember the look on my moms face when the hospital called, telling her that her husband and 13 year old son were killed in a car accident. Her face went white as a ghost as her hand clapped over her mouth, sobs uncontrollably spilling from her mouth. She didn't tell me and my sister until the next day, since my nana came to pick us up that afternoon. I still get flashbacks of when Dylan and I were little, his huge dimples showing in every picture we took, except of course the ones he was not in the mood to take a picture. My favorite picture is hanging right above my desk, Dylan holding me in his lap and Mia right besides him wrapping her arms around him. I was around 3, Mia was 6, and he was 10.

I was drawn from my thoughts by a knock on my door. I looked up to see Mia's face which had a look of worry spread across it.

"Av what's wrong?" She asked coming to sit next to me on my bed. I didn't even realize I had been crying until that point.

"Nothing. Just thinking." I answered, stilling fiddling with the necklace between my fingers.

"About Dyl and Dad?" She asked, obviously noticing my complete attention being taken by the small piece of jewelry.

"Is it that obvious?" I questioned turning my gaze to Mia's broken smile and teary green eyes.

She didn't answer, and I didn't need her to. I pulled her into a tight hug and she cried into my shoulder and I cried into hers. This didn't happen often, as we try not to get stuck in all the sad things since there are so many happy memories to focus on.

"Girls? What's going on? What's wrong?" My mom asked bursting into room once she saw the situation.

"Just getting our tears out." Mia answered as she wiped the few remaining tears from her eyes.

"Aw my babies, don't be sad." She said squeezing between us and pulling us into her. I felt a few tears hit my hair as my mom cried a bit too. "There are too many happy things that happened with Dylie and Daddy, they wouldn't want us to cry."

"Sometimes we just have to let out our bottled up emotions." I said as I noticed Mia's mascara streaming down her cheeks and giggled a bit. She laughed too when she saw mine too.

We went into the bathroom to wipe the stains off our faces. Once we were all cleaned up I turned to Mia and wrapped my arms around her one more time.

"Love you Mi." I spoke, my voice muffled by her tee shirt.

"Love you too Av." She replied running her hand down my hair. We pulled away and went separate ways to our rooms.

I got changed into one of Myles's tee shirts I stole from him and some athletic shorts. I sat back down on my bed when I got a notification from soundcloud that Jacob Whitesides posted a new audio. I slid the notification so it opened to the cover.

Hey There Delilah

that was my favorite song growing up. Jake would sing it to me whenever I got sad about Dylan and my Dad.