my dear ↷ the selection series

Chapter 1

|Edit|hellow, so I was reading this book again and I saw that it was so cringey and full of errors(my sorry ass is too lazy to edit but I'll try because I love everyone who read this book). I wrote this 2 years ago and it was one of my first book. Please please vote and comment. Thank you.
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~America's pov~
"Mer I am home." A husky voice called out.
"Daddy"Quinn and Hope squealed and ran upto him. They loved Aspen. He kissed each one's head and then my forehead too.
"Ah I forgot something.....Who wants gifts?" He said holding up a parcel. He never thought about himself . Aspen everyday bought gifts for us. I dont remember the last time he bought something for himself.
"Gifts!!" The girls ran upto him. Both of them were twelve but their excitement didnt die.
I loved Aspen leger but my mind always wandered to one person. The man i can never have. The man who chose somebody else over me . The man whose heart i broke. Maxon Schreave.
"Mer i have something for you. "He said holding a small box in his hand.
"You don't have to ..." I said.
"Awww come on Mer. Love you too." He said smiling lovingly at me . He always made me laugh. Shouldn't I be satiated with what I have.
He took out a leather bracelet with seashells and cute heart charms and tied it on my wrist.
He looked at me like he expected something back and then went to the bathroom for freshening up.
"Wait." I noticed something weird in his behaviour today.
"Look at me Aspen. What's wrong"
He turned his face and I saw a cut running above his eyebrows . A purplish bruise was there on his jaw.
"Aspen how...." I walked up to him ghosting my fingers across the scar. "I am fine okay. You dont have to worry about it." He said rushing inside the bathroom. I sat on the bed trying to figure out the mystery when the phone rang.
"Hello." I asked
"Hello my dear."
My heart started beating at the speed of light and love swelled in my heart. It was him. It was Maxon.
"Why?" I asked him.
"It's my birthday. I am inviting the Elite. You are one of them. I will come tomorrow this time at your house for the invitation card. Love ya" he said disconnecting the line.'Love ya' did he just say that. No can't be . It is my illusion or something. I still loved him even after he broke my heart a thousand times . He was the one . The one who haunted my dreams . The memory of our first kiss came flooding in. I touched my lips , smiling to myself. He is coming tomorrow and I am way too excited .
The bathroom door opened and Aspen came out his black hair glistening. His knuckles were bloody and the skin on them was torn apart. His eyes looked bloodshot. Had he been crying . Can't be. For now I know that he thinks I love him. I Do but just not in the same way I used to.

~Aspen's pov~♡♡
The fight was worse today. Usually the scars were on my chest but that stupid guy hit me on my face. I couldn't tell Mer that I worked at the underground fighting arena . She would be terrified. I couldn't find any job . The people said . They said a lot. They said I was a stupid guy who broke Maxon's and America's wedding. They said I just ranted on and on about how I loved Mer. They said I was scared , a coward . They said that I was just an idiotic lovestruck boy. They said I was just an underrated first love. But how do I care. Let them say what they are saying. My heart knows where I am going. It's says that America and my girls are my sunshine. Nobody can take my sunshine away could they?

Maxon~☆☆
America was the only girl i ever wanted. I had called of selection. America had told me that she still loved her ex-boyfriend. My heart had broken into a million pieces. But her happiness was my happiness. My heart was hers . I still loved her. I still wanted her back. My birthday was the perfect excuse of seeing her radiant face again. I knew she loved . I felt that connection. The spark between us. The little kisses. Her cute comments. Her everything. Its like she was a piece of me. How badly i wanted her back.