Beautiful Scars [1] ✔

Chapter Nineteen

I helped Aston, Melissa, and Chad haul our stuff back into the van, sweat forming on my brow. Where's Charlie? Well, her friend picked her up earlier, while we were still sleeping.

After everything was packed in the van, Melissa and Chad got in the front and Aston and I got in the back. Chad started driving and before I knew it, we were headed home.

I was just sitting in the back, minding my own business, just as Aston started peppering my cheek with kisses.

I shoved him off of me, grinning. "Why did you do that?"

He shrugged innocently. "What? A boyfriend can't kiss his girlfriend?"

I grinned, looking at him in shock. "Are you serious?"

His smile fell. "You know what? You're so right. This isn't the place nor the time to ask you this."

I wrapped my arms around his neck. "There's nothing wrong with asking me now. I really don't mind."

He started to become aggravated. "You don't get it! Sophia, you're amazing. You're beautiful. You're like a diamond. A girl like that doesn't need to be asked out in the back of a van."

I bit my lip, and I ran a hand through my hair, suddenly feeling nervous. "You're really sweet, you know that?"

He rolled his eyes, a smile starting to form on his face. "Don't say that. You'll ruin my bad boy rep that I've been holding up for so long!"

I laughed, and I looked forward. Melissa was grinning at me through the rearview mirror.

Aston chuckled along with me. "But you know what? I really hated it when someone admitted that I was a softie. But coming from you, it's music to my ears."

I blushed, then leaned forward to kiss him. He put a finger over my lips, then tsked. "I'm sorry Sophia, but you can't kiss me. We're not a couple. Isn't it rude to kiss someone you're not in a relationship with?"

I groaned. Great. The boy found a loophole. "You're killing me here. You know that, right?"

He laughed, and scooted farther away from me. "Sorry, I don't make the rules, I just enforce them."

I slapped his arm. "You so lie! You did make the rules, and you're enforcing them." I grinned as an idea popped into my head. "What happened to your bad boy rep? Have you turned soft on me?" I challenged.

His eyes turned hard. "Go soft on you? Please, I'm not going soft on you."

"Then why won't you kiss me?"

He came so close to where I could feel his breath on my face. "Want to know why I won't kiss you? It's because I want the world to know you're mine first. I want to be able to go out and tell every guy who'd start checking you out to back off. I want to be able to tell girls, 'No, I'm not single, I'm taken by the most beautiful girl in the entire universe.' I want to be able to shower you with affection, not because you're a girl, but because you're my girl. Just because you're amazing, Sophia, and I adore you."

I blushed and felt a smile take over half of my face. "Do you really mean that?"

He pushed a strand of hair behind my ear. "Are you kidding? Sophia, I've wanted to tell you that ever since I met you. You're so amazing, and you don't even see that."

I shoved him farther away from me. "You're making it even harder for me not to want to kiss you."

He rolled his eyes. "One kiss wouldn't hurt."

He came forward and I put my hand over his mouth. "You can't kiss me, remember? 'We're not a couple. Isn't it rude to kiss someone you're not in a relationship with?'" I used his own terminology against him with a raised eyebrow and arms crossed against my chest.

Melissa was laughing and so was Chad. "Good one, Sophia!" I laughed along with them as Aston's face held an annoyed expression.

His smile gave way though, and he leaned back, scooting away from me. "Good one, Sofa. Good one."

Soon enough, I felt my eyes starting to drift closed and I yawned, my head starting to fall to the right. Before I entered dreamland, I heard a voice whisper, "Sleep tight, my princess."

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