It All Started With A Dare...

My Story

James POV

I take Belle's arm and pull her close. She's the only person who can make me feel whole and relaxed. My dad was coming home. My stupid dad. I can't deal with him. Ever since he left my mom, and she passed, I never forgave him.

I lose my train of thought when Belle says something.

"Huh," I say out loud.

She stares at me and then smiles.

"I said, do you want something to drink," she tells me trying to hold in a laugh.

"Yeah- um sure. Anything's fine," I tell her. She really is beautiful. Her hair falls perfectly on her shoulders. I don't know what is wrong with me but I fell more myself with her.

She walks to the kitchen, grabs a ginger ale and comes back to hand it to me. We touch hands and I immediately look into her eyes which were already on me. She looks away and quickly takes her hand off the cold drink.

Being my stupid self, I blurt out, " My dad is coming back and I ducking hate him more than anything."

God dammit. Why did I just say that?

She stops, looks at me and then looks down.

"I'm sorry I had no idea," Belle tells me, still looking down at her knees.

Why the hell is she saying sorry? She didn't do anything wrong. It's my dad who should say sorry.

I tell her the whole story... about what happened with my family. My dad had left my mom and me when I was only about five. Then my mom got sick and passed away and he didn't even come back for the funeral.

I had to go through all of that shit myself. All while my dad was probably having fun with a slut half his age.

Belle looks at me with her kind-hearted eyes and says nothing. She knows exactly what to do without even saying anything. All she does is gives me a kind smile.

That's all I needed right now.

I hear something at the door and Belle looks kind of scared.

"Shoot! My moms home! Um- she's a little.. well embarrassing," Belle says with her face turning all red.

I laugh and she just looks at me.

"Trust me, I want to here about whatever your mom has to say," I say while smirking.

She rolls her eyes and walks towards the door but her mom has already opened it. I get up and follow her.

Her mom is surprised to me. Has she never brought a guy to her house. I mean based on the moms reaction, I got my answer.

"Belle! I had no idea you were bringing  a handsome young man here. Hello, I'm Belle's mother," she says with a smile that matches Belle's.

I try not to smirk when I see Belle's flushes face and just say, "Hi, I'm James. Nice to meet you Mrs. Ryenson."

"Oh please call me Ivy."

"Alright, Ivy."

She smiles back and tells us she won't bother us and tries to hide her nudge Belle and wink at her. Belle gives her mom a glare and whispers something to her. Her mom just laughs softly and heads upstairs.

She gets back to the couch with a worried face.

"I'm really sorry. She can be- well she can be really peppy sometimes."

I just smile at her.

"Anyways-," she starts, "What are we now?"

She looks into my eyes wanting an answer u couldn't give her.

I wanted to say I wanted to be with her but I had other things to handle right now. I can't be with her. Girls like her can be so fragile and there were so many other ones I needed to talk to before I actually start something with her.

I get up from the couch.

"Nothing. That was nothing out there. I just was lonely and needed to talk to someone."

"But, I thought-"

"You thought wrong," I say, cutting her off. I'm so damn confused. I don't wanna give up having other girls just for her. She's just a regular girl and I won't be with her.

I take three giant steps towards the door and walk straight to my car, not looking back at her.

Man what the hell was wrong with me?
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Hey guys! So I'm not sure I'll be uploading this story anymore because I'm just not motivated and am starting a new project that'll be on here!! Hope you all are doing okay during this time and I'm so sorry that this story has come to an end so shortly! These characters just aren't speaking out to me anymore and I don't have anymore story to write for them. I really hope you all understand :)

My new story will be up very very soon!
Thank you so much for the support
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