She Was Like Magic ✓

Chapter 21: Rain & Romance

Ari 

The wind was blowing through the night sky, making her caramel hair dance in front of her face. I reached out and brushed them aside. She looked at me and smiled. She was so gorgeous. I would have went through everything again and again if it meant I was promised her by my side. 

I could hear a few deep voices behind me conversing. I caught bits and pieces of their conversation "That ass though..." and the other one said something about me but all I heard was "him". 

I clenched my fists and tried to keep my calm. I pulled on her arm and brought her to my chest, so my body was completely covering hers, shielding her from the guys behind me. 

She smiled up at me and I kissed her, her hands wrapped around my waist and we both stopped to kiss each other properly. 

As the guys kept walking, I glanced at them towards my left as I kissed her and she broke away from me "What the hell Ari?" I heard Sierra snap. 

I watched the guys walk away and then I turned back to her. She had her arms crossed in front of her chest and then a moment later, turned away and walked off. 

The way she was angrily swaying those hips of hers, God Ari, not RIGHT NOW! 

I chased after her and grabbed her arm to halt her and turn her to me but she violently shrugged me off and continued walking. I caught up with her again and grabbed her arm again and she swung around fast and looked me dead in the eye "What the fuck was that about? Were you just kissing me for show for those guys? Is this some kind of macho thing?" she narrowed her eyes at me that were blazing just now. 

I didn't know how to explain to her that it was my insecurities from last time, that were pinching at me. How did I begin to tell her that? That I feared I wouldn't be good enough again, that maybe she deserved someone better than me but I was too selfish and wanted to keep her with me. What if I wasn't good enough to make her stay? I peered into her questioning green eyes and I didn't know how to even begin to tell her this. I sighed. 

She turned on her heel and started walking swiftly away from me until I grabbed her arm again turning her to me "Just wait a second Sierra!" I said frustratingly. 

"What?!" she asked. 

As I tried to catch my breath it began to rain so heavily and so fast that I couldn't believe how fast the weather had changed. 

But the stubborn ass girl that she was, she was completely unaffected by the rain as she kept her eyes trained on me. 

"I'm so scared of losing you because you have ran away from me twice already and you're different. Everything with you is stronger and if you leave me I will be wrecked okay?!" I ran a hand through my hair in frustration, something I did when I was nervous "I feel like I'm not good enough for you and it scares me because...because. Its because I fucking love you okay?!" I shouted and she recoiled. 

She was so shocked and confused as she looked at me. I ran a hand over my face and sighed. 

You fucking IDIOT, ARI! 

This was not how I wanted to confess my feelings to the girl of my dreams. It just wasn't how I wanted to when rain was incessantly falling on us and when I think we were in the middle of a fight. 

Her breathing became more rapid as she stared at me "I fucking love you too!" she shouted back at me and I was dumbfounded. I stared at her with my mouth agape. 

"What?" I asked her incredulously. 

She bit her lip and nodded at me but her expression was one of uncertainty "Yup, uh huh, I knew I did but I just didn't know how to say it to you" she nodded fast at me like she couldn't get over her nerves and I had never seen her like this.