Strong [Completed]

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Kayden's Pov

I stepped out of my car confused. V told me to meet her here for us to have a picnic so we could catch up but the only thing in sight was a Range Rover in the far distance.

After scanning it warily to make it's not some stranger that wants to kidnap me for ransom, I realised it was Veronica's boyfriend truck.

"She's probably waiting inside." I told myself and walked over to the truck.

My heart immediately clenched at the sight of Nathalie but that was quickly washed away and replaced with confusion.

"What are you doing here." I asked more coldly that I planned for, regretting it instantly.

Her soft smile disappeared and that's when the sad expression came about.

"Hey." She started off. She opened her mouth to speak again but nothing came out and she just looked like an agape fish. A cute agape fish though.

"Did Veronica set this up?" I broke the silence.

"Y-yeah, we umm met at the party."She spoke with a hint of fear.

It really hurt me the see Natalie looking so sad but It'd pain me even more to get my heart broken again.

Most people might say that I'm overreacting, a kiss is just a kiss and I don't even know the facts but I don't care. Love and Relationships isn't like those little girly movies or books - It's cold, painful and unfair.

This isn't the first time I've been in love. There was girl some years back.

Dayna Nicholas, the prettiest girl in the 9th grade. Faith was on my side and I happened to be in all of her classes and because our teachers thought we were a good team, they'd usually pair us up for all projects or group work.

We were bestfriends and went through and entire grade being that until she introduced me to John Pucker, A playboy 12th grader who happened to be her boyfriend. We were all hanging out in the park one day and I was so jealous that I pulled her and confessed my feelings. She was like 'Oh I always loved you too and I'll break up with John to be with you' and sh*t.

The next three months on our anniversary, I found her making out with Tucker looking like they were going to third base. I felt my heart shatter and I promised myself to never fall for a girl again.

I'd play around with girl's feelings but I never found them special enough to make it official or to take them to bed (which I'd only like to do with someone I truly love)

That's kinda corny and strange coming from a male but let's just say - I'm tryna avoid my parents mistake.

They met in highschool and got pregnant. My mum was forced to drop out and work to provide for me because she and dad had split up - meanwhile dad stayed in school, got his degree and slept around. My mum raised me alone for 9 years until my father came back apologizing and begging.

We thought he was genuine but turns out it would look better on him as a new Local Minister if he had a completed family, so he put a ring on my mother's finger and financially took care of us.

One day my mum and him got in a huge fight and the next day he got rid of her. Not even a week later, he was already introducing me to his new girlfriend - My step mother Shelly. I bet he's probably cheating on her with his office's secretary. What's her name - Lenny-Leanna-Oh Linda. 

I shook away the bad memories and climbed up on the truck to have a seat next to Natalie.

"Why am I here?"

The pretty brown girl with curly hair supposedly caught some spirit and with a sudden braveness I wasn't  expecting said ," To apoplogize!"

"I don't want to hear i-"

"NO YOU WILL.......... I really like you. I thought Jace was my friend but apparently his feelings was stronger. It wasn't my intentions to lead him on but he still got the wrong idea. When he heard about my feelings for you, we both expressed some hurtful and regretted things. His feelings was messed up and he kissed me. If'd you'd stayed for 2 more seconds you would have seen that I pushed him off. Now you're going to stop acting like a b*tch about it and forgive me." She practically demanded the last part.

I feel like an idiot.

Like I can't even talk because I am too embarrassed.

I stared at the bowl of grapes as I slowly processed everything. Jace lied to me. I met up with him the day after the incident and he admitted that they got in an argument. What he also said was that he kissed her but immediately pulled away and she went back in for the kiss. He told me that he wanted to pull away but he knew that would embarrass Nat.

When I think about it now - That's a f***ing retarded excuse.

Something in Natalie's eyes when she was telling the story told me it was the truth. I didn't see that in Jace's eyes.

"Ok you look a little umm speechless right now so how about we eat all these amazing snacks Veronica prepared for you and I'll show you my touch."

"Your touch?" My eyebrows knit  together.

"Yeah. She kinda set everything up but I still had to put in my own special and personal effort. So without further ado may I present you with-"

To Be Continued!!!