Broken Hearts And Bruised Egos -Book 1

Chapter 16- Blaise

Everyday I spend with River I find myself falling harder, and despite of that fact, I'm still holding back. I Can't believe I didn't kiss her this afternoon when I had the chance. It definitely felt like one of those moments where it would have been perfect.

Unfortunately my thoughts betrayed me. Looking down at her ice blue eyes staring at up at me waiting for me to kiss her. I couldn't help but think What if this kiss destroys everything. What if she realizes she doesn't feel the same way about me. I just don't think I'm prepared to find that out just yet.

With Trevor out of town for the next few weeks, now Is my time to show her that we would be perfect together. When i'm not with her, I'm thinking about being with her. And now that I've had a small taste of what it's like to be around her, I don't want to ever be without her.

I was worried for a while there because it felt like I was getting friend zoned. But today, the way she looked up at me with those big beautiful blue eyes, I know she wanted me to kiss her. I just hope next time I don't chicken out, I need to redeem myself somehow.

After I spent the afternoon teaching her to play guitar and watching movies with her, she said that she had some things to do at at home before her mom got off work. I decided to use this time to plan a date.

We haven't been on one yet without other people around. I know I don't have the resources or connections that Trevor does but I am confident that I can come up with something.

I know that she has a love for 80's movies. I just have to figure out a way to combine her favorites. I have a general idea of what I want to do but I think I may have to enlist my dad's help.

I found him out in the garage working as usual, he was sanding a table leg when I walked in. I sat down in one of the rocking chairs he made to wait until I could get his attention.

" Hey son. Where's River?" He asked taking his
safety goggles off and wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"She had some chores to do before Savannah gets home."

"How did the guitar lesson go?"

"She's not half bad actually. She picked up on it pretty fast, but she gets frustrated easily. She's a bit of a perfectionist."

"Well like mother, like daughter." He shrugged.

"Dad, I need your help with something."

"Oh yeah, what's that?"

"Well you know this whole thing with me, Trevor and River?"

"Yeah?" He eyes me suspiciously.

" Trevor left for Alabama last night and he won't be back for four weeks. So I want to use his absence to my advantage, I want to ask her out on a date. With him not around to interrupt us, I really think I can show her that I am the better guy for her."

"Son, this isn't a competition. There are real feelings involved here and one or maybe even all of you is going to get hurt. Are you sure you want to pursue this? I thought you said you were backing off. I don't think this a good idea."

"That was before she knew! But now she knows I have feelings for her too. If there is even the slightest chance that she could feel the same way, then yeah I'd risk getting hurt a thousand times just to know for sure."

" I just don't want you to get hurt son."

" Dad, I can't just do nothing. I like her, I have to know if she feels the same way. I don't want to look back 10 years from now and wonder what could have been. I thinks it's better to just find out now . Either it will be everything I hope it will be or it will be a disaster. I don't want to ruin my friendship with Trevor but I can't help how I feel about her. We wouldn't even be in this mess if I would just have spoken up sooner."

He sighed , "Okay . So what do you need me to do?"

" Can you take Savannah out this Saturday?"

" What do you mean take her out?" He said eyeing me.

" I don't mean on a date , I can't have the two of you shacking up together and then River ends up being my step sister. I just mean that I need you two to not be here so, maybe like go to the bar or something for a few hours."

He laughed. "Let me get this straight, you want me to convince her mother that we should leave our hormone driven teenagers who may or may not have feelings for each-other, alone together at home while we go out drinking? Come on Blaise you know Savannah better than that."

"Wow, yeah I guess that sounds kind of bad when you put it that way. But we won't even be in the house, we would be in her back yard the whole time. It's not like you guys are going to come home to find us making out on the first date. River isn't like that."

" But you are?" he asked with a serious look.

"I mean..."

He shook his head and laughed. "Well let's hear this plan of yours first and then i'll see what I can do."

I went over the plan with him and he agreed that it's doable. But I will definitely need both his and Savannah's help to pull it off, Maybe even Lennox and Amberlee. I think getting Savannah to go out for the night is going to be the most difficult part, She never goes anywhere.

I sat in my room watching the trailers for all of the 80's movies that I know shes loves and pick the one I think is the least corny and fits our situation. Well sort of, I believe the wrong guy ends up with the girl but I guess Im biased. I spent the whole night working out all of the details. I want to do it on Saturday night so that gives me two more days to get everything together.

I considered sending her a text just to make sure she doesn't already have plans but quickly decided against it. I think the best way to do this would be to ask her out in person, I have to walk her to Kickboxing class tomorrow anyway.

After I finalize my plan I decided to play a quick game before bed. I put my headset on and fired everything up, Ryan was in my ear immediately, peppering me with questions about River. We played for about 30 minutes before I finally decide I had enough of him busting my balls and making Kissing noises. He's Lucky he lives in California or I would be on my way to kick his ass.