New Boy [Daniel Seavey]

twenty-four

Daniel drives for a half hour and we end up in the middle of fucking nowhere. Middle of nowhere.

I sit there in the car in silence as I wait for Daniel to speak. We sit there for five minutes then he finally starts.

"When I met you I was a troubled kid. I partied all the time, snuck out, always got drunk, always got stoned, disrespected everyone, gambled. I did a lot of stupid shit. I mean I fucked Bailey in the first week of dating with her, but even while I was with her I flirted with other girls, but it bothered me because one of them wasn't tripping over me like the rest were. And that's you. This amazing, smart, one-of-a-kind gorgeous girl didn't want me and that got to me, but eventually, we became friends. The more I got to know you the crazier I became about you, and not like a crazy creep kind of way, more like an 'I wonder what she's doing right now kind of way.'" His grip tightens on the steering wheel, "After I realized I had feelings for you it got bad. I would be with Bailey and I would imagine her as you."

I laugh, "so you'd be fucking my best friend and thinking of me?" 

Daniel chuckles and turns pink, "yeah, but that's not the point. Ashlyn.." He looks up from the steering wheel and looks me in the eyes, "I love you."

I smile and my heart flips and my stomach has a million butterflies. "Now was that so hard to tell me?" 

He glares at me with a playful grin and shakes his head, "yes actually it was quite terrifying."

"I thought you were driving us into the middle of nowhere to have loud car sex," I say laughing.

He raises his hands, "hey I'm not like that. Especially to virgins."

"Oh yeah because fucking people in your house is something you do often." I joke.

He starts the car back up and argues back, "I fuck people in houses it could be worse like in public places."

"Don't forget that you fucked Bailey on a beach." 

Daniel groans into a laugh, "she told you about that?"

I nod, "completely plastered me and Daniel had rough sex on the beach on his hoodie." I mimic a voice that's supposed to be Bailey. 

Daniel laughs, "was that supposed to be Bailey?" 

"Yeah. It sounded better in my head." 

"I could tell." Daniel smiles as he turns onto the highway. "So McDonald's or Taco Bell?" 

"If you love me and know me so well, do you really need to ask me that?"

Daniel nods his head, "Taco Bell it is."

I sit there and stare at Daniel as he smiles slightly and focuses on the road. I'm lucky to have him, I really am, but how am I going to tell him Bailey said I couldn't date him. She said it's her or him. 

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Well, of course, it wouldn't be my story if I didn't make everything unnecessary lolll.