Her Forever and Always (F.F. Book 2)

13. July

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Logan's POV-

"We met at Starbucks. She didn't bring in enough money to pay for her drink and - I was behind her in line - so I walked up and helped her out. Afterwards, we just started talking a little bit." I tell them. They both slowly nod their heads.

I wonder if they're going to continue on with this topic. If they do, it might be unavoidable to tell them what happened between us after that. And if that's the case, then I'll have to tell them.

I'm not about to lie to Kimberly's parents.

Susan suddenly sighs, giving me some sort of reaction. I jump in my seat a little at the sudden form of reaction. David looks over at his wife with wonder written all over his face.

"Seems like she can still be forgetful sometimes. That girl..." she mumbles a little. But not necessarily in a critical tone. David slowly nods.

Susan's eyebrows suddenly twitch and she looks up at me again. She squints her eyes at me, almost like she's studying me or something. I try not to show my unease of suddenly having her piercing eyes going right through me. She brings up her hand to her chin as she continues to study me.

"You said that you and Kim have been together for 3 and a half years, correct?" she asks me. I slowly nod my head.

"Y-yes ma'am."

She continues to rub her chin a little bit and exchanges a couple glances at David before she focuses her eyes on me once more. I can't read her.

"So if I do the math correctly...Logan...tell me something..." she starts off. I straighten up my back, getting prepared for the next question she throws at me.

"Were you still in school?" she asks me as she crosses her arms and raises her eyebrow at me.

A lot of things happen at once. Her piercing eyes are going right through me. My heart drops. My palms grow all clammy. My face starts burning. I can practically feel my heart beating - and hear it - and I'm even afraid that they can hear it from over where they're sitting. All just because of that one question.

I lean forward and hang my head down low as I rest my hands on my kneecaps. I practically dig my fingers in my knees due to my sudden increase of heart rate and unsteadiness.

"I-I'm sorry," I start off. I know I have their attention, even if they didn't give me some sort of answer.

"I never meant to put Kim's job on the line in the way it turned out. It was honestly just a coincidence that she ended up teaching at the same school that I went to, and even ended up as one of my teachers. For a while, we put up a lot of distance between us. But, that didn't last for long and we just ended up developing feelings and such...but you have to believe me that I wasn't doing it because I wanted her fired. I never wanted that for her. So even then, we put up boundaries and never met up outside of school or went on any dates. We never showed any form of affection towards each other at all...I'm sorry..." I tell them all at once.

"I love her, I would never want to put her in any form of trouble or anything...and we were always cautious of things. But I'll admit it...even if we tried our best to hide everything, somehow someone - another student - found out about it and almost killed me because of it. The principal found out but he supported us as long as we never showed affection towards each other - which we didn't. My parents found out and they were shocked by it but they quickly looked around it and they really like Kim...she means a lot to me...so please don't be mad or anything. And don't blame Kim for it because we both didn't know what was happening until we were already falling for each other. She didn't come onto me or anything and I didn't force her into anything either..." I say as I continue to ramble on.