promise // matthew espinosa

Chapter 39

~ Brianna

After a few days, everyone but the Magcon/o2l guys and their girlfriends left. Tyler, Troye, Jenn, Chris, and Madison had to go back to L.A.

We were going to spend the day at Sky High. Matt, Nash, Shawn, Trevor, Andrea, and Kian were waiting for Sam and me downstairs. Everyone has pretty much established that he and I take the longest to get ready. I finished and walked out of my room towards the stairs, seeing Sam walking behind me out of the corner of my eye. Once we both reached the bottom, everyone just stopped and starred at us.

"You two look a lot alike," Kian blurted.

Everyone nodded in agreement. Sam and I turned to each other for a moment. I guess I've never noticed. My hair has darkened a lot since last year. I've practically gone from dirty blonde to brunette. Sam's curls have smoothed out a bit to light waves.

"We do? Really?" Sam asked surprised.

"Yea!" Shawn added.

"Same eyes, same cheeks, same hair..." Nash went on.

"Okay, okay. We get it," I stopped him, "Why are you guys realizing this now?"

They all just shrug, a pretty pointless response if you ask me.

"So, umm, you guys ready to go?" Matt asked, breaking the awkward silence.

"Yea let's go," Sam said, a bit embarrassed.

Nash had called the people at Sky High ahead of time to make sure we could get in without being mobbed. The boys have been there before, but they had to arrange something so fans couldn't get to them. The employees understood and made us a reservation. Sky High always tweets about who's coming so there were already quite a few fans waiting for us. The employees let us in through the back and showed us to the trampolines. We practically had the whole place to ourselves.

"Hey Bri, watch this," Matt said, getting ready to jump into the foam pit.

He landed head first and couldn't seem to dig himself out.

"I almost got it!" he yelled.

I chuckled and left to go see what everyone else was up to. Nash was jumping in the main area, so I went to join him.

"Can you do any tricks?" I asked.

He jumped off of the side trampoline into a back flip. He landed perfectly.

"Impressive," I said.

"Can you do anything?" he asked.

I cartwheeled across a few of the trampolines and jumped off of a side one.

"That's pretty much it," I said.

"Amateur."

"Whatever, I'm gonna go to the bathroom."

"K, have fun."

I sent him a sarcastic glare and headed to the bathroom.

~ Matt

I was getting pretty bored of jumping and decided to take a break. I sat down at a table by the concession stand and scrolled through my phone. It wasn't too long before I felt someone tap me.

"Excuse me, are you Matt Espinosa?"

I looked up to see an eager girl, around Brianna's age, smiling. She must be a fan.

"Yes, that's me."

"I was wondering if I could get a picture with you?" she asked.

"Sure thing."

She handed her friend her phone, and we smiled for the picture. I turned to her to say something and...

she kissed me.

She slammed me against the wall. I tried to loosen myself from her grip, but I couldn't. In the distance I could see Brianna, staring at me. I finally pulled myself away and ran to her, as quickly as I could.

"Brianna! It's not what it looks like!" I yelled after her, "Please! Wait!"

She stormed out the door. Sam noticed and ran after her with me. We were outside. I caught up to her and spun her around. It was raining, nearly pouring. I was a bit surprised, considering it doesn't rain much in California.

"Brianna please, let me explain," I told her calmly, despite the rain.

"Fine then, explain," she sniffled.

"Uhm, well..." I couldn't really find the right words to explain what had happened.

"Exactly, you can't," she cried, heading towards the car.

"Brianna, wait!"

I grabbed her and crashed my lips onto hers. She quickly pulled away and looked at me with hurt in her eyes.

"I'm sorry."

~ Brianna

I pulled myself out of his arms and continued my path to the car. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Sam.

"Brianna, what's going on?" he asked.

"Can you just drive me back please?"

He nodded, a bit confused, and got into the driver's seat of the car.

"What happened?" he asked, once we were on the road.

"I-I saw Matt kissing another girl when I came out of the bathroom."

He slammed on the brakes, causing both of us to jerk forward.

"YOU WHAT?!" he yelled.

"I saw him kissing someone else!" I cried.

Sam just shook his head.

"I'm so sorry. You don't deserve that."

He sure calmed down quickly. I sighed and looked ahead.

"Can we not talk about it?"

"Okay," he nodded.

The drive was long. It was pretty much silent.

"Brianna? Can I ask you something?"

Hesitantly, I said yes.

"Well, I've been thinking about what everyone said. About how we look alike."

He stopped for a second, then spoke again.

"When I was little, like about three, my parents split up. My dad took me away, and I never saw my mother again."

"I'm sorry," I spoke softly.

"Did you ever know your dad's last name."

Memories flooded my brain as I tried remembering my dad, who I never really knew at all.

"No, not really," I said, barely audible.

"Could you ask your mom?"

"Sam, why is this so important to you?"

He sighed for a moment, then spoke.

"I think we might be siblings."

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