The Elevator Tales

Chapter#7:

Taylor's POV:
I usually love going to Tyler's house and spending time with him, but after coming to the heartbreaking realization that he will never like me back, it's difficult to be around him. As soon as I saw what happened, I stormed out, crying and wanted to go home before Tyler came out but before I could Kelsey stopped me. She asked me what happened and I had to tell her about all of the heartbreak again.

After telling her, about how she was wrong and that he didn't like me, I really wanted to crawl into bed, with ice cram and cry my eyes out but Kelsey convinced me to stay and wait for him. She convinced me that I had to talk to Tyler about what I saw and got down to the bottom of it.

She said that I could have read too much into things and that he could really liked me. But if he didn't, which she assured me was probably not the case, she told me I couldn't give up on him. Even if he was with someone else it did not mean that he wasn't my best friend anymore. It just meant that I was the only one who wanted things more and that I was the only one who was open to get hurt. However after calming me down and convincing me to stay, we were both still upset. I was upset of what I saw and she was upset that he lead me on.

As he got out of the change room I saw how good he looked. He was wearing a blue shirt that matched his eyes well, jeans that hugged at his legs and he smelled really good. I let myself lose myself into the moment until I felt him wrap his arms around me. I know that I should act normal and try to remain his friend but it hurt too much.

His touch that usually felt soft, warm and calming had the opposite effect. Instead of it making me feel better like it usually did, it instead felt like it was a harsh fire that burned me.  I quickly moved away trying to get away from the burning and hurting I felt when I was with him.

He looked at me strangely, as if questioning if something went wrong and than looked at Kelsey as if she had an answer. But I saw her send daggers at him and as much as I wanted to tell Kelsey to knock it off I couldn't because I felt like he deserved that look for hurting me. 

"Do you still want to come to my place?" He asked me as he started to scratch his arm looking worried and concerned.

"Yea lets go!" I said as I walked with him to his car while making sure to leave as much room between us as possible.

As much as I wanted to say no, I knew Kelsey was right, just because he didn't like me, didn't mean I should abandon him. He never abandoned me even when he became the popular quarterback of the school, who ever wanted to be with and to know. He didn't abandon me when I was at my worst or treated him badly after my mom died. He stood by me and I had to stand by him.

As we got into his car he said "Sorry for what happened today. I shouldn't have done it but I really wanted to."

It hurt knowing that he wanted to be with someone else but it felt ever worse knowing that he was apologizing for doing it because I was being mean to him. He could be with any body he wants to be, I guess I just had to wrap my head out around that fact.

Even though the night started off awkwardly, all thanks to me, because of him and how amazing he was, it turned around. He put on my favourite movie, sat a decent distance away and ordered my favourite food. He just won a really big game and yet he was making sure that I was happy which reminded me of how amazing he is and how much he loved me. It might not have been in the way I wanted him to but it was fine, as long as I had him.

As the night progressed it got much easier to touch him and his arms returned back to being my safe haven. After watching a couple of movies and talking, he was tired and went to bed. As his dorm room only had 1 bed, it left with me 3 options. I could sleep on the floor, sleep on the couch or sleep in bed with him. As comfortable as the floor was when I was drunk and the couch was when I was tired, I knew that the place that would be the best was his bed.