A Little Too Late

Chapter 3

I shook those thoughts out of my mind and went back to where I stopped as the memories seemed so clear like I was watching a movie:

-When suddenly , I spotted my mother looking at us , eyes wide from the shock , I held my breath as I stepped away , Aiden quickly turned back to face my mother who was glaring at both of us . Without a word, she went away back to the living room like nothing happened, I was relieved but more surprised at her reaction, and I thought she would do some scandal about it. I got out of the bathroom leaving Aiden with his own thoughts, he seemed worried more than shocked. Maybe guilt was washing over him after what he did. I mean he didn't have the right to do that , I was with his brother , I couldn't allow myself to cheat on him . Aiden had his chance years ago, and he screwed up and Ronan was there at the right moment to pick up the pieces of my broken heart, I was so young and I believed that Isaac loved me but then he left me to go to college far away without even telling me. I knew that some part of me , deep inside , wished that Isaac didn't feel any guilt or regret about what just happened back then , I enjoyed it and I was ashamed of myself to even think about it that way, it seemed so right when I was with him while it was meant to be wrong . I walked toward Ronan, kissed him on his cheek as he wrapped his arm around my waist, he pulled me closer, then he asked for everyone's attention. I frowned slightly not knowing what was going on right there. He suddenly knelt down on his knees, brought something out of his pocket, but soon I recognized that it was a ring, a diamonds one, he then proposed to me in an unofficial way, it was a promise ring, vowing to love me and cherish me the way I deserved it until we finish with our studies to finally get married. I was under shock at first, I fought the urge to look at Aiden but my eyes made their way against my will. As I spotted him, he was more shocked than me, and I could say from the look in his eyes that he was waiting for my answer. And as he held my gaze, his eyes were full of pain but mixed with hope, a slight hope that he was holding on to it. I then looked down at Ronan who was still wearing his sweet smile which made my heart melt, a grin full of joy, happiness ... and hope. Everybody was waiting for me, becoming impatient. I raised my eyes to my mother who nodded at me and glared at me with warning eyes. I had to accept. Although, deep inside, I knew that my love for Ronan started to fade away slightly. I've always depended on him , but as I was growing up , that need wasn't there anymore , but I just couldn't betray anyone . Unlike everybody, my mother knew that I've always been in love with Aiden, and that I'll always do. We were together at first, when I was 14 and he was 18, but no one knew beside her, she thought it was some silly teen's relationship and that we hadn't any future together, Aiden was a delinquent guy, some sort of a bad boy, selfish and irresponsible, he was the kind of guy who loved to party and get home drunk at 3 am. So my mother was harsh about that and didn't let me «mess up with my future» like she said , so she kept pushing me to be with Ronan against my will, and with Aiden leaving me heart broken , I just agreed with her . I didn't have any reason left to fight for , he just left me and didn't think about me being hurt , at least that was what I thought . Ronan and I went to university, so we moved from North Carolina to Tennessee to study in the university of Tennessee Health Science Center, we did rent an apartment and planned to get married as soon as we ended up with our studies, and it was at least for four years.