In Love With My Best Friend's Brother Book:1 By SCM75

EPILOGUE

Understanding is

 50/50

Scarlett O'Hara was smart, but just when it seems she had all figure it out, she couldn't stop herself from stupidly sabotaging her own happy ending. 

Is turns out that I had more in common with her than just story. 

That night in that cheap roadside lodge when I discovered that Copter loved me was the beginning of what would be the best summer of my life, full of stolen kisses and passion-filled nights. We offer ourselves to each other mind, soul and body freely, without reservation.

 But something still irked me. Why marriage now, and so young?

 Regardless, I decided that nothing would ever get me to take his ring off my finger.

 Touching the hard, smooth edges served as a reminder that I wasn't dreaming this all up. Belonging to Copter was my new blissful reality. 

After the snow had melted the next day, we drove toward Texas, but I could tell he sent my dread.

 I didn't want to go back. 

I wasn't finished mourning my father, and returning to the home in which he raised me was too much.

 "The east coast is beautiful right now, Bas," he said, smiling with a bit of mischief in his dark eyes. 

A green and white sign on the highway read, Welcome to Texas. I didn't have a ponder it for another second. "Let's go."

 He grabbed my hand, he thumb passing lightly over the engagement ring  maybe his reminder also that he was not ready to go home either.

In his New York apartment, we dreamed and scheme beneath his crisp, clean gray sheets at night. And we spend days exploring hidden secrets of the city, something he took great pleasure in, almost like he was introducing me to a secret lover. 

During one long walk through the financial district we stopped in front of a tall mirrored Skyscraper the place he would start work as an investment banker in just a week's time. A large sign loomed above us.

Samders Bank. 

"So, are you ready to bring your career as a soulless money-grubbing Banker in Manhattan?" I teased him as I tried to estimate the number of floors towering above us. They seem to disappear into a clear Summer Sky above. Could there be fifty? A hundred? It was nothing I had ever seen in Fairfield, Texas. 

Something dark passed over his face, but he seems to fight it back with the forced smile. "You know, if I have you here with me, I'm not in no danger for that happening. Your goodness will balance out my uncontrollable greed." 

"Ah, so together will be...morally mediocre?" 

He laughed, but then his face became serious. He put his arms around my waist and pulled me to him. 

I knew what was coming.

 "Stay with me, Bas. 

We'll get marry and you can go to school in New York. I know you're young, but I can live without you. I need you here." 

This wasn't the first time he talked about the subject. He knew I had a full scholarship to the University of Washington state in Pullman, Washington and I was set to move there in the fall.

 I wanted to say yes. I had wanted to stay with him. But a part of me didn't trust the happiness laid in front of me on a silver platter. It was too easy. Too perfect. What if it evaporated and I was on my own again? I was at the Edge  of being independent and fulfill the dreams that I had carefully crafted since I was ten. I convinced myself that this opportunity was too hard one who Let It Go easily. And at my father's grave I made a promise to him that I was going to show everyone that had looked down on me, that I was capable of becoming a good writer. 

"Copter, this is something I work my butt off my whole life. It would be the same if you... Just took care of everything. And I want to stand on my own two feet. I want to do this on my own. I need to do this on my own." 

He tried to hide the disappointment in his eyes, but it was there.

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He asked me to stay with him every day until he saw me off at the airport for my trip home. He had the darkest pain on his face when I kissed him goodbye. 

"You can cancel your flight. It's not too late. Please stay with me, Bas. I need you...more than you think you know."

 "You'll be fine. We'll be fine." I tried to console him. Why did he look so tortured? It was just a flight away, 5 hours max. We could see each other every weekend and holidays and all summer.

 He grabbed me by the shoulder and pulled me close. "Whatever happens to us-to me- promise you'll...find me. Promise you won't give up on me?" His hands squeeze my arms a little too hard, bordering on painful, and the in intensity in his voice scare me.

 He's being crazy, I told myself.

 I gave him the most light-hearted and reassuring smile. "Give up on you? Are you planning on getting lost in the Amazons or something?" 

He didn't laugh. "Pause miss me, Bas."

"I promise."

unfortunately,     only understanding it's 50/50. 

I should have stayed.

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Update, my dear readers here is your last update for this book. Thank you so much for your votes and comments. I'm sorry I haven't updated this book lately but since Wattpad been having a little issues finally I got to do my update. I want to thank my loyal readers, for those of you that read from the first page all the way to the end I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope those of you who started with me will continue into my next Journey my next baby. 24 1/2 kisses.🌹❤❤

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