WHAT COMES AFTER THE END OF THIS

Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Yrene's PoV

I tell him everything, from Nick to all my family problems and still leaving out the part about my eating disorder and the new decision. With every word I speak he first seems to become pitiful but that changes with a mention of Nick's doings and their impact on me, the pity turns into anger and I have to cover his hand with mine in order to calm him down. 

When I finish with my sob story he doesn't waste a minute affirming his actions,

"Yrene, I can't do much about your parents but this Nick character, I-I'm" his voice quakes with anger, "going to beat him black and blue, he won't be able to recognise his own face for the longest time when I see him next. I swear, Yr."

I laugh and shake my head at this new angry, possessive side of him but I cannot deny that I love it. 

"What? I'm serious!"

"Chase, I know you are."  

"You mentioned your parents' attitude towards you but you didn't tell me what they did exactly. Care to share?"

He looks at me with an expression that he knows I will not be able to refuse; I don't.

"Well, you see I have really intelligent cousins, so for one thing I've constantly been compared to them and that shit kind of really hurts because honest to God I do try my best for everything and when I don't get the same amount of marks as others, they kind of make me realise that I'm no good, especially Mother. Also, when I told them I wanted to become a mechanical engineer they kind of flipped, because they always wanted my siblings and I to come into their field and handle the business without giving a shit about our own preferences. Anyways, my brothers convinced them to let me keep all sciences and no business subjects and go into the field I wanted to go in, instead putting their own lives and preferences on the line, sacrificing their own freedom of choice for me but every time I get a grade below an A plus I'm knackered. This one time my mother got so pissed at me not getting a good mark in physics considering, 'it's what I wanted to do instead of what they chose for me', she kind of lured my father into, um, beating me." I say the last part not as proper coherent words but rather as a string of syllables and yet, somehow, he manages to catch the meaning.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Yep, as you can guess Chase screamed this part.

"Hey, calm down, it's fine, I probably deserved it, it's over and it doesn't matter anyway. Father apologised about it for days after and he still regrets it every time and that much I'm sure of. He still loves me and shows it too but sometimes my mother's ideas get to his head, after all she is a very convincing person, I mean she convinced me I was overweight when I actually never was." 

To reassure him I give him a weak, watery smile and he brushes away a stray stand of my hair and tucks it behind my ear, making me look directly into his beautiful gold specked orbs.

"You didn't deserve any of it, Yrene." He whispers, his tone soft and caling, " None of it at all, from your parents treatment to that dickface Nick's shitty attitude. You're so fucking precious Yrene Jones and those who don't see it are simply unlucky and stupid." 

I love how my name perfectly rolls off his tongue in a smooth motion, it gives me goosebumps and our close proximity just adds to the sensation. I decide I cannot resist the urge to kiss his full, pink lips any longer, the heat between us was too much to bear and so I lean forward and   at the same time he leans forward too.

Our lips meet halfway, and you know the feeling they describe in the most cliché of romantic novels, the sparks flying, fireworks exploding, seeing stars kind of feeling? Yep! That's the feeling I was welcomed warmly by when I felt Chase's soft lips colliding with my blood maroon painted ones.