Tragically Beautiful

Chapter 34....

Semi-edited (Kind of have to put it at this point, its tradition)

Also PLEASE READ THE AUTHORS NOTE AT THE END!!!

Song above is...Power Over Me by Dermot Kennedy (Love this song!)

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Re-Cap: "I don't care about your baggage. You are amazing, strong, funny, clumsy." Riley laughed softly, her eyes filling with tears. "You are everything I have ever wanted." This time it was my voice that was soft.

My thumb wiped away a tear that rolled down her face as she leaned her cheek into my palm.

"So will you be my girlfriend? Officially?"

"I would love to." 

Riley

My face hurt from smiling so much. Literally nothing was going to get rid of this smile on my face. For the first time in months I felt happy, like really happy. And I knew exactly who to thank for making me feel this way.

I didn't even care that I had to get up early and that it was Monday. The thought of going to school actually made me excited. Excited for school was not in my vocabulary, yet here I was skipping to my car still smiling.

Going to school meant seeing Alex and after what happened last night I was excited yet nervous. The stupid voice in my head was rearing it's ugly head and planting seeds that maybe Alex has already changed his mind about us. That it all wasn't real.

I had to force myself out of those thoughts. Alex wasn't Mitch. He wouldn't do that to me. I hated that my thoughts immediately went there and the fact that they did made me hate Mitch even more. He's hurt me in more ways than I thought.

Just thinking of Mitch made my hands clench around the steering wheel. My hand protested, my red knuckles turning white with tension. I glanced at my hands and winced, slowly letting my grip loosen. My poor hands looked horrible.

They still had a few fading bruises from the last time I punched someone and now they were bright red once again after last night. And I still had a cut on top of my hand thanks to Rebecca and her clones.

I looked away from my hands and shook my head. No I wasn't going to think about Mitch or Rebecca. I wanted to think about Alex and the fact that he asked me to be his girlfriend.

Everything about our date was incredible. Picking fruit may have sounded boring it was far from that and I got to learn more about Alex and his parents for that matter. Then when he brought me to the drive in theater...I'm pretty sure I fell for him even more.

What guy goes through that much trouble for a date? Mitch never did. Never would. The fact that Alex put that much thought into it made the whole thing the best day of my life.

"Someone is in a good mood." A voice spoke beside me. I was too busy thinking back on our date to realize that I had parked and gotten out of the car. It was probably a bit frightening that I didn't even remember pulling into the parking lot.

"Oh my god Riley." Olivia basically yelled. She shoved Derek to the side to get to me. "How was the date? I want all the details!"

Looping her arm through mine she tugged us towards the school building asking a million questions.

"What did you guys do? Did you like the drive in movie? I may have given Alex the idea but he executed it himself. Did you guys kiss? Are you boyfriend and girlfriend now?"