Eliza's Elation (Kingston Spin-off #1) ✔️

Chapter 5

**(Edited)**

Eliza's POV

"Mom?" I cry into her shoulder as she rubs my back. I came directly to her work after driving over an hour full of tears. I can't believe I just lost my best friend of all time because I had to kiss him. It's been killing me and I had to do it. When we were just laying together I saw him, all of him, flash before my eyes and it's like I knew that he was everything I've ever needed or wanted. I can't describe it but my heart was so ecstatic, elated, and I just knew that he was my world and I was giving it up.

I know his sister and mom are going to be upset but they'll see him a lot more than I probably ever will. It's because I will never be able to look at him the same without feeling his body on top of mine and inked chest pressed against mine.

"Eliza baby, what's going on?" She asks as she brings me into the back room of the warehouse. I had to park in it so that nobody would see my car because I didn't want Grant to find me, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to look at him again and not feel something. When we kissed, I knew what I thought for all these years was right, and it freaked me out.

He looked so hurt when I told him that it was a mistake and even though it was, it felt so right. It felt so right and in that moment I wanted to give myself to him fully. His lips were so soft and firm, slightly chapped but they felt like him. I wish I would have done it at Homecoming whenever we won. We were so happy that we spent all night together. We went to our favorite spot and sat in the back of his truck goofing off until I ended up straddling his lap in my dress. We just talked, for hours but it felt like so much more to me.

I am hopelessly in love with Grant Westbrook and there's never a chance I'm going to be with him.

"Mom, Grant's leaving and I kissed him" I sob into her shoulder as she rubs my back and takes me over to the small couch and sits down. She moved into his place after her company blew up, and now she's a badass CEO and I love her for it. I was told that her and my Aunt Avery started all this up, and now even though she's a full time mom and dealing with my dad and his shit, she's always here. My dad, I love him with all my heart but he's such a pain in the ass.

It's nice to see them together though because they absolutely love each other. I think I knew that I love Grant the way I do when I saw my mom and dad making out in my dad's car outside while they tried to hide from us. They were laughing and moaning but, I was in my sophomore year of high school and I remember watching them in awe. I can't believe that after so many years they are still so in love.

"Oh my, sweetie. I know you love him" she says as I sob and wipe my face over and over in her long brown hair. I love her brown hair, it's never turned grey and she's still so beautiful. I grip it in my hands and hold her as I sob.

"Mom, I messed us up. I-, I-, I- kissed him and he kissed me back, he said he was in love with me" I cry as she rubs along my shoulders and pulls back wiping the tears from my face. I always tell her everything, everything over and over and it's always been us.

"Eliza, I knew that already that boy is in love with you and I knew you were in love with him too" she whispers as she wipes my face off. She uses her baby pink nails to wipe the tears from my chin and down my neck.

"How?" I ask as she rubs her small hands along my face and cheeks.

"Honey, he's always been in love with you. He just respects you so much that it's hard for him to tell you. Eliza I knew he loved you when he was sitting in our living room watching you read. I know right? Reading? But the way he looked at you in that second, Eliza that's the way grandpa looks at grandma, Dean looks at me, Connor looks at Tayson, and Trevor looks at Avery. It's true love sweetie" she whispers as I watch her. I can't let him love me like this because it took weeks of convincing him to go,