Captured

8

Aimee

I can't say that I was honestly all that shocked when after the end of day announcements, the entire school was called down to the auditorium for a meeting discussing Chloe and Sawyer and everything surrounding all of that drama. I headed out of the library, smiling sadly at both of Chloe's brothers as we slowly headed down that direction.

The lines to get in were already extremely long and I sighed, playing with the strings on my purple colored hooded sweatshirt as I tried to patiently wait for everyone to slowly maneuver their way inside the auditorium.

I honestly never thought something as awful and traumatizing would ever happen to someone like Chloe. Even yet I never thought something as awful would happen to anyone close to me, or anyone that goes to our school, anyone that lives in our community, or anyone that even lives in Minnesota. It's just so unrealistic that a celebrity would kidnap a young woman still in high school that is just trying to live a happy life. If anything like that would've happened to me, I'd probably be living dead in a ditch somewhere. I couldn't ever take the pressure and even try to escape. I'm not as brave as she is, and I don't think I ever could be.

Amongst all my saddened thoughts, Chloe's younger brother Dallas walked up to me and gently swung his arms around my shoulders, pulling my slightly smaller than his frame towards his body. He pressed a soft kiss against my cheek, causing a deep blush to form on my cheeks and me to glance down at my converse within a bit of nerves.

What? It's not my fault that I kind of have a crush on Dallas. Just because he's younger than me and Chloe's brother doesn't mean that I don't find him completely attractive. He's always been the sweetest guy I've ever met in person and he has always been one to talk to or take care of me when I was feeling like shit and needed someone to talk to. So the fact that he's being such a gentleman right now when I'm feeling down and wrapping his arm around me doesn't completely surprise me. Sometimes I just wish his feelings stretched further than just the brotherly instinct he's always had around me.

"Are you alright?" He mumbled softly in my ear, gently tilting my chin up with his hand and causing the redness on my cheeks to intensify. I nodded my head slowly and took my bottom lip in between my teeth, biting down on it softly.

"As good as I'm going to get, yeah." I nodded my head again and rested my head lightly on his shoulder as we continued to slowly move up through the line to the front doors. "How about yourself?"

Dallas gently took one of my hands within his own and traced soft circles within the palm as he shrugged his shoulders and met my eyes with his beautiful brown ones. "I miss my big sis a lot, but I'm glad that you're still around. At least then we have a shot at maybe actually finding her. If you both would've been taken I think all hell would've broken loose." My eyes widened a bit when Dallas moved a tad bit closer to me in order to gently rest his forehead against mine. If either of us would move even an inch forward our lips would be touching and then we'd be kissing. Not that I'd mind, but there's more important and stress worthy things at hand. I suppose he could always help me forget the pain of his sister being gone though...

But then I'd feel completely wrong like I'd be using him. I wouldn't be though. Honest. I really really like Dallas and I'd never use him for anything. He'd just be helping me out a bit. That's all.

I'd still nibbling on my bottom lip and he gently raised his hand to take my bottom lip out of my mouth with his finger. "No biting, Aimee." He shook his head at me and smiled softly. "You'll hurt yourself. Besides that would be a job for someone else to do. Biting your lip."

I felt my blush deepen yet again from his suggestive comment and I knew he could tell that's what happened because he smirked at me and slowly leaned in, pressing his soft lips gently against mine. We kissed softly for a moment for he moved back and kissed my cheek, frowning a bit as he studied me curiously. "I umm...I hope I didn't ruin anything between us. You're such an amazing girl and I've honestly thought so for the longest time, I just..." I shut him up by locking our lips together again and pecking his softly before moving back and shaking my head again.