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I lay back down and place my hands behind my head and look up the sky. What do I want? She is the first person to ask me that. No one has taken the time to ask me what I want. The only thing I do know that I want.
Is her.
I want her.
I don’t tell her that. I’m just realizing my feelings for her for the first time. I’m falling in love with her but now is not the time to tell her. She just lost her parents and has to figure out what she wants to do. I want whatever that is to involve me.
“I don’t know. I’m going to figure that out before I graduate.”
That is the only answer I can give her right now. When the time is right, I will tell her. Soon.
Chapter nineteen
Aura
Me: Happy birthday.
Kalum told me today was his birthday. It is Thursday and a school day. I made him a cake with Camila. I went to the grocery store with Henry and picked up some stuff but I paid for it out of pocket. I purchased balloons and everything I needed to make a surprise homemade birthday cake.
The Jeep is not there so I assumed Lane sold it already. It was really a nice Jeep but there was no way I could afford to buy it. I never mentioned it to Exie or asked who purchased it from her brother. The subject of her brother really hasn’t come up and the way I feel about Kalum right now. I’m honestly not interested in Lane not in that way. Kalum has stolen my heart and my kisses. He hasn’t pressured me to have sex or go further since that day at the lake. It was the best day I have ever had in such a long time.
I’m walking out to the parking lot and my phone vibrates.
Kalum: Thank you. :) I just want to spend it with you. I called Henry and he will take you home so you don’t have to wait up for me. The guys want to take me out for a celebratory meal and I will head home right after.
My heart sinks that I’m not invited but I understand it will raise questions. People already have noticed we are closer than before. Kalum doesn’t allow the bitch crew or anyone of his teammates to call me names. No one approaches me at school except, Exie. My thoughts wondering if Sarah and the other girls got wonder got invited to celebrate his birthday. A wave of jealousy hits my stomach but I block it out when the black Rolls-Royce pulls up and Henry opens the back door.
I didn’t know what to buy him for his birthday so I decided to make a special bracelet with his name engraved on it. The guy has everything and my budget is very limited. The bracelet is thicker than anything I have ever made but I have noticed it would take me more time to complete. It has been a challenge to hide it from him. Kalum watches me while I make them in class and he doesn’t hide the fact that he is openly staring at me. I don’t want him to see what I was making so hiding my next creation has been a challenge.
At night, he makes sure the coast is clear and slips inside my bed. We sleep together almost every night. No sex just sleep and we talk about everything in hush whispers. Our favorite foods, what we are into, what movies we haven’t watched and a promise to go to the movies one day.
I sigh, disappointed I didn’t get to finish it but I wanted it to be perfect. I bought the best materials to create it. It is a bracelet made to last forever.
I text him back.
Me: I can’t wait to see you. I miss you already. Have fun and stay safe.
Three bubbles pop up and then they disappear. Whatever he was about to say he deleted.
“Is everything ok Miss Aura? Henry asks his grey eyes looking through the rear view mirror. Is it that obvious?
I give him a fake smile. “Everything is great Henry. I can’t wait until I get home to make Kalum his cake.
Henry nods but his expression tells me he is not so convinced. He drives through the gates of the St. Claire mansion. Sometimes, I feel like it is an institution. A prison and I’m completing a sentence. In a way, I am.
The only thing good is Henry, Camila, and Kalum. Mr. and Mrs. St. Claire see me as the hired help. Not fit to be anything more than a poor girl who under bad circumstances needs a job. They overlook that I’m third in class, I have excellent grades and I’m only trailing first by two points Kalum is ahead of me academically by one point. He was surprised when he found out.
I batted my eye lashes and said I came form smart parents that attended college even if my father was the only one who had no choice to drop out. Kalum said he admired them for not giving up on each other. My heart soared when he talked so well about them not judging their decisions.
My mother could have aborted me and moved on with their lives and could have been successful. My father wanted to major in accounting and attended Penn State with my mother.
“Hi Aura. Camila greets me when I make it into the kitchen. “Everything is ready.”
I smile. “Thank you.”
I get to work and once the cake is in the oven. She eyes me warily and lowers her voice to a whisper, “You like him don’t you.”
I place the balloons around the small table in the kitchen so that when he arrives, we can sing him happy birthday and cut him the cake my mother taught me to make. It’s a triple layer moose chocolate cake.
