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“Dylan, what—” I placed my finger to her lips to quiet her.
“Not here.” I grabbed her hand. “Come on.”
We walked hand in hand out to my parents’ car that was parked in the parking structure. We drove in silence both of us lost in our own thoughts. When we got to her house, she went straight up to her room. I followed after I splashed some water on my face and made us some sandwiches. I knew neither one of us had eaten all day.
When I walked into her bedroom she was sitting in the middle of her bed with her legs pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. Exhaustion was evident on her face.
“You heard what I said didn’t you?” she asked, breaking the silence between us.
I set our plates on her nightstand and sat on the edge of her bed, resisting the urge to pull her toward me.
“It doesn’t matter.”
She glanced at me. “It doesn’t?”
“No,” I simply stated.
“And why is that?” she questioned not amused.
“Because I’m here now.”
“For Austin and Alex. You’re not here for me. You haven’t been here for me this entire year,” she blurted out. Her voice laced with nothing but anger and hurt.
“I know what you’re trying to do, darlin’, and I’m not falling for it. Not this time. Not ever again.”
She needed to get that through her pretty little head. No more fucking games.
“You just know everything, don’t you, McGraw?”
“When it comes to you, I do,” I countered.
She scoffed. “I don’t want you here. I don’t need you here. You can go.”
She was full of shit, but I didn’t call her out on it.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
AUBREY
I couldn’t take it anymore. The walls were caving in on me, my emotions suffocating me and burying me alive. I crumbled onto the bed, my body giving out on me.
“I can’t do this anymore,” I sobbed for what felt like the hundredth time that day. “Please just leave, Dylan, just leave me now because I won’t be able to live through it later.”
My body was shaking to the core.
My truths shattered all around me.
Dylan’s arms engulfed me, laying me against his chest. Tears streamed down my face. It felt so good for him to hold me, to feel his love and devotion, to feel everything that I desperately tried to push away for the last year. It was then that I openly bawled. I sobbed like a baby. Big, huge, ugly tears.
He placed my hand over his heart.
Calm.
Steady.
Secure.
Dylan.
