Chapter 13
“I guess those fuckers will get their wishes granted, because you can have me, you can have Aleck, or you can have us both,” he around my neck and his mouth on mine, his kiss frantic and wild. He pulled away and looked at the.
soid with a groan, his hands
“There’s no rush on anything, princess. Whenever you’re ready, whatever you want, that’s what will happen. Get some rest; you have to figure out what to do about that apartment,” he said, kissing my forehead and walking back towards the living room. I walked into the room and closed the door.
1 sat on the bed. Was this really happening? Could I have them both? I grabbed a shower and went back to bed. It was almost ming; I wouldn’t be able to sleep. I lay there staring at the ceiling. How would people react to us being together? Our friends? They’ll think we lied and Mary was right. Oh god, how
we do this?
When 6 AM rolled around, 1 hadn’t slept a wink. I got up and walked out to the kitchen. Denn was there.
“Morning.” I took a seat at the counter, rested my head down, and looked at him. He put a cup of coffee in front of me. I felt someone behind me; he kissed me on my shoulder. “Morning, baby girl”
“Morning.
“Stop worrying about whatever it is that has you like that,” Dean said, putting the plate next to the coffee.
“If they find out, they’ll think we lied to them. They IL What are we doing?”
are in a relationship, that’s what we’re doing. This isn’t going to end, Layla.” I looked at Aleck
“This is for the rest of your life and ours. You’re not leaving, and neither are we, Layla.” Dean had that serious look in his eyes.
“People won’t accept it,” I said halfheartedly.
“Do you love us, Layla?”
Yes, DeanTM
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life with us?*
“Yes, Aleck.”
I saw Dean pull his phone out. He was calling someone. The phone was on speaker. My phone was ringing. I looked at it and sine it was a group call. “What are you doing?
Group Chat
CHRIS: I’m still dr
drink.
REA. Yes.
NELLA: You better have a good reason for disturbing me, Dean.
ANDREW: Yes, we’re both here.
DEAN: Aleck and Layla are here also. We won’t hide it from you guys.
LAYLA: Dean, please.
MALLORY: Wur’s going on?
ALECK: Nase of our relationships ever lasted because we… Both Dron a
and I have been in love with Layla.
QIMIS: Hahabubu, I fucking knew it. Finally, you got the balls to say it.
MALLORY: Shir. You knew. Umm, I kind of figured it out with Layla.
Love
LAYLA: What?
MALLORY: Oh, please. When you returned back to classes after the holidays, I figured it out. We all knew,
DEAN: Okay.
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Chapter 13
dn’t know how the other felt. I kind of figured that was why Layla ditched us off
REA; Look, we knew nothing happened back then because you guys didn’t She was trying to distance herself so ber feelings wouldn’t be know
NELLA: I figured it out too. When Macy started her shit, I knew it hurt Layla becse she cared about you guys, and he had to hide her feelings. This bitch was going to marry someone else. You fuckers almost lost her.
ANDREW: Just hold off the partying until we get back home.
MALLORY: York, they decided to break the news when we’re away,
LAYLA: You guys aren’t mod?
CHRIS: No, we’re happy. At least you guys can stop being miserable with other people and be miserable with each other.
REA: He’re not mad, angry, or anything.
NELLA: We aren’t, but someone will be when she finds out. We’ll be in for treable.
CHRIS: Oh shit, the mutase. Well deal with her.
ALECK: TM send you the address. Come over for a drink at our place on Friday,
MALLORY: You pays are mean. Why did you have to do this without me?
NELLA: Okay, fine, we’ll wait metil you two retur
CHRIS: Okay, Fm going back to sleep, bye.
REA: Later, we’ll talk
NELLA: Smell you later, lovebirds.
ANDREW: By, JANT,
He ended the call and looked at me.
“See, problem solved. You’re ours now.” He leaned over the counter and kissed me. Aleck didn’t say a word, jast smiled at me, and for a second, I began to doubt thy choice.
“Have your breakfast, and then we’ll go with you to check out the apartment. You’re staying here from now on,” Aleck said, brushing my hair away, exposing the tattoo on my neck. He touched it and smiled.
After breakfast, we left; they didn’t say anything. My mind was working overtime. When we got to the apartment building, souse firefighters were there. One of them stopped me.
“Miss, you can’t enter the building/”
“I live here, on the floor the fire was on.”
“Okay, but there’s nothing up there; everything was burnt. Which apartment?” I felt them beside me.
“Apartment Number Six.” He looked at me worriedly. “Let me call over the chief” He walked away and came back with another man
“Morning. He just explained. And your entire apartment is gone ”
“That’s nut possible; when we left here, the fire was in the apartment opposite hers and beside hers,” Dean said.
“Yeah, well, after investigating, the fe can straight to her apartment door. There was url in her apartment. The fires in the other apartments weren’t as big as they were in hers. Somever pouped gasoline in her entire apartment while she was sleeping.”
“What?”
And what are you doing about it?” Aleck asked.
“Well, we notified the police, and they I be looking into it. They’ll need to speak to you, miss.”
“Okay.” I looked at them. “You guys head to work. I take a cab, and 111 head over to the police station and talk to them, then go do some shopping. Crap, my laptop.”
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