When you love, you love–1
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“Drop it,” Seth snapped.
So the sexily licking chocolate didn’t seem to work with getting Seth out of his foul mood.
“Seth-
The bathroom door slammed and I flinched as the walls shook from the impact. I swiveled, with the help of the socks I’d slipped on after I changed out of my Cinderella dress, and pursed my lips at Ethan who simply shrugged.
“Once he’s cooled down–maybe we can talk about it then. I told you he wouldn’t want to talk about it now, Cass. You gotta stop being so pushy!”
1 bit my lip and glanced down at my intertwined hands. If I didn’t keep my hands clutched together I’d start picking at things: my cuticles, my shirt, the crooked picture on Ethan’s wall. I had forced the topic even after Ethan’s warning, but if Seth hadn’t been so downright rude to Anna and Maddox I might have let it slide.
“Should I go home?” I asked, softer and more vulnerable sounding than I would’ve liked, even if it was to Ethan.
Ethan closed the distance between us and his arm shot out. He cupped the back of my neck and leaned in closely. “No. You should. not. He’ll get over it and if he can’t we will talk about it, eventually. He kissed my nose and pulled back just as quickly with a contemplative look crossing his face. “Are you sure surrogacy is something you want to do?”
I thought about it. Before he’d even vocalized the question out loud,d thought about it. And I let myself play over the question again. Did I want this? It was too important of a question to not think about it more, but I slowly nodded after a minute. “You already know I’m going through the counseling right now and I know the risks.”
His thumb
b caressed the curve of my cheek. “What about emotional attachment? I know you, Cassie.”
1 frowned and pulled my head back a little bit, but he applied enough pressure to let me know he wasn’t letting go. “What does that mean? I’m not an emotional loon!”
“I didn’t mean that. I meant… He trailed off and smiled gently down at me. He brushed his free hand through my hair and added, “that when you love you love. You love hard and when you get hurt by it, you break down even harder.”
“You repeated yourself. And who doesn’t break down from a lost love
Ethan chuckled and dropped his forehead to mine. “You love with your whole heart and once you love them, you always will, no matter what they’ve done to you.”
Rolling my eyes, I scoffed at him, wishing I could stop the flush to my cheeks. He was closer than he was before now, with his forehead touching mine, and i had trouble thinking of anything else other than his lips against mine but I couldn’t stand for such nonsense. That’s not true! Why are you being so weird? I mumbled the question, and then rolled my eyes and placed my hands on his chest, turning my face up to his. “Are you gonna kiss me or not?
Ethan pulled away just enough that i couldn’t reach him “Not. And have one word, well one name, to say to you.
I raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Are we still on that?
“Katle
When you love, you love–1
It was like he’d punched me in the stomach. Katie was the name of the best girlfriend I’d ever had. She also happened to be that stereotypical geek middle schooler girl that changed once we hit high school and with that change came a brutal personality. The more popular Katie got, the meaner she’d become towards me.
It was Ethan who told me how she talked about me behind my hack. That he’d told her to stop or he was going to tell me. She told him not to bother, that she’d tell me herself. And she did. The very next day, she handed me a folder, a red one with crude words written all over it. Inside that folder was my torn homework….. not just homework, but a project I’d been working on since the beginning of that semester. She knew about it because everyone in Lit class had to do it. Katie had an evil, slimy smile on her face as shed watched me stare down at the tom paper. I would never forget that day or that look on her face.
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