Kiss me if you Dare - Anna S. (best books to read for success .TXT) 📗

walked way.

 “Elsa, please wait!” His voice was frustrated against the darkness of the woods.

            “Why should I?” I ask pushing back the tears against my eyes.

            “I’ve made a mistake. I shouldn’t have done what I did.”

            I stopped myself looking behind me as his figure appeared a tiny bit on my view. He walked forward, his face appearing to me. “When I came to the high school I had no intensions to ever fall in love with you. I was only completing my mission. I hated you because you were being ignorant, but yet I acted nice and the more I acted nice, the more you revealed yourself to me. I acted like a fool and I didn’t want to admit to myself that I was falling in love. When you got there and when you saw me, I felt like I betrayed you. Look,” He pauses and pulled my chin so I can face him.

            “Look at me.” He says and when I do he continues softly. “I know I’ve betrayed you and I don’t expect your trust back but I want you, Elsa, to understand when I say this.” He looks deeply into my eyes. “I am completely, fully, unbearably, in love with you. In these past couple of weeks, I’ve wanted to come back and say this to you. I don’t expect you to forgive me but I just wanted you to know that.” His hands drops from my face, his eyes on mine, he leans in and kisses the side of my cheek. “I’m guessing this is good-bye, Elsa.”

            I stood there watching him go, and I couldn’t bear to let him leave like this. I knew that I needed to tell him how I felt also. I exhaled and pulled my hands to my side.

            “Wait!” I yelled. He turned around, his face with sadness. I jogged towards him, touching his face I looked into his eyes. The eyes I couldn’t forget.
            Seth made mistakes before, but I knew that he was doing what he did because of his dead mother. He didn’t know she was dead when he reached me, and he didn’t know until I showed it him. Seth has been hurt a lot of times in his life and from the way he spoke to me, I know he was being truthful. I couldn’t let him leave with out him knowing how I felt. I couldn’t let him leave ever because the truth is I need him. I need him more then I ever needed any other person in my life.

            “I love you Seth Parker, and no matter what, or wherever you go, I’ll never stop loving you.” I smiled.

 “I would have given anything to hear you say that again. I love you, Elsa McCoy.”  He laughed.

“I love you.” I repeated as I leaned in and kissed him.

My hands carving in his hair, his hand reached over my back as he pulled me closer.  This moment is all I wanted. He was all I wanted.

            I may have done mistakes in the past and I still wished my parents were here. But I don’t regret falling for him, as he turned my world around upside down. Things change and everyday it’s a new chapter of your life. Whether I choose or not to make the right choices it’s up to me to make them. We don’t have to worry about the past if its already gone, and we don’t have to worry about the future if its not here yet, all we need to do is live the present and forget everything else while we’re at it. That’s one choice I can never regret and I’m glad I didn’t.

            “One more thing.” He says as he leans away.

            “Yes?” I say looking at him deeply.

            “Would you go prom with me?” He asks.

            I laughed. “Of course I do.”

            I kissed again him enjoying the moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Epilogue}

Two years later…

 

                     “Oh my.” Catherin says touching her huge stomach. “This child will not leave me in peace.”

            Catherin was six months pregnant. She got pregnant three months after she married George Gomez. I graduated high school, I was attending a near by college and now leaving on a small apartment by school with Seth. I come back a few times to check up on Catherin before going to school. Today was the first day of summer, and the first day without school.

            Catherin picked up the bag of hotdog bread walking towards George who was as he grilling barbeque hot dogs for the guests. Every one of her friends were here and so were Lucy and Connor. Seth promised to bring beverages but ended up forgetting them. He went to buy some before returning back to the house.

            “Relax, Catherin. He’s just stretching.” I say picking up the bag of bread from her hand and pulling out a chair from the table near by.

            “Liam Jacob, stop killing your mother.” George says as he touched her stomach.

            I laughed placing the bread on top of the table. They already named their baby boy who was due a few months from now. Liam Jacob Gomez was the perfect name, Liam being Catherin’s favorite name and Jacob was George’s father’s name, who passed away with cancer when he was ten. Everyone was happy and the name was beautiful.

            “Baby, would you please get me that glass of water?” She pointed towards the glass of water with ice by the grill. “I put it there a couple of minutes ago.”

            “Here.” George handles her cup of water.

            “Thank you baby.” She kisses his lips quickly.

            A few seconds later she stares at me and smiles.

            “So, Elsa. Do you know what you want to be? You need to start making arrangements for classes on your sophomore year of college.” She starts when she took a sip of her water.

            “Uh, I was thinking business.” I say winking at her as business was her major.

            “Ah. Taking up after me I see.” She smiles rubbing her stomach.

            “Oh yea.” I smirked as she laughed.

            “I’m proud of you.” 

            “One hot dog coming up.” George says pulling a hotdog in front of Catherin on a paper plate. I looked up seeing Louis step in my front porch reading a small piece of paper. He was wearing jeans, boots, blue shirt and a jacket. I got up.

            “Excuse me. I gotta see this.” I pointed towards Louis as Catherin followed my gaze.

            “Oh my. He’s hot.” She comments then looks at George. “I meant for Elsa, of course.” She smiled.

            I laughed. “He’s just a really close friend.”

            I walked towards Louis as he looked the same but still very handsome. He smiled pulling the piece of paper inside the back of his jeans pocket.

            “You haven’t change a bit.” He comments looking at me.

            “Neither have you.” I say hugging him. “It’s been two years and you still had the paper I gave you.”

            “I never misplace something important.” He smiles.

            “Where have you been?” I asked.

            “Russia. I traveled around there then spent some time in Egypt and Africa helping the less fortunate.”

            “I thought you didn’t like being involved with humans.” I joked crossing my arms against my chest.

            “Helping them isn’t bad. Plus I love the joy of children when they get something they never had. I do this every ten years, you know, bring kids allover Egypt and Africa a pair of shoes.” He says.

            “Are you taking my offer now?” I assumed.

            “Maybe. I came to visit. That’s all.”

            “I moved out to go to college.”

            “College. Nice. You know I was thinking on that you said. To interact with people. Maybe go to college sometime too.”

            “College is great and I’m sure graduating and getting a good job will be good to sustain yourself for as long as you live.” I say smiling.

            “You have more knowledge now. I like that.” He smirked.

            “You can learn a lot of things. I may not grow old but I do grow older each day in my knowledge.” I tapped the side of my head.

            “Impressive.”

            “I know.” I laughed.

            Seth pulls over with my BMW onto the drive way. He looks at Louis standing a few inches away from me. Louis looked at Seth as he got out of the car. Then he turned his gaze at me and smiled.

            “I see you forgave him.”

            “I couldn’t live with him.” I say honestly.

            “And I, without her.” Seth says walking forward as he shakes’s hand with Louis. “How you been?”

            “Good.”

            “What are you doing here?” Seth asks pulling his arms around my waist.

            “I came to take in Elsa’s request.”

            “I offered him to live with me and Catherin. But since we don’t anymore maybe he could live with us. We do have a guest room.” I turned to Louis after talking to Seth.

            “Yea. That’s no problem at all.”

            “And maybe we can arrange something so that you can go to college with us. Maybe learn something new too.” I winked at Louis as he smiled.

            “That sounds great.” Louis comments pulling his hands into his pocket.

            “Now, come on, my sister wants to meet you.” I waved Louis forward as we walked to the backyard together.

            This was perfect, Louis living with us, Seth being with me and my sister staring her own family. I was sure lucky and I do love this life. Even though one day I would have to leave it all behind, to me, right now, I didn’t think about those things. I thought about now and that’s all that mattered to me. I’m going to be here for Liam and I’m going to be here for everything else in till I realize I have to leave. Catherin, my boyfriend and my friends are the small things that make up my life.

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Publication Date: 06-07-2011

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