Chapter 3

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As Trevor pulls up in my driveway I stare out the window at my house. All the lights are off, as usual.

I hate going to that house alone. It's never been the same since Jackson left. Im not blaming him for leaving, no, no. I'm happy that he's now a sophomore in college and doing what he loves; Football. His dream has always been to play college and pro Football. Seeing him living that dream sends warmth through my stomach.

I usually never sleep here alone, maybe once or twice a week, but other than that I either have Brit or Trevor with me at all times. Being home alone isn't scary, it's just sad to think that while I'm living here alone, Jackson is at college living his dream. Then I perk up remembering that one more year at that hell hole they call a High School, then I'm off to Seattle with Brit and Jackson to attend college and live with my brother.

"Your spending the night, right?" I turn to Trevor after ending my thoughts about escaping my award winning life. Yay, sarcasm.

"Yup, you sure you okay, Nik?" He asks, turning towards me with concern and worry written all over his face.

"I'm fine, Cole is just an asshole that loves to pick fights with me. No need to worry," I peck his lips and smile before opening the door and stepping into the pre-winter air. Closing the door behind me I go around the car to interlace my fingers with Trevor's.

"I love you," he smiles and kisses my temple.

"I love you, too," I smile lightly back. We walk hand and hand up to my front porch, looking through my bag for my keys to open the door. The darkness welcomes me again and I sigh turning on the lights. Then I notice something that kind of freaks me out.

"Did you leave the kitchen light on?" Trevor whispers. I try to think if I forgot to turn off the lights on my way out the door this morning. Nope. I'm positive that I did not leave any lights on.

"No," I whisper, clutching onto Trevor's hand. We slowly walk to the kitchen. Taking each step at a time. Trevor slowly pushes me behind him just in ask it might be an intruder, I guess.

As we get closer I could swear I could hear male voices. I look up at Trevor who has his jaw clenched.

Step by step we make it to the kitchen door way and my eyes go wide.

At my breakfast bar are the two people I had never expected to see along with my best friend.

"Jackson!" I scream and run into his arms, squeezing him closely and burying my face into his shoulder. Tears run down my face at being in my brothers arms again.

The good mood has to be ruined when I realize who else is in the kitchen. I unwind my self from Jackson, wiping my tears and staring at the man in front of me.

Nothing much has changed he still has the same quiffed light town hair and the adoring hazel eyes. Slight difference is the stubble the currently surrounds his cheek structure and chin. Another thing is the muscle mass he's put on.

"You said she was staying at a friends house?" Jackson turns to Brit waiting for her answer. Wait, he's not happy to see me?

"She was supposed to," Brit looks down at her feet. She's right. I was supposed to be going over to Trevor's tonight instead, but unfortunately his families trip is set back a little while. Supposedly it's already snowing hard in Canada. Who knew?

"With him?" the one person I expected not to talk did, it was more of a growl though.

"Him?" Jackson asks, pointing towards Trevor who is awkwardly standing in the doorway. I slowly walk towards him and intertwine our fingers together, smiling at him I walk him over to my brother.

"Jackson, this is my boyfriend, Trevor," I smile brightly. A chair falling over brings my attention to a very mad looking Colten. He's literally fuming, his jaw and fists clenched.

"Your boyfriend?" He growls.

"Yes my boyfriend," I clarify, narrowing my eyes at him. It's amazing seeing Colten again, it really is. But what was I supposed to do? I'm not just going to not introduce my boyfriend to my family.

"You didn't tell me she had a boyfriend," Colten glares at Jackson who is currently glaring at Brit.

"I didn't either," he growls, directing it towards Brit. She bows her head in shame.

"I told her not to tell you," I jump to my best friends defense. I should have known better than to tell Brit to do that, I knew that it would've cause problems between them. They both think I don't know about the 'asking about me' phone calls between my brother and her. Well, I've known for a while.

"We'll talk about this later," he snaps at Brit, than turns towards me, "what exactly is he doing at our house at eleven at night?"

"What about you, huh?" I ask, "Why are you here? And why are you going on about my boyfriend when you haven't seen me in over six months?"

This is not how I wanted a greeting from my brother to be. I thought he would be just as thrilled to see me as I was him. I also didn't expect him to be bringing Colten along. He only ever visits his mom for Christmas.

"It's not that, Nik, Colten wasn't supposed to see you yet," he sighs and rubs his hands up and down his face.

"Well, he saw me. Now can you all get out of my house?"

"I'm not leaving you here, alone, with him," Jackson glares at Trevor.

"You don't even know him!" I yell. I love my brother to death, I really do, but he can't come back after four months and expect me to be bossed around by him.

"I know he's a guy," he says.

"Your unbelievable," I turn towards Trevor, "I'm sorry we can't have that movie night. I'll talk to you tomorrow, I kind of have to talk to him."

I really am upset about not having Trevor stay with me tonight.

"You sure? You could always come over to mine," he suggest. He's just to sweet. His parents will be home, so I decided that It would best not to go.

"I'll be fine, love you," I smile and peck his lips, leaving them there a little longer than intended.

"Love you, too," he whispers again my lips than pecks my forehead. "Nice to meet you, Jackson." holding out his hand for my brother to shake, which he doesn't. Trevor pulls back his hand slowly and smiles at me before walking towards the front door. I wait for him to be out of the house edits turning to my brother.

"How could you?!" I shout at him.

"What are you talking about?" He asks, folding his arms over his chest and leaning against the counter.

"That's the boy whose made me happy all these months away from you!" I yell, tears sting my eyes when I think back to the tough times I had every time Jackson would leave to go back to college.

"By happy you mean, fucking you!" He shouts back. My eyes widen and my mouth drops open. Tears fall down my cheeks as I try to grasp exactly what my brother just said.

"Your calling me a whore?" I question. He opens his mouth to speaks but I hold my hand up to stop him. "Just go."

"Would you just listen to me?"

"So you can tell me exactly why Colten Mathews is standing in my house? Why you just scared off my boyfriend? Why you just called me a whore?!" I shout while tears fall from my eyes.

"I came here to see my mom...and you, to see if you were okay," Colten says, looking somewhat hurt.

"Well, you can see I'm fine and dandy, now leave," I snap at both of them.

"This is my house too, you know?" Jackson says.

"No! No, it's not. this hasn't been your house for two years, Jackson, take you and your pathetic ass of a friend out of my house," I point towards the front door.

"Your still mad at me?" Colten scoffs.

"I don't know what your talking about, Colten, now get out."

"No! Why would you still be mad at me?" he asks walking towards me.

"I don't owe you anything, Colten Mathews, I hope you had fun screwing with every girl you saw on that God forbidden campus though. At least I know I meant so much to you," I seeth.

"What..."

"Forget it, I'm going to bed," I announce, walking away from everybody before I say something I'll really regret.

As I lay in my bed, the door locked so no one can just barge in, I think back to the years of Colten and I dating. How Jackson and I would always get in fights over it, I always thought he just did that because Colten was his best friend, but the truth is he doesn't want me to be with anyone that could and does make me happy. I know that now.

I hate that Jackson brought Colten here, everything I've worked so hard for, to get over Colten, is all washed down the drain. I have no resolve anymore.

I've always loved Colten, I always will. I can't deny that, but I'm not trying to either.  I've gotten over it. Everything about him I can't even stand anymore. It's not even like we left things on bad terms, I just hate that he left at all. If he really loved me he would've stayed and been with me. No, no he had to go all the way to California. He never really cared, I was a challenge though. I was Jackson Long's little sister. Off limits to all of his buddies, Colten wanted the challenge. That's what I have come up with from all the years I've been without him.

I was a challenge, nothing more.

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