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Bailey's POV:

"Are your eyes closed?" Skylar asks taking the helmet off for me. No matter how much I tried she didn't tell me where we're going but I guess we're here and it already feels new. I know I haven't been here before and I probably didn't know it even existed.

"Yes they're closed." I chuckle feeling her hands wrap around my eyes, "Just extra precaution now let's go." She tugs me a little and we walk slowly under the warm sun, nothing seemed to be around us as she starts sneezing. "Ahhchoo ah shit." She cusses making me laugh, "Bless you." I pat her hands then put mine out trying to feel anything around me but all there was is Skylar.

"Thank you and we're almost there." She says, I nod slightly catching a smell of something sweet, not muffin sweet or candy sweet but a flower sweet. The ground is soft as we walk and it's something that just grazes my ankles as we elevated somewhere. "Are you sure we're almost there?" I ask holding onto her hands that still covered my eyes.

"Yes yes yes, okay now just stand there okay, and keep your eyes closed I swear if you peek I'm going to put you back on my bike." She threatens, removing her hands and I feel a cool breeze wrap around me. "Okay, you can open your eyes now." I listen to her and I blink a couple of times adjusting my eyes to the brightness.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEANS!" Skylar yells spreading her arms out with one hand holding a box and I look behind her seeing green fields sprinkled with bright flowers and my jaw drops, I look around seeing more perfection spread around me, behind me, beside me, underneath me just all around me.

We stood on a hill and she has the brightest smile on her face. "So what do you think? We're far away, sort of but it's quiet and peaceful, a place to just read I guess, I don't really know I don't read- wait- why are you crying?" She asks me putting her hands down. I wipe my cheeks with my hands drying the tears that I didn't notice.

"I love it." I lunged wrapping my arms around her body hiding my face in her chest. "I love it so much thank you!" I cry a little more, "Woah, don't say 'thank you' yet. You haven't given your gift yet." She laughs hugging me back and she taps my shoulder making me look at a wrapped box.

"It's your present." She smiles and she plops down on the grass and so do I placing the box in my lap and I start to unwrap it. Two envelopes fell out before I could open the box, I pick them up seeing my name written in different handwritings.

"Those are from Sage and Dean, they insisted that they get you something because it's your birthday so there you go." Skylar tells me and I open them up seeing bills inside, 20s and 50s. "Woah." I don't think I've ever seen this much in my life, I looked back at the envelope and the small message written.

Happy Birthday Bailey, Dean got you money for books and I got money for as many ingredients as you need to bake whatever you want. Have fun out there with Skylar, enjoy your first day of being 18 :) - Sage.

I read to myself. "They're sweet, they really gave me this much." I can't believe it.

"If you think that's good, mine is even better okay like ten times better." She brags before I've even seen it. I open her gift up and a deep red leather cover with gold lettering stares at me. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, in that bright gold lettering. I'm going to start crying, even more, it's beautiful.

"How did you? How? How did you? It's so freaking beautiful I'm scared to touch it." I attempt to touch it only to bring my hands back to my chest, I couldn't get a whole sentence or question out. My heart is going to jump out of my chest. "How did you get this?" I looked up at her and she smiles at me, "Pretty good huh and I stole it." She laughs my jaw drops once more.

"I can't tell if you're joking or not." I pick it up gently trying not to damage it in any way. "Oh I'm definitely not joking, remember the night we went to the city hall and you asked me to get a book from the shelf that you thought was Jane Austen and I said it was Emily Brontë?" She asks and I nod having a feeling about where she's going with this.

"Well it wasn't Emily Brontë, it was actually Jane Austen but I didn't get it down for you at that time because I knew that I was going to get it for you for a special day which happens to be today and I'm pretty proud of it." She chuckled and I couldn't say anything but laugh with her.

"I can't believe you did that but thank you this is amazing, I can't believe this is now mine. This belongs in a museum." I tell her and she scoots over beside me. "You deserve it, and your other copy could use a little break." She tilts her head then I cup her face connecting our lips together.

She leans in deeper caressing the back of my neck and I smile into the kiss that soon turned into a make-out, not that I mind. I'm in a place that I've dreamed of, away from my parents, free. Free from everything that they put on me and I'm free with her.

"I think we should stop, as much as having sex in a place like this sounds amazing it also feels like a violation for the earth so no." I pull away and she rolls her eyes. "Ugh why do you care about what the earth thinks." She groans collapsing onto the ground.

"Because I do, now I'm going to read." I move my stuff off my lap beside me and I carefully open up my book but before I could read a word, Skylar shifts herself so that her head is on my lap. "Comfortable?" I ask and she smiles with her eyes closed. "Very." She shifted a little letting out a satisfied sigh.

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Skylar's POV:

"Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful friend and so easily guided that his worth was invaluable but she checked herself. She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laughed at, and it was rather too early to begin." Beans read out loud, she's practically reading the entire thing out loud.

But I'm not complaining, I like hearing her talk, I just like hearing her voice. She only stopped to eat in which I made lunch which was basic sandwiches, I really need to learn how to cook. Something better than sandwiches but I almost fell asleep, it's warm from the sun, it's quiet and her thighs are fucking pillows.

They're fucking pillows I swear I can just fall asleep on her it isn't funny. I never knew thighs could be so soft. That sounds weird. But I'm happy that she's happy, she doesn't have to say anything but I think her casual stares out to the fields was enough to take away any kind of stress she had.

It's a good thing I found this place, it took a fucking while and I can't count how much I spent on gas just driving around the city trying to find a place. Anywhere far enough from her every day life. Far enough from her shitty parents and I know they're going to give her shit when she gets home which is why I'm gonna go and apologise I guess.

Well not apologise but to defend. They can't keep telling her that what she's doing isn't good or whatever they say to her. Now that she's 18 I hope it put things into perspective or maybe I can, I'm 18 I turned out fucking awesome and I didn't have the shelteredness that her parents basically gave.

And I know that also goes for us being together but if I need to wait till she's moved out or to till when she's ready to come out to her parents I think I can be patient. But she's mine, I just hope that once Sage gives me another trade that it's simple and easy that way I can share everything with Beans because if it isn't I don't think she would want to be around anymore.

"I do, I do like him, she replied with tears in her eyes, I love him indeed he has no improper pride. Oh I love this part." I catch her smile under the sun, "Hey Beans?" I say her name and she looks down at me moving the book out of the way.

"Yes? Is everything okay? Are you hungry?" She asks with a chuckle.I shake my head and I lean up placing myself beside her. "No I'm not hungry I just had a thought." I clear my throat, why did this all of the sudden become harder? "And the thought is?" She fully closes the book and crosses her legs.

"Umm." I sounded as she held eye contact, I think she knows what I'm trying to say but she won't say anything till I do. It'll be worth it.

"I, I love you. I didn't think I'd fall this hard for you and I know we're not together but I'll wait till we know that we can be." I tell her and her cheeks immediately turn pink. "You love me." She states looking like she's about to cry.

"Are you going to cry again?" I ask, how is it possible to make her cry twice, I thought these are good things that I'm doing. Maybe it's overwhelming? "No but I love you too Skylar." Tears run down her cheeks even though she said she wasn't going to cry.

I wipe her skin with my thumbs smiling to myself. She loves me too. She loves me. I lean in kissing her and she kisses me back wrapping her arms around my neck. God I love her kisses. I love Beans. Not the food.