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Chapter 31 - The Diner

The diner in denmore was where everybody went, east side, west side, downstate, upstate. Everybody went there and had Marley's delicious food.

Marley was lovely, El said she used to work there and saw Marley's husband come in. It's a beautiful place and everybody can't help but be sweet there. I think.


I enter the diner, River is at my side since he drove me. Yesterday I was super sick the entire day so I stayed home from school and Kingston was super sweet.

But here we are now with him and Mel.

We walk over to the table and I see Kingston, immediately crawling into the booth and going to his side.

"You are really pretty, Summer." Kingston says and I look down at my hands, smiling to myself as my heart rate rises and a blush forms on my cheeks. He lifts my head up and runs his thumb down my cheek.

"Too easy." He says, referring to my blush and I squint my eyes at him. Knowing now that he didn't mean that I was pretty for real, he just wanted me to blush.

"Hey guys!" River says, sitting down next to me since he drove me here. "Hi." I say, thinking about how Rain criticized me for saying that.

Reid sits down with Miah on the last side of the booth. Kingston orders a thing of scones and a burger, I just order a milkshake and fries. Everybody else orders something from Marie.

She's so happy when I come now, and I haven't seen her in three years. The smile on her face.

"So, Kingston, show and tell Please." Reid says, for once not being on his phone. Miah is looking up too. Melanie is blushing form something Kingston said moments before and Kingston is smirking, "We've got a nice group here so I'll tell you, My mom died. Now my dad has gone through couple stepmom and settles on the perfect one so that my sister is River's fuck buddy." He finishes.

Fuck, Kingston! Make me blush and smirk at me and love me for god sakes!

STOP LIKING KINGSTON WHEN HE OBVIOUSLY LIKES MELANIE!

"Madeline is your stepsister?" I say, understanding now why he hates her so much, why Mr Lati would put them together for a project and he'd be pissed.

"Yeah and she is more of a royal bitch than ever." He says and I chuckle, Kingston puts his arm around me. He hands me a scone, "Try it." He says and I cautiously take a bite, but when the warm vanilla flavor just my mouth I take another that is, less cautious.

I stare up at Kingston and he smiles, "I know, they're the best scones in the world and I've been to a lot of different places, though nothing is better than French food." He says and I lick my lips.

"That was delicious," I say, his eyes flickering down to my lips for just a second. River reaches for a scone, but his hand is swatted away by Kingston.

"You let her have one!" River pouts, Kingston takes the rest of the scone from my hand and takes a bite of it, giving it back to me. "She's less of an asshole than you." He says and I lean in, "Bad boy word,"

He chuckles, giving me a glance from the side of his eyes with a smirk as he continues talking to River. Melanie leans in, her red hair flowing down as she leans closer to me and Kingston.

"You guys just indirectly kissed," She says and I shake my head, "Stop being a middle schooler Melanie, we've actually kissed." I say, with a giggle and Melanie's eyes go wide.

"What?" She whisper yells, "How was it?" She asks and I shrug, "It was just to shut me up and New Years when he said it was because he didn't have anybody to kiss."  I say, taking another bite out of Kingston's scones.

He flips his entire body to me and grabs the scone out of my hand. He puts it on the plate and grabs my face, leaning in to whisper in my ear.

"If you don't stop eating my scones I'll make you." He whispers, his minty breath fanning over my neck.

I wish he would kiss me now.

"Do it." I mumble and his hand goes to my hips. "You sleep with me, Baby, remember that." He says and I smile.

He backs up, winking and turning to River again.

Oh god fuck me.

"First, He can kiss any girl and they would be chill. Second, did it matter for you?" She says and I shrug, "Yea...." I say and she giggles, "Whipped." She whispers finally backing away from my ear.

"How?!" I ask and she shakes her head, "you idiot think about it!"

I giggle, pushing her arm a little. Kingston's hand slides under the table, going under my thigh and bringing my leg over his. I lean in next to him, his arm wrapping around my side.

His smell and his warmth radiates off of him, vanilla blessing my lungs and the cold from the winter immediately going away. I snuggle into his side.

"You tired?" He asks and I nod, Reid chuckling and Miah looks at me with a shy smile. He gives me a weak smile, "You can go to sleep, I'll wake you up later." He says and I smile.

I look over at Melanie before closing my eyes, her lips mouthing 'whipped' silently at me.

She thinks I'm whipped for Kingston.

And she's not wrong.

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I wake up, plush white sheets surrounding me, but then the sound of a guitar and a beautiful low voice fills my ears. The same voice of Kingston sings Marlboro Nights by Lonely God.

I smile as he slows down the song so he can play it on his acoustic slowly without waking me. I love it, his soft low voice is calm and beautiful. Such an amazing thing to do wake up to.

"Hey," He says, stopping his singing and pushing the hair out of my face. "I wanted to play this for you," he shrugs at the last part casually and I shake my head.

"I- I-" I start and he chuckles, "Relax Darling, just listen." He says as the familiar mixture of cords starts playing.

"I don't want to go to school tomorrow I'm to busy thinking about you,"

"And you know I always do." He smiles at me, my eyes filling with water.

I don't know why, maybe it's just that everything finally hit me. I was living with River and basically Kingston the most popular guy in school who was now one of my best friends, I hadn't been hurt in a month, I was happy.

Maybe all of this was worth it, so that I could find Kingston. Because I just realized something that I never thought I would realize.

I love Kingston.

Wait wait wait shut the fuck up I knew that the entire time and I've been telling you to stop-

Sure, I love Kingston but I'm not risking that.

Good.

I mean not really.

But... I need somebody.

the one thing that made the tears finally fall was that I know Kingston will never like me the same way, that my life will just go back to the way it was right after high school ends. Or maybe this is all a dream.

But maybe the dream I have, the hope, to be loved. Maybe it could come true. Just maybe.

If I tell him.

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