Another chapter in one day?! OMG it must be all of your birthdays. :) Well the other chapter didn't get 30 comments but I'm feeling nice SO TADA!!!!! It's rather short but better then nothing right? ;) Anywho I hope you guys like this chapter.  So the dream in this chapter could be a little confusing but i think you'll be able to tell what's going on. And now I won't post until I get thirty comments. :) Not even if I finish the next chapter. 

Chapter thirty

“How was Seattle?” Aaron asked the next morning while we were getting ready.

“It was fun and…different.” I said while braiding my hair into a fish tail braid.

“More fun than Paris?”

“No…of course not.” I said smiling before bumping him with my hip.

“What did you guys do there?”

“We went and saw all the tourist things…and we might have gone cliff jumping.” I mumbled the last part under my breath half hoping he wouldn’t hear it.

“What?” He said dropping a book he had been about to place in his back pack.

“It was safe!” I insisted. “We watched other people jump before we did…Plus I made Nate jump first so I could bail out at the last minute if he died.” I gave him an over exaggerated grin after I finished my sentence.

He sighed before shaking his head and laughing. “You’re quiet the adrenalin junky. Bungee jumping, cliff jumping, and cheer leading.” He said naming off examples.

I shrugged. “They’re fun.” He laughed again before taking my hand in his and guiding me down the stairs. “You’re not mad are you?” I asked once we were in the living room.

“Mad about what? Seattle?” I nodded. “No, of course not.”

“Liar.” I smirked looking at him.

“Fine, Sage. I’m mad. Is that what you wanted to hear?”

“Of course not, I just didn’t want you to stay mad at me and not talk about it.” I said my smile disappearing as quickly as it had appeared.

“I just don’t understand why you went with him.” He said ‘him’ with such distaste that it nearly made me cringe.

“He’s my friend.” I stated simply.

“Kalina is your friend and you didn’t go to her house…or mine. You could’ve just stayed with me.”

“Nate was the only one that understood why I had to leave.”

“You were upset at your dad; you’re always upset at your dad.” He said like it was just that simple.

“He hit me.” I whispered.

“What?” Aaron said as the anger faded from his features.

“My dad hit me…and Nate was there. That’s why I left.”

“Has anyone talked to your father?” He said his tone rising with outrage.

“Nate yelled at him…but otherwise no.”

“I can talk to him.” Aaron said while starting for the door.

“Aaron, no!” I said catching him by his arm. “He’s probably not even home…just leave it alone.”

“Sage he harmed you. He physically harmed you. I can’t just leave it alone.”

“Please.” I begged letting a betraying tear slip from my eye.

He sighed before pulling me close and wrapping his arms around me while my head rested on his chest.

We went to school and everything went by painfully slow before we could finally go home. I stopped by home to grab some of my things before I retrieved my stuff from Aaron’s and went to Kalina’s.

“Hey.” She said hugging me after she had opened the door.

“Hi.” I said hugging her back. “Are you sure you don’t mind me crashing here for a few days?”

“Of course not, come on in.” She said taking one of the three bags I had with me. “So how was…”

“Seattle?” I offered as we stomped up the stairs to the guest bedroom.

“Ya, that place.”

“It was great. Rather cold but great.” I said as we dropped my bags on the floor.

“And why is that?” She said crossing her arms and giving me a knowing look.

“Stop looking at me like that.” I laughed while lightly shoving her so she stumbled back and hit the bed.

“Oh come on…don’t tell me Nate being there didn’t have something to do with it.”

“He’s my friend.” I said putting emphasis on the ‘friend’ part.

“He doesn’t want to be.”

“That has nothing to do with my feelings.”

“Or does it?” She said squinting at me.

“Why do you care?” I groaned.

“Because I want you to be happy…and if Nate makes you happy…or could make you happy, then I’d want you to be with him.”

“Well that’s sweet but Nate and I are friends.”

“Do you enjoy being dense?” She said with a joking smile.

“Shut up!” I said tempted to shove her again.

“Just wondering.” She said putting her hands up in defense before walking out the door past me. “Come on, time for dinner.”

We ran into her brother at the top of the stairs. “Why hello.” He said grinning at me. He had Kalina’s eyes and tan skin and dark hair.

“Hey.” I said giving him a small smile.

Kalina sighed before shaking her head. “Alano this is Sage.” She said introducing us.

“Kalina you should really bring your beautiful friends over more often.” He said still smiling.

“She’s taken hermano.”

“Maybe when she breaks up with her amante then.” He said letting us pass.

“Even then she has a backup choice.” She said giving me a knowing smile.

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“Ah, I see you’ve met John’s son Nate.”
“I want to take you somewhere…anywhere in fact. Just name a place.”
“You ‘kind of’ have a boyfriend?”
“I just got shot down by a gorgeous girl and it looks like she’s just trying to make excuses for me not to hit on her.”
“I’m not asking you to date me.” “I don’t mind.”
“You wish you were going to this with him don’t you?”
“It’s not that I don’t like you Nate, it’s that…”
“You’re only here because your dad wanted you to go with me.”
“I could help you forget.”
“Bye Beautiful.”
“Sage. I like you. I really like you.”
“You’re my best friend, Nate…And I’m with Aaron. I don’t want that to change.” “It doesn’t have to change, Sage.” “Yes it does.”
“You can’t tell me that kiss meant nothing to you.”
“You got me a star?”
“My perfect world would be…being with you.”
“Let me take you away.”
“Do you want to go?” “Yes.”
“Not as mad if you were Aaron though.”
“Aaron is a much better guy then I am.”
“Because you didn’t want me to. Just like now. I would kiss your cheek but you wouldn’t want me to.”
“Nate was the only one that understood why I had to leave.”
“It was fun and…different.”
“Because I want you to be happy…and if Nate makes you happy…or could make you happy, then I’d want you to be with him.”
“Even then she has a backup choice.”

I woke up and almost wanted to scream.

Everyone’s voices had gone through my head taunting and bugging me.

I sighed and sat up. Kalina was still asleep on the other side of the bed but I decided I needed some air.

I walked down the hall and out the back door before sitting in the grass and just breathing in the chilly night air.

“Couldn’t sleep?” A deep voice said from the shadows making me jump.

“Oh hey Alano…ya had a…weird dream.”

“Need to talk about anything?” He said coming to sit beside me.

“I’m just having a complicated time figuring things out lately. My mind tells me one thing, my friends and family tell me another, while my dreams are saying something different and my feelings are just a huge mess.”

“Is this the whole boyfriend thing Kalina mentioned earlier?”

“You picked up on that, huh?”

“Ya.” He laughed. “So what’s the problem?”

“Well I have a boyfriend and this…friend.”

“A friend or more than a friend?” He asked raising an eyebrow.

“The possibility of being more than a friend?” I said with a half shrug.

“Have you heard that quote that says ‘If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second’?”

“Ya…but what if I don’t love two people. What if there’s just the possibility of love?”

“Then I would just go with whatever you want to decide…don’t let other people decided for you.”

“You know you are no help at all.”

He shrugged. “Guess I was just here to listen.”

Great this leaves me exactly where I started. Nowhere. 

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