Why'd This Happen to Me?
Chapter 15
Pacing around the room, I bit my nails to try to calm down the nervous feeling rising in my stomach. Come on Aubrey, you can do this. Just call him. I don’t know why I was so nervous to call Ronan, but probably because it would be the first time I would be asking him to spend time with me.
“Screw this.”
I said, picking up the phone and dialing. I wrapped my hand around my stomach, praying that I wouldn’t be sick. The phone rang and rang, until finally I heard his voice.
“Hey Aubrey, what’s up? Is there something you needed?”
I couldn’t react fast enough, for the words that were in my mouth had retreated back into my throat.
“Hello?”
He sounded confused, so I cleared my throat and said hello and that I didn’t need anything, except to know if he wanted to spend time at the beach. He agreed, and we decided to meet up in about ten minutes. After we hung up, I let out a deep sigh of relief. That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I threw some Red Valentino lace shorts with my Embi red tank top. Then putting on my flats and laying my yellow Jasper Conran bag that my cousin had given me for my birthday, I grabbed Kimberly and walked outside. The heat of the day, even though it was early morning, was already blazing through the wind. The hot air blew into my face, blowing my hair and tangling it behind me. My sunglasses were in my purse, which I took out, and didn’t notice Ronan already walking towards me. I was still fishing for them when he grabbed Kimberly, and I immediately looked up and was about to scream, until I noticed it was him.
“Hey it’s okay, it’s just me.”
He flashed me a smile and I blushed, looking down.
“Hey Ronan.”
He grinned and took Kimberly completely out of my arm, who was giggling with happiness to be back in his presence. We walked for a little, talked a little, and had some fun. We had just grabbed some smoothies from the boardwalk and walked alone the pier, looking out at the water. I had walked to as far as I could go, looking down across the railing at the beautiful sea blue water splashing below me. The wind was cooler over here, not as steaming as it blew against my face. After Ronan caught up with Kimberly Rose, he looked out with me. I glanced over at him, and I was happily surprised to see Kimberly asleep. I thought back to the first day I met him, thinking about when Ronan looked so protective and annoyed at the fact that Josh had left me, and I was still confused about that.
“Hey Ronan?”
“Hm?”
“You remember the day I told you Josh had left me?”
Ronans face suddenly got still, a slight frown on his face.
“Yeah?”
“Why did you get so, angry and frustrated?”
He turned to me confused, and I told him about how I saw his fists and the look on his face.
“Oh. Well, it’s because my sister was just like you. Got knocked up, boyfriend leaving her. She never was the same again, because she had no one else except me. I was so young at the time, that I didn’t know what to do. All I know was that she got so frazzled and needed so much help, and she never got it.”
I was silent, just listening to him. He sighed, a look of hurt on his face.
“She killed herself eventually. She gave up the baby to an orphanage, and then decided to take her life. She couldn’t handle it. After she did, I promised never to let anyone that I knew or met go through that. So when I saw you already starting down that path, I knew I needed to help you. I wanted to.”
I felt so sorry for him, the look of sadness and frustration written on his face. I wanted to kiss him, but I knew it wasn’t the right time. Just a hug would be enough. I wrapped my arms around him and laid my head on his chest, and at first he was surprised. After realizing what I was doing, he immediately wrapped his arms tight around me. We stood there for a few minutes, no words exchanged. Just a simple way to show we cared for each other. We probably looked completely weird, two people with a baby squished between them, but I didn’t care. That was all needed.
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