Song: Fallin- Dylan Brady

Zayden:

I get another job, now I'm working two just to make ends meet. Parker helps me find a place to rent down the road from his house. It's an apartment and it's big enough for me. It's not like I need a lot of room anyway. The cool thing is I can do whatever the hell I want no one can tell me what to do. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and staying out as late as I want getting wasted or whatever the hell I want to do. I try not to think about her. I wanted a place for the two of us but it looks like that will never happen now.

It's been a month since I seen her. If she does go to the mall, I don't see her or she just goes when I'm not there. I miss her so much. I thought we had something. I thought she was different. I can't move on with my life because I know I will compare them to her.

I'm at the counter as usual taking someone's order and when I look out into the mall she is standing there staring right at me. My eyes must be playing tricks on me. God she is so beautiful. I so want to embrace her and just hold her close to me. I know she is really there when her mom comes up and gets her attention. I just stand there, frozen behind the counter trying to wrap my mind around seeing her. I just can't believe she is actually there and she sees me. Her mom is talking to her and before she walks away with her she waves and mouths, 'sorry'.

I watch her walk away and I have to force myself to blink. "Hey I need to take a quick break." I tell the guy that I am working with. I start walking off before he even says ok.

"Sure man...hurry back alright."

I start looking for her but can't seem to find her. She couldn't have gotten away that fast. I look in store after store, searching for her or even her mom because I know even if I see her they will be together. And there she is looking at some clothes on a rack. I look around for her mom but she is nowhere around. I run up to her and tap her on the back of her shoulder. She practically jumps out of her skin. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you."

Her eyes light up and become all watery but she seems happy to see me. They are not sad tears but happy tears. I can't help but not look her up and down, recalling her in my mind. I want to visually take a picture of her my mind so that if I don't see her ever again, I will never forget this moment with her.

I blink a few times and then look around the store. "Where is your mom?"

"Trying on clothes...why?"

"Come with me." I grab her hand and oh my God my heart starts beating faster. Her hand is super smooth as it glides with mine. 

But she pulls back and looks at me with these sad eyes. "I can't just leave."

"Tell her...you are going to the book store across the way...meet me there." I lean in and kiss her softly on the cheek.

"But..."

I don't let her finish as I make my way over to the book store and wait for her. I know she will come find me; she has too because I felt that connection with her and I know she wants me just as bad. Within a few minutes I see her looking around the store for me. She looks lost and I just want to watch her for a few more seconds. I can't believe she is actually here. I look out from a stack of books and motion for her to come to the back part of the store.

No sooner than she gets behind the shelf, my arms engulf her and I kiss her sweet lips. God I have missed those lips. She is kissing me back, hot passionate lips that crave mine just as much as mine craves for the taste of her. When she pulls away she is out of breath and I can't help but smile at her.

"I've looked everywhere for you...where have you been?" She seems a little upset and her eyes are still a little teary. She leans in and wraps her arms around my neck and I just hold her close to me.

"Really...you have been looking for me?"

It's like she feels the tension between us and she pulls away from me. "Yes...I got home and looked you up on the internet. I look every day hoping to find you and nothing ever shows up. I started to think you didn't exist like I made you up or something."

"I've been working in the food court since I got out hoping I would bump into you one day." 

"And it took us this long." She shakes her head in disbelief.

I look away from her and sigh, "Actually I saw you a few weeks ago."

She looks at me confused and then upset. "Why didn't you get my attention then?" 

I look up at her and I see it in her eyes; how do I explain to her the real reason. "You looked happy with him...figured you moved on without me."

She slowly shakes her head no. She looks even more upset. "What are you talking about?"

"I saw you...you were with your brother and some dude. You were smiling and eating off of his plate. Hell you jumped on his back laughing. I've never seen that smile. So I guess I was just there for the time being and you moved on without me. I thought you would wait for me, for us."

"OH MY GOD! You're talking about Daniel...." She laughs, "Daniel is my brothers' best friend. He is like...like a brother to me."

"You seemed to like him. Hell you were sharing food with him and you two were so close to each other. Are you in love with him?"

"OK first of all he is like my brother. They were trying to get me out of the house to have some fun...yes I love him....but...but not like the way I love you." She reaches over and touches my face, causing shivers to do down my spine.

"Yeah...well I tried calling you...it kept saying the number was no longer in service."

She holds up a phone. "They got me a new phone. They said that they lost mine in the move but I think it's because they didn't want me to have any contacts with the people I was hanging out with before." I watch as she snatches up a pen nearby on one of the counters. She starts writing on the palm of my hand.

"What are you doing?"

"Giving you my new number...duh." Then she looks up at me. "Don't loss it." She smiles and I just love the way her eyes sparkle back at me.

"They will be mad if they find out that I'm calling you."

"No they won't...they know how much I like you." She leans into me and with her nose she touches my nose and goes back and forth.

"Coralie....your dad will be pissed...believe me he will be. I came by your house a few weeks ago and talked to him. Well I came to talk to you but anyway he wouldn't allow it."

She steps back and looks shocked. "You came by the house? Was I there?"

"He said you were resting...look...he threatened to press charges saying something about I'm over eighteen and you're considered a minor."

"Zayden....look I will be seventeen in like a month...it's not like we are that far apart in age."

"Your dad doesn't want us seeing each other; he made if perfectly clear...even tried buying me off."

"What?" She practically screams out.

"Look I don't want to start anything...I said too much already. You seem happy...really happy. I just had to see you one more time."

"And here I am." She puts her hands on my chest. She is so freaking cute when she bites her bottom lip. We are so close to each other and I just want her. I don't know how to explain it but when she's around me it's like I'm whole...I'm complete. She wraps her arms around my neck pulling me down to kiss her sweet lips. Then she trails light kisses on my neck all the way up to my ear. Her sweet voice whispers in my ear. "Don't give up on me...I love you...I've always loved only you."

"Babe how..." she doesn't let me finish, taking my lips again. Her phone buzzes and she looks down at the text message. She puts it in her back pocket and looks up at me again with those heart whelming eyes.

"I want to see you again."

"How...when?"

"Call me...or text...whatever...I'll find a way. I got to go that was my mom."

"I'll call you."

"You better." She reaches up and when our lips meet again I kiss her back madly not wanting to let this moment go. I don't care if anyone sees us making out in the back stacks of the book store. I don't want to ever let her go.