Song: Best Day of My Life- American Authors

He looks at me...grinning from ear to ear. "How do you feel precious? I didn't hurt you did I?" I love the way his hand skims the bottom of my jaw and hooks right underneath my chin for me to look up at him.

"Are you kidding me right now...no you didn't hurt me and I feel...wonderful." I smile back at him. I in return trace his jaw line with my finger and when I get closer to his lips, I lean inward to kiss him softly. We lay there for a little longer and for some reason I have this weird feeling that it is a little later than I thought it would be. I jump up and he does at the same time.

"Everything alright?" He asks as his eyes grow wide.

"What time is it? I might need to get back home they will be worried about me."

He picks up his phone and blinks a few times. I watch as his nose scrunches up and his lips pucker up. "It's going on midnight. Yeah guess we better be getting you back home before they decide to murder my ass."

We both start laughing. I lean in to kiss him again. "I need to find my clothes first, don't you think?"

"Yeah, I guess we better."

After we find my clothes, we both get dressed and he drives me back home. He gets out and walks me to the front door to kiss me goodnight. We stand there just holding hands and staring into each other's eyes. We have a new connection now. We shared something so intimate and I feel like I'm just too far gone...in love with him that is. He kisses me and I watch him leave. Then I go into the house.

"Everything alright?" My dad asks when I walk in. I notice the way his eyes scan the clock on the far wall.

"Yes dad....it's going to be alright...good night." I take off up the stairs to my room. I don't give him time to question me.

He calls after me, "Good night sweetheart."

When I get to my room, I close the door behind me and run over to my bed to jump in. I have my phone in my hand and I can't wait to text him.

Coralie: Good night

Zayden: Good night Precious. I love you

Coralie: I love you too

After that night, every chance we get alone we make out. It's like with are magnetized to each other. It's just this whole new feeling and if I am being honest with myself, I actually crave that feeling being with him that way. Thankfully my parents are starting to let him come over more and will let me go out occasionally with him. I'm still not allowed to go to his place but hello...it's not like there is not a million other places to be alone. One place for sure is out in the forest, where we spent our first real night together.

Everything has been just falling into place. I mean school is starting back up and Carter moved out to go to college. Zayden is out of school now as well, so here I am going into my senior year. Therapy has been going alright and I have been going to group therapy as well because honestly I need to be around all of them. They have so much in common with me and they all get me and don't judge. And being with Sarah makes everything better as well.

I love my parents don't get me wrong but there are just some things that I can't talk to them about. And now that Carter is gone, it's like I'm the only child. However he still comes home on the weekends to do his clothes and stock up on mom's cooking.

School has been going by alright and I am starting to make a few friends but I don't think I will ever get super close, I'm still afraid that someone is going to leave me like Zoey and I just don't think that I can deal with that again.

Today we are all hanging out at the mall because everyone wants to go Christmas shopping. Carter and Daniel came home for the weekend and we are meeting up with Natalie and Maya. I decide to drive today, so I had to drive by Zayden's to pick him up. He is already waiting outside when I pull up. Damn I bite my bottom lip because he has on these skin tight jeans and they are ripped across the knees. He also has on a old school rock band shirt of Guns and Roses. It would be nice to just go up to his apartment for a little while, however I had already promised my brother and then that we would hang out at the mall.

When we meet at the front entrance, the guys take off together so needless to say I am hanging out with Natalie and Maya. It's alright I guess but I really wanted to be with Zayden. However I guess it would be hard to shop for him if he is with me. I have no idea what I even want to get him so hopefully the girls might be able to help me out.

"I have no idea what to get your brother?" Natalie says while looking at shirts.

I roll my eyes at her. They have been dating forever and she knows everything about the guy so it's not she has no clue. Then it dawns on me that she is just trying to make conversation with me so that it's not weird just hanging out. "Well...I'm pretty sure he has plenty of clothes...maybe you should get him a new baseball hat...or something to do with sports."

"Yeah...I should do that let's go to the sports store." She walks off and the two of us follow after her.

Maya is looking at team hats and Natalie starts looking at all the Atlanta Braves collectables. I just look around not really planning on buying anything in here because Zayden is not really into sports. I get this weird feeling as if someone is watching me but when I look around no one is there.

Both of them get in line to pay for their gifts that they pick out. When they are ready to go to the next store, I ask if we could stop at Hot Topic, only because they have some kick ass band shirts and I know Zayden would love a new one. They don't mind going in but it's really not their kind of store. I watch them react to some of the stuff in there and they have this awkward interaction between the two of them. I try to ignore it as I grab two shirts out of the bend.

As we are walking out her phone dings. "Guess you brother is ready to eat; you guy ready?"

We shake our heads yes and the same time and head out into the mall. We find them waiting for us at Dave and Busters already sitting down at a table for the six of us.

"God you guys take forever." Carter says as he reaches for Natalie's hand for her to sit beside him. Before she sits down they lean into each other for a kiss.

"Well...I can't help it if you are so hard to shop for." She jokes around with him. "Thank goodness we had Coralie with us to help the two of us out." She looks my way with a big grin.

I roll my eyes back at her. All I suggested was sports...duh we all know how the two of them love baseball...they did the rest. I did not help pick out anything but I don't dare argue about it. As I sit down beside Zayden his hand goes around my waist to pull me in closer to him and he leans into me to kiss me. When he looks back down at the menu, I glance up to see the girls cheesing back at me.

The waiter comes over and we order then get up to play a few games. Zayden is very competitive just like Carter and Daniel which surprises me. However I do win a few times and he rolls his eyes. At first I thought he was letting me win but he really wasn't.

When the food comes we all go back to the table to eat. They all talk about how cool college is and living on campus. I roll my eyes...it can't be that great because if it was he wouldn't be home every freaking weekend. If it was me I would be at Zayden's all the time. But like I said I'm in my senior year and in a few months I will be free to do whatever I want. I mean I can now because I am already eighteen but my parents have this thing that as long as that I am in school that I have to go by their rules and I do because in reality there is no way that I can support myself out there in the real world and Zayden doesn't make that much money to support us both at the moment.

While they are talking I happen to look out in the gaming area because I still have that strange feeling that someone is watching me. I get a glance of someone but then when I look back he is gone. I'm sure my mind is just playing tricks on me so I shake off the weird feeling.

"You alright precious...looks like you seen a ghost?" Zayden says as he touches my hand.

I just so happen to flinch not meaning too and he looks out into the area where I was looking.

My voice catches in my throat as I shake off the feeling. "I'm alright...just thought I seen someone."

"Who?"

"No one! Really...don't worry about it alright...just my head playing with me." I attempt to smile at him and continue to eat. I try to listen to their conversation but a part of me keeps thinking about who I think I saw. It's been a while since I have seen him and maybe my mind is just playing with me.

When we are almost done, I excuse myself to go the restroom. "You want me to come with you?" He asks.

"It's just right there." I point towards the restroom area. "I will be right back." He lets me out and I go to the restroom. No one must have to go because the girls stay seated at the table.

I do what I got to do and when I head back out towards the table a hand pulls me back and pins my back against the wall. I yelp and when I look up it is exactly who I thought I had seen earlier...