This chapter is dedicated to daphne_winny for being a fanfuckingtastic friend and showing me support on this.....

ALISHA'S P.O.V.

The bed is such a comfortable place, what the hell would mankind do if some blessed person hadn't invented them?

With as much as that said, I was lying on my bed after reading some books, getting ready to go to dream land when a noise coming from the direction of my window caught my attention.

Like any normal person would do in such a situation, I started scanning my room for anything I could use as a weapon, when I didn't find any, I just knew that if it was a thief or someone actually trying to kill me, they wouldn't have taken the trouble alerting me first.

So, taking a deep breath, I got up from my bed and stalked toward my window.

I opened it and looked down, what was, or rather who was there caught me by surprise.

Jayden was standing down there, wearing a black hoodie black jeans and black boots, hell he looked like a burglar, right now.

A very handsome burglar.

His brown hair that looked almost black in this poor light was rough on his head pointing in different directions, like he had run his hands through them many times on his way here.

He smiled at me and said,"Hi,"

My first thought was that he wasn't here for me, maybe he just passing by and decided to greet his friend before going on his way.

I smiled back at him and said,"Hey", hating how weak my voice sounded at that point.

But could anyone really blame me, this was such a cliché moment I had read about in books where the boy waits outside the girls window and climbs up it so that he can confess his undying love for her under the stars, but I knew very well, that wasn't the reason he was here.

It deflated my heart a little bit but I was okay.

"What are you doing here?" I whisper shouted as I asked him.

"Can you come outside for a second? I need to talk to you"He asked,smiling at me again.

So he did come here for me? I felt my heart swell a little in my chest.

"Okay, I'm coming. Just go to the garden. I'll be down in a minute." I said to him and he nodded and smiled at me as I closed my window and made my way quietly across the hall.

Not that I had to since mom and Alessia were such deep sleepers, but just be on the safer side,I tiptoed my way across the hall with my slippers in hand and ran down the stair case.

I put on my slippers in the living room and opened the door.

I went outside to the garden and saw him there, sitting on the grass.
I walked up to him and sat down as well.

We just sat there for a while looking up at the stars that were twinkling brighter than usual today.

"They're beautiful." I said, marvelling at the beauty that was before us.

"Just like you." He said out of the blue as he kept looking up lat the stars, unaware of what he just said to me.

The butterflies in my stomach were already doing their thing as they wreaked havoc all around.

I cleared my throat to get his attention which worked marvelously well as he turned to look at me.

"You said you wanted to talk about something?" I asked him as he ran his hand through his hair.

"Yeah. First off, I'm really sorry for running off like that earlier." He said referring to our study session where he abruptly got up and left.

"Its okay, Jayden." I said while I placed my hand on his that was on the grass in an attempt to reassure him that it actually was okay and I didn't feel offended in the slightest by anything he did.

The moment I did that, something shone in his eyes and he let out a sigh and took my hand in his, intertwining our fingers and placing them on his lap.

That was a the moment a certain breeze decided to pass by making me shiver and my skin to have goosebumps.

Jayden took off his hoodie and gave it to me to put on, which left him in a tight white shirt that accentuated his muscles and lean body very nicely.

It was bigger than me but it was comfortable. It even smelt like him and like the freak that I was, I was tempted to sniff it, but I didn't.

I may like him, but I still had my self respect.

When I was settled in the hoodie, he took my hand once again and intertwined our fingers, which was getting kind of uncomfortable since my hand was in the same unnatural position for so long, so I moved closer to him. Closing up any space that was between us before.

I sat crisscross and his long legs were spread on the grass, our legs touching and fingers still intertwined on his lap.

"Alisha, I like you...A lot." He said looking away from me and at the stars now.

Did he just say he liked me? I must be hearing things.

He let out a sigh and continued," I don't know what it is about you that drives me crazy all the damn time. Your laugh drives me crazy, your smile makes my day, your hair,looks,body,you and every fucking thing about you just drives me insane.
Its a good insane, one that makes my heart beat like a thousand times per second every time I see you or flip every time you look in my direction. I don't know what you do to me." He said still looking at the stars.

At this point, like the emotional fool that I am, I was already in tears. Not sad tears though, no, these were happy tears.

I brought may hand to his beautiful face and made him look at me as he spoke his next words.

"Look, I know we've only just met and you probably wont feel the same way, but I don't need you to. I just had to let you know. I'm not forcing you into anything with me, you have the right to make your own choices, Alisha. You're worth the wait." He said as he looked me square in the eye, absentmindedly stroking my hand with his thumb.

I couldn't hold back, we were so close and everything he had said was with so much sincerity and love in his eyes.

He stood up and helped me up as well.
He said good night and was about to leave. Before my mind could even register what I did, I had already done it.

"Jayden?" I yelled out to him. He turned around and waited for me to speak.

In one long stride, I met up with him and didn't think, just acted.

When I got to him, I wasted no time.
I stood on my tip toes and crashed my lips against his.

He didn't do anything for like a second, probably out of shock but he recovered quickly as he brought his hands to the small of my waist and pressed my body against his, holding me closely to him,the heat of his body overwhelming me.

The butterflies in my tummy were in full drive as he kissed me back with, our lips moving in sync.

The memories of my first kiss in his house came flooding back.

I brought my hands up and connected them at the back of his neck, bringing him closer to me ergo, closing the nonexistent space between us.

He was biting and sucking my bottom lip at the same time. There were sparks everywhere.
His tongue moved across the seams of my lips and I gladly opened up for him.

His tongue moved at a slow and steady pace, exploring,tasting every bit of it, every bit of me, slowly like he was savouring this moment.

My head was spinning, I didn't know where we were anymore, my knees were like spaghetti and I would have fallen face flat on the ground if he wasn't holding he against him.

He tasted so good salty, sour,sweet and tangy all at the same time.

He continued moving at a slow and steady pace.

I was hot on the inside and out. Even though my eyes were closed, I swear I could see the stars we had been looking at moments ago behind closed eyelids.

He started stroking now sensitive skin on waist through the fabric of my tank top with his thumbs. That shot up fireworks in m stomach.

His tongue swirled in my mouth and that did it, I turned to putty right there and then. He continued his steady pace, bite, suck, bite, suck then swirl.

He finally pulled back with one last bite and suck of my bottom lip. We were both breathing heavily.

We rested our foreheads against each other as we tried to calm our ragged breathing.

We opened our eyes and just stared at each other for a few more minutes, before Jayden carried me back to where we sat before and placed me gently on the ground and sat down as well.

He took my hand again and intertwined our fingers. This time, he didn't stare at the stars like I did, instead he was shamelessly staring at me, like I was the only thing in the world.

Eventually, he laid down on the grass and patted the spot next to him, gesturing me to sit down next to him.

I snuggle up next to him, with my head on his chest listening to his heart beat as he kissed my temple and let out a sigh

"Thank you, Alisha." he said to me.
"For?" I asked, genuinely confused.
"Being you." he said as he sniffed my hair and sighed.

JAYDEN'S P. O. V.

I actually couldn't believe what just happened. Alisha kissed me for the first time.

A smile found it's way to my lips as I replayed the memory. She tasted so good. She really was different in every sense of the word and she looked breathtakingly beautiful in my oversized black hoodie that managed to match the black and white checkered boxers she was wearing.

I had told her almost everything tonight, almost meaning I told her I liked her, not that I loved her.

I wasn't in a rush for things so when the moment was right, I would definitely tell her what I really meant.

"Can I say something? " said to me. I nodded then felt stupid because I realized she couldn't see me from the angle she was on my chest. But she did,she felt that I said nodded.

"I like you too, Jayden....a lot, more than you could even know at this point. " I don't think my name has ever sounded so good coming from anyone's lips before. My heart swelled ten times its original size, she said she liked me back.

I wanted to hear the other four letter word I had seen for me in her eyes earlier that day but I'd take what I could get, and technically, I didn't say them either so, I guest that was fair.

I sat up and so did she. I turned to face her so we were looking at each other straight in the eye. I brought my hands to her face and held it there like I did before.

"I didn't tell you this before but the reason I ran out the other time was because of what I felt when I looked in your eyes my chest wanted to explode and I couldn't take it so I left." I told her honestly as she looked at me with a hint of laughter in her eyes.

"I feel like that every single time you're near me." I said to her.

She pulled me into a hug and sighed "Me too."

I really didn't want to be anywhere in the world right now, but here with her, the love of my life, my sunshine, my Alisha.

I broke the hug and looked at her and she looked at me as well.

"Jayden the other night, at your house, before mom and Alessia came back. The night you kissed me for the first time, was it to just to shut me up or was it something else?" She asked me and a smile tugged at the corner of my lips.

"It was because I thought you were talking too much and the only way to effectively shut you up was to kiss you. That and the fact that I didn't like you speaking about yourself like you were nothing when you were were everything in my eyes." I let go of her face and took her hand in mine and looked up at her again. " Alisha, I meant every word I said to you that night in my room that you are beautiful both inside and out. I really hoped that you would see that, like I did." I said to her, hoping that she'd in my eyes that I meant every word that I said to her.

A tears formed at the corners of her eyes I brushed them away with my thumb.
I leaned in and pecked her lips.

"Your tears are precious,so don't waste them crying on things that don't deserve them." I said and she smiled at me.

"So does this mean I'm your girlfriend, now?" she asked with a look of happiness in her face that I always wanted to see there anytime I looked at her.

"That depends.... " I said as I got up. She followed me up as I did. Which was my original plan, for her to follow me up.

As soon as she got up, I took her hands in mine and looked in her beautiful green eyes once again and proceeded.

"Miss Alisha Natalia Ayomide Brown, will you do me the honour of being my one and only girlfriend from now till you get sick of me?"

She looked so happy and her green eyes were shining as well. Then I turned serious.

"Look I know I'm not perfect, not in any sense of the word. I may screw up all the time and I'm unsure of a lot of things.... But I am sure of one thing and that's that I really like you, can't even begin to describe what I actually feel for you, what I've felt for you since the first day was something else, I couldn't explain. I promise you now that I will try my very best to make you happy as much as I can every time I-"

She cut me off when she pressed her lips to mine in a soft kiss before she pulled back.

"Yes, Jayden. Yes I'll be your girlfriend." she said.

It was my turn to kiss her. I carried her up from the ground and spun us around as my heart exploded and I kissed her with everything I had in me.

I realized, Alisha wasn't regular in any sense of it, she didn't react the same, she fit perfectly in my arms and would be there for me when I needed her.

I finally stopped spinning us and kissed her one last time before I smiled against her lips and said, " I really really don't want this to end."

"Neither do I." she said and kissed me again.

"-but we have school tomorrow mister, so if you don't let me down this minute, I will scream and my mother and sister will come out and catch you holding me like this and I'll pretend that you lured me out of my room and held me against my will." She smiled and said as her eyes held a hint of challenge in them.

I accepted the challenge and pulled her closer against me and she shrieked.

"Jayden, seriously. It's getting late you need to go home now. " she said.

"I don't wanna go...." I said sounding like a five year old child that was being sent to school against his will.

She laughed a bit "As much as I really wouldn't want this night to end, you have to get home, Jayden."

I nodded. "Fine..." I put her down and kissed her one last time, savouring her taste and this moment.

She smiled and hugged me, then with a heavy heart, I left.

"That reminds me, I never got your number." I said with a smile on my face.

"Because you never asked." she said to me.

"Well now it always went was that girls always give me their number without even asking." I couldn't help the smirk that played at my lips.

"I'm different, remember?" she asked.

"How could I forget that my girlfriend is so amazing?" wink.

She rolled her eyes at me. I gave her a
pen from my back pocket and she wrote it down on my arm.

"Bye, Alisha. " I said to her while I was at the gate.

"Bye, Jayden." she leaned in and kissed my cheek.

My heart swelled in my chest.

I got home and had to sneak in So I tiptoed and opened the front door a crack and stepped in.

It was dark and I was making my way to my room, the lights came were switched on.

I was in deep shit....

My apparently very angry mother was sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee in hand looking at me.

"Jayden Nicholas West, where have you been?" the tone of her voice told me she was not going to sleep without my explanation, every detail.

I sat down beside her,kissed her cheek and sighed.

I told her everything from the beginning of that wonderful night to the end and how Alisha was now my girlfriend, leaving out all details of our kisses. Don't get me wrong, I loved my mom but she could be a bit nosey when it came to stuff like this.

"I'm so happy for you and Alisha." she said with a smile on her face, but then bed expression turned serious.

"Did you tell her about Susan and everything that happened after that?"
I cringed when she mentioned that name. I just wanted that name to leave my mind and everything else that happened within that horrible year to vanish from my memory.

But even I knew that the past always has some sort of effect on the present so I didn't want anything to have any effect on my life with Alisha, my present life ,so I would have to make sure it never did.

"When it feels right, I'll tell her mom.
I promise." I said to her, knowing that I would have to tell her eventually but I just didn't want to ruin everything before it had a chance to even officially begun.

She nodded and went to bed, so did I.

I took a shower and plopped down on my bed.

I really couldn't help the smile that played on m lips as I replayed the events of that night again.

Like that I drifted into sleep...

Good night, Alisha....

A/N:
Well, it's about damn time....

What do you guys think happened in said year that Jayden would rather have it stay in the past so it won't affect his future....

Well, personally I think that the past affects everything. Your past gives you scars and those scars make you who you are. There is no present or future without a past.

Our past is an important part of our lives, we can either choose to run from it or learn from it..

It's all our choice

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