ALISHA'S P.O.V.

Jayden was outside my window. Again. As I made my way down the stairs, I didn't even bother to be quiet. Somehow I hoped that maybe my mom or Alessia would stop me from going down but they never did.

As I made got outside, the thudding in my chest and the ringing in my ears were the only thing that I could hear, it was so loud I wondered if people weren't asleep, they would have been able to hear it too.

I made my way to the garden, the knot in my stomach grew as nostalgia overwhelmed me. Each step heavier than the last then he was there. Handsome as ever, as he stood.

He gave me a small smile as his blue eyes zeroed in on me and once again, I forgot how to breathe. My feet started walking towards him on their own accord, like I was being pulled to him by some kind of indescribable force.

I finally stopped in front of him and before I could even object, he wrapped his arms around and pulled me in, holding me tight.

When I looked up at him, there was a yearning in his eyes that I was very sure matched the longing in mine.

"I'm so sorry, Alisha. I won't say it wasn't my fault but if you're willing to listen, I want to explain everything to you. I want to tell you everything." he pleaded and I looked up at him as I removed myself from his embrace.

"I should listen to you? When I saw that, my heart shattered, Jayden. I kept the hope that maybe it was just a misunderstanding and that you would come to clear everything up and then it would be fine again but you never did. Two weeks. Two fucking weeks, I cried myself to sleep in your hoodie. I just need you to tell me one thing. Did you ever really even care or was I just some game to you? Oh, she's lonely, she'd be easy to get, chew and spit out when I'm done. Huh? Everything you said, what you made feel that was all a lie? Did you even-" I ranted but he cut me off with his lips before I could finish.

His arms came around my waist gripping tightly as his tongue sought access to my mouth. When I didn't grant, tightened his grip which made me gasp and he took the opportunity. His tongue mingled with mine as he held me closer to him as I struggled out of his hold.

"Look me in the eye and tell me that you don't see any kind of emotion for you in them." he demanded as he held my face in both his hands and forced me to look up at him.

In his eyes were so many emotions; longing, sadness, hope, love.

I stopped struggling and he let me go.

"Why, Jayden? Why did you do it? Why did you break my heart?" I managed to say through my shaky voice.

"I would never do that to you, Alisha. The only mistake I made was not telling you about Susan sooner. If I had told you everything before, this wouldn't have happened but I was... scared." he explained.

That caught my attention.

"Scared? Fucking scared of what?" I ask, genuinely curious.

"Scared that you might not see me the same way anymore if you knew the real reason why I came to Winston high in the first place. Why I had to move. Why I had to drop everything and start over here." he said and I was more than ready to listen at this point so I nodded willing for him to continue.

"Can we sit down first?" he pleaded and I agreed as we proceeded to sit on the grass, his legs stretched and mine folded,just like the first time and all the other times, except those time- taking in the current state of our relationship or what's left of it anyway- we weren't happy, we weren't in the same place we were six and a half months ago. This time, we're on the verge of separation and only what happens tonight will determine our fate.

"Remember when you asked me about my dad? " he asked and I nod.

"I'm going to tell you the whole thing but please listen till the end. Okay?"

"Okay." I breathed.

Truth be told, I had never seen Jayden like this before. He was taking deep breaths and calming himself. He was also sweating and focusing his eyes on anywhere but me.

The other times, it was a good kind of nervous but aside from that, it was his usual confident cocky persona that I had come to love since I had known him.

"My dad was a business tycoon. The famous industrialist, Matt West. Ever heard of him?" he asked.

"Yeah. He got assassinated over a year ago-" I stopped mid sentence when the realization hit me like a brick in the face. Matt West, Jayden West. He's Matt West's son. Jayden's dad was assassinated while driving over a year ago. January 21st.

I gave Jayden a look as if to say I had put two and two together and he nodded with a small smile.

"He wasn't really much of a dad to me though, he dropped that one quite a while back. Three years ago, be cheated on my mom and she forgave him for it. Had to keep it under wraps because shut like that would be 'bad for business's and fucking 'ruin his image' and all that crap. He kept going on with it and my mom just couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't be the only one trying so with great difficulty, she moved on from their relationship. They were still married, but just for the sake of name. It was hell watching them pretend to be a married couple at conferences and galas and all but no one ever knew what was behind that picture perfect couple." he told as he snapped his eyes shut as if he was living the awful times. He looked so vulnerable, so fragile, like he could break at any moment. Acting on pure instinct, I moved in closer and straddled him as his hands smoothed up myself sides and stopped at my waist. I gently kissed him on the lips to reassure him that no matter what, I was there to listen to him, for him.

He sighed and kissed me back before continuing.

"It went on like that so for a long time. I was just fifteen at the time. Eventually, I didn't want to care anymore, just wanted to forget, to be numb and not feel anything, act like it didn't bother me. I started messing around. Another day another girl to fuck and then do away with. They were all just shallow after the mind blowing sex, a short lived break from my shattering life and after that, it was back to square one again. Drink, fuck, drink, fuck and the cycle went on. I got used to that, sometimes I didn't even know their names and I didn't want to. They all just wanted the hot guy. They never wanted to get to know the real me. The time passed, I grew in the same habits and when I turned sixteen, Matt bought me a car and it looked like things were getting better between them so for once I thought I could actually pick up the pieces of my life since everything was coming together. We agreed to go for a spin." he choked out, his voice shaky at this point and the knot in my stomach growing as I felt I already knew what happened next but he continued anyway. I buried my head in the crook of his neck as he spoke his next words.

"We drove the car out and then...everything happened in a flash, a bullet came through his side of the window, hit him straight in the head another came through my side window, it grazed my arm and I lost control, the car went haywire on the road and tumbled." his voice broke at the last part as his breath hitched.

"M-Matt wasn't wearing a seatbelt so he flew out of the seat and his head made impact with the windshield and went straight though. I-I passed out and when I gained consciousness, I was in the hospital. When I asked about Matt, they said he was dead before the ambulance arrived and that I was lucky I survived the accident." he said as I started putting the pieces together. His dad was assassinated on his birthday. The car he was driving had an accident. He lost his dad on his sixteenth birthday, just when things were looking up for them as a family.

"It took me months to get my head around it and my mom was broken too. Then the lawyer came and read us the will. He willed everything, the businesses, the companies, the industries, the hotels, all of it to me. Once I clocked eighteen, I would be the owner of it all. That took a toll on me and I was being pressured. Too much was being expected of me and I couldn't take it, that was the beginning of my end." he told. So apparently, he's a loaded teenager. From everything I had been told, I managed to put almost all the pieces together. Only two things didn't add up. Susan and the break down or the end as Jayden put it but I was ready to listen to him. I wanted to know all of him.

"After I healed from the accident, I changed schools, that's when I met Susan." he said, looking at me trying to weigh my expression as my breath hitched but I didn't say anything, just nodded for him to continue. "We hit it off instantly, then when things got worse,my mom would have these breakdowns from all the pressure and I would need a distraction. Susan provided me that distraction and it went on like that, we were like the perfect couple or at least that's what I thought. The next year, something started to change in Susan. She was just not into it anymore. We would fuck but that was just it, she seemed detached, not the Susan I knew and I, I was in love-no obsessed with her and I lost myself in her. Just wanted to make her happy and be by her side because at that time, she was the only one I could actually call my own. My mom didn't want to breakdown in front of me, she tried to be strong so she engulfed herself in work all the time. Then she broke my heart. She cheated with Todd. Todd was my best friend back then, almost a brother and when I confronted her, she told me I was being clingy and she got bored of me and that I was crazy to think that should actually loved me. I caught them in the act. They were getting it on.

I couldn't take it. So I just left. That was at the beginning of the year so my mental health started deteriorating, I had no idea and there was no one around to help me with it." he explained as my hands found his and brought them from my waist, intertwining our fingers in an attempt to soothe him.

He had to go through so much. His father does on his sixteenth birthday and he still hadn't gotten over that, then they dropped the inheritance bomb on him. His mom was still dealing with her own shock and she had to be strong for him and of course there was Susan- the only form of support he had at that time-cheated him along with his best friend. Double betrayal.

"The following three months, I lost interest in everything, stopped eating, stopped living and one day, I-I just decided that I wasn't strong enough to continue and
I just wanted to end it. I went to supply the garage, found a bottle of insecticide and downed it without thinking twice. I didn't feel bad, just felt like I couldn't go on like that and just had to end it somehow. Luckily, my mom came home that day and she found me in my room, lying unconscious and called an ambulance. The doctors got it out if my system but I was out for three days so I don't know what was going on. I spent my seventeenth birthday in a hospital. My mom-" he said then stopped mid sentence as his voice broke as he shut his eyes tight again as if reliving the memory then opening them.

"When I woke up, my mom was in tears and she looked defeated. Her only child tried to take his own life. She told me she was sorry for not paying attention but the apology wasn't hers to give. It was mine, she was trying to be strong for me, but I couldn't be strong for her." he told as I nodded and combed my fingers through his hair and he closed his eyes once again.

"When I got out, the doctor told her that I would need help psychologically, they sent me to a mental facility to help get me out of my depressed state. So they did. I spent seven months in there, it actually did help. They reminded me that I had so much to live for, so much I could be. Said I should think how my mom would have felt, how she would continue if I was gone. She gave me something to live for. At the end of the seven months, I was free to go. They said I recovered impressively quick but they advised that I should get a change of scenery, change schools and if possible, towns and I had already missed a whole year so I had nothing to loose." he told. It was all coming together, he changed towns and schools because he needed to get away from it all. He should be in college now buy he missed senior year because he was in the mental asylum.

"The remaining two month were spent recuperating and looking for a fresh start. We moved here, and I started school at Winston high the next year. That's when I met you. " he said as he started trailing kisses up my neck and stopped at the crook and breathed in.

"You showed me what it was to actually care. To have a real meaningful relationship with someone. Someone you care about and also cares about you. " he mused.

"I would never cheat on you. The day I told you I was sick, I lied. I wasn't sick. I went to see Susan. I went to get the closure that I really needed. I told her I found someone. I didn't know that any of this would happen and I'm sorry for keeping it from you. " he apologized.

"That day when you saw that, I got a text from your phone but it wasn't from you." he explained.

"I got a text from you. " I interrupted. We looked at each other an the realisation hit me. Again. That was sweet she wanted me to see. Jayden wasn't a liar or a cheater, he was real and he was here.

"Alisha, I'm in love with you and I would never do that to you." he said and I froze.
He said the words. The three words I had been waiting to her for God knows how long. When they were said, they could never be taken back.

"Are you sure? There's no going back beyond that, Jayden. If you want to take it back, go ahead. I won't be angry at yo-" I ranted but he cut me off when his lips crashed with mine, sucking all my air.

"I've never been more sure about anything in my life." he breathed against my lips.

"What about you? Do you love me?" he asked and I kissed him again. Hard.

"How could I not love you, Jayden? I love you and I would say it a million times if you want me to. I love you. You're like the Prince Charming that every girl dreams of and I'm lucky to have you. I couldn't dream
of a better boyfriend." I mused and he smiled.

"That's a lie. I'm the lucky one. You're the best thing that ever happened to me. It might be hella cliché and you know I hate those but, what the heck? Alisha you're light to my life and my life would lose all meaning without you in it. " he said as he smiled and his blue eyes shone bright under the moonlight.

"You don't know how long I've waited to tell you that. I would have come sooner but Alessia said I should give you space to cool down first. She helped straighten me out. I was a mess the first few days." he explained and I laughed.

"She's been helping you all along?" I asked, amused and he nodded.

Just like that, everything was fine again. No more secrets and no more Susan. No more misunderstandings.

JAYDEN'S P.O.V.

My past is a part of me that I didn't really like people knowing. Telling the story of how I lost my dad on my sixteenth birthday. It was Nubian personal sob story but I finally did it. It took a lot out of me to open up those wounds but I'm really glad I did. I had to. I was tired of giving her space and she deserved to know the truth, know that she meant more to me than anything, know what I went through, know how messed up I was till I found her.

She didn't judge me, just listened as I pleaded my case and gave me comfort when I needed it. I finally had the guts to tell her the truth and tell her that I love her. More than she could ever know.

Then came the hard part, I had to go through with Alessia's plan. I had gotten Alisha back and it was time to deal with Susan so she would never do this to anyone again, as Alessia put it.

I explained everything to Alisha about what we discussed and our entire plan. She seemed okay and more than ready to go through with it. With a little help from Anne and Zarha of course.

"Do you trust me?" I asked and she took a deep breath, her green eyes, lively again.

"Yes." she said.

Like that, every thing was fine again. The world was going right again. It always did when she was by my side.

I pulled her into me and held her tight, may have even hurt her a bit but she didn't complain because she wasn't going anywhere. Never ever again.

A/N:

Yayyyyyyyy!!!

*insert happy dance here*
They're back together. I'm so happy that Jayden finally grew the much needed balls to tell Alisha everything.

*insert double girly squeal*
And they said 'I love you's there's no going back from there.

What's the plan Jayden discussed with Alisha?
Guess we'll just have to wait to find out.

I'm just catching different feels right now.
Finding us is coming to an end and I really don't know what to say.

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