Talon's P.O.V.

Aspen and I watched the kids play in the pool along with Mylie, Nova, and Jax from the inside of my suite. "Why did you say we were dating?" She asked looking outside. 

"It was the only thing that came in my head," I admitted, "I was just trying to get them to back off."

"So now what we pretend to date until you leave?" 

"No...I could lie and say we were dating on the low for a while and in a week or two we could pretend to break up." 

Aspen let out an emotionless chuckle, "You're an expert at lying anyway."

Turning around I face her completely, "Navy"

"Aspen." She corrected me, "How many times do I have to remind you that?"

Giving her a blank look, "I am used to calling you Navy, so I'm going to continue calling you that."

"Please, you haven't said anything to me in the past ten years, you can change your so call habit." Gripping her arm I turn her around so she would look at me but she avoided my eyes taking a step closer to her I try to look into her eyes but she shakes my grip off stepping away, "Stop Talon,"

Irritated I grab her chin gently forcing her to look at me, "I don't want to fight." I said firmly, "Whenever we talk we fight and right now I don't want to fight. Just tell me what's bothering you." She tried to move away but I didn't let her, "Navy."

"You," Navy said, "You are bothering me right now."

"Me? How am I bothering you?"

"I don't-"

"You have to talk about it." I snapped, "For the past ten years you and I both have bottled so many things up Navy, and I want to talk about it today. I want to talk about the past and I want to talk about the present."

Struggling in my grip she shook her head, "Please let me go."

Roughly pulling her closer I shook my head, "Not today, I ask everyone to stay out of this room until we come out. So start talking Navy." 

Pushing me away she covered her ears, "Stop calling me that!" She yelled, "I don't like hearing that name, it hurts." 

Taking her arms away from her head, "Why does it hurt?"

"Because it reminds me of us, it reminds me of how happy we were until we made that stupid mistake!"

Finally, she talks, "You thought what we did was a mistake?"

Navy looks away from sitting down on the couch, "I-I...we had sex." She whispered, "And then you acted like I was just one of those stupid bimbos that you use to fuck and leave. I didn't want to think it was a mistake but you made me feel like I was a piece of trash."

My heart skipped a beat, "I had given you my virginity Talon, and you just left the next day. I didn't get a phone call, I didn't get a text, all I got was a letter from you saying that you were leaving and I shouldn't come to the airport."

Looking away from her I had no explanation for her, all I could say was that I was young and stupid.  "You knew I liked you and you used it to your advantage."

Sitting down in front of her I took her hand in mine, "I don't have anything to say other than sorry."

"Sorry doesn't fix things Talon, sorry isn't going to bring back my sleepless nights, sorry isn't going to take back my tears, sorry isn't going to fix anything." She snapped, "For four years I longed for you, I wanted you to come back and say you were just joking. I wanted you to come back and say you loved me. But you never did."

Ashamed I let a tear slip from my eyes, "I-I was young Navy, I didn't know if I loved you or not, all I knew was that I saw you grow up, I saw that little baby turn into a beautiful girl who was my best friend until I accidentally broke her heart. You wanted something from me that I wasn't ready to give."

Navy looked at me hurt, "I didn't know the meaning of love because I used to having girls fall at my feet, and-"

"You thought I was one of them." She cut me off.

"I thought you were going to stand in the way of my dreams, I had to pick you or my dreams Navy, you have to understand that I needed to leave."

"Those dreams that you're talking about, I dreamt them with you. I helped you write songs, I helped you learn how to dance, I helped you get over your stage fright, I helped you with everything!" She yelled standing up, "And you thought I would get in your way?"

"Navy-"

"Did you?!"

"Yes,"

Taking a step back hurt, "Then you never knew me at all. I...I would have sent you myself, I would have been so happy if you just told me like a regular fucking person Talon, not like a coward. You always misunderstood me, you never took the chance to look in my eyes and see my honestly and loyalty towards you."

"But-"

"But what?"

"But...as the years went by...I missed you...I missed everything about you Navy. I wanted to come back but my management wouldn't let me. I'm at my prime, I mean I've been at my prime for the past ten years, but I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't be away from you anymore. I needed to come back, I needed you to be with me."

Navy wiped her tears away, "It's too late Talon. I have a daughter to think about, I have my career here, I don't have room for you in my life anymore."

Her words cut into me like knives, "Then what was that last night? Why did you kiss me?"

"Why did you kiss me back?"

"I missed you, in these ten years I realized that I was a coward for running away from you and my feelings."

"I kissed you because I was drunk." She said bluntly, "I don't feel anything for you."

Lier. 

Taking a step forward towards her I watch her immediately take one back smirking at her, "If you don't feel anything for me then why are you scared of me getting close to you?"

"I don't trust you."

Lying again. 

I kept walking towards her as she kept backing away until her back hit the wall behind her, I leaned down so our lips were a breath away, I heard her breath hitch. "I'll tell you why you kissed me because you still love me but it's hidden behind all that anger."

"I-I don't" She stuttered shrinking back against the wall, pulling her toward me by sliding my arm around her waist I peck her lips, she almost stopped breathing 

Chuckling, "Two weeks Navy, in two weeks I'll make you admit your feeling for me. Ten years ago I left you and it was the biggest mistake of my life. Now ten years later, you want to leave me, you want nothing to do with me...but I'm not going to leave without putting up a fight. Not this time."

Navy placed her hands on my chest, "Move," 

Doing the complete opposite I grab her hand kissing the top, "I'll make everything better, I won't forget about Nyzaia either...I'll win both of you over."She stared up at me with tears in her eyes, "And I know that you won't make it easy because you've always been stubborn," Letting her hand go I kiss her cheek, then the other again, she took a breath in sharply, "But I'm worse than you. I just have one regret, that I never got to meet Rhett,"

"Why?" She said barely above a whisper,

"I want to thank him for taking care of you while I was busy fucking off somewhere else, I want to thank him for giving you enough strength to stay away from me, I want to thank him for giving you Nyzaia and I want to thank him for loving you when I couldn't."

Biting her lip she looked away but I brought her gaze back to me gently tugging her bottom lip out of her teeth, kissing her lips gently I smile down at her, "I'm not perfect Navy...I made mistakes...I hurt people... but when I  promise something I never break it."