"I.. I guess I like her."
My heart sank. All I wanted to do was get away from him and cry. Without even realizing that's what I was doing I took off. Vaughn's leather boots tapping on the pavement behind me. When I picked up my pace, his did too. We passed the animal shop. A tear dropped onto my cheek and slid down.
I knew it. He was going to see me cry. And being as dense as Julia (and I now) thought he wouldn't know why. Without even thinking, I lightly whispered 'idiot' over and over. My sobs probably came through my voice.
I had reached the shipping bin, and glanced at my wrist watch. It was 11:00. Everyone would be asleep. I was kind of relieved. Last thing I wanted was Lanna to rub this in my face. She always thought Vaughn was a hard coldless jerk that if he even let you get remotely close to him he would just break your heart in the end. She never liked Vaughn. Probably because Vaughn didn't really like Denny. Since Lanna and Denny were now married, their feelings were probably even more mutual now than they had been before. I glanced around. Vaughn was nowhere to be seen.
I tried to stop crying and panting and started for my house, a couple yards away when I suddenly felt a strong hand surround my wrist and squeezed it tightly. I gasped in the slight pain.
"Stop." he said simply but there was enough anger in his tone to make me knew he meant it.
I tried to yank free but his grip was really tight.
"Vaughn, you're hurting me. Let. Go!" I cried out, my voice cracking. I flew up my other hand to try to push him off or something but he caught it and held that hand tightly too.
"No. I'm sick and tired of people letting me go and... And I don't want to do it to someone I... Care. About."
I glanced back, my hair and tears flying outwards.
"What about Sabrina-?" I asked coldly.
"I meant her as a friend. I didn-."
He bit his lip, cutting himself off and pulled his hat downwards.
I stepped on my tip-toes. I reached up and bit his hat, my lips covering my teeth, pulled it off, and dropped "You have terrible communication skills and this time you can't cling to your stupid ha-"
He pulled me in. And that cowboy that I thought was really cold at the time did something really warm. My eyes remained open. Was he-? His eyes were closed and he was deep red. Was he... Actually.. Kis-?!
I stopped struggling and he loosened his grip. He was. Wasn't he?
When we parted I slowly knelt to the ground, dropping my hands into the grass.
"S... Sorry. I..." his face was still red and he was still trying to pull down his hat, but when he realized what he was doing, he knelt down, picked his hat up, and shoved the Stetson onto his silvery hair, hiding his amethyst eyes.
"That... felt nice." My mouth started to curl upwards. I laughed slightly.
"You... Liked... I-?"
I slowly pulled myself up and found myself hugging him.
I looked up. "I know you don't like owing people. Gonna hug me back?" I smirked.
He smiled and nodded slightly, pulling his arms around me.
"Don't ever let go. " I whispered.
I felt him nod, and without realizing I slowly fell asleep, standing, but in his arms.