Preface

It started with a Kiss....

A sweet tender loving kiss

I was four at the time and she was three, it was the beautiful friendship. We were best friends until I turned sixteen and she was fifteen. We started to fall for each other in more ways than one and become girlfriend/boyfriend. Two years later at age eighteen and her seventeen, we began sleeping together until one day my parents said that we were moving to New York City. I was a coward and put off telling her until two weeks until I had to fly out. I told her everything and she was devastated by my words. She ran out of my house crying her eyes out and I only presumed she ran home. She ran out of my arms and that was the last time I saw her until now.....

Chapter 1

Hello..... My name is Jasper Armstrong; I am 22 years old and engaged. My fiancée's name is Melissa Andrews or as I call her Mel, she's my number one girl. This is my story about love and family.

Mel and I were on the airplane on our way to the Gold Coast from Florida, were my family (parents) live. When I was eighteen and a half, my parents and I moved to Florida. Two years later and they moved back, I met my fiancée and now it was time for her to meet my parents. Right now Mel was reading a magazine and I had my eyes closed trying to sleep, when I remembered something.

(Flashback)

I was my room with my girlfriend at the time Alice Goddard, who I thought was the one and only one for me. We were lying on our sides, looking away from each other wrapped in a sheet. I hadn't told that I had two weeks until I left for Florida and I didn't want to.

"Alice... I have to tell you something" I said, kissing her on the cheek.

She turned around in my arms and said "Ok... tell away" giggling a little, which made me chuckle in return.

"I am leaving to go to Florida, My parents and I am leaving in two weeks" I told her.

"W... Whaaaat" she whispered in a small voice, her voice breaking as she spoke and tears started flowing down her cheeks.

"I'm leaving... There's nothing good for me here anyway" I told her speaking the truth.

The next thing I know she is unravelling herself from my arms and standing up from my bed with the sheet still firmly wrapped around her. She then picked up her clothes off the floor, when she could find them and ran into my conjoined bathroom. I was wondering what she was doing until she came out again fully clothed.

"What's going on" I asked her, looking into her eyes.

"I'm going home... You said yourself that there was nothing here for you anyway" she answered in a dead tone, while looking at the floor. With that she was gone and I never saw her again.

(End of Flashback)

I awoke with a start and practically jumped out of my chair. Mel got worried at that, put her magazine down and stated asking questions. That I wasn't really listening too and was thinking more about the flashback and if SHE still lived there.

We touched down on the Gold Coast at 9:30 am. No one was waiting for us because we were going to surprise my parents, so we grabbed a cab to a small place called Texas (I know you may not have heard of it but it's a small country town). It was quite along ride because by the time we got into my familiar neighbourhood it was 11:30 am. We got all out bags out, payed the cabbie and made out way to the fount door, hand in hand. We put the bags down and I rang the doorbell. The next minute I know, my mother's arms are wrapped around me in a giant hug.

"Mum... Hi" I said as she let go of me and studied me.

"You're not eating properly" she told me as she looked up at my face.

"Mum... I'm eating just fine, anyway the reason I am here is... I wanted you to meet Melissa Andrews my... fiancée" I said and she just stared at me, then turned to Mel.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Melissa... please come inside and make yourself at home" she said letting us inside the house I grew up in.

I picked up our bags from outside and took them upstairs to my old room. While Mel and my mother sat on the couch talking.