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cmunoz.22 – This time I promise they are together. Caleb may not have been at fault but he's definitely in for it when he meets up with Ty and Reid.
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-- Guilt, Excuses, and I Love You --
By the time Ashlyn reached Reid and Tyler's dorm, she was sobbing uncontrollably. She pounded on the door until it opened.
"Ash," Tyler gasped, "What the hell happened!?" Ashlyn latched on her brother; hugging him for dear life. He pulled her into the room. Tyler's eyes went black and instantly Ashlyn's clothes were dry. Grabbing a blanket off of his bed, Tyler wrapped his sister in it. She could feel sleep and exhaustion tugging away at her. The last thing Ashlyn could remember before falling asleep on her brother's bed was Reid growling, "I'll kill him!"
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Ashlyn couldn't sleep. She had pretended to go to sleep to avoid Reid and Tyler's questions. For the last four five hours she had been staring at the ceiling. Giving up on sleep completely, Ashlyn got up and snuck out of the room for a walk. She opened the door and came face to face with a very miserable Caleb with eyes as black as night. Before she could call for Reid or Tyler or get a single word out of her mouth, Caleb grabbed her and then nothing but darkness.
One minuet Ashlyn was standing outside of the dorms, the next she was standing out in the Danvers backyard right by the lake. The surface of the lake was covered in rose petals and candles were spread out along the dirt shore. She couldn't tell because of the lack of lighting but Ashlyn bet that if she grabbed one of the floating petals it would be white.
"What the-," Ashlyn whispered. "Oh hell, you're kidnapping me!"
"Ummm…kinda," he answered quietly. Caleb looked terrible; eyes red and swollen and hair disheveled and messy.
"Reid and Tyler are gonna kill you," she said dryly.
"Well then I better start groveling before I lose the chance," he said giving her a small smile.
"How could you do something like that to me," she yelled. "Do you have any idea what happened to me when I saw you two!" Caleb cringed at her pain.
"I'm so sorry."
"You're sorry! That's all you have to say!"
"Please baby, just listen to me first and let me explain then you can yell and scream at me all you want; in public even," Caleb begged.
"Why should I even bother," she yelled. "Why are you even bothering to try to explain yourself to me?"
"Please Ash," he begged.
"Don't call me that! You can't call me that anymore, Caleb," she snapped. "Not after what you did to me. I hate you!"
"You don't mean that," he told her. She tried to walk away but he grabbed her wrists and held on to her.
"Yes I do," she tried pulling away from him but Caleb wouldn't budge. "Let me go!"
"Not until you listen to me," he said pulling her into his embrace. "What you saw back there-none of it was me. I broke it off with Sarah."
"Really, that's not what it looked like," she sneered. Caleb tightened his grip and pulled her closer.
"Really it wasn't me," he pleaded. "It was all Chase."
"What! Well that's a new one," she scoffed.
"Honestly Ash, he was controlling Sarah."
"Caleb, Chase isn't one of us. How do you expect me to believe that?"
"By reading this," he said pulling out a file from his coat. While Ashlyn skimmed through the file Caleb explained how he and Pogue had broken into the school admissions office that night and dug up dirt on Chase and how Chase was a descendent of the Pope line which was banished years before. The boys were meeting at the old colony house tonight to go over this new discovery.
"Oh my-," she breath out.
"Now do you believe me," Caleb asked. "I felt him use Ash and you have to know that I would never hurt you…no matter what."
Ashlyn's gaze shifted back and forth from the file to Caleb's brown eyes until finally she dropped the documents and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I'm so sorry. I should have known something was up. I always got a bad vive around him," she sobbed.
"It's okay. I'm just grateful to have you back."
"Iloveyou," she muttered against his tear soaked shirt.
What was that," Caleb asked.
"Ummm…nothing, just forget it," she said pulling back.
"No, wait," he protested. "What did you say?"
"I said," she let out a long sigh, "I love you." Caleb just stood there staring at her.
"Caleb I-," she was cut off by a pair of soft lips.
"I love you too," he said breathlessly when they had to break apart. "Say it again, please."
"I love you," he kissed lips again.
"Again."
"I love you," she said giggling.
That's it for this chapter guys. Hope it wasn't to corny. I'm a sucker
for romance and love…ciao.
xoxo
Kris Knight
