Part 2 Chapter 10 Shaun's Apartment 4 hours later
Destiny lay in bed watching the clock tick by as her mind tormented her with the events of the past couple of months. During the day, it was easier to push those thoughts aside with a big brother like Shaun and friends like Jamie, Shane and Matthew around. Matthew, god it hurt so much to think about him. For no matter how hard she had tried to bury her feelings for him deep down since he had devastated her with his rejection last New Year's, she couldn't deny the fact the she loved him even more now than she did that night.
But sometimes like earlier tonight and this past week, when Matthew was so attentive, sweet and even flirty, she felt that there was a possibility that his feelings for her could be changing and maybe he could love her the way that she prayed he would and not just as his best friend.
Oh who the hell was she kidding she thought angrily turning to stare up at the ceiling. That cretin, Justin was right about her. She was Density with a capital D, not Matthew's type at all. Besides her own father didn't even want her, why would Matthew? She thought as tears started rolling freely down her cheeks.
Same time Buchannon's Apartment:
After driving around and thinking for the past could of hours, a tired Matthew entered the Buchannon's apartment and plopped down on the sofa. The object of his thoughts of course was Destiny and that both excited and saddened him. If someone had told as late as this morning that his feelings for the petite girl could increase more than they already had, he would not have thought it possible. Whether it was his tickling, holding her or simply tracing her soft skin, his feelings for this angelic girl had increased tenfold. For that was clearly what she was to him an angel, an angel who certainly deserved better than the hand that she had been dealt the last couple of months. Seeing the pain in her eyes at Justin's statement made him wish Mr. Vega had not stopped him from beating the crap out of that bastard. For he had made her doubt herself and that was inexcusable. Even though she tried to hide it, he knew Justin's cruel nickname for her hurt her deeply and he would do anything to both make her his lady and make her understand that she was beautiful just the way she was.