Chapter Thirteen.

Tyler drove to Verity's house a little faster than he should have done. But he wanted to see her, he wanted to tell her that Aaron had been spelling rumours, he was going to leave out the violence that he had caused, but wanted her to be aware of the type of person she had been helping.

He pulled up to the Hanes household. He knew it was a quirky building, but had never set foot inside.

There were no other cars in the courtyard, this made him slightly nervous.

Tyler parked and locked his precious Hummer and walked up the steps to Verity's front door and knocked. Verity opened the door and smiled at Tyler, her innocent and pale face surrounded by her dark brunette hair, her almond shaped eyes glistened at the beautiful blue eyed boy in front of her.

Tyler saw Verity in all her beauty and too the sight int. The slim girl was wearing black hot pants, a dusky pin silk camisole and a cream light weight cardigan. Her hair was half up and half down, the hair that was left down, flowed around her shoulders and face, slightly wavy where it had been left to dry naturally. Her feet were in black, patent high heeled sandals which included a ribbon which wrapped around her ankles and edged up towards her calves and did up and a bow. Her make-up was minimal, a little foundation, some shimmering pink eye shadow and mascara which made her long eye lashes look longer, and more seductive. Her lips had a light covering of sheer opal gloss.

"Hey Tyler, are you ok? You look like you're a million miles away there?" Her gentle voice said, breaking his trance.

"I'm fine. You look so beautiful Verity." His managed to say, after mustering all his strength to speak.

The innocent beauty that stood before him smiled before speaking again to the lovely boy who paid her a lovely compliment.

"Thank you Tyler." She said, blushing slightly for she had always been the centre of mass attention, but never singular attention from such a lovely young man with such intense Cobalt blue eyes.

"Do you want to come it for a while?" She asked, hoping he would say yes so she could have him to herself for a short time.

"Yes." He said finally, not sure if he felt comfortable being alone in the house with the object of his desires.

Verity smiled and nodded as she moved out of the door way to let Tyler in. She could tell he was nervous, she was nervous too. She had never allowed herself to be this alone with someone, apart from Caleb, who had surprised her the other day by showing up when he was worried that she hadn't answered any of her calls.

Verity closed the door behind him and finally mustered up the courage to speak again.

"Do want a beer?" she asked.

Verity knew when she was dressing in to her outfit that these clothes were popular in New York, but the trend hadn't set in here in Ipswich yet, and she was going to be the first to wear hot pants out as an evening wear garment.

"Sure, thanks." Tyler said, looking at her toned legs. She wasn't a particularly tall girl, but the heels and the exposed skin of her leg made her seem taller than she really was.

Verity went to the fridge to get out a bottle of Budweiser for her date, she took off the cap and poured herself a vodka and lemonade.

Tyler watched her the whole time, thinking that he would be grateful when Kate would get back to town after being sick, so she could be a friend to Verity, because with Keira out to get her, Verity would need all the girl friends she could get.

"Here you go." she said, handing Tyler the cold, glass bottle taking a sip from her glass.

Tyler smiled.

"Thanks." He said.

"You want to sit in the lounge? It's more comfortable than standing in the kitchen!" She smiled, nervously. Tyler nodded and followed her in to the lounge. She sat on the largest cream, leather couch and patted the seat beside her and smiled. Tyler sat and smiled back at her.

"Did you have good session at the pool?" Verity asked.

"Yeah it was good." He said, then took another swig from his beer. "I need to tell you something. And it's not really nice." He looked serious. Verity gulped and nodded before speaking.

"Tell me." She said, unsure if she wanted to know or not.

"Aaron is telling all his cronies that you're sleeping with him. I asked you if it was true and you said no, but at the meet today, in the locker room, he was telling everyone how much of a Tom cat you were in bed. I hit him and told him and his gang he was lying. He didn't like that."

Verity didn't look shocked at all, which took Tyler by surprise.

"I know. Aaron is a little insecure, his friendship with Keira is strange and strained since I started school. He's just a little boy bigging up his toy truck. You and I both know there's nothing to it, so it's ok. I 'll handle it."

Verity kissed Tyler on the cheek and they both smiled at each other.

"I just wanted you to know. I don't want you getting hurt again." Tyler said.

"I won't. I can take care of myself, and any beatings I might get along the way." Verity smiled and so did Tyler.

She took Tyler's beer and set it down on the table next to her glass. She knew she could be rejected, but didn't care, she wanted the attention, so she decided to make the boldest move she had ever made in her shot life.

Verity leant in to Tyler and kissed him, she put one hand on the back of his neck and left the other drop loosely down to his waist.

Tyler kissed her back, one hand on the back of Verity's head, entangling his fingers in her hair, and the other went around her waist.

Verity decided that as he had responded to her by deepening the kiss, she would let him decide what happened next.

So Tyler's response was to continue the kiss, letting it go a little deeper than any other kiss he had ever had and held on to her tightly, wanting to go further.