Chapter 25
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Aspen's POV
She runs off to see that piece of shit! But I know that soon she will be begging me to be with her.
Maxon POV
"Sorry I'm late" she says and I just wave it off and offer my arm to her. She smiles and takes it. We walk outside, instead of taking her to "our" bench I take her to a red velvet U shaped seat/bed.
"Am I suppose to crawl onto it?" I laugh and nod my head. Luckily she isn't wearing a dress, she is wearing a pair of jeans and a loose plaid shirt with a jean jacket. I offer my hand to help her onto the seat.
"Thanks" she says as she lays down. I crawl onto the seat and lay down beside her. She turns to me with those beautiful icy blue eyes.
"You've been awfully quiet. Is something wrong?" I smile at her concern for me.
"No. Just enjoying this moment." Her eyes sparkle a bit. I smile more.
"Oh. So how were the meetings?" She tries to hide her blush.
"Long and boring, like always. Luckily none of the students want to leave, at least not yet." I say. I slowly put my arm around her and she leans in closer.
"That's great. Were there any damages?" She seems so curious, I like that about her.
"A little, just some vases and tables and small things were broken in the fight." She shivers a bit in the cool air. I take the blanket I brought and put it over us.
"Were any of the guards hurt?"
"Only a few. But as I said before, those rebels just want to make a point, they don't want to harm us." I try ro reassure her.
"So no one died?"
"Nope. But lets not talk about that now." I say and she looks up at me with a smile.
"I found out that Celeste threw a tantrum in the safe room today!" She says enthusiastically. I start to laugh.
"So she didn't strangle anyone?" I say sad.
"No. Although I wish I was there to see her being told by a guard to calm down." We both laugh.
"Who'd she ask where we were?"
"Tate. She said they didn't know where we were and that's when she lost it." I laugh some more. Celeste always seemed to have an obsession with me, which creeps the shit out of me.
"So what did you do when you got back to your dorm?" I ask
"Well I was about to go in my dorm after that rebels left but then Marlee and everyone saw me and we ended up hanging out in my dorm, in fact they are most likely still there"
"I bet they are watching some scary movie." I say.
"Yeah me to. Well after talking for a bit we went through our plans for next saturday," she seems excited, "everything seems perfect!"
"Well with you guys planning it, I can only hope" I joke. She playfully pushes me.
"Rude! Just be grateful that we are all helping, and you don't have to do this by yourself!" I laugh a bit.
"Yeah I know. Thanks." I say. We spend the next hour watching the sun set and talking about random things. We really have fun until..
"Did you see that!?" Ames asks me worried.
"What's wrong! See what?" I look around quickly, are there rebels? Who is there?
"I think I saw a flash or something. I probably just imagined it." She tries to wave it off but I am concerned.
"Maybe we should go. Come" She cuts me off.
"Nooooooo. Two more minuets?" She begs. I give in.
"Fine. But I really think we should go." I say. But she just kisses me on the lips. We start to make out. In the middle of our little session I hear a click. Fuck! I quickly stop and pull away. I grab her wrist and help her get off the seat.
"What the f-" I cover her mouth quickly. I cover her in the blanket.
"Shh!" I whisper. She gives me a look. I help her run inside and place her behind the doors.
"The paparazzi are around the walls! Please show them the way out." I stay calm and the guards nod their heads and run outside.
"Shit!" I yell. Will I ever be left alone?
"Maxon what is going on!?" America says. I turn around and look her in the eyes.
"I'm sorry!" I practically yell. And I start to pace the room while putting my hand through my hair. I don't want her to be on every cover on every magazine in Illèa! And my father? He will most likely see the cover, I will be whipped for being so careless. She hugs me and I stop pacing.
"Maxon what's going on?" She pleads.
"You were right. There was a flash, I heard a click. I have a feeling it is the paparazzi." I feel ashamed of her face now having to be on every magazine. She looks up at me.
"You mean they caught us?" She is clearly surprised. I am about to answer her when the guards run in out of breath. They are holding a man with a camera.
"There were two sir. The other ran off. We are sorry," Says the tall guard, "but we caught him."
"It's alright men. The. Camera. Now!" I say to the man they are holding. I make sure I am in front of America.
"No." He simply says. I hate to be rude but I have to sometimes.
"Look you can either give me the camera now, or I will have you imprisoned for trespassing. Your choice!" I try to stay calm.
"Fine!" The man says as he throws the camera at me and I catch it.
"Thank you," I look at the guards, "take him out of here." I simply say and the guards walk away with the man. I turn around and see America staring at me.
"What did I do?" I ask
"Huh? Oh! I'm sorry! It's just I've never seen you "in action" before" she says with a smile. I laugh.
"And what did you think?" I hope she isn't scared of me.
"I thought it was cool." She simply says and I laugh.
"Cool?"
"Yuppies. Well let's go see if our friends are still watching that scary movie, shall we?" She asks and I offer her my arm. And we walk off.
"I'm sorry America," I look down, "I didn't want this to happen, I don't want them to tart bugging you because of me." She looks at me.
"Maxon, I said I'd be your girlfriend. And I don't care if Celeste or some paparazzi get in the way of you and I. As long as you stay you then I'm fine." I have met girls who only liked me for my money or my status, never one who liked me for the real me. Not the one who hides his feelings, but for the one who shows them. Not for one who acts his way through life but for the one who improvises or in other words, actually lives it. She likes me for the real me. This only makes me like her more.
"Ames I have never met someone who liked me for me."
"What about your friends?"
"I don't mean that I mean like-like. You know like you and I."
"Oh." Is all she says. Suddenly she stops and I realize we are at her dorm.
"On three?" She whispers. I nod my head and mouth "One. Two. Three." And we barge in and scare the shit out of them all.
"AHH!" They yell. We start to laugh hard and I remember the last time we did this to them. It wasn't that long ago.
"You weren't gone for long, what happened?" Kriss asks. America looks up at me, and I step forward.
"Well there was an encounter with the paparazzi. The guards found one but the other ran away." They gasp, but I knew this would happen one day!
"Oh my! Did they catch Ames!?" Mar Mar asks.
"I hope not, but I did hear a click or two and Ames saw a flash. I have the camera" I toss the camera to Brevin, so he can check for me.
"This one has three...of you two...you know...kissing" I blush and America just puts her head down and walks to take a seat on the couch, beside Marlee. I sit beside her.
"Delete them Bre." I say.
"Okay" he says. He tosses the camera at me, I catch it.
"When will people learn to NOT throw cameras around! They are fragile!" I exclaim. I guess it's because I like photography that I am protective with cameras.
"Well I guess you can add that camera to your collection." Carter jokes.
"Whatever." I say and Ames turns to me with her cheeks slightly pink from blushing.
"You have a collection?" She asks.
"Yeah. It's weird but yeah." She smiles.
"It's not weird,it's cool." She gives me a sincere smile.
"Thanks. Anyways, I hear you guys were going over the details for the ball, can I hear them?" I want to have everything ready for Saturday. It will be the first ball I throw myself, except I am not throwing it, my friends are. They tell me the colour schemes and music and everything. I think this will be a great ball!
"Wow! I think you guys make an amazing team!" I say
"You mean we, Max." Zeke corrects me. I laugh.
"Why we? If I am not doing anything."
"But you are throwing this thing." Zeke says.
"Yeah I guess.." I say, "So what do we do now?" They look at each other.
"We were thinking about hosting a battle of the bands contest in November! What do you think, your Highness!?" Bre asks me. They all smile and make puppy dog faces. This will be fun, what could go wrong?
"Sure! I mean it will be fun! I will run it over the advisors and then we can start planning," They all yell and jump up and down. I laugh at them.
-Page Break!-
Aspen's POV
At least 6 people come out of America's room.
"Bye!" They say as they walk off. Maxon is at the door. I listen.
"I...uh...better go," What a big excuse for a man! He can't even say bye,"goodnight America." But without any notice Mer pulls him into some huge make out session. He kicks the door closed behind him, as they stumble back in. Can this get any worse? Will she ever realize that I love her more that anything in the world?
America's POV
I pull him back into my room. His kisses are soft and tender. He kisses me as if I were the most fragile thing in the world, and I love that. We fall onto the couch. We pull apart and take a breath.
"Can you stay? I don't want to be alone today." I say. After everything that happened today, I don't think I can sleep.
"I'll stay, darling. Always." He huskily whispers. I wrap my arms around him. Suddenly I feel myself being lifted. I squeal like a little girl.
"Maxon!" I laugh. He plants a kiss on my forehead, as he laughs with me.
"You need you sleep princess, we have a big day tomorrow." Princess? And tomorrow is Sunday what will we do? He lays me on my bed, under the covers.
"Princess?" I put my arms up to hug him and he goes under the covers with me. I hug him.
"I don't know, you seem like a princess to me."
"But I am anything but." I say
"Well to me you are." He whispers in my ear. I blush.
"Okay my prince, what will we do tomorrow?" I ask.
"That's for me to know and for you to find out." He pulls me closer to him. That's when I realize I am in jeans and a plaid shirt. And he is in a suit.
"Fine. You know, you should really leave some of your pj's here. You know, for whenever you want to stay over." I look up at him.
"For whenever I want to stay here? Do you mean for whenever you force me to stay here?" He caresses my cheek. I lean into his hand.
"You chose to stay with me, you could have said no." I move away to change into my pj's.
"Well maybe I wanted to stay with my girlfriend," He says matter-of-factly. I freeze when he says girlfriend. It seems unreal, "What are you doing?" I turn to him.
"Changing into my pj's" I state. I grab a loose T-shirt and sweats, "No peeking Schreve." I say as I close the door to the bathroom. I quickly change and walk out and lay in the bed. He wraps me in his arms quickly.
"Go to sleep, my prince." I joke.
"I am anything but a prince America, you and I both know that." He says with a kind smile. And I know he is talking about his scars.
"Well to me you are. Now sleep!" I demand. He laughs.
"Jeez! Demanding much!" I lay my head on his chest and he kisses my head.
"Goodnight Ames." He says.
"Goodnight Schreve." I say and I fall asleep.
-Page break!-
I hear little giggles. I slowly open my eyes and see Mary, Anne, and Lucy. I turn to see Maxon still holding me and sleeping. I pull the covers over my head in embarrassment. Maxon stirs awake.
"Huh?" He mumbles and I stay under the covers.
"Um... We are sorry Maxon. We were just leaving!" Lucy says, a bit nervous. I take my head put from the covers and look at Maxon. He laughs.
"Don't worry ladies. I was just about to leave." He gets up and whispers something to my maids. They giggle and nod. Maxon make his way to my bedroom door and turns to me and bows.
"I will see you at 1 Lady America. Good day ladies." He says and we leave. What just happened?
"So I guess I have to get up?" I say to my maids. They giggle a bit.
"Well it will take us awhile to pick an outfit for you today." Anne says. That's when I remember...
"God! Were any of you hurt yesterday from the attack!?" I exclaim as I jump out of bed. I hug them all.
"No, luckily we weren't. How about you America?" Mary says.
"I was fine. I was so worried for you three!" I let them go.
"Well we are fine. America it is 11 shall we get a bath ready for you?" Anne asks.
"Sure. But what did he tell you?" I ask.
"You will see soon."
- page break!-
At 12:30 I am ready to go. I am wearing a nice tied at the side, light blues plaid shirt, with skinny jeans and some cool brown leather with a dark brown lace, riding boots, with a cowgirl hat. That when it hits me!
"OMG we're going horseback riding!?" I squeal! I've always wanted to ride a horse!
"We aren't allowed to say America." Mary says with a smile telling me that I'm right.
"Okay. Um I think I hear a knock. I will get it." I run out of my room to the front door. I open it, I see Zeke and everyone. They are all wearing the same thing as me, kind of.
"So I was right! We are going horseback riding!" I yell and let them all in.
"Omg! I am so excited!" Marlee says. Kriss hugs me as she walks in.
"You have a cute guard." Tate says. I hear an "oh please!" From Zeke, I remember that he likes her.
"Haha! Come in!" We all settle onto the couch.
"I didn't know we were allowed out of the school." I say.
"We are. As long as we have a guard or two with us at all times." Kriss says.
"Ohhh." I say.
"So what are we gonna go for the concert in October?" Carter asks.
"Well me and Maxon are going to do a song together," I hear little "awe!" From the girls, "why don't we all pair up or something?" I continue.
"What do you mean Ames?" Bre asks.
"I mean maybe Zeke and Tate pair up and do a song, Carter and Marlee pair up, and Kriss and Brevin pair up. I think it would be fun!" I suggest. I see Zeke wink at me for pairing him up with Tate.
"I think our redhead is right!" Zeke says.
"Yeah! I think this would be fun!" Kriss says
"Yeah! Totally amazeballs!" Bre says. We all just stare at him.
"What. The. Fuck Bre?" Cart says.
"Seriously people?! None of you guys heard that? Wow." Bre exclaims.
"Uhhh... Anyways! I am totally in!" Marlee says.
"Totally in what?" Someone says. We all look at the door to see Maxon walking in.
"Sure Maxon you can come in." I say sarcastically.
"Thanks Ames!" He says with a smile.
"Well Ames had an amazing idea that since you two are doing the concert together that we should all pair up!" Tate explains.
"That's great! Wanna talk about it on our way to the ranch?" Maxon asks. He is also wearing a red plaid shirt, and jeans, with a cowboy hat, and cowboy boots.
"Are we going horseback riding!" I squeal! Again!
"Yuppies!" I turn serious.
"Maxon fucking Schreave! That is my word!" I state. They all laugh.
"Too bad I am now using it too!" He says. We all walk out and we follow Maxon outside.
-Page Break!-
"Really! You guys are fat!" I say as I try to find some space in our van, that will take us to the ranch.
"There are two guards up front and six seats and eight of us!" Carter explains.
"Well is there another van! 'Cause the other one holds the guards." I say.
"Well Ames, there is only one solution to this. Tate sits on my lap and you sit on Max's lap." Zeke says.
"Fine. Tate you go in first." I say and she hops into the back where Zeke is," Is this even l
legal?" I ask.
"Nope!" Maxon says.
"But the windows are tinted and who is going to stop a van when guards are driving it?" Bre says.
"Fine. But if we get stopped me and Tay are gonna drop to the ground and hide behind the seats." I say.
"Don't worry Ames. Just hop in so we can go!" Carter says. I do so. Maxon puts his arms around my waist.
-Page Break!-
"Eek! Yay! Were here! Fuck yeah! OMG! Look at that white horse!" I act like a kid in a candy store!
"Jeez calm down redhead!" Bre says.
"Nooooo! Guys hurry up out of the van so we can go riding!" I yell. It is a huge ranch! There are at least 15 or more horses here and so many stables! After everyone is out Maxon leads us to a "house" kind of where we get our helmets.
"Just pick one and we can head out to see the horses." Maxon says. I grab a white helmet, that fits, and I walk to the door. We all walk out and I see a white horse coming up to me. At first I am a bit scared.
"Don't worry darling, she is only coming up to say hi. Just pet her you two will get along fine." Maxon says to me. Once the horse stops in front of me I pet her. She she immediately leans into my hand. I smile. Then I see Maxon setting a saddle on her.
"I can ride her?" I look at the horse.
"Well yeah. I mean why else are we here for?" Maxon laughs.
"Shut up and help me up!" I say. I go beside the horse.
"Whats her name?" I ask
"Maybelle. She is one of my favorites, actually she was my first horse." Maxon smiles at the precious memories he must have, "okay just put one leg over and jump!" He says. But I am smaller than the horse.
"Maxon, Maybelle is too high!" I say.
"Don't worry I'll pick you up!" He says. He lifts me up and I put my right leg over the saddle and sit, "perfect!" He exclaims.
"Thanks!" I grab Maybelle's reins. I turn around to see everyone on a horse and Maxon jumping onto his, his is a beautiful black horse! Suddenly Maxon hits my horse and Maybelle starts to run.
"WHAT THE FUCK MAXON!" I yell.
"Take control using the reins!" I hear him yell. I pull the reins hoping it would make her slow down, and it works.
"Good girl Maybelle!" I pet her hair.
-Page Break- (Friday!)
"You little slut!" Celeste yells at me at my locker. Tate and Marlee and Zeke are beside me. I sigh and turn around. I have had a long and boring week! Maxon has been to busy with homework and meetings to come and visit.
"What do you want now Celeste?" I ask tiredly.
"Oh you little bitch!" She screeches," like you haven't seen the covers of the magazines?!" What is she talk...oh shit!
"What?" I try to act like I don't know. Then the bell rings signaling 5 minuets until classes. She throws something at me and walks away with two girls at her side. I pick up a magazine. I see a picture of me and Maxon kissing on the seat.
Ìllèa Weekly!
MAXON HAS A SECRET SOMEONE! Read all about this mysterious redhead that was caught making out with our own Maxon Schreve!
"Shit! But they can't possibly know it was you, can they?" Zeke says as he takes the magazine. I just stay there frozen.
"They can't! Maxon hid me and we ran inside!" I say.
"Let's talk about this later! We have classes." Tate warns. Marlee takes my arm and Zeke takes my bag.
"Can you put that magazine in my bag please?" I ask Zeke,
"Sure." He says and he quickly puts it in my bag. What information could they possibly have of me? The picture doesn't even show my face! Just Maxon's. Fuck! What if his father gets it? I can't just leave! We all walk into seventh period, art, Maxon isn't here. Suddenly he rushes in.
"I am sorry but I will need Tate, Kriss, America, Zeke, Marlee, Carter, and Brevin please." He says. We all get up and grab our things and head out with Maxon. Once we are away from the class Marlee speaks up.
"What do you need Maxon?" She asks.
"I need help setting up the ballroom for tomorrow. And you guys know where and how everything should go. I hope you have you notes!" He says with a smile. Je clearly doesn't know about the magazine.
"Uh my notes are in my dorm. I will go get them, Marlee come with me?" I ask. I give her a sad smile.
"Sure! We will meet you guys in the ballroom. See ya!" She takes my arm and we rush out the hall. We quickly get out of the school. I stop at a bench.
"Wait. I want to see the magazine" I unzip my bag and take it out. I zip my bag close again and continue walking with Marlee.
"What lies have they put in there?" Marlee says.
"I know right," I exclaim," okay it says page 24-27. Shit! That's a lot of pages!" I turn to page 24 quickly. We walk into the dorm building.
"Ames look up! I am scared you will bump into something!" Marlee exclaims. I hug the magazine so no one will see. We make it to my dorm quickly. I open my door and we rush in and sit on the couch.
"Okay read it!" I turn to page 24.
"What the fuck!? This whole page talks about Maxon and his family! So does page 25! Wait! Okay...WHAT THE HELL!" I scream!
"OMG! Whats wrong!" Marlee puts hand on my shoulder. How could they do this! This is disrespecting someones privacy! I look up at Marlee
"They recorded our conversation from Saturday!" I throw the magazine on the floor.
"No! Your joking right!?" Marlee retrieves the magazine, she flips through the pages.
"See for yourself!" I say.
"Shit!" She says.
"Pass it." I ask and she gives it to me. I read over our conversation. Luckily they didn't catch Maxon saying his meetings were long and boring, it just caught the ending of out conversation a bit. I turn to page 27 it reads:
MYSTERY RED-HEAD:
"Our sources say that this red-head is most likely a daughter of the King and Queen of Spain, Princess Cecilia. Princess Cecilia is next in line for the throne, so we think that might just be the reason Maxon is with her..." I skip that part. Maxon would never use a person for wealth.
"Lastly, others say that she is a third class girl. Which we highly doubt due to the fact that they were making out at Carolina Boarding High, a school only for first class people, or in other words, only for weathly students, and families..."
I decide not to look at the rest of the paragraph.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" I yell. Marlee comforts me, "Marlee they are saying Maxon could be using some princess! What is he going to do!?" I feel the tears threating to spill, would Maxon's father see this? Will this mean another whipping for him?
"America don't worry. Maxon always has a plan, he is always prepared. Just calm down and we can tell him later. Let's just get your notes and prepare the ballroom. Okay?" She pleads. I wipe the tears that have spilled.
"You're right..." I grab my notes off the counter.
"Ames, just put on a smile. He will know something is wrong if you don't." She takes my arm and we walk out. Just put on a smile America! I yell at myself. I take a deep breath as we reach the ballroom. Just put on I smile. I do so.
"Everything will be fine America." Marlee says as we enter. I gasp at the size of the ballroom. Everything is plain. I guess we better start.
"No! The curtains have gold accents! We talked about this Bre!" Kriss yells. I start to laugh.
"Woah! Whats going on!?" Marlee exclaims as she rushes over to Kriss and Bre.
"Bre says we shouldn't have gold accents! But Ames said that the colour scheme is baish!" Kriss exclaims. Bre puts his arms up in air.
"Oh my GOODNESS! I was just saying something! You don't have to go all fucking ninja on me or whatever! Jeez! Just put those stupid cut
curtains up!" He says. I run up beside Bre.
"Um Bre wanna help me check the food?" I ask, "I think Krissy can handle the dècor, right Krissy?" And she gives me a big smile.
"Yeah. I'm sorry Bre for exploding on you, I just want this to be perfect!" She gives Bre a hug and me and Marlee look at each other.
"AWEEEEEE" we yell. They quickly pull apart.
"Well! Go help Ames!" Kriss exclaims and he awkwardly turns away to face me. I laugh and grab his arm. I go to the kitchens where the food is out for us to taste and check.
"Yay! Food!" I yell.
"Dude dial it down!...Holy shit! That smells AMAZING!" Bre says as he glides over to the food.
"Look whose talking!" I say and we dig in.
-Page Break!-
"I'm. So. Full." Bre says as he puts his head back.
"No kidding! We practically ate a 3 course meal!" I say
"Well at least we know the meat is good!" He smiles. I laugh a bit. I feel as if I am about to explode!
"I think the veal with cheese and rice and salad and baked potatoes is good for dinner. What do you think about dessert?" I ask.
"The chocolate cake was great! And that cream puff thingy!" He says looking at me.
"I agree! And it was a cream puff. And the vanilla or chocolate ice cream, as a side right?" I ask.
"Yeah, so they can have a choice." He gets up.
"Okay lets just tell the chef and we can go check on everyone else." I get up.
-Page break-
"Oh my! We leave for an hour and you guys are practically done! Wait! Bre weren't you going to do music with Zeke?!" I turn to him.
"I am but I finished the playlist with him, and Kriss asked me for help." He says.
"Oh ok. Lets go check on them!" We walk toward Marlee and Carter.
"No! That mayor goes here!" Marlee yells at Carter.
"Oops! Sorry Mar Mar!" Cart runs over to Marlee and fixes the names. Everything seems to be going perfect. Even the walls are now baish! I am excited for tomorrow! But I still wonder how I am going to tell Maxon about the magazine. But he did say to not worry if they publish it. It was bound to happen!
5000 WORDS PEOPLE! Sorry it took long. I had so much homework these days! Well review! Please! Byeee my darlings!
~Dauntless!