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Choosing You Chapter 13
PIPERWhat was I thinking? I don’t think I was. But he talked to me. He actually looked at me during class and spoke to me—Piper—and there was no snark. No attitude, just genuine curiosity. I don’t know. I’m probably reading too much into it. Maybe I’m lying to myself because it’s something that I want, but it’s possible I’ve got Ethan all wrong. That I can tell him who I am, and he won’t turn away from me. So, I messaged him on instagram from my account. It’s not like I’m risking a lot. I don’t follow too many people on campus, and hardly anyone follows me back. My username seems generic to the untrained eye. I don’t think Paisley even realizes it’s an anagram for my name.I take a seat at the cafe across from Paisley, second and third-guessing my decision to write Ethan.“Hey, Piper.” I hear someone say my name and drop my phone on the table, turning to find Bryce standing beside us. “Did you find what you were looking for last night?”“Huh?”“The archives,” he says. “Did you get to
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ETHANIs it only the second day of classes? Because I feel like this shit is dragging already. Economics first thing in the morning and now Literature. I move down the aisle, and find a seat in the back of the room just before anyone else shows up. I like it that way, getting familiar before I have to deal with people staring at me, knowing I’m there. It may not be the entire class, but it’s enough to be annoying. Enough to make me wish I was invisible sometimes. I open my computer and keep my head down, as bodies begin to enter. A few guys, some that I think I actually know. And plenty of girls that I definitely know. I don’t need them to see me. I don’t feel like being social. I didn’t get my share of coffee this morning and I’m not a morning person. My father is the only reason I took morning classes at all this semester. I wanted to impress him. But after the night I had, I’m exhausted. Don’t get me wrong. Even now, I don’t regret staying up to message back and forth on Instagra
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PIPERME: How exactly is this gonna work?_ETHAN.M.: Trust me I have it all figured out.Trust him. I honestly don’t even know why I’m still meeting him. He’s kind of a jerk. I said that already right? But that doesn’t stop me from digging through my hidden clothes stash for something to wear to a party where people won’t even know my name. They won’t even notice I’m there at all. But Ethan will. Even if he doesn’t know it’s me.My phone pings with a notification and I run to it, unable to stop myself from thinking that it might be him. It’s pathetic, I’m sure. But I can’t seem to find the strength to stop myself. I can’t bring myself to ignore any of his messages. To pass up the chance for just one more secret meeting. I guess that’s the reason why.Paisley: Where are u?????Glancing at the time, I hammer out a quick response, letting her know I’m on the way. I practically had to convince her that I wanted to go to this party off campus, and nearly begged for a ride. Only for her to
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ETHANWe enter the next room drinks in hand. Conversation from the kitchen forgotten. At least for the guys it is. I’m still unexplainably wound tight. And annoyed by this reaction because I shouldn’t be worried about Piper when I’m about to meet someone else in minutes. But I’m annoyed at her response back there in the kitchen. She was supposed to back down. Even with all the noise around us, I could hear her words enough that my mind momentarily drifted to her lying spread out in her bed, getting herself off and it hasn’t returned to the here and now. I pull from my beer bottle, and try to shake the image away again.Doesn’t help.“Fuck,” Adam says, slapping a hand onto Antonio’s shoulder. “That chick was hot. Who is she?”Antonio shrugs.Adam nudges my shoulder. “Who was that? I don’t recognize her.”I exhale through my nostrils, hitching my shoulder. “Her name’s Piper.”“Okay,” Adam replies, as if he’s good at remembering names, when we both know how he is.I shrug nonchalantly. “
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PIPERIt’s a large bathroom decked in brilliant extravagance. At least, to me it’s pretty fancy, with elegant marble countertops, and a level of richness that suits the rest of the house. That’s what I see when I enter the room, but no Ethan. I checked my phone for the meeting time and place before coming upstairs. Maybe I’ve got the wrong bathroom. I don’t know how many are in this palace, after all. Or maybe it’s a sign. He’s such a jerk. And his big mouth downstairs proves that I shouldn’t want to meet him at all. I nearly change my mind again for the fifth time, hand still on the knob and my feet refusing to move. People walk by, looking for a vacant room to fool around in. And I’m just standing in the doorway of a bathroom, looking for a guy who tried to humiliate me less than fifteen minutes ago.This is stupid, I think, before my grip on the door tightens as if I’m about to leave.Then he speaks like he knows what I’m thinking. “Don’t go.”I don’t. It’s possible that makes me
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CHAPTER 18ETHANShe was right about one thing. She’s not like the other girls. I gave her a mind-blowing orgasm and she’s ghosted me all week. I don’t know any girl that would do that. I mean, I told her I want to see her again, and she completely disappeared on me. Well, not completely. I know who she is. I’ve seen her. I’ve seen her see me and still nothing. Not even the usual flirtatious hello. It doesn’t add up. None of it, which is the only reason I haven’t called her on her shit. I’m still trying to make it all make sense in my head. Paisley Sullivan? It still doesn’t track.At the party last weekend, I saw her after we met up in the bathroom. It was as if nothing had happened between us. All keg stands and laughter. She was dancing with some guy. A bunch of guys, taunting them with her body, like I didn’t have my fingers all over her pussy just minutes before. And when she saw me, she smirked as though me watching was somehow getting her off. None of that aligns with the perso
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CHAPTER 19PIPERI am pathetic. Hiding out at Coffee Shop in plain sight. Blatantly staring at a shirtless Ethan playing football with his friends in the quad. What makes me pathetic? The fact that he’s written me a total thirteen times until yesterday, when I think he finally got the message and gave up. Thirteen chances, he gave me to have my hands on him. His mouth on me. His fingers… And I’ve opted to gawk like some kind of stalker. That’s why I’m pathetic.Taking a sip from my iced coffee, I adjust the sunglasses on my face—total stalker wear—and pretend like I’m not watching the way sweat gleams off him. I’m not imagining said sweat dripping onto my own body as he takes me in the bathroom at that party. Why didn’t I demand that things go further that night? That’s right. I was too busy running to look back and fully grasp the fact that that was our last chance.“Oh thank God. A friendly face,” Sabrina, the girl from the party last weekend, throws herself into the chair next to
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PIPERPaisley has got a cute cherry red Nissan. But Sabrina’s car is a white convertible. A new model Mercedes that catches the eye of everyone on the road. Paisley loves every second of it, waving like it’s her car and we’re her chauffeurs riding up front. Pulling into the mall parking lot, her enthusiasm hasn’t dimmed. If anything my best friend is getting more out of control. Worse than prom shopping senior year, where she dragged me around until she could find the perfect dress.“Let’s start with underwear,” Paisley says.My stomach sinks to the floor. “You think he’s going to see you in your underwear?”“I should be prepared,” she replies. “It’s Ethan we’re talking about.”Unfortunately for me, Sabrina nods along in understanding.I swallow, with a weak smile, but follow behind Sabrina and Paisley as we go inside the mall. They pick out cute underwear and sexy bras that I can’t even imagine myself in.“Oh my God,” I say with a blush.“Yeah,” Sabrina says, putting more frilly thin
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EPILOGUEETHANSeven Years Later“I don’t even know why we came to this,” Piper says.I smirk, and reply. “You wanted to come. I was good with staying home between your legs for the next fourteen hours. It’s been a busy week for the both of us.”“When I made these plans it was because it’s been a busy seven years, especially since graduation and I wanted to do something normal. Now more than ever,” she says.“What’s so great about now?”“It’s our reunion,” she replies.“Okay. But I could’ve easily taken normal to mean my tongue in your pussy for a few hours and spending the night fucking like rabbits.”“Oh. We’re still doing that,” she says with a smirk. “This is just a detour. Plus Sabrina is in town and I haven’t seen her in so long.”“What are you up to,” I ask. She’s got a look on her face that tells me she’s harboring a secret.“What? Nothing.”“No. You’re up to something.”“Maybe. I’ve got news to share and we haven’t been face to face with our friends to share it with them too.
Choosing You Chapter 111
PIPERWe find Paisley easily just across the courtyard. And it seems we have a little more to talk about besides the beating I sustained right here on these sidewalks.Shaina is beside her, sipping a smoothie that Paisley takes and makes her own for a minute. Seeing Ethan, she hands it back to her friend, licking her lips like lunch has arrived.She hasn’t paid me any attention, until I speak. “We need to talk.”With an attitude, she drags her eyes away from my boyfriend. Though she’s looking at me now, her words are still to Ethan. “I thought you were coming to tell me living with this isn’t working out.”Ethan folds his arms across his chest. “Why would I do that?”She smiles, still looking at me. “Maybe you’d rather live with me instead.”It’s so pathetic, it’s sad.My boyfriend smiles too, only it’s not pleasant. “Given the choice between sleeping in a bed with you, or a bed of fire, I’d rather add more coals to the flames,” he says.Paisley frowns the hopeful tone leaving her voi
Choosing You Chapter 110
PIPERIt’s the next morning and I’m still reeling from Ashton’s finds and confession. Bryce. Paisley. Well, maybe not Paisley. If I know anything, it’s just how much she truly hates me. At least, by now I think I know. She spent our entire friendship putting me down, keeping me in a bubble that suited her needs just fine. She’s spent our entire lives being jealous of me. I just wish I’d seen it before. No. What I really wish is that I’d pieced it together sooner. Paisley was the one whispering in Ashton’s ear. And ultimately, the one behind my attack. “The catfight gone wrong”.“You ready,” Ethan asks.I look over my shoulder at him, standing in the doorway. He’s got a look on his face that I can’t decipher. He’s just too calm. Nothing like the way he was with his brother yesterday. Or with Adam before. I’m a little worried for the people I’m about to face, but then I think about the hell they put me through, and I know whatever is going on in his head is justified. I’m lucky to have
Choosing You Chapter 109
ETHANOur first week in the new place goes by fast. Mostly because we spent the week at the beach and hanging with our friends. Then there was a lot of moving stuff to get done, and things to pick out. What’s the saying about time flying? Yeah. That. Most of the furniture has already been delivered, and we’ve unpacked a majority of our boxes. The way I see it, we’re entitled to a break. I drop onto the couch and turn on the TV. The cable and internet didn’t take long to get set up either, which is good, since we’re relying on having wifi for class anyway.“Must be nice,” Piper says from the kitchen. She’s standing at the stove stirring a pot of pasta sauce.“You don’t want my help in there,” I say.“It’d be nice if you offered,” she replies, with her nose in the cookbook.“Okay. Do you want some help?”“Why yes,” she says. “That would be lovely.”With a small chuckle, I rise from my seat and go over to her. Without her sling, it seems like she moves twice as fast. Adjusting the temper
Choosing You Chapter 108
PIPERIt's not an ideal situation. But it’s not Ethan’s fault whatever happened. It also wasn’t Ashton’s doing, though I’d like to know his involvement. What I’d like more is to know who’s behind the whole thing. That is if Ashton can be trusted. He did try to pay me to stay away from his brother. How high did his offer go? I don’t remember. Something tells me if I was the type to ask for more, he would’ve given me what I wanted to get the job done. So, maybe he is capable of hurting me. Or paying someone to hurt me, though everything in my gut tells me he’s a pawn in all of this. But without talking to him myself, without the whole story, I don’t know what to think.So, I’m focusing on him. Ethan. Sitting with our friends, yet again trying to make plans for our class- free week. Everyone who’s going away for spring break has already began heading down to party central. And we’ve booked nothing.“I say we forgo taking a long trip and make the most out of what’s nearby. Then we spend t
Choosing You Chapter 107
ETHANI’m not letting Ashton off the hook that easy. So, Piper’s family has money. And he was wrong. He should apologize to her. If that look in Piper’s eye has anything to do with it, he needs to come clean about whatever he said that sent her running the night of the party and apologize for that too. And I won’t take no for an answer. The kitchen is busy with women working on dessert. The same ones I've known to cook for special occasions since I was probably in diapers. They wave to me and I say hello, with as much of a smile as I can muster while looking for my shitty ass big brother. He isn’t down the hall, in the sitting room, or in any of the downstairs bathrooms. I think that maybe he might be upstairs in his old bedroom, until I come across the den at the foot of the stairs with the door cracked open.“You lied," my brother fumes. “She’s not after his money… Because I know. What else did you lie about?”“Were the two of you even dating?”“Where is the proof that she upload
Choosing You Chapter 106
PIPER“We don’t have to do this,” Ethan says, as we get closer to his family’s house. Too late to turn back now. Though, he’s probably offered to turn the car around every seven minutes or so, sensing my uneasiness.I disagree. “I want to go.”That much is true. I do want to go, especially if Ethan’s parents are willing to make the effort. Besides, I want to succeed where I think I failed before. And without Ashton there, maybe I can sway them to my side then he’ll be easier to convince that I’m not some gold digger. I can prove once and for all that I only want Ethan. Where did he even get that idea of me anyway?We turn onto a quiet street.“Last chance,” Ethan says. “Are you sure?”Gripping his hand in mine, I nod. “It’s just dinner. And I want to get to know your parents. We didn't talk much at the party.”Bringing my hand to his lips, he nods. “Okay. If anything makes you uncomfortable—anything—you tell me.”I smile, with a nod, as we turn onto what looks like a dark rode. But be
Choosing You Chapter 105
ETHAN“I don’t care where we go,” Sabrina says. “As long as there’s drinks, sun, and a reason to wear a bikini the entire time.”“Amen to that,” Jordan says slapping her on the ass.I laugh, lacing my fingers with Piper’s as we sit at a picnic table. “Where do you want to go?”She shrugs. “I kind of like Sabrina’s way of thinking.”“Hell yeah,” Jordan says, making me laugh again.“Fine. Everyone is going to Florida,” I say.“We live like thirty minutes from a beach. And I think the flight to Hawaii is closer,” Sabrina replies. “It depends on how wild we plan to get.”“Not too wild,” Piper says, motioning to her arm. She’s still in the sling through spring break. Luckily, she only suffered a dislocated shoulder and a bruised humerus. But she sprained her hand.“Oh sure, go easy now that it’s party time. I don’t think you were complaining when you spent the night on the end of Ethan’s dick,” Sabrina pouts.“Sabrina!”“What? We all know that’s what happened. That’s why you two keep makin
Choosing You Chapter 104
PIPER“I’m sorry,” Bryce says. “Did I do something wrong?”“No,” I reply, after all it’s not his fault what I almost allowed to happen. Still I scoot away, putting more space between us. “It’s just—”“Too soon,” he guesses. “It’s too soon, right?”“Bryce—”“I just really like you. And I know I can make you happy,” he says.“It’s not going to work,” I reply.“Give yourself some time.”But I’m already shaking my head. “I don’t want to. I’m sorry. I’m not trying to lead you on. But I just realized how stupid I’m being.”“No you’re not. You’re being smart. Actually think this through. It’s only a matter of time before he hurts you. Cheats on you, or worse.”“Ethan would never,” I reply.“You really believe that don’t you?”“I believe him,” I say. “And it took this moment for me to realize I don’t want space. I was just scared and upset.”“You were beaten up, Piper.”“Not his fault.”“And the sex tape? The one in his room?”“That wasn’t on him.”“I can’t believe your judgement is still so
