VINCENT.Leaving Summer and walking back down the stairs was hard but it wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was heading towards the front door, avoiding eye contact with Davis. When he saw me, he was quick to sit up on the kitchen counter and the sniff he let out loud showed he was on the brim of crying.“Look man,” Just as I was about to reach to the door, his voice caught my attention and I clenched my jaw tight, trying not to remember everything he’d said earlier. I heaved a deep breath before turning back to him and refuting my blood that boiled.There was an open bottle of wine on the table to show Davis had been drinking, maybe even more before our first conversation but I only just noticed it alongside his slightly dazed eyes. “I’m sorry” He finally apologized. I unclenched my hands around the door knob before completely facing him and he looked a mess. “I just—“ His shoulders flattened. “She’s truly just all I have and you know that because I already told you when Lil
SUMMER.It’s been four nights since he left.Four excruciatingly long sleepless nights and often times I would feel even worse in the mornings when I opened my eyes. I sat there, with my phone in my hands, staring down at his name.Vincent.Why did my heart so badly start to yearn for him after the kiss? It was as though he was the air that I needed to breathe, like I just needed to see him. I couldn’t go one more day.But then again, his intentions were clear as day.I looked down at my unanswered messages, a couple of them and all that rang in my ears were his last words before he left. “We can’t do this anymore. This is forbidden” His stoic decadent voice remained engraved into the back of my memory for even so many days that passed. I wish I could have said something then.Like I knew it was, I knew it was also weird. I knew everything that was at stake, him being my father’s best friend and me being little naive Summer but why did I want him even more? Why was his touch all my b
SUMMER.It wasn’t until after a few minutes had passed that my emotions set in. I walked out of the changing room door, drying my tears with the palm of my hands. Taylor was no where to be found but her words still stayed.They still stung. “Your father is going to realize how truly awful you are. I’m staying, Summer” Her voice was laced in a threatening condescending tone. “You don’t want to get on my wrong foot. I already know about you and Vincent” It was hard to even tell whether or not she was bluffing or what she even knew but by the way her eyes glinted, it was leaning towards the worst, that she knew something.“Who do you think told?” This was all because of her, she was breaking everyone up. Vincent left because of her. And I realized she was the reason my relationship with my dad became so strained all of a sudden. She was the villain—this was all what she wanted.And merely thinking she was just a terrible person became an understatement. I knew that but it would take so
SUMMER.It was in the dead of the night when i left, I had sneaked out of the front door on my tiptoes, throwing my head over my shoulders as I climbed my way up the roads. The moon was bright in the skies and the winds filled the trees. When it breezed against my cheeks, my tears suddenly dried.I wrapped my arms around my chest, feeling a little chilly. But I couldn't go back into that cabin—not when I was fuming with rage for both my father and Taylor. All he had done since we got to Oregon was lie and lie straight to my face. I came out here for some fresh air after speaking to my mother but only when I walked through the doors did the desire to just completely disappear hit me. My eyes brimmed with tears as I picked up my pace.I wanted to leave this place."I just want to leave mum," I had called my mother earlier. "I'm so sorry, Summer" There was a crack in my voice. "He didn't tell me the truth, first that he proposed and now he's going to leave New York completely and move i
SUMMER."Summer!" I briskly wiped across my tear filled eyes as I turned around. Picking up my pace, I really wished that he hadn't seen me which was albeit impossible given we had locked eyes. I didn't even know what the plan was but in the moment it was rather difficult to not feel embarrassed."Summer!" He called and I could hear his footsteps thudding from behind. I really wished for the grounds to open up now. "Im calling you, Summer!" When he was close enough, Vincent held firmly to my hands.He forced me to come to a halt before dragging me back and both of us were breathless, especially me as I tried to hold back the tears in my eyes. "What...what are you doing here?" He stuttered.I detached my arms from his as I scoffed. "What do you care?!" There was a crack in my voice. "Summer—" "I mean you're out here having your fun with only God knows whoever that is when Ive been back home worried sick about you and why you weren't responding to my messages""Then you go about postin
SUMMER."You're...you're bleeding" I whispered and the winds carried my voice. I halted by the edge of hilly rocks for a second, dashing his palms across his forehead and wiping off a smudge of blood. "Look, you can tell me what happened..." I urged, moving closer to where he was but Vincent shot me a glare cold as ice."You haven't still said what you're doing here. Look out here, it can be dangerous in Oregon. You have to be careful" It seemed as though that was Vincent's greatest worry so I thought it best never to tell him that I had hopped into a stranger's car down here.Thinking about it and the risks slightly stomped my heart.I exhaled, cowering my face to the earth. "I didn't have anywhere else to go" There was a crack in my voice and a hysterical chuckle from Vincent."What?" He asked.And then our eyes met, it was like he could already tell there was some argument, it wasn't exactly rocket science because it's all we've done since arriving here. It was supposed to be a bli
SUMMER.My hands reached towards the door before I slowly pushed it open and the steam from the running shower was what hit me in my face. I halted for a second, meeting Vincent’s inquisitive eyes above which were brows that soared into his forehead.He was fully unclothed and it took everything in me to not let my eyes wander, at least not yet, not now. But he was relentless in his gaze as well as intent. He ran his hands through his hair beneath the shower and if I wasn’t completely wrong, there was the ghost of a smirk on his lips.I stepped into the shower, his bathroom was more like a sauna’s with about two tap heads on opposite corners of the room. While I stayed on one side, I nervously stepped beneath the other. As the warm water trickled down my face as well as the sides of my neck, I heaved a sigh.A pleasurable one. I could feel Vincent’s intense gaze bore into my back even before I threw a coy look over my shoulders. When our eyes met, he tried to look away before batting
SUMMER."Come here, Summer."My heart lumped in the back of my throat as I inched closer to Vincent. When I was close enough, a smirk curled his lips upwards and I was overcome with shyness. I felt the blood rush into my cheeks when his hands grazed softly against them. He'd changed in a black t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Honestly, he was the only one I thought could still rock jeans in this day and age. Vincent wasn't exactly flashy, in fact the way he dressed and the way he talked was a constant reminder that he was still decades older than me.But you see, that smile. When he smiled and my knees would grow weak, it would just feel like we're the only ones in the entire world. That he's only just staring at me. It makes me forget about everything, like a charm he knew was working. His fingers crept up my face before smothering through my hair and I cowered my head against him."Oh Summer" His voice towered over me before settling in the depths of my stomach and each part of my body