Chapter 9: Since.

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