Captured The Billionaire!

Brenda "Love is honest even when it hurts" I never thought I would end up back home here at Heaven Creek. But here I am once more. Right back in North Carolina. At least this town never changes. The ocean. The beach. It was like stepping back in a time warp. It never faltered. I did not have any set plans for my life. Not like when I had once left Heaven Creek. I had huge plans for my life. I moved to New York City once I was done with high school. I got into a college over there in New York. I was going to study photography and journalism. I was going to be a news reporter. You know be the next Lois Lane of the world. "Brenda, we are going to town. Want to come with us?" my mother calls me from downstairs. "No, mom thanks. I am fine" I call back to her. I sigh. She was worried about me since I moved back home. I promised her that I was going to get a decent job here in town. Than I was going to get my own little apartment. I was not going to be back home forever. Here I was thirty-three years old and living back at home. No job. At least I had a car. But that was because my father bought me one last Christmas back when my beat -up hunk of junk broke down. Now I had nothing. My little sister Melody was getting married soon out in California. She had an excellent job. Working as a pastor out there. Her husband to be was a pastor. I was happy for Melody. Really. But by now I thought I would have it all. A decent job. A condo out in New York. A family of my own. I had nothing going for me. Who in their right mind was going to want to date this loser, Brenda Janet Vance? I was indeed a loser. Right now, for the moment. I groan as I flip through my mother's Good House Keeping magazine. Bitter tears come flashing in my eyes as I fight them back. No tears not today. You are not going to win. I look around my room. It was the same as it was in the 1990's. My poster of New Kids On the Block was plastered on the wall. Along with the Back Street Boys. My prom photo was up. Prom was a joke. I had ended up going with jockey Bradly Kentmore. Brad was the star football hero of my high school. I had wanted to go with my best friend at that time. His name had been Aaron Winters. Aaron was living next door to me. We had known each other all of our lives. Since we were babies crawling around. I was the popular one. Aaron was the geeky brain. We were out of each other's class rang. I had a huge crush on the boy next door. He did not feel the same way as I felt about him. That was part of the reason why I wanted to move far away from Heaven Creek. To forget my heartache with Aaron. I could have talked to Aaron for hours. About nothing, that was how close we were to one another. ♥☆♥☆♥ Now Aaron is a perfect stranger to me. I still get a Christmas card from his mother back when I lived in New York. His parents still owned the house next door. Now they had a little vacation home out in Alaska that Aaron had bought them a few years ago. So, we did not see the Winters as much anymore. I never told Aaron how I felt. I was not smart enough to win his heart. He needed a braniac. A smart genius like himself. I was an airhead. I brush tears aside from my eyes as I try not to dwell to much on him while I was home. I tried and tried. But every damn thing reminded me of him being back home. I was afraid that was going to happen. I think. I needed to change this bedroom. I wondered if mom would care if I gave this 90's room a make-over. So, it would be Aaron free memories?? My cell phone rings. It was my sister calling me. "Mel?" I answer her call. "Hey, you are back home? Why?" she wonders. Back in New York I did not answer family much. I did not want them to know the shameful truth until I had to tell them the whole story. "Yes, I am back home. Living with mom. But I am job hunting. Then I will get my own place here" I promise her. "Good for you. I have a question to ask you" she mentions. "Yes?" I sigh. "We are planning on having the wedding in mom and dad's back yard. And I was wondering if you would be, if you could be my maid of honor?" she questions me. "Oh, Melody I would love to be!" I gush with joy. I was happy for her. At least one of us should be happy. "I was worried. I know how bad things are for you. But I promise you they will get better. Have you read the New Yorker lately?" she wonders softly. "Not really. Dad got it in the mail the other day" I tell her. "why what is the big deal?" "Aaron is on the front of the cover" she mentions. ♥☆♥☆♥ I rush downstairs. I get my dad's mail from the kitchen. Then find the magazine. There was Aaron splashed on the front cover of the thing like she said. Smiling there with his arms crossed. Looking as handsome as ever. His brown eyes look back at me. My heart skips a beat. I flip through to his article. "Do you see him? Wow he has changed huh?" she laughs. "Sure has. He looks great" I sigh. I see a photo of geeky Aaron from our high school days than the photo of him now. He was perfection, if not better. He really was handsome. My heartaches to look at him. I could not would not ever have him. I bet he had dozens of women in and out of his life. I bet he had a steady girlfriend right now. "God, he is gorgeous" I mutter on accident out loud. "Are you not over Aaron?" she asks me in a teasing tone of voice. "Me? Am I over Aaron? Please. Time has move past us. That was so long ago. I bet he does not even remember me. I have had boyfriends since him. Sure, I have moved on" I fib. "I talk to Aaron by email. I invited him to the wedding" she informs me. I suck in my breath. Was he going?? "He declined. He told me he was happy for me. But he was busy. Than I got this huge gift from him in the mail. He writes on his cards his is still my big brother like old times" mentions Melody. "Good for him, I am sure he is busy" I sigh. He was not going to be coming to Heaven Creek. Why would he have time for this place when he could travel all over the world? ♥☆♥☆♥ Wherever he wanted to go? "I am sure he is not coming because you will be there" she states. "So?" I sigh. "You both need to talk to each other. Get this over with. You were best friends...." "Were best friends" I remind her sternly. I tie my long back hair back up in a bun on top of my head. "You are still best friends. I am sure he will not come to my wedding because he is missing you! His best friend! Why else would he not come?" she challenges me. "He is a billionaire. Why would he want to come to a wedding? He is running a million -dollar computer software company. I am sure he does not have the time. Like he says" I sigh. "Look I have to go" "Sorry to bring him up. But I wanted you to know. Think about it. I think he is not coming because he is not ready to face you? Why else would he not bother to come? Talk to you soon. Miss you" she reminds me one more time before we hang up. She was wrong. Aaron Winters was never into me. I was not his type. He was never getting over me. I bet he did not want to return to a town that used to tease him and torment him calling him geek and other names. If Aaron Winters did not want to return to Heaven Creek it had nothing to do with me. That was one thing I was sure of.