Sarah's Journey to Love

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SARAH’S POV

             After I left the shop, I didn't feel like going home, so I drove around and around after about an hour of driving around town, I stopped at the local mom and pa bookstore, not like I needed any more books, I have few bookshelves lined with them at home. But to me books were the only things that made since in this world. After spending almost an hour there I found a few great books, and I knew what I was going to do with my night. So here I sit at the cafe in an oversized tan chair curled with new book slipping on some warm tea, trying to forget about today and every time I think I have I see Evan. I see Evan's face and his eyes that were cold and empty. Every time I did I would cry, I wanted to know who hurt him and why but mostly I wanted to wrap him in my arms and tell him I'm sorry for whoever hurt him. I don't know why I care so much it's not like I knew him. Not really. But for whatever reason I was drawn to him his icy blue eyes seem to look deep in my soul. And no one has ever made me blush as much as he has. 

          "Hey sweetheart." Hearing Evan's voice brings me back to the world around me. 

          "What do you want?" I ask trying but failing to hide the fact that I had been crying. 

           He squats down and looks me in the eyes, “I’m sorry about early today, as you can see, I'm having a bad day and I was mean to you." He says giving me a weak smile. 

           "I thought saying sorry made you weak?" I say as I look my book putting it on the armrest with my hand on top of it. 

"Not between friends it doesn't." He says putting his hand on top of mine.

"Friends is that what we are?" 

He seems the be lost in thought and finally gives me a weak smile again. 

"I would like to be." 

I don't know what to say, do I want to be friends do I want to risk getting hurt? 

"Come on we only live once, and I promise I won't bite." 

"Okay." I finally say with a smile. He stands up pulling me with him and wraps me in a hug, I smell his body spray and lean into him a little more. The next hour or so we talk about small little things like our favorite colors, he asked me what my favorite book is, I asked about what happened and he told me he didn't want to talk about if so, we don't. We moved to a couch and I curled into him kicking my shoes off as a bring my feet on the couch. His phone beeped and he pulled it out, it was almost 8pm. As he answered the phone, I sit up giving him room to move off the couch and walk away to talk on the phone. 

"Sorry that was my dad he was just checking up on me." 

"Don't worry about it. But it is already 8pm and I think I should head home I have a paper I need to work on for English that is due Monday and I am nowhere close to being done." 

"Do you need some help?" 

"That is sweet but sadly this is something I have to do on my own." 

We walk downstairs and he walks me to my car as I unlock it, he opens the door for me once I am in, he closes the door I start the car and roll down the window. 

"Thanks for tonight." 

"No sweetheart thank you. Hey, give me your number and I'll call you later maybe tomorrow if you get your paper done, we can hang out." 

He hands me his phone and I put my number and hand it back before taken it he kisses me on the cheek which I can feel turn red as I put my hand on the spot his has kissed. With a smile on both of our faces we say good bye. I pull up to my car and open my car door and I can help but feel like someone is watching me, I shake my head, I'm sure it's just because I'm not a big fan of being alone in the dark. I reach the door, and see that it is opened just a little, damn it I scold, myself I must not have closed it all the way. I head to the kitchen and grab a glass of milk and some chocolate chip cookies, because I need brain food. I open my laptop, let's see where I want to be on ten years and how am I going to get there. I don't know what I want to go to college for yet, I don't have a collage picked out, but I did like Tina's idea of just going a state over. That way I won't be so far away.  I pull of the stack of college letters that I have. I look at one with a big red N on it, the University of Nebraska. I look at the pamphlet and booklet that came with the letter I did like this college when I first sent away for the information. And I like the look of the campus. The only thing I kept asking myself is was it far enough away, now I'm no longer asking myself that. I start typing my paper. 

I don't know where I want the be a hundred percent, I didn't even know what college I wanted to go to until about five minutes ago. But this is what I do know I know I want to make a difference in someone life I know that I want to be able to make people's lives better. 

As I am lost in my paper, I hear a crush sound outside that sounds like it came from outside, if makes me jump. Before I can get up to see what it was my phone rings. 

"Yeah hello?" 

"Well hello to you too sweetheart." 

"Hey Evan look can you hang on for a minute I heard a noise from outside I'm going to see what it was." 

As I make my way downstairs phone in hand, I turn on the porch light. I open the door and walk out to see that something had knock over the trash can luckily it was empty, so I just had to pick it back up. 

Evan and I talked in the phone while I worked on my paper. 

"So, what is your plan?" I ask him. He lets out a little laugh.

"My plan is already laid out, I am already taken college classes and I will be done by the end of next year." 

He goes on to tell me that one day he dreams of having a shop of his own a lot like Alan's a place people can go and not pay an arm and a leg to have their vehicles worked on. As he talks, I can hear the passion in his voice. After talking on the phone for thirty minutes he tells me to get back to my paper but tells me to call him back before I go to bed. I am almost finished when I look at my phone it is already ten, I finish my thought and get dressed for bed. As I jump into bed I plug in my phone and call Evan. We talk for a while, until I finally ask him about something that has been on the back of my mind. 

"You are moving." Is all I say. 

"Yes, I am." 

I sigh, "So, what is the point in getting to know each other if you are moving?" I ask before I can stop the words from coming out. 

He laughs, he laughs sounds like music it is warm and inviting. 

"Oh, baby girl, I'm just moving from this house I'm staying in town." 

I can feel a sense of relief sweep over my body. We talked so long on the phone that at some point we fell asleep on the phone with each other. When I wake up, I can hear it him lightly snoring on the phone. I smile to myself say goodbye and hang up the phone.

EVAN’S POV

            I roll over, my phone laying next to me on the bed, I don’t remember falling asleep, I grab my phone and the time it is only 7:30am, I can hear my dad downstairs sounds like her is cooking. I roll out of bed and get ready for the day I make my way to the bathroom and take a shower, I grab my body wash and shampoo, and take it to my room. I grab, some light blue jeans out and a gray t-shirt. I head downstairs, my dad greets me with a smile I grab a cup of coffee and sit down at the table, he walks over and sets a plate with eggs, hash browns, and bacon in front of me.

“So, son after we get done eating can you please pack up the rest of your stuff. Alan and Mark will be here in about an hour to help move things to the apartment.”

“Okay, sounds good.”

We finish eating without talking, I run upstairs and pull all my clothes out of my dresser and put it in a box, and then I pull out all the clothes from my clothes. I go to the bathroom and brush my teeth and once done I grab my toothpaste and toothbrush and head back to my room. I put that along with my shower stuff in a box, I grab my hair gel and body spray and put in in the same box, that only thing left is my bedding and my shoes.

I hear a knock on my I turn to see Mark standing there, with a smile on his face.

“Wow you really put stuff in boxes?”

“Yeah, I did, I maybe a teenage boy, but I do like things to be in their place.”

We start taken stuff out to my dad’s car, as well as Alan’s truck. After loading everything up. I grab my phone and text Sarah.

Evan:

Hey good morning.

Sarah:

Good morning.

Mark walks over to me and smiles. “So, how did last night go?”

“Good, we hang out and talked for a little while.”

He nods. We head to the apartment after unloading everything, we all go and get pizza.

“Evan, did you give anymore thought to our talk from last night?” Alan asked before talking a bite of pizza.

“Yeah I did, and I did end of talking to Sarah.”

“Who is Sarah?” my dad asks with a smile on his face.

“A girl.”

“Well yes I got that.”

“She is just a girl.”

“I would say that she is more than a girl,” Mark says looking at my dad, “Steven, she is a girl that Evan likes.”

I could feel my face turn slightly pink. As everyone starts giving me a hard time.

“I am happy that you have met a girl. I can’t wait to meet her.”

After we eat and talk a little longer, Alan and Mark leave, and my dad and I go to the store. We grab dishes, and pans, and everything I need for a kitchen, we grab stuff I need for the bathroom, and even a tv, by time we are done we have to carts with stuff. My dad pays for everything, and we head pack to the apartment. He helps me unpack, he puts some money on the counter.

“I know that you really don’t need it but here is some money just in case there is anything that you end up needing, I also paid Alan the next three months for rent, I will get it setup for you to have tv first thing Monday. I will make sure that everything is taken care of, the only bill you will have to worry about is the utilities.”

We say are goodbye, it is only 2:00pm what am I going to do with the rest of the day? I pull out my phone, and call Sarah, I ask if she is done with her paper, when she tells me yes, I ask her if she would like to come over. She tells me that she will be here in about 30 minutes. I set up the tv and put it on the short standing bookshelf that is up against the wall. After that is setup and plugged in, I pull out, my ps4 and hook it up to the tv, and put it on the shelf that is right under the tv, next I pull out my games and all my DVDs. I go to the bathroom next and get that all setup as well. I put the towels in the clothes right outside of the bathroom, once I am done with that I read to the bedroom. And make my bed, and just as I go to hang up my clothes my phone rings, I pull it out and it is Sarah, I tell her to pull around back and to take the stairs up to the door and I will let her in. I put my clothes in my clothes.

I go to the door and open it just as Sarah reached the top of the stairs, we smile at each other. I lead her in she takes a seat on the couch, I take a seat next to her.

“Baby girl what do you want to do today?”

“I don’t know how about we watch a movie.” She says with a shrug.

I walk over to the movies, and pull a few out, I bring them over to Sarah to pick one. Once we have one picked out, I put it in my ps4. And sit back down on the couch, and she snuggles into me and I put my arm around her shoulder.