CHAPTER 16
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CHAPTER 16
I woke up to someone holding me tightly. I moved, but winced in pain from my lower body.
What happened?
It felt like I had been beaten several times before being left alone. I closed my eyes tighter, trying to remember what had happened.
Again, I felt someone holding me, and they were crying? I opened my eyes and was shocked to see who was beside me.
"Ryker?" I called out his name.
"What's wrong with you? Are you crying?" I tried to move my leg away from him, but I couldn't help but cry out in pain. "Ryker, hey, are you okay?" I called out to him again.
"It's my fault! I'm sorry," I furrowed my brow. I tried to lift his head, but he was just looking down near my chest.
"Why? Did something happened?"
"Don't you remember?" I was taken aback.
"W-What do you mean?" I was nervous about my own question.
"I couldn't stop myself. We made love last night, Aubree. I'm such an i***t. Don't you remember?"
I shook my head at his question while thinking. We were both still lying in bed, and I was holding him. I ran my fingers through his hair to comb it. "What? What do you mean... that... Don't say... oh my... you mean?"
He tightened his embrace around me. I could still feel the pain between my legs. "That wasn't the plan, but because I also wanted it, so... something happened between us. I took your virginity while you were drunk. I was an i***t at that time, and I... I should have stopped us. I took... advantage... I'm sorry," he said, struggling to admit his guilt and kept whispering sorry to me. I didn't know what he was apologizing for.
I gasped at his first statement. Something happened to us and...
"You... you didn't like what happened to us, is that it? That's why you're apologizing?" He shook his head.
"I really liked it... it was an amazing night, between us. If I had my way, Aubree, that shouldn't be the last time something happens between us..."
"Do you like me?" I interrupted him before he could say anything else. His mouth gaped open as he looked at me. "D-do you like me, Ryker?"
"Isn't it obvious? Everything I've done? Why, Aubree, do you like me too?" Now, it was my turn to have my jaw drop. So, it's true... that's why...
"That's why I did everything, instead of letting my feelings go to someone else, I dreamed that it would be me, just me, who you'd like, who you'd accept fully into your life. You should be the one telling me you like me, that you're proud of me. I dreamed of all that, Aubree. But I think you're not ready to do that yet." I didn't know what to say. I was confused because everything I liked, he wasn't there in all the standards I wanted. He wasn't there in my choices, but whenever I saw him happy with someone else, it felt like my heart was breaking little by little.
And now, I realized so much about him and myself. I don't know how to say it, I'm still confused. But... but he was the first for me. He was the first to take me to another world, he made me experience a world that I could never change.
"I know that maybe tomorrow you'll distance yourself from me."
"How did you say that?"
"Because you don't want to talk to me anymore, Aubree. If you think I'm just joking, I'm not... my feelings for you will never change. I like you, I really like you. I'll take responsibility for you, I'll marry you, just tell me that... you're mine until the end."
"Ryker..."
He touched his finger to my chin while looking into my eyes. "After our graduation, or if you want, when we get back. We'll tell your parents, I'll ask for your hand in marriage. I don't want anyone else to take you from me, Aubree."
"Ryker?" I couldn't find any words. I just stared blankly and was taken aback by what Ryker was saying, where I was used to him always teasing and bothering me, but now? Something had changed, especially how I felt about him.
But I still didn't know how to tell him. Maybe I was just shy.
"Ryker! You don't have any obligation to me because I also wanted what happened last night, right? I'm not ready to get married yet, I'll prioritize my family first. I'll still look for a job after our graduation."
"I can support you, Aubree." I immediately shook my head at what he said.
"Just because something happened to us doesn't mean I'll agree to what you want, Ryker. It was just s*x, no feelings involved yet."
"So what do you mean by that? You want it to be just a one-night stand? Friends with benefits? Is that it, Aubree? Hell no!" He said, his voice tight.
"I'm sorry, Ryker. I'm scared... I'm scared that... that my feelings for you might change when I'm with the real person who makes my heart beat, Matt." I saw the sadness in his eyes.
"Just me... just choose me, Aubree, nobody else but me. I promise, I'll change, whatever you don't like about me, I'll change them so I'll fit your standards. I'll change, I'll be a responsible person, just choose me. I promise I'll never let you experience being hurt, I promise that, Aubree Lynn." He pleaded as he wiped my tears. We were still both lying in bed, and we were still lying on our sides.
He put my head on his arm to use as a pillow. He dressed me after I suddenly passed out because of what we did. Even though I barely remembered what happened to us earlier, the pain between my thighs was evidence enough.
I hugged Ryker while he was hugging me too. "Can you wait for my answer? Because right now, I don't know what to answer you. I'm scared that you'll just leave me because I know you're a playboy. If you get a girl, I'll just find out that I'm crying because you broke up with me. Or maybe you're just leading me on, that's how you are, that's why I didn't like you because that's how I knew you," his jaw clenched in anger because of what I said.
"I've changed, I changed myself because of you, Aubree. You changed me. I won't do that again. That's why I can't wait to introduce you to my parents. To the whole Sullivaño clan." He replied.
"Ryker! What if your parents don't like me?"
"They don't care who I bring with me when I grow old. We can even call them now to make you feel at ease."
"What? No... it's embarrassing."
"Embarrassing, why?"
"What if I change my mind when we go back to our own lives and I don't actually choose you?"
"Tsk!"
"Ryker, don't turn your back on me, we're still talking."
"Shhh, go back to sleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I mean when you wake up."
"What time is it?" I asked, and he took the phone that was on the small table where the lampshade was.
"It's four thirteen in the morning," he said.
"Good..." I was about to get up, but Ryker stopped me.
"Where are you going?"
"To the guest room where the girls are sleeping." I answered.
"You can sleep here," he pointed to the bed, but I just shook my head.
"I want to go back to the guest room, or else the girls or our other classmates might say something because I'm sleeping in a nice bed, and they might suspect where I slept all night, and they might find out that I was sleeping next to you, and they might gossip that we're in a relationship."
"Why? Is there a problem with that?" I already owned you. I marked you last night." I looked at him sharply and tried to keep my cheeks from getting red.
"Yes! They shouldn't know that I'm sleeping in your room and that we're not together, Ryker. Don't ever spread around that we're in a relationship because you just got something from me, but you don't own me. Let my heart decide who I'll choose and love. Don't get ahead of yourself."
"And then, how long will I have to wait?"
"Until my heart doesn't have two people in it anymore."
"What if she's the one you choose?"
"I-I don't know anymore."
He sighed and got out of bed. He was already wearing a white t-shirt and shorts. While I was wearing his t-shirt and boxer shorts, the ones I'm wearing now.
I was about to get up too, but I immediately went back to lying down and winced in pain. "s**t! It hurts!" I said, almost crying.
"Why? What happened?"
"You're asking me that? It hurts down there. How many inches is your thing and why does it still hurt even though it's not inside me anymore, and you... you're just like nothing happened." I complained, and he just scratched his head.
"I'm sorry... you said to go all the way, that's why... s**t! What? You're hurting me." That's because I pinched his side.
"You said it yourself, it's just yes or no, you're the only one who knows what happened to us." He kissed my lips with a mischievous smile.
"Why? Doesn't your little p***y hurt anymore so we can do it again, so you can remember how I drove you crazy in the bathroom, in bed and in every corner of this room, I marked you while you were calling my name and how you scratched me. There are so many on my back, huh, Aubree Lynn?" I pouted and hid in his big t-shirt because I could feel myself blushing. But damn, I could feel his abs inside the t-shirt.
"Hey!"
"Shut your mouth, it still hurts, so be quiet," because of what I said, he just laughed at me.
Until he stared at me seriously.
"I've marked you. I'll marry you whether you like it or not. I want my last name to be added to your name. Be my Mrs. Sullivaño, Aubree Lynn Corpez." He said wholeheartedly.
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