Ariya

"Did you speak to William? If you don't mind me asking?" His eyes flickered to mine before landing back on the road. I kept my gaze forward. and spoke.

"Yeah, we worked things out.. kind of. He wasn't mad or anything-I was relived." I nodded, clutching my purse in my lap.

"That's good."

"Yeah-so where are we going?" I asked with a small smile.

"You'll see." Suddenly he pulled into the drive through of a Wendys.

"You're taking me to Wendy's?" I laughed, covering my mouth to stifle the judgement.

"Your order still the same?" He mumbled while scanning his eyes over the menu. I ceased my laughter at his seriousness.

"Uh.. yeah, it is." I spoke.

"Can I get two Dave singles combos, one coke and one strawberry lemonade, yeah.. thanks."

"I can't even tell you the last time I had Wendy's, let alone the strawberry lemonade." I smiled.

"Yeah." He nodded.

I watched him pay and grab the two bags before handing them over to me. I smiled while wrapping my lips around the straw of my lemonade and taking a sip.

"Mhm, I missed that." I moaned.

He chuckled before driving off.

He drove us out of the city, the roads becoming more empty as the forest increased.

"You tryna' kidnap me?" I laughed nervously, clutching the bags.

"Oh you wish, Kingston." He smirked at me while darting his eyes to me and the road.

I sunk into the seat and stared forward, he pulled aside and parked the car. The lights shut off and he helped me out.

"If you told me you were taking me to a forest I wouldn't have wore heels." I pressed my lips together as he took my hand. He helped me walk as me made our way through the branches.

Until the trees ceased and my eyes landed on a old wooden dock.

"Do you just go out dock searching on your free time?" I asked. He squeezed my hand as he laughed. I gripped his hand so I wouldn't fall.

"Basically."

"Some things never change, do they?"

We walked onto the dock, sitting down on the edge, I pulled out my food from the back and placed it on my lap.

"Tell me this, when was the last time you sat on a dock with somebody and ate Wendys? Huh?" He unwrapped the silver wrapping of his burger.

"Probably.. years ago, you?"

"Same."

I took a bite of my burger and moaned in pleasure.

"God that's good." I covered my mouth with an embarrassed smile.

"So.. what's new?" He asked.

"Nothing really, you?" I shot back.

"Same, fuck our lives are boring." I laughed, cascading my fingers over the necklace on my neck.

"How's Rylan?" I braced my palm behind me and leaned back on my arm, moving some of my hair from my face.

"Better, I sent him back to school yesterday." After the sentence I took another sip of my lemonade and set of back down beside me.

"That's good, I was starting to get worried." He smiled, his dimples popping on his cheeks.

I lifted my hand and poked his left dimple with my index finger, while making a popping noise with my mouth. He pulled his neck back and furrowed his brows with wide eyes.

"I couldn't resist, I'm sorry." I rose my hand in surrender.

"It's fine." He shook his head, still smiling.

"Ugh, I missed doing that." I shook my shoulders with a wide smile.

"I bet you did, and I missed doing this." He reached his hand over and tickled my stomach over my dress. I broke out into a fit of laughter before my knee shook and the rest of my burger plopped into the lake.

He stopped his actions and went silent.

"Really? Khyson, now the fish have my burgers." I sighed, tucking my hair behind my ear.

"Here? Have mine, I'm sorry." He held out the half of his already eaten burger. The sympathetic smile on his face caving my heart.

I grabbed his burger and took a bite.

"Here." I ripped his half into two quarters and gave the other half to him.

"No, it's fine. I ate before I got here."

"No you didn't, I heard your stomach rumbling in the car, take it." He chuckled before stuffing the small piece into his mouth.

After I finished his quarter we both sat back, my right hand holding my lemonade.

I sucked on the straw, not noticing it was done.

I instinctively handed him the cup full of ice and pulled back to asses my actions.

"I'm sorry-I-"

"You remember everything, don't you?" He asked. I dropped my posture and placed the plastic cup between us. I looked forward at the setting sun.

"I'm sorry, for making this weird." I shook my head with a playful smile.

"You didn't make it weird, I was just.. surprised that's all." I could feel his piercing gaze on the side of my face.

"That I remember?"

"I thought you'd wanna forget."

"Why would you think that?" I asked, slowly turning my head to look at him.

Our eyes met and I glanced down then back up.

"It's the past, people don't usually wanna remember their past let alone have a part of it forced back into their lives."

My mind began to realize what he thought I thought of him.

"Khyson, it's not like that. I didn't expect to see you again and it was a big surprise but I'm not mad, you're one of my closest friends it's nice to have that wave of nostalgia." Around the end of the sentence I turned my head back to the setting Sun. I could see his smile in my side view.

"Wanna go for a swim?"

I began to laugh as he watched me weirdly.

"I'm over those spontaneous skinny dips, maybe if I was seventeen yeah. My body's been through a lot.. including child birth." I laughed as he opened my empty cup and began crunching on the ice.

"What'd they do? Cut your stomach open?"

"No but he was born early, that's why he has asthma, his lungs weren't fully developed."

"Oh shit, I'm sorry."

"It was, scary. I was lucky he was okay, a lot of doctors said he wasn't gonna make it. He was on a ventilator because he needed the help to.. breathe."

"I can't imagine what that's like, I'm sorry. He's strong, yeah?"

"Yeah." I nodded.

"I'm lame, I'm sorry, let's talk about something else." He laughed nervously.

"How about this, since when did Khyson start wearing Jordan's I thought you were a timberlands kinda guy."

"That was weird, I worked at foot locker that whole time and wore timberlands. Yeah, I invested in some new style." He looked at his dangling feet and I smiled.

"It was, it was really weird." I nodded in agreement.

"I need to pick up Rylan and I need time to go back and get my car, wanna get going?" I asked.

"It's fine, I'll drive you."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"I need to pick up his prescription from the drug store, so-"

"Okay, come on let's go." I tucked my feet up to stand up. I held out my hand and he took it as we walked to the car. I tossed the trash in the garage and he stood at the car.

I looked up at him with furrowed brows.

His eyes locked with him, something gleamed within them.

He reached over for the door handle before his hand stopped at my waist.

"Ariya." He spoke, looking down at me.

"Khyson." I brought my hand up to caress his stubble.

"Hm, let me kiss you."

I took his statement into my own hands and pulled his cheeks to me, connecting our lips.

See if he loves you before you tell him.

I gripped his cheeks with two hands as he plunged his tongue deep into my mouth.

I felt my body being pushed into the car as he kissed me with passion.

The tips off his nails dug into my waist. His right hand trailed down to my thigh, bringing it up to his side. I could feel his erected cock pressing into my dress.

"Car. Now."