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“I need to get going. It’s darker than I wanted it to be for me to walk home,” I sign, looking at the clock.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m going to drive you as close to your house as possible so you don’t have to walk home in the dark.”
“You really don’t have to do that. I don’t mind walking. Sometimes walking can be nice for me,”I sign, avoiding eye contact.
“Yeah, no. It’s dangerous at night to be walking around alone. I seriously don’t mind. It won’t take any time. Promise.”
“I need my clothes from earlier, even if they aren’t dry yet. I still need to wear them home,” I sign, looking at the clothes I’m currently wearing.
That’s when Betty pops up, seemingly knowing she was needed, with my clothes.
“Here you go, dear. Nice and clean. Head on to the bathroom and go ahead and change,” she says to me.
Once I change my clothes, I say goodbye to all the guys before we leave.
CHAPTER27
PAISLEY
“Canyou input your address into the GPS so you don’t have to worry about giving me step-by-step directions?” Kade asks me.
I nod, then hand him back his phone and sit back into the seat of his car. As we are driving, he turns on the car radio and a song that I know comes on.
I get lost in my thoughts, thinking about what’s to come when I get home. What exactly is Mother going to do this time? Is she going to break my other arm? A leg this time? Or is this going to finally be the time I don’t wake up?
I think about what’s going on with the guys. I’ve kissed Luca and Mateo.
Does that make me exactly what they call me at school? Am I a whore? I’m hooking up with multiple people at one time?
I know Luca saw me kissing Mateo, yet he still wanted to kiss me in his room and he was so sweet.
I don’t know. I’m so confused.
I really need to talk to the guys about what’s going on with them.
IthinkI like all of them. I like the way that Luca is always there wanting to talk to me no matter what’s going on, keeping my mind off things, and he does it without realizing it. Atlas is always there with words of encouragement, and they aren’t just to placate me. They are true and honest words. Mateo is real and honest with me. He opened up to me first about what was going on with him, and that cracked my wall first. Kade is my silent protector. He brought extra clothes for me at school, just to make sure I was comfortable if something happened.
These guys are slowly tearing down my walls, and I’m scared. I think I’m falling for all of them. What if they expect me to choose between them? I don’t know if I can. I won’t. What if that breaks this loosely-made friendship that we have right now?
Should I talk to them? Wait for them to bring it up? Gah!
I bring myself out of my thoughts once I feel a hand on my cheek. That’s when I realize that Kade has pulled off to the side of the road and parked. Kade runs his fingers through my hair and turns me to face him.
“You have to promise me you won’t freak out, okay?”
“I make no such promises,” I sign, shrugging.
“You started off humming, and then started singing at the end of the last song. Your voice is wonderful, Paisley, and I wish the other guys were here to hear it.” He puts his hands up before he continues. “No, I’m not going to pressure you to sing again or convince you that you can talk now. I know it wasn’t consciously. I just hope one day soon, you can trust my brothers and me to talk to us.”
It’s taking everything in me not to break down in tears.
He didn’t hit me.
He didn’t call me any names or dump anything on me.
He didn’t lash out at me in any way.
Without realizing it, I lean forward and connect my lips to Kade’s.
