Together Forever

"Really? You two are leaving me?" I ask, staring at Leah and Nick, dumbfounded. Nick is watching TV while eating fries, engrossed in his football match. So he just gives me a shrug and again dives into his world.

"Don't be so dramatic, Evie. As if we are leaving you forever." Leah rolls her eyes at me while putting some clothes in her luggage.

"That's the same. I will have to shift to Manhattan and live in that huge spooky palace all alone. What is so important that you are leaving hurriedly?" I ask, pouting.

"Try to understand, Evie. It's been six months since I last saw mom and dad. I am missing them so much and they are also telling me to go."

"Alright but why is that baboon going with you? That's your house, your parents, not his. What will he do there?"

"What the hell? Stop calling me baboon!" Nick whines and throws a fry at my direction. "And I am going there to visit my future parents in law. What's your problem?" He winks at Leah and as usual earns a smack from her.

Leah's parents called her today morning from Texas telling her to go there. She will leave tomorrow. At least I thought Nick will stay with me but being Leah's very good 'friend', he is also going after her. But we all know the backstory very well. I couldn't go because I have work to do.

Leah was handling everything here. Now as I don't know the 'c' of cooking, I have no other way than to go to our palace in Manhattan, much to my displeasure.

The main reason for living in this apartment is because I don't like to have a thousand maids and guards for me who will inform my dad every two hours what I am doing or if I am eating properly and blah blah blah.

But now, there's nothing to do.

Leah's phone rings in her room and she goes to pick it up leaving us alone. I find it the perfect time to talk to Nick about what happened between me and Ethan that night.

"Nicki?" I call him as he looks at me.

"What?"

"I need to talk to you. It's important. Turn off the TV."

"Not important than my match." He sticks his tongue out at me and I shake my head.

"Ethan came here that night you two were outside."

"What?" Nick shouts as he jumps up from the couch, turns off the TV immediately and runs towards where I am sitting with wide eyes.

He sits beside me, ready to hear what I want to say.

"Why did he come here? Huh? After hurting you like that? Did he do something bad? Tell me, Evie. I am getting scared now." He continues rambling, making me sigh.

"No, Nicki. He didn't do anything. He came here to...to apologise for what he did that day." I say, looking down at my hands.

"To apologise?" He asks, confused.

I nod, "Yeah. He told me that he kissed that girl because he was angry seeing me with you and so he wanted to hurt me. But he didn't mean that. He apologized to me and..." I explain while Nick listens to me carefully and nods.

"And?"

"And he...he kissed me...here." I utter slowly, pointing my index finger to my cheek, shyly.

"What the hell?" Nick screams as he jumps up, causing the chair to fall down with a loud bang. I look up at him and he grins at me from ear to ear.

"Oh my God! Ethan kissed you! Really? OMG! He finally kissed you? We should throw a party. Don't you think that?!" He exclaims, clapping his hands like a little boy and I just stare at him in shock.

I wanted to keep it a secret from Leah but here goes everything in hell.

His scream was loud enough for Leah to hear. She hurriedly walks out of her room with her phone in her hand and mouth hanging open, equally shocked.

I sigh and shake my head in disappointment.

These are called friends.

"Evie? Did I hear it right?" Leah shouts walking towards me, "Ethan kissed you? What Ethan? I mean which Ethan? Don't tell me it's Ethan Jones. OMFG! What the hell is happening? I don't know anything. Like what the fuck?" She continues shouting. I glare at Nick and he just smiles sheepishly at me and shrugs.

"Baby, calm down. I am telling you everything." Nick says, pushing Leah down on the chair.

The next one hour passes by me and him explaining everything from first to last and Leah shouting at us every two minutes. Finally when we finish, she is glaring at us like we murdered someone. "Why do you two always hide everything from me? What type of best friend are you, Evie?" Leah hollers at me angrily.

I sigh, "Don't misunderstand me, Lee. I just told Nick everything today. And I wasn't sure how to say this to you so I didn't. I'm sorry." I say making puppy dog eyes.

She huffs, "Alright." Then suddenly her eyes sprinkle with amusement as a huge grin forms on her face, I knew it.

"By the way, I can't believe it! Ethan likes you? Oh my God! How is it possible? When did all this happen? Our Evie finally got a boyfriend."

"Hey! Wait!" I raise my hand and shake my head in disbelief, "Boyfriend? What the fuck?"

She puts her hands on her hip making a stubborn face.

"Boyfriend not? Then what? He kissed you and you let him kiss you. Then tell me who he is to you?" She asks me.

Really? Who's he to me? What are we now? I didn't think about it.

"Umm... I don't know." I reply slowly, confused.

"You don't know, right? That's it. He is now your boyfriend and if not he will be soon, I am predicting." She says confidently as I just smile.

"Whatever." I brush it off and get up from the chair, heading to my room.

I remember something and look back, "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you this." I say, smiling mischievously at them.

They watch me skeptically before Leah asks, "What else now?"

"I invited Ethan. He is coming here tonight. That means you alone have to do everything because I couldn't. I'm out." I shout in a breath closing my eyes then run towards my room, hearing Leah cursing me behind.

I wake up to the faint light of the settling sun falling on my face. I look at the window to see the fading evening light coming through the thin sheer curtains that are shaking slightly for the cool breeze blowing outside. Rubbing my eyes, I sit up on the bed and watch the time.

5:00 p.m

Shit. I slept for three hours.

I get down from the bed and walk towards the door. Opening it, I see nobody in the dark living room but here some noises that are coming from the kitchen. I go to the kitchen and see Leah there, making brownies.

Her eyes fall on me and she smiles.

"Hey! When is he coming?" She asks me.

"Soon. I invited him for dinner." I answer.

"Oh ok. I'm almost done."

"Hmm."

I told Ethan to come here for a reason. There are some things that need to be sorted out between him and Nick. He misunderstood Nick. Though I told him everything but it would be better if they can be friends before Nick leaves.

Leah turns around and looks at me then her eyes widen as she gasps. I look down to understand what's wrong but see nothing.

"What happened?" I ask confusedly.

"What the hell are you wearing?"

"What the hell am I wearing?" I repeat her and take a look at my clothes. A white crop top with a black leggings. What is there to be surprised?

"Evie, someone's coming and you will go in front of him like this?" She says, pointing to me.

I roll my eyes, "You are acting like a prince is coming, Lee? There's no way I am changing. I'm comfortable in this." I say and earns a glare from her.

"Of course, a prince. Your own prince charming is coming, idiot. Either change or I will kick you out of the house. Go!" She shouts, suing me towards my room. "You are impossible!"

"Thanks for the compliment."

I'm now in front of the full length mirror of my room with a dress in my hand that Leah chose for me. As I said before, I don't wear dresses. This is Leah's.

A v neck sky blue dress with two thin straps on both sides and covered with an unattached shear layer that has small white flowers and pearls all over the place. It's a bit revealing for my choice but sometimes it's not bad to try different things. Moreover, Leah's forcing me.

I change into the dress and it fits my body perfectly, ending just before my knees. I comb my hair and let it flow down to the one side of my shoulder. Just when I finish applying my lipgloss, I hear the doorbell rings.

He is here.

I don't know why but everytime he is around me, my heart starts beating faster. I get nervous without any reason. Or maybe there's a reason. I will find out. Soon.0000