Heart Of Gold

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"Hey Demi," I say, looking at her as she walks into the kitchen. She smiles, and ruffles my hair and kiss my cheek before going over to the stove where Dianna was cooking.

"Hey rock star, what's up?" She asks me, then starts to help her mom with cooking breakfast. I look at Braeden who sat next to me and he nodded.

"Braeden and his friends are going skateboarding, I wanted to know if I could go with them." I tell her, hoping she could say yes.

Demi pauses and looks over at the three of us. Maddie on my left, me in the middle and Braeden on my right, sitting on stools by the counter.

She shakes her head, smiling apologetically. "Sorry babe, I don't think so." She says and my face drop.

"Why not? You seen me skateboard before, I'm really good at it. I'll be careful," I say, watching as she starts to cut some tomatoes. She shakes her head again, her back turn to me.

"No, honey. I know that I seen you but no, what if you get hurt?" She says and my shoulders slump at the rejection.

"Sorry man," Braeden mutters next to me and I nodded.

"Well me and my friends are going roller skating today, Edward can come with us, we won't mind." Maddie suggests and I perk up, before nodding as Demi looks over at us. She watches us for a moment and then shakes her head again.

"No Maddie, I don't think so. Anyone can get hurt in roller skating," Demi says, and hands the cut tomatoes to Dianna.

"Well he doesn't have to go roller skating, he can just watch." Maddie insists and I look at Demi with hopeful eyes.

"My answer is still no. He's not going," Demi says, and roll her shoulders back as she gets the pancake mix.

Maddie slumps next to me, giving me a apologetic smile. "Sorry dude," She says and I nodded, sighing.

Eddie looks up from his phone, from beside Maddie, looking at Demi with furrow eyebrows. "Honey, I don't think he can--" Demi cuts him off quickly.

"No!" She says, slamming the knife down and making all of us shut our mouths. "No. I'm sorry babe but no, I won't risk getting you hurt. You're too delicate," She looks at me and I press my lips into a thin line then nod silently.

I look down at my phone as it buzzed. It was a text from Riley.

Hey dude, I'm in Texas :D I'm in Dallas now and I know you're here too, wanna hang out? I know a good place for smoothies and we can prank old people ;) what do you say? You up for it? 😈 - R.

I smiled, then look over at Demi. "Riley is in the area and--" I started to say but Demi shouts, spinning around to look at me in the eye.

"No! God damn it no! You're not going with them! My fucking answer is no Edward, and no means fucking no, do you fucking understand me? No." She says firmly, her tone leaving no more argue meant and she grits her teeth while I glare at her. Why doesn't she let me go?

"Fine!" I yelled, then stand up and stomp my way upstairs. I slam Demi's room door behind me and flop onto her bed.

I grab my phone and texted Riley back. Can't, Demi is being a bitch. 😤 She's not letting me go with Maddie or Braeden, much less you. - E.

She replays moments later. That sucks, she's probably still paranoid about the plane incident. And me? What about me? 😮 - R.