Better With You

XXXIV

RYDER'S POV

For once I feel like my life isn't a living hell.

I finally made things right with my brother.

I was told that when we were in our twenty's, everything between us would be sorted out and we'd be in a bar laughing about our childhood.

I'm going to be twenty in two months.

So my therapists can suck it.

I finally found a guy who won't cheat or find his next girlfriend while he's dating me.

Someone who knows me just as well as I know him.

Someone that makes me happy within a matter of seconds.

While I miss Ashley and Kyle very much, I'm starting to make my own friends in California.

I have Mikey and Weston and I've started to talk to more people.

Griffin and Margarita haven't tried to ruin my life in three weeks.

Maybe they finally realized how happy Luke and I are together.

Ha.

I'm funny.

"Where's Ethan?" I asked.

"I let him go out with Weston." Luke said.

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Did you know I've always been jealous you could do that? Can Ethan do that too?" He asked.

"You let him go out without asking me?" I asked.

"Come on, babe." He said sitting me on his lap.

"He's sixteen and it's Weston. What's the worst that can happen?" He asked.

I sighed.

"You're right. I'm just worrying because he's the only one I have left. God forbid something happens to him." I said.

"You're just worried about him. There's that motherly instinct I knew you had." He said kissing me.

I smiled as we pressed our foreheads together.

"But hey, since he's out, we can finally have some time to ourselves." He smirked kissing my neck.

I blushed and dug my nails into his shoulders.