Chapter 11

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Chapter 11

 

The week that followed the road trip was pretty much uneventful. The homework load lessened due to midterms.

By the time Friday rolled around, I was more than ready for spring break week.

Aaron’s brother was going to have his concert later in the night. Although I promised to go, I had to cancel on him. Since we were leaving to the beach this Sunday, I had to schedule in some time to go back home.

I decided to leave Friday right after class.

Aaron didn’t want me to leave. He had been trying to find any excuse for me to stay.

I finally managed to convince Aaron to let me go when I reminded him that he would be picking me up from home on Sunday afternoon.  

He was really excited about meeting my parents.

First, I had to find a way to tell them about Aaron. Neither my mom nor my dad knew anything about him, or what I’d been doing for most of the semester.

Whenever I talked to my mom or my dad on the phone, I was usually vague with my conversations. I had a tendency to stay on light topics, afraid that by bringing up Aaron, my parents would make a comment about Matt.

“I’m going to miss you,” Aaron told me.

His hands were wrapped around my waist. Our embrace felt really personal, despite the large crowd in the airport.

“I’ll miss you too,” I told him, running my hands through his hair.

“You’ll be careful? Call me when you land,” he told me, giving me a small smile.

We’d been saying ‘goodbye’ for a while now and still Aaron hadn’t let me go.

“I’ll be fine. I should be telling you to be careful. No misbehaving at the concert,” I said, playfully lecturing him.

“Now I don’t even want to go,” Aaron told me, as he rested his forehead against mine.

“Why not?” I asked.

He’d been looking forward to this concert for the last few weeks.

“I wanted to go with you,” he shrugged.

I laughed, and playfully slapped his chest.

“You know, TJ is going too. You’re not going to leave him alone,” I told him.

“Yeah, I know. My brother will be pissed if I missed it too. Are you sure you can’t just leave later tonight? If you want, I can take off for the weekend with you while you visit your parents. I don’t mind,” Aaron suggested.

As tempting as it was to have Aaron go with me, I couldn’t do that. There were too many things I had to sort out this weekend.

“No, go and have fun. I’ll see you on Sunday,” I told him, pressing myself against him one last time.

“Fine,” he complained, but he still gave me a teasing grin.

“You’ll call me, or I’ll call you,” he whispered in my ear, giving my waist a squeeze, before letting go.

“Honey!” My dad called out to me as soon as he spotted me.

I waved at both my parents, and began making my way towards them.

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