Always You

Chapter Sixteen

It was the middle of the night and I still couldn't sleep. I've been tossing turning all night. The things that Chris told me was going around and around in my head like a broken record. 

I got out of bed and snuck out without waking up Tristan. I made my way downstairs into the kitchen to get a drink of water and jumped when I saw Bryan sitting on the counter.

"What are you doing up Bryan?"

"I have to leave to pick up my girlfriend from the airport in a little while. Why are you up?"

I shrugged and grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge. 

"Bryan, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah of course,"

"If someone close to you told your girlfriend that they thought she was beautiful but he doesn't want to affect the relationship. How would you handle that?"

Bryan hopped off the counter and leaned his back against it.

"You're asking me about Chris aren't you?"

"Wait, you already knew?"

"I was the first person he told. I told him he shouldn't tell you, but of course he never listens. I know it's a lot to handle, especially with finding out the Zach is your uncle and dealing with Tristan being out here, but now you're moving out here. There's a lot you have going on your mind and I wish I could help deal with all the stress and everything else with you so it wouldn't be such a burden. If I were you, I would tell Tristan about it."

"Tell Tristan about what?"

Bryan and I snapped our heads towards the kitchen entrance and saw a shirtless Tristan standing there with his hands in his sweatpants pockets. 

"Tris, please don't get mad when I tell you okay?"

"You're not breaking up with me are you?" he asked as he was walking closer to me. 

"No! No way!"

"Okay, good." he wrapped his arms around me and kissed my temple.

I looked at Bryan and he nodded. 

"Well, you two need to talk and I need to go pick up Ali from the airport."

With that being said, Bryan grabbed his key, phone, wallet and jacket and left. 

"What's wrong baby?"

"When Chris pulled me to the side he told me that he thought I was really beautiful. He said he knows I'm with you and he doesn't want to get in the way of that either, but he said that he wanted to get it off his chest."

"So, in a way he was making a move on you?"

"I don't really think so, but I just met him."

Tristan nodded and moved away from me. He kept clenching and unclenching his jaw as his arms were crossed across his chest. I walked over him and kissed his cheek.

"You know that I only want you and only you right? Ever since we were kids you've been my best friend and you have always stuck by me through all the hard times and good times with me. I will always choose you. It's always been you. Always you."

He smirked and kissed me. I kissed him back and rested my hands on his bare chest. 

"I love you Tristan," I mumbled against his lips.

"I love you more." He mumbled back.

He continued kissing me and pulled me closer towards him. I wrapped my arms around his neck as he began kissing the side of my neck.

"You know you shouldn't be doing that." I said barely above a whisper. 

"Maybe I'm doing this for a reason," he mumbled against my neck.

I laughed and made him look at me. 

"Then let's not do this in the kitchen."

He bit his lip as a huge smile spread across his face. He grabbed my hand and dragged me into the basement and into an empty room where there was only a massage chair. Tristan kissed me a couple more times before he ran to a closet and grabbed a bunch of blankets and laid them out along with pillows too. He flopped down on the blankets and looked at me.

"Come on baby, I won't bite you much....maybe."

I rolled my eyes and laughed. I laid down next to him and we started kissing again.

You can picture what happened next.