My mouth went dry as I fully took him in. Four years may seem so little but apparently a lot of things have changed. He looked different than four years ago. He was taller, hair shorter, looked more mature. His jaw looked more defined and sharper.
Liam Jacob has always managed to get some sort of reaction from just seeing him. It never mattered how I felt towards him at the moment of time, my heart always raced when he was near and it annoyed me. I hated that he had that much power over me, that he was the only one that can make me act stupid.
He was a tall man, much taller than my 5 ft 7, almost a foot taller for sure. He had broad shoulders, narrowed waist and bulging muscles. He had thick dark hair that always seemed to lie on his head in a perfect style. I knew he didn't do much to his hair but it was always on point, not even a single hair out of place, this can make a girl like me jealous. His dark hair matched his dark eyes.
When you look at Liam Jacobs you would think his tall, dark, handsome and definitely mysterious. When you get to know him you realise he's actually a straightforward person and there isn't much left to mystery. He's blunt which can be mistaken as rude, friendly if he likes you and respects you, he's indifferent if he doesn't.
Liam is also a big fat player. We lived hours apart and I would here about his personal life from my school. Girls from my school would drool and discuss about him in front of me like it was nothing. Heck some wanted to be my friend because I knew him. I lost count of how many times girls I have never spoken to came to my house unannounced when he was in town or would invite themselves when we hang out.
Liam and I always have a complicated relationship, we got along sometimes and other times we wanted to rip each other's heads off. I can't even tell you how many times Cameron, our middle man, had to pull us of each other after we got into an argument. We always seem to make up after that and joke around. We were weird. We hated each other but no love was lost. I considered him one of my best friends even though we argued and fought half of the time.
We made a pact, no messing around with each other's friend. I don't know who came up with that idea but we both agreed. I kept that promise, he on the other hand didn't. And that's why we didn't talk anymore.
The first friend I had when I moved to Redwood was this girl. She was the first and pretty much only female friend I had. We got much closer in middle school and high school when I realised that she didn't want to date any of my male friends or brother. I mean she made it pretty clear by how she spoke about them. I thought that since she wasn't interested in any of my male friends, she was trying to befriend me to get closer to them. She made it so clear about that. We got closer and I thought she was very cool. She would come to my house to hang out, have sleepovers, we would go out for double dates and have a great time. I truly considered her a great friend. Boy didn't that thought grow and bite me in the ass.
She slept with Liam after finally meeting him 'accidentally'. She never met him before that, something I kind of made sure of. I would always tell her I'm busy and having a family day when Liam and the rest of moonlight family came to visit so she doesn't come. I don't know why, I just didn't want her to meet him.
She's all legs and boobs, had things that many teenage boys liked so I wasn't surprised when she told me that he 'hit' it. I was... I don't know what I was to be honest. I think I tried to block the fact out and tried pretend it never even happened which happened to be difficult since that's all she wanted to speak out. She was so excited and was all shI tried to show that it didn't bother me. I tried to convince myself of it but I couldn't.
The truth was it hurt too much and I didn't want to admit it. Heck, I don't ever want to admit it out loud now. She cut me off when he didn't call back.
The thing that pissed me off was the fact that he didn't even address it to me. Didn't admit. Acted like he didn't just break a friendship. The funny things was that when he met her, he didn't even look all the interested in her. It was her doing all the talking and basically sitting on his lap. She invited herself to my house in one of the many days my moonlight family came to visit.
I lost count the amount of times he pushed her off him and not paid attention to her. So I didn't think much of it. I respected him because he respected our pact. He wasn't going to entertain her.
I told her that he didn't like people touching him but the truth was I didn't like seeing her touch him. It was weird. He looked like he was getting pissed of as well but didn't want to embarrass her in front of all the adults. If it was just us, I sure we wouldn't have cared.
My mum never liked her and I wished I listened to my mum. Mum was nice enough but would often avoid her. She definitely didn't treat her like the boys or how she treats Cindy now.
I didn't even get a face to face friendship break up, I got a phone call. It was harsh and I was so confused. I didn't understand why I was getting blamed for him not calling her at all.
I just hanged up on her and never called her back. I decided that I didn't need a friend like her in my life. It was hard at first because I kept remembering all the good times, all the laughter and conversations. Then I started to remember things I blocked out, little digs she would make or the things she would say to my dates when we went on double dates. New things that I was blinded to came unfolding. Turns out she tried to hook up with all the boys. They didn't want to tell me because they knew close we were and didn't want me hurt. They never entertained her back for many reasons but the main one was out of respect for me.
Enzo didn't want to entertain her because she apparently use to bully him and make him feel like shit but as soon as he glowed up, everything changed She was always calling him and visiting his father's pizzeria. He told me she was full of herself and overall a horrible person. If I knew of this fact, I would have cut her off long time ago, Enzo meant to me so much than she meant to me. I wouldn't have even blinked. No hesitation. I would have chosen Enzo over her with a click of a finger. It annoyed me that I didn't see all of this when I was her friend. I always considered myself a smart person. I was always careful when inviting someone to my life. I guess I wasn't careful enough.
Losing her got easier when I realised how much of a bad friend she was, how toxic she was to my life. It got so much better that I stopped missing her and basically forgot that she existed.
I felt better physically, mentally and emotionally. I started to really get to know myself. I also had to leave redwood, my haven, my safety net to explore and be independent. To not be blinded and trapped in a town and only see life one way.
His leather jacket was thrown over his shoulders. He greeted everyone and I think my brother introduced him to both Cindy and Ryan. I knew he was watching me from the corner of his eyes because I was watching him from the corner of my eyes.
If he opens his mouth and tells everyone what we just discovered, I'm going to kick his ass. He stepped in front of me and I was forced to look up and meet his eyes. He still had his stupid smirk on his face. I narrowed my eyes at him in warning.
I could feel everyone's eyes on us. I needed to say something to him but I couldn't do it in front of our family. No way. I love my family but they can be overbearing sometimes. They would definitely put pressure of us if they found out that we were mates.
I warned him not to say anything with my eyes but when I saw him smirk switch into a cheeky smile, I knew he would do something to annoy the hell out of me.
I grabbed his arm, span him around and half walked, half running out of the house. I needed us to be a good distance from the family so they don't overhear.
When I found the perfect spot, I span to him, my finger already ready pointing at his face.
"You better keep the pretty mouth of you closed"I warned.
He smiled making his dimple appear. He only has one on his right cheek.
"You think my mouth is pretty?"he asked, his eyes glistening, ignoring every other thing I just said.
I narrowed mine at him "clearly there has been some kind of error"I said moving my eyes away from him and crossing my arms.
"Error? What do you mean? What error?"
I scoffed"as if you don't know what I am talking about"
"Oh you talking about us being mates? Nah I think it's accurate"
My head snapped back to his.
"Us? You and me? Liam all we do is argue. There is no way this isn't a mistake"
He wasn't smiling anymore, he just shrugged and it was his turn to avoid my eyes "sorry to disappoint darling. You and me are stuck together. Forever"
"Not if we don't want to"
His head snapped to mine and I saw his eyes flash to red for a second. It surprised him a bit because I hadn't seen his eyes flash that colour. Ever. Which is weird because all we do is piss each other off.
"Now don't be saying and doing things you will regret Delilah"
I growled at him barring my teeth making the glint return to his eyes. He smirked. All he had to do to get on my nerves was call me Delilah, no one else calls me by that. Not my mother who actually gave me the name, not my father, not my brothers...no one!
I hated when people called me that hence why I go by Lily, I have always gone by Lily. Not to Liam. As soon as he found out my name was actually Delilah, that's all he has been calling me. He started using it more when he saw how much it annoyed me.
"Missed you Delilah"
My heart warmed at that but I didn't change my face.
"Keep your mouth shut about us and we will be cool"
He raised one of his perfect brows and stepped closer to me. So close I'm sure we were sharing the same breath.
I had to look up at him, his chest was almost touching mine, I placed my hands on his chest ready to push him back but as soon as my hands felt his hard chest, it decided it wanted to be there for couple more seconds.
"For a kiss I will keep your secret"he tried to bargain.
My fingers moved up his chest and found what I wanted. I pinched his nipples making him move back a bit and push my hands always. He returned to his spot like nothing happened.
"It's not my secret. It's our secret. You know how our family are"I corrected.
He face seemed to get closer to mine making me feel nervous. My heart started to race.
When his lips was inch away from me I spoke in a whisper praying that he didn't hear my heart beating hard and fast. "if you kiss me, I will rip your balls and feed it to you"
He moved back and threw his head back laughing.
I had to block him laughter out because it always done something to me. I loved his laughter. It was always genuine. Loud but rich and always contagious.
"I really did miss you Delilah"he said after calming down.
"Stop calling me Delilah"I snapped. "We better get back in before they come out searching for us and ask questions we don't want to answer"
He shrugged "lead the way princess"
I glared at him before turning around and making my way back.
I ignored his eyes on my ass like always.
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Sorry for the missed errors x I'm sure there is a lot haha.
Finally a scene with the couple!!!