Chapter 21: Chapter 21

"Is he bothering you?" Tucker had his eyes on Steven when he sputtered, walking closer to me. Steven didn't bother acknowledging Tucker's presence, he was on his phone, playing games.

"No, I am fine," I replied and we both stared at Steven, who neglected to respond to our presence. I sat with Tucker in the passenger seat and he drove off, I saw Steven leaving soon after we left. It felt like he was only there to see if I was okay, but I refused to believe that because he has two meanings behind his actions.

During this whole drive, Tucker kept telling me what happened the whole day, in each and every class. It was strange because he has never talked to me about his day before like that. I was happy, his voice was to die for. I have waited for this day since my heartfelt flutters for him. I was giggling inside, every time he laughed and told me stories. I gave him my full attention, now that the cheaters were out of his life, he was going to see my loyalty.

We ended up having lunch together at home and Lauren wouldn't stop smiling and pushing us close together.

"Are you happy?" she asked, smiling my way. Her hand tenderly flicked her hair behind her shoulder.

"I feel like I am in heaven," I answered and sat with her on the couch. We had a TV playing in front of us and none of us was actually watching it. Who else does that? Playing TV while watching videos on the phone or doing other stuff.

"Well, he is in heaven too after heaving an angel like you Giselle." She was really a nice person, always lifting me up. Ever since his breakup with Dina, he had changed a lot, spending more time at home, not using the phone much, and being nice to everyone.

"You guys are not even watching it." He shook his head and sat on the separate sofa by our side. We hadn't noticed him coming out of his room.

"I was asking Giselle about her relationships." Lauren lied, winking at me. I shook my head and eyed her not to because I was extremely shy about this kind of talk. She giggled and went on with her plan anyway.

"Oh," he said, his eyes on the TV. I'm not very vigilant, but observing his body language was my favorite hobby.

"I am forcing her to date someone now or at least have a first kiss." As soon as she mumbled that part, my cheeks her red, and Tucker swiftly turned his face towards us. I can tell his eyes were on me, I nervously played with the cuff of my sleeve with my hand and kept my eyes lowered.

"No way,??" he showed disbelief, of course, all the girls he had known had their first kiss at a very young age.

"Yep, she is clean," Lauren stated and I kind of disagreed with her on that, so a girl is clean if her first is with her son, but she is not if she does the same with others? That's not correct. I kind of found myself wanting to get up and take a break for a moment to wrap my head around this logic of hers.

"Why Giselle? Have you never been in love before?" he asked me with a smirk on his face. Felt like he knew something, or he saw the redness of my cheeks. My breathing slowly became audible as their eyes scanned my face for an answer.

"I don't like it," I whispered in my mouth and lowered my face, my whole body was trembling visibly. That was a lie, I have given birth several times in my mind every time I saw some of the guys from our school. The answer that my lips uttered wasn't something I believed in, it was something I knew they wanted to hear.

"She is blushing?" Tucker asked his mother with shock in his voice. The way they were interacting now has started to give me shivers down my spine. The moment I lifted my face and my eyes met with Lauren's, the confusion fled away. She has this motherly stare warming my heart with unconditional love.

"She is a sweet little angel." Lauren hugged me and I felt the warmth of her body, felt like I was in the embrace of my mother.

"You know what they say about innocent girls, they are freaks in bed," Tucker announced brazenly, not taking account of her mother's presence. It was such a shock that a gasp escaped my lips loudly. My body reacted so bad that I broke the embrace with Lauren and watched Tucker's face in surprise. It was me he was talking about; did he imagine it too? Or were those only some words?

"Tucker!" Lauren shook her head and then they both watched my face. For a second, I had a very vivid imagination of me and Tucker in bed, which gave me goosebumps. Not my fault, he started it.

I stood up in haste, both of them narrowed their eyes at each other and then at me. I zipped off to the upstairs, despite them calling my name. I ran inside my room and locked the door behind me. My body was shaking, I closed my eyes and bit my lip over the thought of Tucker and me together. Then a tear washed my cheek down, he has no idea how much I have waited to be with him. He was my first and last love, my love for him was bigger than my ego, self-esteem, and dignity.

I sat in my bed and kept thinking about everything going on these days. Things looked so different from afar, I always thought Dina was the sincere one, but she always ended up doing things behind my back and that hurt me the most.

I felt my phone beeping and it was none other than Tucker himself. Tucker from his original number that I had saved for a long time, but we never got to talk, he has no idea that I also know his other number that he was using to talk to me.

Tucker: Wow, I never saw a girl blushing this much.

I blushed more, why was he teasing me dammit.

Tucker: I want to say something honest, but I know you will pass out then.

I wondered what he was going to say, I laid down in my bed and decided to ask him.

Me: What?

Tucker: You will blame me then.

Me: About what?

Tucker: Let's go out for a drive tonight?

Butterflies were flying here and there in my stomach, my body feeling a tingling sensation over the smallest things he was saying.

Me: Okay, but what about Mr. Ben?

Tucker: I will ask for his permission. We will take Ivory along and then drop her somewhere in the woods or someplace from where she can't show up again: p

I laughed at his jokes, so he did know Ivory was always mean to me.

Me: No, that won't be nice.

Despite the fact of me wanting to say oh hell yeah, let's do that, I still acted nice.

Tucker: I can't believe someone can be this nice, so it's done?

Me: yeah.

Wow, Tucker and I were going out for a drive tonight. I have never been this happy before my entire life. It was like the best day and night of my life. I thanked Lauren for it, she was the one who always knew it would happen, and honestly speaking, she had always advised me to behave a certain way, what I was today was Lauren's idea. She had made me this way and I was forever in her debt.

I was getting ready for tonight, but the fear of him leaving me on the road like before had started to hit me. A part of me was afraid and the other stupid part was sure that if it happens, Steven would appear out of nowhere to help me, but that was also creepy, how the hell did he appear in those places. Putting aside my anxiety, I quickly finished applying light makeup.

I walked downstairs and saw Tucker standing with his father. Tucker looked extremely hot, I feared losing my control near him. The little smirk from the corner of his lips made my ovaries explode.

"Okay, bring them back safe and sound." Mr. Ben looked at us and gave us permission. Ivory ran towards the car and perched on the passenger's seat. Tucker started the engine and stopped the car in front of her friend's place. Ivory had Tucker had planned this so Ivory didn't create a scene.

"Come sit here," he asked me to sit in the passenger seat by his side and I obeyed him. He played some cute little mix songs because they were my choice, I wondered when had he noticed that because I don't remember telling him. Once we were near the mountains, he stopped the car.

"What happened?" I asked, worried, and panicking a little. He smirked, turning his body towards me, my heart skipped a beat when he narrowed his eyes and the smirk disappeared off his lips, where the heck was we? And why did he stop here? He never said we will be stopping anywhere and the fact that he stopped in the middle of nowhere, got me shook.