Always Yours

“Franko?”. I frowned. “What are you doing here?”. I stepped outside closing the door behind me.

“Hey”. Alice yelled.

Rolling my eyes I crossed my arms over my chest waiting for him to respond. He should still be recovering not here on my front doorstep.

“You drop by the clubhouse?”. He asked.

“No”.

“Bullshit princess you talked to my dad”.

“Then why’d you ask?”.

“You come to see me?”. He smirked.

“Marco actually”. My eyes landed on his, a lump forming in my throat at the glare he was sporting.

“How the fuck do you know him?”.

“Well, you didn’t introduce us that’s for sure. Why are you here?”. I asked.

“You stay the fuck away from him Aubrey, I mean it”.

“He seems nice”. I shrugged. “Friendly”.

A laugh fell from his lips. “I know what you’re doing darling”. My mouth became dry as he took another step towards me. “You wanna fuck around with Marco then-…”.

I pushed his shoulder and instantly regretted it when a hiss fell from his lips. “Oh, god I’m sorry”. Taking a step back I chewed the inside of my cheek.

I watched as he pulled his cut off his shoulder and his hoodie over his head. The blood was seeping through the bandage.

“I’m sorry Franko I-…”. I paused.

“It’s fine”. Like nothing happened he pulled his hoodie back over his head and fixed his cut. “Just tell me you’ll stay away from Marco”.

“Why do you care?”.

“You know why I care”. He glared.

“Do I?”. I matched his glare. “It can’t be because you care about me because if you did you wouldn’t be fucking around with other girls”.

“Say the word darling fucking say it cause the minute you do it ends”.

“You know-…”.

His laugh cut me off. “You don’t want me Aubrey but can’t stand the thought of me being with anyone else”.

He hit the nail on the head well partly did. I wanted him, I wanted him more than I’ve wanted anything before, but I couldn’t bring myself to face the situation and take that jump.

I had feelings for him, strong feelings and I had no idea what to do with them. I had never been in this situation before. I had no experience with boyfriends and relationships.

A sigh fell from my lips as I took a seat on the front porch. I was the issue here not Franko. I was jealous, angry even at the thought of him with someone else and I had no right to be. I was the one stopping whatever this was from happening.

“I have to get back inside Alice is here”.

“Fuck Alice”. He sat down next to me. “What are we doing here Aubrey?”.

I shrugged. “I only mentioned Marco to make you jealous”.

“Aye well it fucking worked”.

I stifled my laughter, my teeth sinking into my bottom lip. Why couldn’t this be easier? Why did my parents have to be so narrow minded? Franko’s family weren’t bad people regardless of what everyone seemed to say about them.

I felt more at home with his family than I did my own.

“This will never work”. I sighed.

“I can’t be bothered with the bullshit princess, but I can’t stop fucking thinking about you”. He flicked his cigarette to the ground before getting to his feet. “You know what I want and when you finally figure your shit out you come find me”.

I didn’t say anything, I sat on my front porch and watched him get on his bike and drive out of my street. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to laugh or cry.

We just kept going round in circles. Avoiding him was out of the question. Everywhere I went he seemed to turn up, we always bumped into each other no matter what.

My front door opened; Alice took the spot where he was sitting.

“Hey”. I spoke.

“Did you really go see him and he was with someone else?”.

“Were you glued to the door or something?”. A sigh fell from my lips as I got to my feet. I had to discard of his cigarette butt before my parents got home.

“I was making sure he didn’t do anything”.

“By sticking your ears to the door and staying inside?”. I picked up the butt and threw it out onto the street.

“Hey”. She frowned. “What’s going on with you?”.

“Him okay he’s what’s going on with me. This whole thing is driving me insane. How did he get inside my head so fast”.

“It’s what he does”. She shrugged. “But you already knew that”.

“How did I get myself into this situation?”. I groaned.

“Because you let him in. Franko wants you and you want him”.

I couldn’t argue with her or disagree because she was right. I wanted him and I hated it. A few months ago, we didn’t even speak other than a few curse words back and forth and now, now I couldn’t get rid of him.

“You were doomed from the start”. She laughed. “But you’re doing well. Most girls would have crumbled by now”.

“What do you mean by that?”.

“Oh, for fucks sake Aubrey do you have eyes. He’s hot, no, he’s fucking sexy. He’d have had my panties the first night”.

I rolled my eyes and shoved her shoulder. I didn’t like when she talked like that. I wasn’t a crude person; I was a prude. I got embarrassed at the mention on sex. Probably because I was a virgin who knew nothing about it.

“What?”. She smirked. “I bet he fucks like an animal”.

“Alice”. I warned.

“Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Do you wanna go grab a milkshake?”.

“Another one?”.

“I’m paying”. She winked.

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Alice wasn’t helping the situation. Of course she had motive to go to the diner. Tommy along with Franko, Brian and Marco were here. It took everything in my power not to turn around and walk back out.Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Not that Alice’ death grip on my arm would allow me to do so.

“If you wanted to hang with your boyfriend, you could have said”.

“He’s being weird”. She made a face.

She had us sit so I was the one facing them. See, not helping my situation in the slightest. I also didn’t want to get involved in the drama with her and Tommy. She already knew what my thoughts on that were.

Franko was a player, but Tommy was worse or that’s what the rumors were anyway.

“Weird how?”. I asked.

“We haven’t had sex in 3 days”.

I rolled my eyes.

“No, Aubrey this is serious. We have sex all the time sometimes 2, 3 times a day and it’s went from that to nothing”.

“Have you talked to him about it?”.

She shook her head. “I think he’s going to dump me”.

“You don’t know that. Maybe he’s got a lot on his mind”. I didn’t know what else to say to her. “But I would talk to him before jumping to conclusions”.

“I don’t want him to dump me”.

She had fell head over heels for him and if he did dump her, he would destroy her. But I would be there to pick up the pieces and put her back together.

“I know”.

“Could you ask-…”.

“No”. I cut her off before she could finish her sentence. “I love you Alice but I’m trying to avoid him for my own sanity. Please don’t put me in the middle of this”.

“If anyone knows he’s going to dump me it’ll be him. Please Aubrey I’d rather know before it happens so I can get ahead of it”.

“Or you could ask Franko”.

“Yeah, right”. She made a face. “I heard your conversation remember. Fuck Alice”.

“That’s just Franko being Franko”.

“No, he doesn’t like me, and he doesn’t like me because of the way I treated you when I left you at the diner that night”.

“That’s ridiculous”.

“No, it’s true Tommy told me”.

He did?

“I really don’t want to talk to him Alice”.

“Please Aubrey”.

“Fine but I’m not doing it when they’re with him”.

“But it has to be now they’ll be with him all night. What if he plans to dump me tonight I can’t oh god”.

“For gods sake”. I scraped back my chair and got to my feet. I never normally got pissed off, but Alice was testing my patience tonight. My eyes connected with Frankos; he knew something was up. As he gave me a nod I nodded towards the front door.

He got to his feet but that caught the attention of everyone he was sitting with. I swear if she wasn’t my best friend I’d have knocked her on her ass already.

“Aubrey where are you going?”. She asked.

“To do as you asked”. I sighed.