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“You of all people should know that.”
“Nick, just come home.” Joe says to me, he stands on the other side of the Island looking at me with intense eyes. “We can go on tour again and you can talk to Quinn.”
“Don’t say her name, please Joe.” I whisper fumbling with my fingers. He sighs deeply and I glance up at him and instantly regret he has this look of pity.
“Why did you even do it, if you are so broken about it why break her heart in the first place Nick?” Joe snaps slamming his fist on the table. “She screamed at Tricia. She literally screamed and cried and broke things and threw them at the wall. I don’t get it!” Joe was beyond frustrated and I saw that now. He wanted me to get over this.
“There are some things that can just never happen, Joe.” I retort. I didn’t need Joe to tell me that the girl I was in love with was hurting because of me.
“I don’t know what’s going on with you Nick and you’re clearly not telling me, so right now I’m on Quinn’s side.” Joe tells me grabbing his phone and walking towards the door where his car is parked. He gets in the car and drives away.
“But what happens when I go back on tour?” I ask her, my arms wrapped around her torso as we watch the sunset glow. It aluminates her skin casting a shadow across the grass, a shadow of the current position, I wish a picture would be taken.
“Who cares,” she laughs freely looking up at the sky. “The thing is, even though you’re gone I’ll still love you.” She promised me, I leant down and pecked her lips.
“I love you Quinn.” I whisper huskily into her ear causing her to giggle.
“Nick! Miley is on the phone and she is demanding to speak to you.” Kevin comes out with my cell phone in hand the speaker covered. I felt Quinn tense, Kevin looked between us before smiling.
“I’m a little busy, tell her to text me the emergency and I’ll get to it later. I have to spend time with my baby girl before tour.” I reply. My brother nods before walking back into the house, speaking to Miley.
“I love you too Nick.” Quinn finally says once the screen door is shut tightly.
Quinn always hated Miley, with a burning passion. Every since Miley and I had dated when Quinn and I were just friends, I guess at the time I had wrote the song about her, and then we started dating and I had to break up with her. There was an age difference. I guess I was blaming it on the age difference more than what was really happening.
“Nick, can you talk to Miley? She is calling the house phone and my cell phone.” Joe snaps handing me the phone. I sigh kissing Quinn’s cheek. She doesn’t smile like she usually would. Her body is tense and she won’t look at me.
“What is it Miley?” I sigh into the phone. I hear her laugh from the other line.
“Why have you been avoiding my calls?” She replies in her southern accent. “And my texts and my e-mails Nicholas?” I hear her nails clicking on the other side. The thing was I only liked being called Nicholas by Quinn; she was the only one who could get away with it.
“I’ve been spending time with Quinn, my girlfriend, who I love.” I put extra emphasis on Quinn, girlfriend and love, so Miley would get the message. I saw Quinn crack a small smile. I leaned down to kiss her, forgetting the phone was still holding Miley on the other line.
Clearly Quinn had forgotten also because she deepened the kiss pressing her lips with more of a force on mine. She turned around and sat on my lap continuing to kiss me. I trailed kisses down her neck. Quinn moaned into my ear and I felt myself getting “happy”, of you wanted to call it that.
“Okay, Nick save me all the details, I really didn’t need to hear that.” Quinn’s ear was currently pressed up against my ear and the phone had fallen and I guess I had accidently hit speaker. Quinn’s cheeks turned a faded shade of pink.
“Well in that case, call back later.” I replied ending the call and turning off Joe’s phone.
I re-connected my lips with my girlfriends and she smiled into the kiss wrapping her hands around my neck letting her fingers twist into my hair. I smiled blissfully as she pulled away and she rolled off of me sitting back in between my legs. Pressing her back into my chest I let my arms wrap around her slender frame. She was quite small for sixteen. The thing was I was eighteen.
“I have something for you.” I whisper gracefully into her ear. She pushed herself away from me and sat across from me crossed legged. I pulled a little ring box from my pocket and opened it. “I know we are too young to get married so I decided I would get you a promise ring. Quinn, will you promise to be forever with me?” I asked slightly nervous. I saw her clam a hand over her mouth as tears sprung to her eyes. I guess it was sort of like proposing in a way. But she nodded all the while and I slowly slipped the ring back on her finger. She played with it as we continued to watch the sunset.
Texas was only miles away from where Quinn lived. I didn’t see a car pull in the driveway though, so when I opened the door to see Quinn with a box of stuff in her hands standing at my doorstep it surprised me. She was about to knock. Instead she just shoved the box in my hands and walked away down the steps and back to the car. I looked down at the box and on the top she had written nothing but there was the diamond ring tapped to the top of the box.
I had felt like my heart was ripped out. This pain was surging through me as she pulled away. Kevin’s car pulled in as she pulled out. I slowly slid down the doorframe watching her go. It was like Joe had said, she looked broken inside. Kevin looked at the retreating car and he could see Quinn’s hair in the car and he turned back to me looking at the box in my hands and at my state.
He rushed to my side and pulled the box from my hands. I couldn’t do anything I was twenty and I was at a loss for words. She was done with me, it was my fault but I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t have a choice it was meant to be this way. I looked at the ring taped the box. My eyes had been so caught up in the ring that for the first time I noticed there were words underneath. “Everything Will Be Okay, Just Not Tonight.”
“It’s not going to be okay. It will never be okay!” I yell frustrated. Kevin looks at me and at the box, he sees the ring and his eyes grow wide, then to understand what I’m saying he reads the words.
“Haven’t you always told Quinn that?” He asks quietly. I nod as more cars pull into the driveway. Tricia and Joe step out of one. Mom, Dad and Frankie step out of the other and what surprises me the most is Quinn’s mom is stepping out of the last car. Kevin’s wife Danielle is somewhere doing, something, and I never really paid attention.
“What the heck did you do to that girl Nicholas?” Tricia yells at me. I flinch back against the door frame quietly against her loud harsh voice. She was a mess when I went to see her. She wants nothing do with any of us.” Tricia spits at me. Joe puts a hand on her shoulder pulling him back.
“Oh no...” Her mother whispers looking at the box that lies between Kevin and myself. “No, no, no!” her mother yells running her fingers through her hair. “Nicholas open the box.” She commands.
“I don’t think I want to.” I mumble pathetically. She gives me a stern glance and I lift the cover of the box setting the cover of it on my lap, the ring mocking me.
Inside the box was everything she had in her room practically. Another car pulled into the driveway. The person didn’t look up so I couldn’t see her face. When she did, I froze, it was Quinn. I stiffened. She opened the door and stepped out in jeans and a tee shirt I had not noticed her outfit before. She opened the backseat.
“Joe! Kevin can you help me!” She calls out. They nod and soon there are three boxes on the porch in front of me. She looks at me and she’s broken, I can tell she is. “Technically, this is everything in my room. It’s everything that reminded me of you. There’s something in the last box I want you to see. I was going to tell you the day it happened. I got accepted to Columbia, it’s going to be so far away from you and I hope the pain will subside.” She turns around leaving everyone staring after her. I go to the last box and there it is her acceptance letter.
