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Calvin
I wait. I wait patiently for her to come back. I didn’t know where she went, but I can take a pretty
damn good guess. She was mad; I understand that more than anything. If anyone is pissed off and
hurt at what Emma has been doing, then it’s me. She has caused me and Gunner more hurt than
I’m ever willing to admit.
I hear the door unlock, but I don’t move. I’m not even sure what the hell I am doing here. The boys
are at my house with the nanny. For some reason, I feel like I should be here.
Ava stops dead in her tracks. “Cal, I didn’t expect you to still be here.”
Her eyes were red and puffy. She has been crying; that much is clear. Words honestly fail me. I
have no fucking idea what the hell to tell her.
“I thought I would wait for you,” I say as she takes a seat. “Where have you been?”
I knew where she went after she realized that Emma was Gunner’s mom. That was hours ago. I
don’t know where she went after. I’m sure confronting Emma didn’t take almost three hours.
“I needed to think, so I just drove around,” she whispers. “Gosh! This is so hard for me. Not only
because I love Gunner like my own and it kills me to watch him hurt, but
also because I see
myself in him.”
I don’t know much about Ava. I was about two years ahead of her in school. We weren’t friends
back then, and I didn’t pa ention to any girl that wasn’t Emma.
Even now, I don’t know much about her. I kept myself closed off. I felt it would be unfair to dig
deep into her life when I barely told her anything deep about mine. All I know is that Rowan hurt
her pretty badly. Just like Emma destroyed.
“Why?” I ask curiously.
Because I suffered the same fate as him when I was younger. I was unwanted. For me, it was
nuch harder because I was unwanted by both my family and Rowan’s family. I didn’t understand
why they didn’t like me. I tried so hard to get them to love me, but they never did. In fact, it got
Jorse as I got older.”
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I didn’t know that about het. Unlike other boys who tried getting close to her so they could get
close to Emma, I didn’t I thought their tactic was downright cruel Using one sister to get another
was utterly disgusting
“I’m soony, Ava.”
There was nothing else I could say to comfort her. I don’t even know how to comfort Gunner when
was
he asks about Emma, so how can I comfort Ava?
“It’s okay It was a long time ago, and I’m slowly starting to heal,” she pauses. “In any case, this
isn’t about me. I want to know the truth. How did Emma end up being Gunner’s mom?”
I sigh. I was dreading this question. Not because I don’t want to tell her what happened, but
because I don’t want to remember the painful memories,
“Well, you know about my love for her from high school,” I start and she nods.
“Yes, definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone knew I wanted Rowan.”
This was so messed up. We both somehow ended up with the people we wanted, but in the end, it
turned out to be a nightmare. Both of us got hurt really, fucking badly. Maybe we should have
stayed away from them. It seems like Rowan and Emma were meant to be. It’s like Ava and I got
punished for getting in the way of that.
“We’ll I tried everything to get her to notice me, but she never did. It wasn’t even possible when
the person I had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when we met again, I was nerdy,
Cal. There was nothing sexy about me,” I began, but Ava interrupted me by chuckling.
“Have you seen yourself in glasses? You’re like a woman’s nerdy fantasy. You probably star in
ladies dreams as either a hot professor or a librarian.”
I laugh at that despite mys
“Maybe now, but not back then. Emma was probably disgusted with me. I mean, come on, even I
have to admit I looked terrible back then. I wouldn’t have wanted to date myself” I continued.
“We finished high school, and in the summer before college, I decided to work on myself. It took a
lot of effort, but I got to the point where I was actually proud of how I looked. I even started getting
appreciative glances from girls.”
It had been the highlight of my life at that age. It felt good to be attractive. It felt fucking great.
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“I joined college and continued working further on myself I became unrecognizable I drowned in
college life. The girls, parties, and booze. Life was great. I had girls all over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I started to forget about Emma. There was no use crying over a girl that didn’t
want me when I could have someone else”
Ava nods her head in understanding. I know she didn’t enjoy college life. Not after she fell
pregnant at eighteen. She then became a mother and wife. She didn’t have time to be a normal
college student with no worries or responsibilities. At least I got to have that experience before
Emma appeared back in my life.
“Everything was going great until my grandfather had a stroke and became paralyzed. My
grandfather raised me after both my parents died in an accident. He was all that I had given; I
didn’t know any other family member alive. I changed schools so that I could be closer to him. It
was easier to take care of him that way”
Ava’s eyes widens as she swings her finger back and forth. “You transferred to the university
I didn’t want to be involved with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned as my partner, I
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My eyes shift to Ava She looks captivated Like she couldn’t even remove her eyes from mine, even if she wanted to
“I tried to stay out of her way. I didn’t want to be a nuisance like I had been back in high school ! realized you couldn’t force love and Emma definitely didn’t love me”
“You’re right,” Ava says sadly. “If only I’d realized that earlier, like you did. It would’ve probably saved me from a lot of heartache.”
Grabbing her hand, I squeeze it. “Well, it didn’t work out for me… One day, out of the blues, Emma showed up at my dorm room and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss I’ve ever received. I thought it was a dream when she asked me to make love to her, but it wasn’t. she actually wanted me”
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I look at the floor. I tried to understand that she was going through a lot. That she was pregnant. heartbroker, and still in love with another man. That’s why I let her let out her frustrations on me
“It was hard I wanted to walk away so many times, but then I would remember my child. Sometimes I would remember the times she was sweet, or when she cried and begged me not to leave her. I was also hurting while trying help her with her pain.
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