ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Cross POV

“Dude, hurry up we are going to be late,”

“Let me man, who’s fault is it anyway, I told you we should stay at your parent’s house that way we can get to the venue on time but you choose to be stubborn,”

Dean said from the hotel room and I suddenly had the urge to scream, but that would look bad on an alpha male like me, even though these days I was beginning to lose my touch. it’s officially my engagement day and for some unknown reasons, I am anxious, I am still trying to figure out why we arrived from New York yesterday morning after boarding an over bight flight,

“I have my reasons alright,” I told him eyeing him.

I am still angry at my parents and almost decided not to push through with the fucked up engagement after all but then my mom kept begging, and as I said before I can’t say no to her, she is the one woman who got be in her hands, she kept calling and calling, using all her skills and after only two days I caved in, but that didn’t mean I was no longer angry, I just didn’t want to taint my family name, since people were already. didn’t invite and I also already agreed to.

“Did you still try to at least find out about her?”

“I will today,”

“Man? How can you be getting engaged to someone whose face you don’t know? What if she is not so pretty?”

“Don’t worry, the Katherine I remember has always been pretty, she is just a spoilt little princess, and I dont care much about looks, attitude matter, I hate clingy women,”

“You? Not into looks? You must be kidding me, you that date all the supermodels and got hot ladies in town, seriously? Not into looks,”

“That’s not because of their looks, that’s cuz most regular girls are looking for commitment and I dont have that on the table and also I don’t date them, we have a fling,”

I bragged.

“You, my man is evil,”

“I am not, even the so-called supermodels are still looking for commitment,”

I added, Dolly was still pestering my life with her calls and texts, I had to block her number yet she still finds a way to call me.

“But, now dude, you are about to commit, whether you like it or not,”

“It’s not like we are getting married immediately though, it’s just an engagement,”

I said even though I knew the possibility of that being true is low, my parents would probably already have fixed a date for the wedding and it would be closer than I think.

“Keep telling yourself that,”

Dean said.

“Anyway, about the lady, for real I still feel you should know her face at least,”

“I already told you she is pretty,”

I said truthfully, Kathrine had been one of the most pretty teenagers, I knew back then, she had long curly hair and sea-blue eyes, she would easily pass as a goddess back then, but I wasn’t so sure if my memory of her were accurate.

“Dude, just get your mom to send her photo, we still have enough time,”

“For real? It’s past four pm already and it starts by seven,”

“Yeah that’s enough time, now do it or I am gonna call your mom,”

“Fine,”

I said picking up my phone and dialing my mom.

“Son? Where are you I was about to call you,” she said as soon as she picked the call,”

“Still at the hotel, I will be on my way soon,”

“You should have come to the house, why are you so stubborn sometimes?”

“Mom, I have a right to be mad, I might do everything you ask but that doesn’t mean I won’t get angry when you offend me, and you know you did,”

“Yes, yes, and I am sorry, your father is too,”

“I called for a reason though,”

“What is that son?”

“Can you send a photo of her?”

“A photo? Of who?”

“I asked you before, a photo of Katherine Stevenson,”

“Oh, okay, coming soon,”

She said and before long my phone beeped.

“I have sent it,”

“Seen, thanks ma, I will be there soon,”

“Thank you, son, and I am sorry again,”

“Uhmm,”

I muttered and ended the call, I clicked on the photo as Dean walled up to my side, to take a look at her too.

“Oh my God, she is a beauty, wow,”

Dean marveled.

“I told ya,”

Even as I said that I couldn’t take my eyes off the phone, the photo before me reflected a goddess, my memory of her didn’t do any justice, where before there was a teenage girl with curly hair and pretty eyes, the woman in the photo screamed, sexy and hot and everything, she had on a smoky makeup that brought out the beauty of her eyes, she had on a blue bump short and crop top which clung to her and revealed her succulent shape, she was golding a glass of sine and smiling sexily at the camera, she looked everything like a seductress.

“Wow, she is amazing in the photo, what more if we meet her for real? Dude, you just hit a jackpot, your parent went all in for you, aha, to be you right now, about that offer to replace you, can I still get that? Cuz with the beauty I see right now, I dont mind,”

“Shut the fuck up man! And back off,”

I said suddenly getting angry at the attention he was giving to her, I suddenly felt defensive, suddenly wanted to protect what’s mine, okay not mine but souls be mine, suddenly the whole idea of the engagement didn’t seem so bad again.

“See, I told you, if you had checked her out since we would have known what a beauty she is and you won’t have been battling,”

“I wasn’t battling,”

“Yes, you were, don’t argue, now let’s go and put a ring on this beauty before some else best us to it,”

He said pulling me off the chair, I followed without complaint picking my phone.

“Wait, where is the party taking place?”

Dean asked out of no where, he has been busy on his phone for the past ten minutes, his foster sister got in trouble and landed herself in the police department and it had taken more than a couple of hours to bail her out and even though she was out, she still had to report at the station today, which was why he had been talking her into going, but the little bitch be refusing, I just don’t get why that gender was so hard to talk to.

“At the Stevenson of course,”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

I said, “so how far is it going?”

“Not well, she is refusing and I dont know how to talk her into going, she is insisting she did nothing wrong,”

“Well, I told you before to let her go to jail but you won’t,”

“Never, not when I am still here, her mom did so much for me and I can’t just let her offspring go off like that,”

“I understand man, but sometimes, you just have to let her pay for her mistake,”

“Hmm, let’s not talk about me, shall we talk about the princess we are going to meet?”

“No, we shall n…”

Whatever I was going to say, dropped off my sense as the car suddenly came to a screening stop.

“What happened?”

I asked the driver who looked shocked.

“Sir, I think the car in front of us just hit someone,”

He said.

“What?”

As I asked I saw the car taking a small turn and zoning off.

“What the fuck, dude, get that vehicle number,”

I shouted to Dean.

“Already done,” he said as we both got out of the car, very few vehicles stopped and looked and continued right on their way, walking to the front, I saw a girl who would be no more than eighteen lay in her own pool of blood.

“Nax, quick call an ambulance, or call a hospital, we can take her in the car,”

I shouted to the driver.

“Okay, sir,” he said running back to the car, Dean was already on the phone too, I walked close to the girl, and she was still breathing but her breathing was slow.

“Hey, little girl you will be fine, you just need to hang in there till we get to the hospital,”

“I said as Dean and I moved her into the car, my phone rang but I didn’t pick up, I would answer when I get her to the hospital, right now her life mattered…