Page 16 of Meant to Be

Opening my texts back up I see Shelby’s last text and reply.

Me: At least she cares about you.

I place my phone down on the side and warm up my beans. I hate being skint. I hate having a mother who is an alcoholic. Why can’t she be normal? I often wonder what my dad would’ve been like if he was still around, but then I think that maybe it would’ve been worse than it is now. How? I’m not sure.

I hate my life. The only good thing about it right now is seeing Shelby, but what she actually sees in me, I have no clue. I’ll just enjoy it while it lasts...if it lasts.

Friday comes around quickly, and I can’t wait to see Shelby again. We’re all meeting at Harry’s house tonight and heading to the party together. When I reach the door, I hope and pray my Aunty isn’t in, I can’t be listening to her shit tonight and ruining my good mood.

My attention isn’t on the closed door in front of me - so when it opens my eyes instantly latch onto the female in front of me. My eyes travel from the knee-high black boots to the short skirt. As my gaze gets higher, the top she’s wearing shows off her flat belly and her dark hair falls over her shoulders in waves.

“Shelb? You look amazing.” My eyes are wide as I take all of her in.

Stepping towards her, I grip her hips inching her closer to me until our bodies touch. Standing like this we’re the same height until I step up onto the doorstep and guide her back through the doorway. Raising her gaze to meet mine, she captures her lip between her teeth. My arm works its way around her pulling her flush against me. My other hand pushes the door shut from behind me. Dipping my head, I lightly kiss her top lip, her breath hitching as I take advantage of her open mouth, licking her lips before kissing her fully.

“It’s about time you got here, dude,” Harry shouts, peering around the door interrupting us. Pushing my hand into her hair, I bring her closer to me. Her hands fist my jacket as her ample tits rub against me. I make the decision to slow down our kiss, if I don’t, I can’t be held responsible for my dick's actions. Pulling back from her, I take a good look at her, a slight blush covering her cheeks, her lips red and swollen; she’s never looked sexier. My thumb smooths over her lips as she smiles at me.

“Hi.”

“Now that’s a hello. You look sexy as fuck.”

“You don’t look so bad yourself, handsome,” Shelby says adding a wink.

“I didn’t know whether your Mum would let you come.”

“She doesn’t know. I’m staying at Addison’s.”

I lift her feet from the floor and bring her to my height, making our lips meet again until I place her back down. I move my arm to wrap around her shoulders and hold her chin between my thumb and finger, tipping her head back so I can see into her eyes.

“You little rebel.” I smile wickedly as she shrugs. “Come on.”

We walk into the room where Harry and Addison are. Harry has Addy pinned to the couch beneath him as he kisses her. Clearing my throat to let them know they have an audience, he breaks from her looking over his shoulder frowning.

“Cockblock.” Harry cusses as Addison pushes him off her while wiping the corners of her mouth. Shelby blushes, smiles, then looks away from me.

I walk towards the cabinet where I know Aunty Sheila keeps the booze.

“So, how about a party starter then?”

Opening the cabinet, there's not anything that takes my fancy, nothing that will do the trick anyway, so I pull the bottle of Vodka from a bag which I stole from my Mum’s stash earlier today and unscrew the lid, taking a long swig from the bottle. It burns as it hits my throat but swallowing it burns even more. Cringing, I shake my head willing the taste to go before passing the bottle to H. He takes it from me and puts it on the table with a frown.

“You don’t want any?”

“Fuck Jax. If Mum comes back and sees that here she’ll throw you out.”

“She’ll do that anyway,” I tell him with a scowl.

“Why give her an excuse you dick. Put the lid on, we’ll take it with us.”

“There he is.”

I knew he’d want some. I screw the lid on like Harry asked me too.

“Are you girls ready then?”

They nod, and Shelby comes to stand by my side while I wrap an arm around her…

“Let’s go then.” Harry pulls the door shut behind him and turns to lock it. We make the short walk to the party with Shelby tucked into my side.

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