All Better Beautiful (Payton's Heart) by C.A Harms Read Free Book Online Page A

looked down at
my hands and saw they were wrinkled and then I noticed the water had started to
cool. "Yeah, I'll be right out,” I yelled back to her as I washed my hair
and body quickly. Climbing out of the shower I dried off and wrapped a towel
around my body. I rushed out of the door as Dylan was coming down the hallway.
I didn’t want him to see that I was crying. "Did you save any hot
water?" he said with a little laugh. Casey hollered at Carter to stop
being a pest from down the hall which caused me to look up and then he seen my
face. Dylan gripped both of my shoulders looking very concerned he said,
"Payton are you okay," slightly bending at the knees to be closer to
my level. "I’m fine really" saying in response and I practically ran
to Casey’s room and shut the door behind me.
     
    One look
at my face and Casey knew something had happened. "What happened, what’d
he say to you? I was wondering why he volunteered to pick you up from work.
What did he do?" She demanded standing up from her bed and reaching for
the door handle. I stopped her quickly, "Case stop please just stop. It
was me I thought it was more than it really was. I thought the kiss meant
something but it didn't it was just a spur of the moment kind of thing that he
wishes he could take back." I walked over to the bed still wrapped in the
towel and I sat on the edge looking up at her she finally joined me on the bed.
She wrapped her arm around my shoulders leaning her head in to rest against
mine, "Payton he's an idiot, a jerk. How could he not see how wonderful
you are, how lucky he would be to have you. It's his loss honey, he doesn't
deserve you." She kept her hold on me as I cried a little longer. How
could I be so stupid to think that Dylan would actually be interested in a high
school girl!
     
    I made a
decision that night I was no longer going to live in the past I was going to
move forward and leave it all behind. The saddest part about that decision was
that also meant leaving behind Dylan and the feelings I have had for him for
the last four and a half years maybe even longer. I had to except that I was
just not someone he could feel that way about in return. I went to sleep that
night with a promise made to myself to stop allowing people to hurt me. To
start living!
     

Chapter Eight
    Saturday
morning Casey and I had decided to invite over Todd and Seth to watch movies.
Karen had made plans with some friends and was going to be gone most of the day
and then had to work this evening. Carter went to spend the night with a friend
and Dylan was still in bed. The guys had decided to come over about one. Casey
ordered pizza to be delivered. We were sitting in the kitchen talking about the
fact that we had let Seth and Todd pick out the movies on the way over worrying
if we were about to be subjected to a day of murder and gore. We both looked up
to see Dylan stumbling into the kitchen still half asleep. He was wearing a
pair of shorts and his hair was still tousled and sticking up from sleeping. He
rubbed his eyes yawned and went straight to the refrigerator. As he turned
around after grabbing the gallon of milk and setting it on the counter he
looked me straight in the eyes. He smiled of course the sexy little grin that
gets me every time. I looked at Casey quickly and she could tell without even
asking that I was instantly nervous and anxious in his presence. In her own way
she decided to push some buttons, "There’s pizza on the way, mom told me
to order four. You can only have one though," she said to him with a
snotty like smirk. He looked at her squinting still from just getting up,
"So what, now you and Payton are eating like a couple of guys or
what?" She looked at me winked and then replied with, "No actually we
have a couple of hunky guys coming over to share them with us." After
looking at me and then back to Casey still looking for an answer without asking
who these guys were..."Seth and Payton's date to the winter dance