The boy who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
Chapter 59: Confronting the Past

Chapter 59: Confronting the Past

I shook my head. "I can’t go to your house, Johnny. Please, I can’t see him," I begged as he continued to drive in the opposite direction to my house.

"Stephen?" he asked, frowning. I nodded, unable to speak through the lump in my throat. My hands were shaking. I closed my eyes and thought of Liam, trying to stay calm.

I thought of the colour of his eyes, how his hair felt when I ran my hands through it, the sound of his voice.

"You OK?" Johnny asked, sounding concerned.

I nodded weakly. "I don’t want to see him, Johnny," I whispered, turning in my seat to look at him.

He was trying to watch the road and look at me at the same time. "Why not?" he asked quietly. I shook my head. I couldn’t talk about it, especially not to him, that was his stepfather for goodness sake, he lived with him.

"I just don’t, please." I begged him with my eyes.

He sighed and shook his head. "He’s not there anyway. He went away for the weekend with my mom and Matt. They’re not due back until late tonight," he said.

He wasn’t there?

"Are you sure?" I asked, my body was starting to relax.

He nodded and smiled reassuringly. "Positive. They went to Mersey for the weekend to see my grandparents. They’re not getting back until like ten or something."

I looked at him to make sure he wasn’t lying or trying to trick me or something. He looked like he was telling the truth.

Johnny was a really nice guy, he wouldn’t do something like that to me, he wouldn’t lie. "OK," I agreed quietly.

He smiled and looked back at the road. "So, do I get to know why you and Jake hate Stephen so much?" he asked curiously.

I closed my eyes; I really didn’t want to have this conversation with him, with anyone. Even Kate didn’t know any details about my father and my childhood.

"Johnny, I don’t want to talk about it. It’s in the past, I prefer it to stay there," I replied, praying that he would drop it.

He nodded, looking a little disappointed and sad. "OK. Well, if you ever need to talk to me about anything, you can.

You know that, right?" he asked as he pulled onto a really nice looking street. I nodded looking out of the window; the houses were huge, with big expensive cars in the drives.

He pulled in to a driveway and I glanced up at the huge pale blue house. It looked like my dad had certainly done well for himself.

"You sure he’s not here?" I asked nervously, as I got out and walked to Johnny’s side.

"I’m sure. The car’s not even here," he confirmed, waving at the empty drive. I relaxed and followed behind Johnny closely, up to the house.

I was barely able to breathe. As he opened the front door I gripped hold of the back of his t-shirt. He chuckled. "Amber, there’s no one here," he assured me, shaking his head as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders, pulling me into the house.

The house was gorgeous. "Want a drink?" he offered, leading me into the kitchen.

"Um, sure." I looked around at all of the expensive ornaments and furniture. "You could fit my whole house into your lounge and kitchen," I said, smiling.

He laughed. "This is house is nice, but it’s too big for just us. I don’t know why they had to buy such an expensive one."

"What does my father do now then?" I asked curiously, as he handed me a can of Pepsi.

"Stocks and shares. He’s some big broker or something, I don’t really understand it. He makes a lot of money though," he said casually.

He was still doing that then, that’s what he did when we were kids. I didn’t want to talk about him anymore; being in his house was freaking me out more than enough.

"So, you and Kate, huh?" I teased, trying to change the subject.

He blushed and nodded. "She’s nice," he muttered nervously.

I grinned at his blush, he really was adorable. "She said you kissed her." I raised my eyebrows excitedly, waiting for details. I’d had her version of the ’perfect kiss’ now I wanted his.

He grinned. "Yeah, did she say if she liked it?" he asked, blushing harder.

Oh hell yeah she did! "Yeah, she liked it a lot," I confirmed, waggling my eyebrows at him.

He laughed. "Well thank goodness for that." He sounded so relieved that I couldn’t help but laugh too. "I was thinking about asking her out, properly, you know, being exclusive. Do you think she’d go for that?" he asked, looking at me hopefully.

I grinned at his worried face. "Hell yeah she’d go for that." Kate really liked him, she would definitely be exclusive.

He laughed and messed up the back of his hair. "Awesome! Thanks, Amber."

"Go get changed then and let’s go eat. I’m starved," I instructed, nodding to the hallway.

"OK. I’ll be five minutes."

I shrugged. "You can shower and stuff if you want, I don’t mind waiting."

"Are you saying I smell?" he asked, laughing, as he made his way to the hall.

"Well, I was trying to be polite," I joked. He laughed and skipped off up the stairs.

I sat down at the kitchen counter, happily drinking my Pepsi, playing with his trophy, when I heard the front door open and a lady talking. "No, I just need to give him some medicine and put him to bed," she said.

I felt my breath catch in my throat.

"Well, he hasn’t stopped f**king crying," my father snapped, sounding annoyed.

I jumped out of the chair so fast that I nearly fell over. I moved to the other side of the counter, needing to put something between us if he was coming in here.

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