XOXO by M.K. Moore

Author:M.K. Moore [Moore, M.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flirty Filth Publishing
Published: 2022-06-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Ren

Three Weeks Later

Graduation Day

I watch as my best friend gives her Valedictorian speech. She’s been weird lately, but that’s probably because she knows I’ve been sleeping with her brother every night for three weeks. I look down at the ring on my finger. We are getting married next week. I didn’t want a long engagement because I can’t wait to be his wife. He told me about the house he’s building for us, and all the money and gift cards made sense. Apparently, everyone knew he loved me but me, but everyone also knew that I loved him. They left us in the dark on purpose. They had bets going on it. No one won, so they gave us the money.

“Remember, Class of 2022, life is just beginning. High school is over, but it's our time to shine. Let us go forth and show the world that the Windermere Wildcats are made of.” People applaud her, and of course, I join in. Then they start passing out diplomas. I’m graduating with honors, so my name is called fairly quickly, not that it wouldn’t have been either way. There are only one hundred and fifty seniors graduating today.

“Kerenza Rose Porter,” Principal Jones says as I cross the stage to her. She flips my tassel and shakes my hand as we take a picture. “Congratulations, Ren,” she says. I hug her and walk off the stage.

I did it. High school is finally over, and Avaline was right. Life is just beginning. After the ceremony, I make my way over to my family.

“You did it, baby,” Aaron says, lifting me up and spinning me around. He slowly lets me down, my front sliding down his suggestively. “Are you going to any parties?”

“Hell no. I want to spend the night with Avaline just like we always planned to do.” She comes over to me and hugs me.

“We did it, Ren.”

“We did!” I shout.

“About tonight…” she begins.

“I made seven-layer dip,” I tell her.

“Shit. Ren, I can’t hang out tonight.” Her birthday was last week, so we should be partying.

“Oh, okay,” I reply, disappointed.

“Something’s come up, and I promise I’ll tell you all about it when I get back next week.”

“Back? Where are you going?”

“It’s not important right now.”

“Be safe,” I tell her because I know that once she’s made up her mind, there is no changing it.

“I will,” she says, and she’s gone.

My parents take the rest of us out to dinner. The only people not present are Beckett and Avaline. I can’t help but wonder what is going on there because Beckett would never turn down free food.

After dinner, Aaron takes me to the Resurgence Hotel in Tallahassee. It’s the nicest hotel for hundreds of miles. And so expensive. I tried to protest, telling him the Windermere Motor Lodge would have been fine, but he insisted. He got us a room to celebrate in private. I’m barely out of my shoes when he picks me up and carries me to the bathroom.

“What are you doing?” I ask, giggling as he peels my black dress from my body.

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