Love Aint Always Pretty

Chapter 97: EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE

LISSA'S POV

"Mom I'm going to be late for the orientation." I whined.

My dad was smiling. He finds it funny when I'm rushing mom and Vance.

"Vance come on!" I yelled again.

I see Vance running down the staircase, as he puts on his shirt. "Stop screaming early in the morning Lissa!"

"Mom!!" I whined again.

I watch as my mother rushes her way down the stairs, "Jesus Christ Lissa, calm down."

"It's first day mom. I need to hurry up." I answered her while she fixes her earrings.

My dad was busy putting on his blazer on himself and fixes his tie while he was on the phone with someone, probably work related. It's my first day to go into college and my folks are worrying about me. Well I am nervous too cos every teenager would pass through this transition, high school to college then college to real world.

But my parents are always so supportive of me and they trust me in everything I do and all the decisions I make. They're proud of me cos I always top everything I want to do and I'm always good almost at everything. I think I kind of gotten this attitude from my father, they say so cos we have the same eyes. My parents were planning on dropping me off first at the university before they'll fly to France to meet up with uncle Aries for business.

My mom said during her time, grandma and grandpa didn't send her off to college because they were busy in England and now she doesn't want me to feel what she felt while she was inside the car before. Uncle Cameron was the only one who drove her there, as she told me, and one of the reasons why she wants to come with me is that she wanted to see me go through the gates of WSU, dad also wanted to make sure I was safe.

My dad doesn't really want me to be in WSU for certain reasons that I don't know, but my mom insisted to and since some of my friends are going there and I heard it's a nice university with amazing professors and great education quality, then I guess it's where I'm ought to be.

I took up psychology then I'll have my master's right after four years. I want to write a book so bad since I'm fond of writing and reading. I want to have a degree someday too. I want to be famous by my own work and I want to make my parents proud of me. I'm such a bookworm, I love reading books and I got it all from my mom. She has her own library here at home and she has tons of different books which I could get benefit from it too. I guess I was basically perfectly halved in genes between my mom and my dad.

The four of us headed out to the car and drove our way to WSU. On our way, I was insanely nervous on my seat while my mom chants me some things I need to learn before going through college and my dad kept reminding me that I need to stay away from frat men because he knows how dangerous they are to me and my mom doesn't say anything about frat men. She just smiles and says let me enjoy my college years but then dad reminds me again he doesn't want me to have sexual intercourse with men.

"Oh come on dad don't bring this topic up." I say, answering him.

"Lissa as a father, I've been through college and I know what goes in there. I'm warning you." He says back.

"Okay I promise." I pulled my purity ring. "You locked me."

Mom smiles at me, "It's for your own good Lissa."

I smiled. I understand them on what they're trying to do. Of course I'm still a virgin, I've never had a boyfriend in high school though I had many suitors, I lost count on how many I busted. I busted all of them and some were scared by my dad.

When I reached the gates of WSU, I was in awe seeing all students going around the entire place with their friends. Dani was taking up business management in Harvard, she's a bit far from me but we've promised to keep in touch. I grabbed my luggage from my dad's hand and I stood right before them. They looked around the campus.

"It still feels the same." Mom says while dad wraps his arm around her shoulders.

Dad smiles and kisses my mom's temples. "Memories." He says.

"Well." I snapped, I got their attention.

They smiled at me.

"I'm going in now." I say.

Mom quickly hugged me and kissed my cheek, "Be careful in here honey. Always call me when something is up, okay? It's always hard when it's your first week. You'll get lost but you'll eventually get it."

I pulled myself away from mom, "I'll miss you. And thank you for coming here with me mom."

"Of course honey." She says, pushing my hair behind my ear.

Dad opens his arms and I threw myself at him, "I'll miss you too daddy."

"Me too Lissa. I guess I should stop calling you baby Lissa since you're already in college." He says.

I pulled myself away, "I'll always be your baby girl daddy."

He smiles and kissed my forehead.

"Bye sport." I rubbed my hand over Vance's hair and he quickly hugged me too.

"I'll miss you Lissa." He says.

I bend over and kissed the top of his hair. "Me too. I'll call to annoy you, don't worry."

He smacks my hips and I smiled.

I waved at them, "Bye." I say as I pull my luggage behind me and began to walk closer to the building.

Washington State University, I wonder what's in store for me. As I watch all the clubs calling out to freshmen to join in. Some cheerleaders walked up to me and handed me a flyer but I don't really like being in a cheering team. I've done that in high school and practice is tiring. As much as I would say I enjoyed watching everyone in the school ground, hate to say it that I was also getting lost.

I quickly grabbed the brochure and started looking for the directions to the dormitory. I paused and began looking for where I was standing.

I sigh. "Damn it."

"Melly!"

I know that voice. And I swear to god I know who that is. God, why did he had to be here too?

Suddenly an arm hooked over my shoulders and pulled me back. I sigh as I try to push his arm away.

"Hey baby Melly. Koo-chee-koo-chee-koo." He teases while pinching my cheeks.

I rolled my eyes at him. "Dick."

"Big one, too."

I smack his arm. "Ew."

He laughs. "God I missed you."

"Double ew. Will you pull your arm away? It's heavy. It's gonna kill me. Pull it away." I say.

He chuckles at himself. "Yeah I know you missed me too."

"That's so disgusting of you."

He pulls his arm away from me while laughing and grabbed my luggage from my hand. "Let me carry that for you baby Melly." He says.

"Thanks."

Both of us began walking together.

This is Dickson, uncle Aries' son from his past relationship years ago. He's a year older than me and uncle Aries didn't know he had a son, until his mother died in a car accident and he had to be under uncle's wing. He does have uncle Aries' blond hair and metallic gray eyes. He's a complete copy. Even being a freaking womanizer. Dickson has tons of women. I've known him since high school and despite him being such a freaking women's magnet, he loves me as a little sister. He looks out for me all the time and he teases me every time we are together. And I hate to admit it but he's very dear to me too because he's a close family friend. He's like an older brother.

"If uncle Nick didn't tell my dad you enrolled here, I wouldn't know." He says.

"I did it on purpose not to tell you. You're so annoying. You annoy me so much." I say.

He laughs and hooks his arm over my shoulders again. "That means I love you dearly."

"Gross Dickson."

He begins to move his lips closer to my cheek to kiss me but I tried to stop him using my hand. "Stop being a dick, will you?"

"Why do you always use my name against me?" He pouts. "You haven't even seen it."

I smack his chest. "Stop with the dick jokes, will you? I'm not gonna talk to you for a month if you'll give out one more. I swear."

He pulls his hand up and starts to pledge at me, "I promise not to say any dick jokes again. Sorry. I love you baby Melly."

He steals a kiss from my cheek.

When suddenly someone bumped into Dickson accidentally that made him fall onto me but quickly caught me his other hand. My luggage fell on the ground and luckily my stuff didn't scatter around our feet.

"Damn it dude!" Dickson exclaims.

Like uncle Aries, Dickson gets mad easily too. Especially when it comes to me. He is very protective.

"Are you fucking blind?!" Dickson yells.

I grab his shirt, "Dickson it's okay. Just let it off. Please."

I gaze at the other man who bumped us. He was busy picking up some music sheets and I noticed that he had a guitar hanging behind him. Then I realized as he pulls himself up.

Goodness he is handsome.

His hair was light brown, almost blond and it looked cool as hell. His hair style fits him. I think his hair is long since all of it was pulled back in a small man bun. He's tall. His eyes were light brown. He's ridiculously handsome and hot. He's like a cut-out supermodel in a musician photoshoot. Look at this creation. He is remarkably gorgeous. His eyebrows were furrowing at the center of his forehead and the more he looks mysterious, the more sexy and hotter he is. He kept looking at me and of course it made me feel awkward, but then he starts walking away from us. Leaving without a word said.

Wow.

Didn't even say he was sorry.

I take back what I said that he's handsome and he's hot and that his hairstyle fits him cos it doesn't. He's totally not handsome at all. He's not hot as well. I'm obviously lying.

"Asshole." Dickson mutters while he grabs my luggage again.

"Just let him go." I say.

When Dickson finally dropped me off the dorm, I was glad he made sure I came here safe and I easily found my room. I thanked him of course and he was hitting on my roommate even before he left. Such a womanizer.

So my roommate wasn't someone I expected. She was the total opposite of me. She had red streaks on her black hair, I don't know if she intentionally wanted to have bright red highlights but to me it looks irritating. She chews a gum, wears a leather skirt with a netted stockings underneath it and a black crop top that shows off her belly piercing.

Smile Lissa, be friendly. I thought.

"Name?" She chews her gum.

"Lissa."

She nods. "I'm Melody. There's a party tonight." She says.

I nod.

"Wanna come?" She offers.

I gaze at her. "Are there drugs and alcohols?"

She laughs. "It's college. Not high school, sweetheart. You coming?"

I look out of the window. Make friends Lissa. Maybe she has nice friends.

"Sure." I say.

Later that night, I found myself in a car with Melody on our way to the said party. She said it will be fun and she said it will be exciting as hell. When we finally arrived, I didn't know we were on a beach house. Wow. It was huge.

Melody and I started walking inside the house full of people where everyone had a drink and everyone was dancing. I know I don't belong in such place but maybe I could find.... friends?

Dickson offered me to go with him to his frat party but then he might tell my dad that I went to some frat parties. I wouldn't want to get grounded. And frat people aren't really the kind of people I know how to be friends with. I always think of them as scary moody people who will attack you any second.

"I'll take a walk outside." I say to Melody. She nods.

I start walking out of the backyard and saw a huge beautiful peaceful beach. There was no one here so I wanted to come here all by myself. I began taking off my shoes and started walking barefoot on the sand. I walked closer to the water and when I was close enough, I sat down on the sand alone.

Until I hear someone playing the guitar. Even though the house music played inside the house was loud, I could still hear someone playing.

I didn't move a muscle. And I was just carefully listening to someone playing it. The music begins to grow louder and louder. Closer and closer. Damn this person is really good. And he's playing the intro of Boston by Augustana over and over again. The hair from behind my neck is standing. I think the one playing behind me. It feels so close from where I am sitting down and the music feels really close to me.

I quickly turned around and saw him standing behind me, still playing the intro of Boston.

My eyes widened when I realized that it was that handsome mean guy who bumped to Dickson a while ago.

He stopped playing. But I was still looking up at him.

"You lost? The party is inside the house." He looks over his shoulder then looked back at me. "Not here."

Jesus his voice is so deep and thick and sexy as hell.

My heart is beating fast.

Beat, beat, beat, beat

Why?

"It's suffocating in there." I say. "You're here as well. Why?"

Suddenly he sits down next to me and placed his guitar on top of his lap.

I was mentally begging him to play Boston over again and hear him sing.

I realized that my eyes were still looking at him and he was also doing the same thing. We weren't talking. We were just having an eye staring contest.

He suddenly bends his head down and laughs softly them pulls his head up again but looks ahead to the waters.

"Saw you walking out here. I thought you were going to kill yourself." He says.

I bursted out laughing. "Wow. How lame would that be if I try to kill myself when I know how to swim."

He grins. "I didn't know."

God he's so handsome as hell he's toxic.

"Sorry about a while ago when I bumped you. I was in a hurry." He says.

I bite my lip hard cos now that he's this close to me, I could see the moonlight illuminating his face.

"It was nothing." I say sheepishly.

He pulled his hand up and extended it to me. He is definitely a musician, those long fingers and huge hand are making it obvious. "I'm Theo."

I accepted his hand. "Lissa."

He smiles at me.

Argh! He's really really good looking.

Beat, beat, beatbeatbeatbeat...

He pulled his hand away.

"Could you play that song again, please?" I asked.

He looks at me.

"It's just that I've never heard anyone play it on a guitar." I say.

He smiles and begins to pluck the strings of his guitar but his eyes were looking at me. The way he plays it is so amazing and it's so hard to look away.

Jesus Christ help me.

Beatbeatbeatbeatbeat..

Calm down heart.

"In the light of the sun, is there anyone? Oh, it has begun..."

Damn he's singing. And his voice is as erotic when he talks. The way he plucks the strings and the way he looks at me at the same time is sexy as hell.

"Oh dear, you look so lost..." he looks at me intently. And I feel my cheeks blushing. I'm turning red.

Beatbeatbeatbeatbeat...

I exhaled as I curled my fist into a ball.

"Your eyes are red and tears are shed,

This world you must've crossed...

You said..."

I took a deep breath in and watch him look over his guitar as he shifts to another fret.

"You don't know me

and you don't even care, oh yeah..." he moves his head back to me.

"And you said

You don't know me,

and you don't wear my chains...

oh yeah..."

Dad must have warn me to stay away from men, but I'm sorry dad.

I'm breaking one from your rules.

"Wanna go somewhere else?" He offered.

I paused.

"Don't worry. I won't touch you. My brother's throwing this huge party, it's giving me headache." He adds.

"You live here?"

He nods. "So, wanna go with me?"

I take a good look at him and I know he's harmless. He looks harmless.

"Hell yeah." I say.

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SFTC:

Boston - Augustana