The Outlaw

Gerardo also got inside the car and we drive to the building, bickering back and forth.

My eyes suddenly caught a familiar face passed out under the street light, I pulled my car near the figure and looked at him more carefully.

The man looked well off because of the clothes and shoes he was wearing.

“Why did you stop? Do you know this guy?” Gerardo asked me.

“Yeah, he looks familiar!” I said getting out of the car and walking towards the drunken man.

Gerardo pulled me back, “Don’t go to him! He could be dangerous!” He hissed in annoyance.

“Fine then you check who he is!” I said crossing my arms in front of my chest.

“Do we really have to? Can’t we just let the man be!” He reasoned. Well I do 100% agree with Gerardo to let this man be but my gut is saying that I should help him.

Then my memory clicked, “He is Dylan Shawn! We used to date in high school!” I said walking towards him to search for his wallet.

“Get away from him! I’ll search for his id card!” Gerardo said and mumbled something along the line about how women are weird.

When Gerardo found his id card and I was right it was Dylan.

“Gerardo I can’t leave him here!” I told Gerardo. He looked at me debating himself for a second, “Fine, I’ll help!” He said grumpily trying to pick up Dylan in his arms.

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Gerardo laid Dylan down on the couch of the living room as I carried all the groceries into the apartment.

“Finally fooddd!!” I heard Orlando’s voice as he came running into the living room but stopped midway looking at the guest, “Who the fuck is this guy?” He asked me.

“Just an old friend!” I said dropping the bags on the floor.

“There are some more bags in the car, could you get them? Also there is a bag of sweets in the back seat!” I said giving him the car keys.

Layla back skipping downstairs, “Is that Dylan? The guy you used to date?” Layla asked looking at Dylan carefully.

“Yup! I saw him passed out drunk. I thought I should bring him here before anything bad happened to him!” I said shrugging my shoulder.

Dylan is just as handsome as I remember, if not even more. His thick jet black hair was dishevelled with a few strands falling on his face, he had the most structured face, sharp jawline with a five o’ clock shadow. I couldn’t obviously see his grey eyes but I do remember girls falling head over heels for them. He doesn’t have very huge bulging muscles, he is lean muscular.

I brush some strands away from his face, “Layla can you get some blankets from the store room?” I asked her and started opening Dylan’s shoes. I know I shouldn’t be invading his personal space but who the fuck likes to sheep with their shoes?

I could feel an intense piercing gaze at the back of my head that make a shiver run down my spine.

Layla got him a blanket and a pillow, I placed the pillow under his head and draped the blanket over him.

“God I can still feel the connection between the two of you!” Layla joked making me roll my eyes.

“He is a good person” I said and went to my room.

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New year’s resolutions are the best I have to say. You make a resolution that you’d do something or withhold or whatever, and you are successful for a week or two max. And then

BOOM!

You forget why you even started or have no interest in the resolution anymore.

That’s what I feel, right now. And I couldn’t be happier with my choice.

I brush off some stands off her sleepy face, she snuggles closer to my bare chest. I give her a timid kiss on the forehead making her look at me with a shy smile. She flicked my nose and kissed my lips lightly, I looked at her amused and pulled her on top of me.

She let out a shriek then giggled, “What are you doing?” She said with a blush coating her face which she tried to hide by burying her face on my chest. I chuckled in amusement, “Am I seeing right? Or is the great Lilith Bruton is actually shy?” I teased her.

She plopped her face on my chest with an adorable pout, “Why are you such a tease?” She said in a baby voice making me laugh.

“I can’t believe this is the same Lilith who told be to choke her, bite her, pull her hair just minutes ago!” I laughed when her face turned red as a tomato.

She hit me lightly, “You’re such an ass!!” She said rolling off me and sat in the bed with her back facing me.

“Well you did fuck this ass!” I joked trying to get on her nerves, before I could have blinked she threw a pillow at me, “Stooppp!!” She whined matching towards the bathroom. I quickly got up and followed her like a lost puppy, before she should shut the door on me, I entered the bathroom.

“GERARDO! You’re naked!” She exclaimed pulling a towel from the rack and wrapping around her hastily. What is this girl hiding? I I have already seen every inch of her.

“I don’t know if you know this but we did have sex and that requires being naked!” I teased her, her face turned more red if that was even possible.

She whined like a little puppy, “Get out! Let me pee in peace!” She said cover

“Not before you give me a kiss” I said pulling her by her waist. A shy smile made it’s way on her face, “You’re so fucking clingy!” She said and pecked my lips lightly.

“That’s not a kiss!” I said tightening my hold on her. She huffed after a second internal debate, “You won’t get a proper kiss untill you take me out on a date!” She said and pushed me out of the washroom, shutting the door on my face.

I chuckled at her antics, she is one hell of a piece. I went back to the room to water the clothes she ripped off me. I pick up my t-shirt that was ripped in half, thank god for nothing happened to my pants. Wearing it quickly I walked out of her room to my room.

Orlando was laying on the bed giving me a side smirk, “Aren’t you looking smug!” He said making me chuckle.

“You said you wouldn’t do anything!” Asked plopping on the bed as I went through my clothes for a t-shirt.

“I didn’t do anything, just her!” I winked at my wearing a shirt. He laughed loudly throwing his head back, “Oh brother, the whole of England heard you do her!” He joked. I balled up my torn shirt and threw it at him, “Don’t annoy me asshole!” I said as a giddy feeling took over me, making me dizzy.

Even I can’t describe how incredible it felt to finally have her in my arms, all of her attention just on me. Though I would rather have preferred taking her out on dates first but we adults have bizarre ways of showing affection. Like the way I showed her mine, jealousy. Not my finest moment.

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***24 hours ago***

Lilith’s POV

I sat on the kitchen island sipping my tea, head head is banging against my skull like a drill. I clutch my head tightly in my hands groaning in pain, I have been working till sunrise for days and it’s really fucking with my head.

“Can I get some tea please?” Dylan said coming out of the living room.

I poured him a cup of tea as he came around the counter and wrapped his arms around me, “Thank you Lilith!” He said kissing my head. I smiled and tapped his arms in appreciation, “Why didn’t you freak out when you woke up?” I asked out of curiosity as I didn’t hear any curses thrown around.

He sat by myside, “Honestly I will be more freaked out if I woke up in my house!” He said seriously. I looked at him for a second them both of us busted out laughing.

“You haven’t changed!” I exclaimed, he winked at me drinking his tea.

“You can never upgrade from best, baby!” He joked.

I met Dylan when I transferred to a private school in 9th grade. The first day when I came to that school I felt pretty left out, because, well I was poor and others weren’t, none of them behaved badly but I still felt left out. In my first class, I met the class clown, Dylan, to say he made my day would be an understatement. Both the teachers and students kept on making jokes while teaching and sometimes pulling the legs of the people who are dating.

The harmony between the teachers and students was impeccable. Dylan and I stared talking slowly and before we knew it we became inseparable. We used to do everything together, from late night adventures to smoking weed to bunking school to playing pranks. Our connection mostly had to do with our past trauma that refused to leave us.

And when we were in 11th grade, we started dating until we were in our senior year of college. We both went to the same University and were together the whole time but in the end we realised we wanted different things in life and we broke up. There was a lot of tears shred but it was one of the smoothest breakup, we held no hard feelings for each other. We were still friends but slowly we drifted apart.

Last I heard from him was a year ago and now here he is drinking tea in my apartment.

“Ham and cheese sandwich?” I asked without looking at him.

“Oh my god yes!” He cried rubbing his head. I made him a sandwich and pulled out a couple of aspirin and have it to him.

“Eat up, douchebag!” I said plopping beside him.

We reminisced about our old time, talking and laughing at the things we did. Layla and Flynn were the first one to join us at breakfast followed by Orlando them Gerardo. Flynn and Orlando served us all hefty breakfast while we talked but Gerardo had a sour mood ever since he stepped into the kitchen.

“I tell you Flynn these two were the cutest couple I have ever seen!” Layla laughed looking at the two of us.

“Really? Cuter than us?” Flynn said with a pout, Layla leaned in and kissed him deeply making us gag.

“But seriously, they were two best friends who fell in love and went on crazy trips and did so many cool things together! I was so jealous at that time!” Layla admitted.

“We knew you felt left out that’s why we took you to Amsterdam with us!” Dylan chuckled.

“You guys went to Amsterdam?” Orlando asked in shock, Dylan shrugged, “Liz, here, and I visited a lot of places all over the world while we were dating. It is both of our dream to travel the world!” He said dreamily looking up at the ceiling.

“Yeah, after we graduated high school, we visited Amsterdam for a couple of months!” I added with a smile.

“So you were always a gold digger?” Gerardo asked spiteful. I rolled my eyes, “Gelato, we know the dick in your personality is compensating for the dick in your pants but please don’t be so obvious!” I said nonchalantly trying to hurt his ego.

“What’s wrong with him?” Dylan asked me, looking Gerardo up and down.

“He is a crackhead, doesn’t know what he says half the time!” I said making Orlando, Flynn and Layla chuckle but one look from the alpha had them shut up, misogynist!

“No, Gelato, if that’s really your name,,, why?.. but Liz here was my world and when I found out that we share the same dream of travelling the world, we took off..” He said looking at me dreamily, I gave him a small smile and elbowed him.

“She also helped me cope up with my illness and also made a realise that I am demiromantic. And that made me more comfortable with myself and love myself!” He said wrapping his arms around me.

Everyone in the room awed us apart from Gerardo who was sulking.

“If you were so compatible, then why did you guys breakup?” Flynn asked in curiosity.

I looked at Dylan who bit his lips and Layla sat there looking a little sad.

“Dylan wanted to marry me because I was pregnant with his baby..” I said

“I wanted to marry you because I love you and I wanted to start a family with you!” He said for the millionth time.

“I am childfree by choice but he wanted kids.. so we decided to break things off” I said

“So we thought it will be at our best interest that we terminate the baby. I didn’t understand her reasoning then but now even I am childfree by choice!” Dylan said making me chuckle.

“So what happened to the baby?” Orlando asked in curiosity.

“We had an abortion!” Dylan said with a shrug.

“Yeah I don’t know why people make such a big deal about abortion like you wanna keep your baby? Keep it. I don’t want to. So stop fucking intervening in my life and mind your own business!” I said in 100% honesty.

“Yeah and it’s not like they are going to help raise the baby in anyway but have the audacity to say we give birth and put the baby for adoption. As if we are going to let an innocent soul taint with the horrors of the world!” Dylan said making me look at him with a smile.

He has become more matured that’s for sure.

After talking for a few more minutes, Dylan stood up, “Thank you again Liz, you always there for me when I am at my worst!” He said pulled me in for a hug. I hugged him back as he kissed my head, “I don’t know how to thank you!” He added not leaving the hug.

“Personal space would be really appreciated!” Gerardo snapped at Dylan. Everyone’s eyes was on him in shock, amusement and confusion.