Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

Uncommon Phobias

I'm exhausted, my body sore and tired, but I still get up in time for school.

I decide then and there to not think about Jake at all, every time his name even

pops my head, I force myself to think about uncommon phobias.

I've ran through two of them today already and it's barely 7am.

Cleptophobia: Fear of stealing

into

Mageirocophobia: Fear of cooking.

Alex and I used to go through lists of these, fascinated by them.

I lock the front door to my house and when I turn to start my walk to school, I gasp

in

surprise.

Aiden stands there, leaning on the hood of his car with a smile on his face.

It's his careless smile that lets me know he is still completely oblivious to what happened between Jake and I yesterday and the night before.

My heart pounds in my chest but I smile. It's a genuine smile even if I did have to force it on to mask my shock of finding him there. "Aiden, what are you doing here?"

He shrugs, wrapping his arm around my waist. He kisses me slow, careful and with a gentle swipe of his tongue. I get butterflies in my stomach, which I'm so glad he can still

ignite.

"I missed you yesterday. Are you feeling better?"

Siderodromophobia: Fear of trains or railroads.

I nod, feeling just a bit bad for having to lie to him about feeling sick. "Much better."

He smiles down at me, "I wanted to give you a ride to school."

He opens the passenger door for me and I climb in, setting my bag on the floor. "You didn't have to. It's really not that far of a walk from here."

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engine. "I don't mind. I got you

look down at the cup holders, two coffees in the middle. Something sparks in my chest and my mouth parts.

widen slightly. "Do-do you not

trembling, my hands shaking as well as I take the

about you all morning, just wanted to see that smile on your face again," He leans

in my stomach going wild. "How was your day

his attention on the road. "Boring. Practice was tough. We have

tonight."

taking a sip. "I'm

on my

my head

okay?"

nervous," He

"Why?"

be scouts at tonight's game and I'm suddenly worried that I want to

them."

his and set my coffee down, leaning toward him to

bicep. "You'll do

never seen me play," He mutters playfully

00

you'll have to

barks a laugh, turning

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my chest and I'm so relieved that he looks nothing like his dad. They look so different, enough for me to temporarily disassociate one from the

Fear of

sure did

walk to our first class, hand in hand. Some people stare at us and I

me. "Sorry, it's kind

hold on to him tighter, biting down on my lips as the whispers

Sadie is

hold on his

look like the type

laugh at that. “No, she doesn't seem

not, but we've got this

gives us a shocked look, but says nothing as he blinks and returns to his lesson on the board. I see some other students take out their phones, snapping pictures of us and

sure our seats are close together, close enough to where our

the best team in

to him. "Do you guys think

reservations, but I think we can. It's

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