Chapter 24- Revealing The Truth

Chapter 24- Revealing The Truth

-Emma-

"You were in love with her! She came to me the day after you confessed to her that made you heartbroken! Why don't you just tell Emma that you're using her to get over Mia huh!? We all know it's true!" Mark yelled back at Aiden landing a punch at Aiden's jaw which caused him to respond with a punch at Mark's nose. I didn't know what to do, I just stood frozen there and at that time Matt and Derek pushed through the crowd and saw the fight and grabbed Aiden off of Mark.

Mark got up off the ground touching his jaw. "This is not over." Mark said staring Aiden straight in the eye menacingly then turning and walking away the opposite way.

I looked over at Aiden who was breathing heavy and was staring straight at me and saw that he had a bruised jaw and instead of tending to it I turned and walked away weaving through the crowd. Different thoughts were running through my mind.

Aiden was in love with Mia.

Mark just said that Aiden was using me to get over her.

Was that true? Was Aiden really using me to get over Mia?

Well one thing was for sure I was not about to stick around to find out.

"Emma!" I heard Aiden's voice yell above the blasting music. I ignored it and continue my weave through the crowd till I reached the exit of the club.

"Emma, please hear me out." Aiden pleaded catching up to me and grabbing my arm to stop me from walking out the exit of the club. I ripped my arm away from his grip and walk straight out the club exit out to the cold night. Honestly, I didn't want to hear anything from him right now as these thoughts of him actually using me to get over Mia ran through my mind.

"Sweetheart, please just let me explain." Aiden said catching up to me and grabbing my wrist this time ceasing me.

"Explain what?" I whipped around to face Aiden, I could feel angry course through my body. "Explain what exactly Aiden? Tell me, what Mark said about you using me to get over Mia, was it true?"

Aiden ran a hand through his thick brown hair and sighed, he looked hesitant to answer. "At first yes, but Emma I-"

"I'm done, so done with you right now." I said interrupting him. "And here I thought that you liked me for me, I never thought you would be a person that would use me." I laughed a little at that, but that small laugh was filled with my heart aching that was just cause by Aiden's confession. "I was a fool, a fool for ever thinking you wouldn't use me. I was a fool for ever lo-" For ever loving you. It just dawned on me as I was ranting on that I was in love with the guy in front. I, Emma Miller am in love with Aiden Black. I felt the shock of the discovery jolt through my body. I'm in love with Aiden. I look at Aiden to see his eyes widen in shock, he probably figured out what I was gonna say. I ripped my wrist away from his grip to which he was still frozen in shock of my almost confession. I couldn't just stand there even after my almost confession, so I just turned away from his frozen statue and walked away into the busy city night leaving Aiden and the club behind.

How could I be so stupid to think that a bad boy like him wouldn't use me to benefit himself? Because you saw the better in him. Even if I did see the better in him, it didn't give him the right to lie to me. He might have been afraid to tell you the truth. Why though? Maybe because telling you the truth meant losing you. Damn, I hate when my brain is right.

A gust of cold wind blew hitting me directly in the face, I wrapped my arms around my body tight trying to conserve some body heat, it doesn't help that I'm dressed in a laced top and it's about freezing outside either. I looked around to at my surroundings and saw a Starbucks across the street. Just the plain sight of it made me felt warm on the inside. I walked across the street and into the warm building of Starbucks. I walked up to the counter, ordered a hot chocolate and once I got it I took a seat at the closest table sipping on it aimlessly as I got lost into my thoughts.

"Emma?" I heard my name being called by a deep masculine voice. I froze for a moment, not able to recognize the voice. I looked up to see Nick standing next to my table. My brain must have really been in overdrive not being able to recognize his voice.

"Hey Nicky." I said forcing a small smile onto my lips. "What are you doing here?" I asked playing with the rim of my cup.

"Grabbing something to drink." He said holding up a similar cup to mine. "But I could ask you the same thing Em. What are you doing in the city? You barely come here." He questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"I was in the mood for some hot chocolate. So I came here." I said taking a sip of my still warm hot chocolate.

"For some reason, I don't believe that." Nick said taking the seat right across of me.

"Well believe it Nick, because it's true."

"Yeah, you're lying." He said simply as he took a sip from his cup.

I raised an eyebrow at his words. "How do you know if I'm lying or not?" I asked him.

Nick looked at me. "Emma, I've known you all your life and even though I'm not around a lot anymore, I can still read you like a book just like before. So what's up? Talk to me."

I sighed, a bit hesitant to answer. Nick is one of my best friends, he's someone I can trust and I can trust him with this, even if it is dumping my problems on him. "Can we go for a walk then?" I asked. I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed just being in here.

"Sure as long as you're willing to tell me what's wrong." He said with a shrug of his shoulders. Taking the last sip of my hot chocolate, I stood up from my seat as did Nick and threw my empty cup in the trash. Opening the glass door that lead out to the bustling city night and stepping out of the building, the cold wind that was blowing before had now stop leaving the night not as cold as before. "So start talking, Emmy." Nick said falling into step with me as we walk down the sidewalk.

"Where do I start?" I said with a sigh.

"From the beginning." Nick said with a smirk and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Well I'm not in the city just to get some hot chocolate." I started.

"I can tell obviously." Nick said.

I slapped his arm. "Shut up and let me continue." I said scolding him which caused him to pout and rub his arm. He didn't answer back so I took that as my cue to continue. "We decided to go to the club tonight as a way to let our stress set free for one night.

"Whose we?" Nick asked.

"Derek, Matt, Amy and Aiden." I answered.

"Aww my little Emmy is finally growing up! Finally you did something fun for once." He said pinching my cheek which caused me to slap his hand away. Idiot.

"Yeah, yeah whatever. So as you can see by my attire we actually did come to the club."

"Yup, looking smoking Em." Nick said sending a wink in my direction which caused me to blush.

"Anyways, when we got into the club all of us were having fun, all our stress seem to have melted away by the music and alcohol. That is until something happened."

"What happened Emma?" Nick said in a worry tone.

"Aiden being a bad boy means that he has a past, but everywhere we turn it seems like his past keeps popping up. In the club we bumped into a guy from his past, his name is Mark and let's just say he's a person you do not want to mess with. Long story short, Mark said that Aiden was using me to get over a girl who use to be his best friend and the person he was 'in love' with. I walked away from him leaving him at the club and now here I am with you walked down the street of the city."

"Do you think it's true? That he's using you?" Nick asked with a bit of an edge in his tone. I could tell he was not happy about the thought of someone using me. We walked to the end of the street and when we turned we ended up at board walk that over looked a lake the sight of it was beautiful with the bright moon shinning onto the glistening lake and the building surrounding with its lights made the lake much more brighter, but I couldn't really admire it when Nick's question was racking my mind.

"I know it's true." I said with a bit of hurt and sadness in my voice. "I asked him and he said yes." I said softly. Nick wrapped his arms around me pulling me into his embrace and I immediately responded wrapping my own arms around him.

"Emmy, it's alright." He said softly stroking my hair. "He's the idiot for even thinking about using you."

"Nick that's it, even though he's used me I still lo-" love him.

"You love him, don't you Em?" He asked and I nodded my head.

"Yes." I said softly. "I love him and I almost confessed that to him tonight when I was telling how much of a fool I was to trust him."

"Did you give him the chance to explain why he was using you?"

"Why should I?! He lied to me!" I yelled removing myself from Nick's embrace. I was fuming with anger.

"Emma" Nick said grabbing a hold of my shoulders. "You know there are two sides to every story. You said you love him, so if you actually do then you'll give him the chance to explain himself."

I closed my eyes and rubbed my throbbing temples. "I hate when your right Nicky, but you do give good advice and I can always count on you." I said opening my eyes and giving him a small smile.

"Always." Nick said with a pulling me back into his embrace giving me a hug.

"Get your fucking hands off my girlfriend." A deep voice growled from behind me which cause me to freeze. Aiden.

Nick and I pulled away from each other's embrace and turned to face a fuming Aiden. "Do you need me?" Nick whispered to me.

"No, I think I'll be fine Nick." I said holding my head up high.

"Alright, call me if you need." He said and I nodded at him and with that Nick turned around and walked down the same busy street we came from.

I walked closer to Aiden and the closer I got I could see his jaw clenched tightly and his hands into fist. "Who the hell was that?" Aiden growled out.

I raised an eyebrow at his tone. "Nick, Amy's brother." I said simply. "How did you find me?" I asked him.

"I looked everywhere for you Emma, I was not gonna let you walk away from me without the explanation you deserve." He said, I could see his anger diminish, but mine was still arise.

"Explain what exactly? That you were using me as a replacement for Mia, hoping that maybe your feelings for her would turn into true feelings for me?"

"Yes, at first I thought that maybe you would be the one that would help me get rid of my feeling for Mia, but sweetheart you were never a replacement for her." He said taking a step closer to me.

I scoffed. "Yeah, right." I glanced out to the lake in front of me, trying to avoid eye contact with him. "It still doesn't excuse why you lied to me and didn't tell me you love her, Aiden. You lied about a part of your past to me. What happened to trusting me Aiden?"

"I do trust you Emma, I've always have. But I had a feeling if I told you about that part of my past that I would lose you. That night Mia found out I had the drugs in my pocket and that I was dealing, I knew that she would go to Mark and try to get me out of this predicament that I had gotten myself into. So I had to say something that would stop her from doing that because I knew Mark would take her away from me but I knew she would do it anyways, so I confessed to her before I could lose her, I told her that I was in love with her hoping she would feel the same, and I was since we've met each other in our younger years. She told me that she felt the same and I told her that I would handle this that I would have gotten myself out of it, but Mia being Mia didn't think I would be able to and went to Mark instead that night. When I found out she told me she did it because she loved me and that she couldn't stand to see me like this. She did it because she was in love with me and I couldn't stand to see her in my mess. I begged Mark to let her go and take me instead, but Mark being the asshole that he is kept her away from me and rubbed it in my face each time that he had the girl I loved and care for. But when I met you Emma you were different. You were someone I could trust and when I started to care for you it scared me. I never wanted you to know about my past, but when I told you I left out the part about me being in love with me because I was starting to like you Emma."

"I liked you but I was still in love with Mia at the time. When we started to get closer and closer I could feel my feeling for Mia faded and my feeling for you grow and when you became my girlfriend I knew I couldn't tell you about that part of my past so left that part out again because this time I truly did not wanted to lose you."

"But you still love her don't you?" I asked turning to face him feeling mixed emotions inside of me. "Even though we're together you still love her right?"

Aiden grabbed my arm pulling me closer to him. He took his hand and put a piece of my brown hair behind my ear because the wind had picked up again causing my hair to fly around. "No Emma, I don't love her anymore not ever since I've started to fall in love with you."

I looked up at him. "What?" I asked thinking I haven't heard right.

"You heard me sweetheart. I'm falling in love with you. No screw that, I'm in love with you, Emma and I have been for awhile and this was the push I needed to tell you."

"You're lying. You're in love with me?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

Aiden chuckled. "Yes sweetheart, I'm in love with you." He said with a grin.

I felt every unwanted emotion faded away into one thing: Happiness. "Well guess what Mr. Bad Boy? I'm in love with you too." I said smiling up to him.

His hazel eyes sparkled with happiness. "I know you do. You almost said it at the club parking lot." He said with a smirk.

I smacked his arm. "Just shut up and kiss me." I said wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Gladly" Aiden said with a smirk and wrapped his arms around my thighs and picked me up kissing me full on the lips, the kiss was filled with happiness, passion and most of all love.

When we pulled away from each other our breaths were heavy from the kiss we have just endured. "I love you Emma." He whispered to me resting his forehead against my own.

"I love you too Aiden." I whispered back to him.

Not even the events from tonight could ruin this moment. Not even finding out the Aiden was in love with Mia or him using me to get over his feelings for her or him lying about it could ruin it. Because despite all that I still cared for him, despite all of that I was still in love with him as he was for me. Not even thought about Mark or Mia could ruin this blissful moment that was meant for us.