Chapter 8 Kay's Memories

• We met the summer I turned 15. Luke had been friends with the guy I was seeing at the time and so we were constantly around one another. It didn’t start off as love, but rather an odd friendship. He and I would share looks about my ex through parties and he would watch my drinks when I peed. When David finally hurt me to the point that I was finished, Luke was there. He kept me company, held me while I cried, and cared for my feelings. He hid me from David and protected me from the wrath of our friends. Eventually I wanted more with him, but it seemed like he wasn’t interested. A friend of mine came to me one day saying she was interested in him, and I told her we slept together before we had, and the day he confronted me about it I confessed how I felt. He answered my feelings with one of the most passionate kisses I could have ever experienced. After that day he was fire, my roman empire. I breathed for him. We spent the next 6 months worshipping each other mentally and physically. Then one day when I came home David was there. He was so angry that I would choose Luke over him. He came to tell my parents what he and I had done over the summer, and what Luke and I were still doing. Luke was banned from my house after that day. When I turned 16, my parents divorced, and my mother moved us away. It was a jarring and bittersweet end to the most passionate relationship I had known.
• After we moved to Arkansas, I tried hard to forget Luke. I dated and slept around but no one made me glow the same way. Then I met Peyton. He was younger than me by a couple years, but he saw how broken I was and tried hard to help me piece myself back together. He had been patient, kind, caring, understanding when no one else was. Our love was a slow simmer, never quite reaching a full boil, but Peyton made me feel safe and secure. At the time I needed security. I spent 10 years as Peyton’s girlfriend, and now 5 as his wife.
• As time drew on Peyton became cold and uncaring. Video games and money were all that preoccupied his mind and I could’ve thrown myself naked on his lap without him ever noticing. Luke wouldn’t have been like that. Although, he had almost caused Peyton and I to divorce 2 years ago…