He starts the engine and his CD player loads The Script. The music plays softly from the speaker behind my head. I love The Script.
Kieran takes my hand into his and wraps his fingers around mine. As he glances at me, he leans into me and he kisses me softly on my cheek.
I smile at him in return.
When we stop at a red traffic light, Jayden glances back in the rear view mirror at me. His dark brooding eyes pierce mine pensively. He grins when I glare back at him defiantly. Weirdly, every traffic light we get to between their house and mine is red, and we repeat the silent battle between us until we reach my house.
I notice the glimmer of the television through the curtains hanging in my lounge window, and I get out of the car with a soft sigh. Kieran gets out of the car on the other side.
As I walk past Jayden's open window, he says my name softly. The sound whispers in my ear.
I stop and turn back to him. Kieran walks around the car hurriedly and stops next to me, wrapping his arm around my waist protectively. I lean into him naturally.
A hard edge forms around Jayden's lips when he asks sarcastically, "Has Kieran made you the empty promise of keeping you safe yet?"
I feel Kieran stiffen next to me. He says angrily, "Jayden!"
Frowning I look from Kieran to Jayden. Kieran gently pulls me away from Jayden and then with his hand firmly in the small of my back he guides me toward my front door.
He says apologetically, "Ignore Jayden, he is angry and disgruntled."
" It's okay. He doesn't bother me."
Kieran takes my face between his palms and then pulling my face slowly, tenderly toward his, he brushes his lips fleetingly over mine. "Good night, Heather and I will always keep you safe, it is not an empty promise," he says seriously.
" Good night, Kieran." Somewhere deep inside I know he will.
As Jayden and Kieran drive away from Heather's house, Kieran turns toward him angrily. "I thought you said this time you would not interfere. I thought you specifically said you were tired and that you will help me to find a way to break this curse. You are supposed to back off."
Jayden settles deeper into his seat. "It was before I saw her again and what have I done anyway. I have not touched her and I have not even spoken more than two words to her."
" What was the whole, did he tell you he will keep you safe thing? Why don't you just tell her everything and then scare the living daylights out of her."