enjoying the night with them. Jenna sat there for what seemed like hours when she heard a noise coming from the lakefront. She saw two familiar figures walking toward her. She knew who it was before they revealed themselves under the porch light.
“Hello, Jenna, Nice to see you again. We are sorry about your dad.” Tyler then leaned over to place a soft kiss on her temple.
“We’ve missed you. We’re glad you’re finally home,” said Nick.
Jenna had caught a glimpse of them in the back of the church as they walked out. They hadn’t spoke to her at the cemetery and avoided her at her mother’s house for the gathering afterward. She thought they had no intention in ever talking to her. Why would they want to talk to her? In the five years she had been gone, she had never taken one of their phone calls. They always sent her text messages, cards at Christmastime, and flowers for her birthday. She never responded to them. She wanted to so badly. She missed them so much. It took a lot for Jenna to leave them the next morning after she saw them with Kim, without even a word to either of them.
“Nick…Tyler, thank you for coming to pay your respects to my dad. I saw you both earlier at the cemetery. My dad thought of you as his sons, you know? I looked for you at the house, you must have left early?”
“It’s been so long since we’ve seen you. Tyler and I didn’t think we could control our actions the first time we finally saw you. We wanted to be alone when we first spoke to you. Tyler and I knew we couldn’t stop ourselves from doing this in front of everyone,” Nick said.
“From doing what?” she said
Nick pulled her into his arms and kissed her softly on her lips. As soon as he released her, Tyler took her away from him, pulled her into his arms, stared into her eyes then said, “We’ve wanted to do that for years, Jenna, but you ran away from us. You never gave us a chance to kiss you.” Tyler pulled her against his chest and kissed her lips like a man in need of a kiss. They had always talked about what it would feel like to one day kiss her lips.
Jenna pulled away when he ended the kiss and stared at these two men. What was going on? They never acted like this with her ever. “Why did you both kiss me just now?”
“We’ve missed you, baby. We’ve always known we wanted you, Jenna. You were always meant to be ours, but you ran away that night after you saw us with Kim and never let us explain. Instead, you ran off to California with Jeff and then married him out of the blue,” Tyler said
“I needed a change of scenery. Jeff told me I could go with him. It sounded like a good opportunity to do something exciting, so I went. I didn’t think I needed to run anything by you two. You guys were in college. You had a job in town and girls falling all over you. I didn’t think you would even know I was gone? You were having fun and doing what you wanted. What was so wrong with me doing something spontaneous? We were friends, nothing more. You should have been happy I wasn’t tagging along anymore. That way you could date more without me in the way.”
“What the hell’s wrong with you? Did you really believe that all those years we spent together you never meant anything more to us than friends?”
Jenna could tell Tyler was pissed when he told her that. She saw the fire in his eyes. Tyler was always the one who seemed to be the hard-ass of the two, and Nick was more of the patient one, the peacemaker. They were such gorgeous male specimens. They always attracted the attention of girls when she was around them. Tyler was six foot three, and he had black hair with these beautiful blue eyes. Nick was a few inches shorter with brown hair and brown eyes. They were still both gorgeous as ever. They had only grown more handsome in the past five years since she’d seen them. Nick and Tyler appeared manlier. They no longer had a boy’s physique.
“Jenna, why did you marry Jeff? We know you
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