Ch. 13 (Julian's POV)

I watched her kiss my trainer on the cheek and rush out the door. The only thing I could think of was the flushed red tone that appeared on her smooth mocha cheeks when we finally made eye contact after 7 years. Was she embarrassed I thought? I could still feel her hand on mine even though our handshake had ended moments before, wow was the only word that came to mind. Her hair was now curly and all over her head which was fitting for her. She was always so sweet and whimsical. Her skin was as clear and as beautiful as I remembered and she had definitely grown a little bit more into her body. I must have been spaced out for a while because one of my teammates roughly nudged my shoulder.

"Yo Jay you good?" he asked.

I swallowed hard and ran my hands down my face before saying "yeah, why you ask"

"Man I'm asking because you look like you've seen a ghost"

I cleared my throat and tried to swallow the lump that had formed there.

"Yeah something like that" I chuckled

My teammates and trainer gave me a few weird looks before I suggested we get back to business and we did exactly that for another hour or so. But even with us strategizing on different training methods to keep from injury and successful playing time all I could think about was Heaven. What had she been doing all this time? Was she mad I acted like it was our first time meeting? Why didn't she attend graduation or say good bye to anyone and most importantly where was her baby? Did she give it up for adoption? Was she just visiting or did she move back for good? My head was spinning with questions to the point that my thoughts alone gave me a migraine. I need to speak to her but how?

Our little get together ended and on my way home all I could think about was how I was going to get near my Cassanova again. I'm honestly not even sure how I got home because I was definitely distracted. It's almost as if my car was on autopilot and it just floated its self home.

I turned the key in my lock and pushed the door open and was instantly hit with Robyn's voice

"Babe is that you" I heard her say.

I rolled my eyes, sucked my teeth and grumbled some not so friendly words under my breath. What was she still doing here I thought?

I heard her footsteps come down the stairs and I quickly tried to hide somewhere but my thoughts were still being held hostage by Heaven, I couldn't think clearly or quick enough at that.

"Hey I called out to you love, you didn't hear me?" She said while grabbing onto my neck.

"No" I lied, while trying to subtlety trying to break away from her embrace.

"Didn't you have to work today?" I questioned. It's not that I cared about her day to day I just wanted to know why she was still at my house and not at her own/

"Yeah but I took the day off wanted to surprise you"

I mentally face palmed myself. "Oh, I'm surprised alright"

I met Robyn in highschool shortly after Heaven came to Riverdale. She use to help me when it came to Heaven considering that they were so close. She's even the reason I decided not to pursue Heaven right away because she told me she was still mourning the death of her father and didn't want to be bothered with a relationship at the moment. I took her word for it not wanting to step on her toes. I planned to take things slow but Brionna clouded my vision and then David swooped in. Even with us being with other people I still wanted Heaven but Robyn let me know that she wasn't into me the way I was into her because she didn't want to deal with my hoes and thats why she stuck with David, because he was a good guy. Even thinking about it makes me scoff. I would've dropped everything for Heaven but she just couldn't see that. Robyn and I stayed in contact once we graduated and eventually we became on and off Friends with benefits in college right after I found out Brionna was cheating on me. She was there for me when I needed someone there the most and it didn't hurt that I was getting a well needed release whenever I needed it. I never asked Robyn about Heaven just because I didn't want to relive the rejection and because she went ghost after highschool and cut ties with everyone.

I looked over Robyn from head to toe and felt nothing. Staring at her made me realize just how annoyed I was by her actually. She waved her hand in front of my face, "Earth to Julian, anyone in there?" I heard her say.

"Huh?" I responded, quickly snatched out of my thoughts.

"You didn't hear me?"

"No what did you say"

"You seem so preoccupied did you have a rough training camp?"

"No, It was mostly a meeting nothing rough about it"

"Ok so what happened at the meeting? Tell me about your day babe"

I cringed. I hate when she called me babe.

"Nothing, we just went over some workouts and some techniques we'll be taking to prevent injury and increase our endurance things like that and other stuff"

"What's other stuff?"

"Nothing but yo guess who I saw today"

"Who love?"

"Heaven..."

She froze. I instantly noticed her change in demeanor and it made me raise an eyebrow. What was that all about?

"You good Robyn?" I asked after a minute or two of her just blacking out

"Y...Yea..Yeah, is she back or is she just visiting" She stuttered

"I don't know"

"D..Di..Did you see her daughter?" The stuttering continued

"No, why?"

"Where did you see her?"

"Yo why all the questions? You got something you want to tell me?

All of Robyn's questions were getting on my nerves and something about the way her vibe changed was so shady to me. She was up to something. But to be honest I'm not sure if Robyn was the reason I was upset or if it was because I genuinely wanted to know the answers to all these questions and I didn't know them. I didn't know anything about Heaven anymore except I still loved her and that she currently belonged to someone else. But not for long...