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“Is it obvious?” I ask, panicked.
I can’t see anything out of place, but then again, my vantage point isn’t great.
“Is what obvious?” Eli asks, stepping closer to me and closing the front door behind him.
“That I’m not wearing a bra! Can you tell?” I ask as I tug self-consciously on the bodice of my dress. “The strapless bra was killing me so I took it off. I didn’t think it was obvious.”
“Uh…” Eli stammers and he looks a bit like a deer trapped in headlights.
“Why were you staring at them?”
“I wasn’t!”
“I saw you!” I shout back, my cheeks flaming.
“You’ve got great tits. That’s it. It’s not obvious,” he says, holding his hands up in surrender.
His cheeks are a bright shade of pink and his eyes keep bouncing around the room, looking anywhere but at me.
“Really?” I ask, surprised but pleased.
“This feels like a trap,” he groans and I giggle.
“Can you really not tell? ‘Cause I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of your whole family.”
“You can’t tell,” he reassures me, grabbing my coat and holding it out to me.
I slip my arms into the sleeves and turn around to smile at him.
“Thanks. Are you going to zip it too?” I ask cheekily.
“Fuck,” Eli whispers a second before his lips land on mine.
“Not my hair,” I yell against his mouth and he jerks back. “No! Come back! Just don’t mess up my hair. It took me an hour.”
My fingers grab the collar of his coat and I tug him toward me, stepping on his boots to try to get closer to him. His lips mold against mine and I moan, opening for him.
He tastes like mint and the cold. His hands land on my hips and his fingers dig in there.
“You’re gorgeous, Hartley,” Eli whispers against my mouth.
“Thank you,” I whisper back, slowly opening my eyes open to stare up at him. “You’re not so bad yourself.”
He smiles slightly at that.
“We should get going.”
“Right,” I say, blinking out of the spell that his kisses always put on me.
My black clutch and a pair of heels are waiting by the front door, along with my hat and mittens. I hurry to tug them and my boots on before I take Eli’s hand and follow after him down the stairs and over to his truck,
Eli is just driving me, having already dropped his parents off this morning. Susan wanted to help set up and be there in case anything went wrong, so he dropped them off bright and early this morning.
“So tell me about your family. The ones that I haven’t met,” I say as Eli climbs into the truck beside me.
We spend the whole hour-long drive talking about his family, his cousin who is getting married, and about the work that I’ve been doing on the bakery. I laugh as he tells me a story from one summer when he was just a kid and his cousin and him got stuck in a tree. They had dared each other to see who could climb the highest and then had been too afraid to climb back down.
We pull up outside of the church and I see that it’s been decorated. There’s a hall next door and Eli points it out, explaining that the reception will be held there afterward as I tug off my boots and put my heels on.
