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“That wasn’t planned. I swear, Angel, I didn’t come out here with intentions of that happening,” he explains quickly while tightening his grip on me. It’s as if he’s afraid I’m going to take off.
I don’t plan on taking off. I need to know why? Why he kissed me? Why he just – well he nearly made me come like a Rockstar with nothing more than a little grinding and kissing.
“My intentions were to find you and lay it all on the line. Tell you how I feel about you. Hope and pray you feel the same way, but I couldn’t find the right words, so I kissed you. I thought showing you how I felt would be better, but then -,”
My heart is pounding so loud I’m honestly shocked that he can’t hear it. I know what he is trying to say. I feel it. I still need to hear him say the words. “How do you feel about me, Jax?”
He tilts my head up so that I have to look at his eyes. It’s something he’s always done when he really wants me to hear him. “I fucking love you, Zoey. I’ve loved you for so damn long. Please tell me you feel something for me. Even if it’s just a little bit.”
I stare at him. His eyes shine with raw emotion that I’ve seen before but never realized what I was looking at. I was too damn blind to see I guess, but it’s all right there in those swirling brown and green eyes. “Jax, I’ve loved you since I was eight years old. I’ve been in love with you since I was fourteen. Why do you think I don’t date a lot?”
He chuckles a little bit. “Honestly, I thought I just did a good job of scaring other guys away. Come to find out, they’ll all knew how I felt, and were trying to be decent guys.”
I raise a brow at him. “Do you really think the only guys around go to our school? Jax, I’ve been asked out so many times it’s almost exhausting. I was just never able to stop comparing them to you. No one could ever measure up.”
He gently brushes hair from my face. Something he’s done so many times in the past that I wonder how I never saw the tenderness behind it. “You really feel that way?”
“How could I not? You’re the only one I ever see,” I say bringing him back to my mouth to place a kiss to his lips.
“Aww,” Zane’s obnoxious voice cuts through. “Did you two finally pull your heads out of your asses?”
“Fucking asshole,” Jax mutters against my mouth with a smile.
“He knows?” I ask him in a whisper.
He nods. “Apparently, he’s known since we were kids too.”
“I hate him sometimes,” I mutter, wondering how much sooner we could’ve been together if Zane would’ve clued us in because apparently he’s the only smart one of our little trio – which I will never admit out loud.
“Come on,” he says with a gesture of his head. “Let’s go before he tries to join us.”
“Just so you know,” Zane says to Jax when we reach him, “I’d do you anytime, but she’s my sister, man. She’ll have to go.”
“How are we twins?” I groan shaking my head at the same time Jax asks, “How are we friends?”
“Hey, Jay, you started it,” he jokes. “I was just laying some ground rules.”
Zane wraps his arm around my shoulder while Jax takes my hand. There is a gleam in his eye that lets me know his next round is going to be highly inappropriate and I’ll probably have to slap him at some point.
But in that moment, I couldn’t care less. Jax told me he loves me. He fucking loves me! Absolutely nothing could be better than that.
Jax
When we walked back into the party hand-in-hand, no one batted an eye. It’s never been unusual to see us holding hands. Judging from the smirks on Justin and Kyle’s faces, though, something must be different.
It feels different. It feels amazing to have this girl, my girl, wrapped in my arms knowing how I feel. It feels fucking out of this world to know she feels the same way about me.
It’s nearly dawn, and everyone has either left or passed out somewhere. I have no idea where Zane has disappeared to again, but I know he’s not far – or alone. Zoey and I have been sitting in a lounge chair by the pool for a while now. We’ve kisses, talked, and kissed some more.
Like right now. Her arms are wrapped around my neck, her fingers wrapped in my hair. My hands wander up and down her back and over her stomach. Our lips are pressed together with tongues swirling, tasting each other.
When everything starts getting a little too hot, I pull back. I don’t want our first time together to be on a lounge chair by someone’s pool while there are dozens of people passed out in various locations throughout.
I push a piece of her hair behind her ear. “You’re so damn beautiful,” I tell her softly.
“Why didn’t I see it before?” she asks, confusing me a little. I give her a look asking her to elaborate. “The way you look at me when you call me beautiful. I never noticed before. I never noticed that you felt anything but friendship. I saw you with other girls. I knew you weren’t really interested in them, but I never thought you were interested in me either. How did I not see the way you’re looking at me right now?” She raises her hand to my face to cup my cheek rubbing her thumb over my lips.
I place my large hand over her much smaller one. I turn into it to place a soft kiss. “I just assumed I was really good at hiding it until Kyle, Justin, and Zane called me out. I guess Maddox did too.”
