I can say with full certainty that we’re officially dating. It’s been awesome. We hang out in each other’s streams, we calleach other every night before bed, and spend most of the day texting.
I like him. I like himsofreaking much.
We click together so well. It feels like I’ve known him my entire life despite it being like a month and a half. I guess when you click with someone, time stops mattering. Or something sappy like that.
I’m whistling as I step out of my room and into the living area, a spring in my step. I come to a halt when I see people already here. Maki, Kei, and Sullivan, a guy from Maki’s volleyball team are all in the living area, sitting on the couch together.
“Hey!” I say, walking into the living room and sitting on the floor across from them. “What’s up? We having a movie night or something?”
Kei sighs. He turns towards the kitchen, calling out, “told you he forgot!”
“Shit,” I say, desperately trying to come up with what I forgot. “What did I forget? Usually Azaad reminds me of important stuff!”
“We’re having a team meeting about this year’s fundraiser,” Rin calls back, walking into the living room with his laptop. “Tea and coffee is ready but you have to go get it yourself. I wasn’t about to carry all those hot drinks,” he says with a grin, stopping to kiss Maki’s head on the way through.
Rin sets down the laptop, getting it ready for a call with Azaad. He looks at me with a raised brow.
“You really forgot?”
I cover my face with my hands. “I did. Gayle is on his way here too. I am theworst. You should send me out onto the highway in nothing but a thong, covered with honey, while a bear chases me down.”
“What the fuck?” Sullivan breathes out before bursting into laughter. Kei shakes his head at me while Maki makes a confused noise. “Why would yousaythat?”
I pout at Sullivan. “It’s what I deserve, Sully. Don’t you see?”
“Right,” he says slowly, nodding his head. “Makes perfect sense.”
“Don’t question him. It’ll only make your head hurt,” Kei says as he stands up, tugging Sullivan along with him.
Their friendship is really cute. Rin and I keep needling him about whether or not he had a crush on Sullivan but it turns out, they’re just buddies. I have a feeling they both have eyes on other people. One of these days I’ll bully Kei into spilling the details. Today, unfortunately, is not that day.
As everyone is in the kitchen, grabbing their drinks, there’s a knock on the door. I scurry over, throwing the door open with a grin.
Gayle is wearing gray khaki shorts, a plain black tee, and a teal Hawaiian button up worn open. He looks likesucha stereotypical dad. I need him. Carnally.
“Hi,” I say, pulling him forward and leaning down to kiss his cheek. Gods, I love how much shorter he is than me. “You look so good today. I’m so happy you’re here.”
Gayle smiles, pointing over his shoulder. “There are a lot of cars here.”
“Yeah,” I say with a wince, rubbing the back of my neck. “So, apparently, we’re having a bit of a team meeting today that I may or may not have completely forgotten about.”
“Shit,” Gayle says, his body freezing. “Do you want me to go? I don’t want to get in the way.”
“Absolutely not,” Rin says from the living room. “You can totally join and help us brainstorm, Gayle!”
“Are you sure?”
“Positive!”
“Your ideas are probably gonna be better than Rodney’s anyway,” Kei says, making me pout. Gayle just chuckles as we walk through the house towards the others.
“Coffee?”
“Yes please,” Gayle says before sitting on the floor next to Rin. Everyone welcomes him in, pulling him into their conversation.
I quickly make Gayle and I cups of coffee, his with extra creamer and some whipped cream on top. I even find some chocolate syrup to add to the top. My stomach is doing a variety of flips inside of me, watching as the guy I’m dating gets along with my friends, my pack.
I slide onto the floor next to Gayle, passing his coffee over. He looks down at it before smiling softly.
