Instinctively, she hooks her leg around me, pulling us even closer.
CHAPTER 38
MILES
We spend the next few days in one of those heavenly hazes where we’re doing nothing and everything, just lost in each other’s presence. I don’t know we quickly became this. Us. How we so easily fit together like this. We spend the days with our friends, talking shit about whatever’s on the rotation for the week. We take millions of photos to post online which are instantly met with comments like, You’re my OTP, How do these pics keep getting cuter, and I’m so jealous. And I fucking love it.
“Do you think you’ll get an award?” Wren asks, coming up behind me in the mirror while I brush my teeth. She’s wearing my shirt and nothing else as she bends over me to pick up her toothbrush. I watch her in the mirror, and it takes all I am to grip onto my toothbrush instead of her.
“Considering how I’ve been on the bench, and I’ve only just got back on the team, I’m not expecting to,” I say through a foamy smile before spitting and rinsing in the sink. I move behind her as she nods and places her toothbrush in her mouth. I wrap my hands around her stomach and rest my chin on her shoulder, watching the way her smile creeps up her cheeks while she tries to smother it with her toothbrush. “Do you think you will?”
“Maybe. I don’t know-” she mumbles. She takes the toothbrush out of her mouth and pauses, looking at me. “It’s not like Darcy has many options.”
“You’re the best skater on the team, Wren,” I say. She pauses the toothbrush at her mouth before shaking her head and finishes brushing her teeth. I move to the side of the sink, leaning against it while she rinses.
We have spent a lot of mornings like this. It makes this whole thing feel even more surreal. I knew that being in a real relationship with her would be fun and exciting, but I didn’t expect to feel this overwhelming sense of calm and tranquillity when she’s around. She moves to stand between my legs, her hands roaming up and down my shoulder as she studies me with a strange expression.
“You’re biased because we’re sleeping together,” she pouts as if she’s just remembered what we were talking about. I bring my hands around the back of her bare thighs, pressing her closer to me.
“Oh, we’re just sleeping together? I thought I was your boyfriend,” I whine sarcastically as she pushes me in the shoulder. I grip onto her waist as she leans into me, and I inhale her scent.
“Since when?” she asks, kissing along my jaw until she gets to my ear as she whispers, “It’s interesting how you’re alwaysbeggingto hang out with me,beggingme to stay over here,beggingto fuck me, but you’ve not had the decency to even ask me to be your girlfriend. If anything, I’m still faking it to qualify.”
“Is that what you want? You want me to beg you to be my girlfriend?” She pulls away from me and drags her lip between her teeth and nods at me in that sultry way I have spent every night since I’ve met her thinking about.
In one swift motion, I turn her around until her ass is against the sink. Her green eyes search mine as her eyebrows furrow when I don’t say anything. I lift up my shirt on her and run my hands from the back of her knee up to her ass and she gasps when I grab it. Her eyes don’t leave mine as I slowly lower to my knees, bunching the shirt in my hands. I leave long kisses on the insides of her thighs as she grabs my hair in her hands, twisting her fingers between each of my curls.
“I want you to be mine, Wren,” I whisper into her skin as I inch further up her thighs until I’m almost at where she’s waiting for me. “I want you to scream my name when I make you come. I want you in my bed every night. I want you and anything you’re willing to give me. I will do anything to get you to be my girlfriend.”
The only response I get is a small whimper when my mouth meets her pussy in gentle kiss. I don’t do what she’s expecting me to do and instead I kiss further up until I’m at her stomach before kissing back down her right thigh. Both of her hands come to each side of my face when I sit back on my heels. A huge grin splits across her mouth as she shakes her head disbelievingly.
“That wasn’t so hard. Was it, baby?"
*
Whenever Wren tells me to pick her up at a certain time because she’ll ‘definitely be ready by then,’ I automatically add another fifteen minutes onto the time because she’sneverready by then. Even now as I’m waiting in my car outside her apartment, it's been thirty minutes since the time she said they would all be ready. Wren is taking Scarlett as her plus-one so I can take Kennedy - for her - as my plus-one.
Sports Achievement Evening is the one night a year where all the sports students – more than half of North U’s population – can come together, get awards, get shitfaced and meet alumni that we are definitely not obsessed with. Everyone on the hockey team know the Class of ’15 team like the back of their hand. Some of them even got drafted into the NHL when they left NU and our team tries out best to follow in their footsteps. We’ve watched all of their games on repeat to try and figure out how they were unbeatable for three years.
It’s been a tough legacy to uphold but the guys and I are trying everything we can to be as good as them or even better. These events are for the coaches from each team to celebrate a few of their players for different categories. It’s a good way to hang out with all the basketball, football, and soccer players – we’re all so caught up in our own sports that we rarely get to hang out.
I’m about to start pounding my head on the steering wheel before I see the lights from the main doors of the apartment complex light up. Wren is the first one that I see.
She’s dressed in a red satin cowl neck mini dress, her blonde hair curled down past her shoulders as she walks to me in slow motion.When did that start happening?My eyes travel from her smug face to her tits to her long golden legs.
I almost forget that Kennedy and Scarlett are walking behind her in equally stunning outfits until they’re both pulling on the back doors of my car. I unlock them and they slide into the back while Wren sits in the front, beaming at me.
"You are something else, Wren,” I breathe when my voice comes back to me. She pulls on her seatbelt while the girls snicker in the back. I ignore them and wrap my right hand around the back of her neck, inhaling her perfume before kissing her. She tastes like cinnamon and sugar. She pulls back, holding onto the lapels of my blazer before pulling me back in again.
“I see you still haven’t figured out how to tie a tie, Milesy,” she murmurs when she draws back. She looks down at the tie hanging loose on my neck that I forgot was there. I don’t say anything while she works at the tie seamlessly, completely lost in the presence of her. Even when she’s finished tying it, she keeps her hands on me, looking at me with hopeful eyes. I open my mouth, hoping that words will come out, but nothing does.
“I’m starting to feel violent just looking at this,” Scarlett interrupts with a groan. I turn to her and she’s pretending to stab her eyes with her acrylic nails.
Wren blinks up at me, fear slightly crowding her face as if there’s something unspoken in the air which she’s afraid to address. It’s then that I realise that I’m falling for her. Like, really, no sign of the end kind of falling. It’s a ridiculous thought and I don’t know how I didn’t realise it earlier. But I think she feels it too.
The campus gymnasium is filled with black tables and white cloths when we walk in. Name cards are placed on each seat of the table. The sports department take nights like these very seriously as they decorate the gym with gold and black bunting. All the teachers are dressed in their best outfits, wandering around as they pick up punch and snacks.
My leg bounces up and down in excitement as we wait at our table for the guest speakers to arrive. I know I’m acting like a complete fangirl right now, but I can’t seem to care when this is one of the best nights NU have to offer. Wren’s hand on my knee doesn’t help the jittering even though she thinks it does. We’re sitting at a table with Kennedy, Scarlett, Xavier, Michelle and Tyler and their partner Beau.
