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I went to kneel next to the bunny cage and gave Cosette the blueberry I’d brought up for her, then picked her up and walked over to the bed, climbing in next to Ian and setting Cosette down on the comforter. As I curled up on his lap and rested my head on his shoulder, Cosette dug at the blanket for a minute before jumping down and starting to hop around the room.
“I’ve always wanted to go to New York City and do New Year’s Eve in Times Square,” I said after a few minutes of comfortable silence. “Just once. It’s on my bucket list.”
“Maybe next year or the year after,” he said.
“Really?” I picked my head back up to look at him, shocked.
“I want to make all of your dreams come true, Ky,” he murmured, giving me a kiss. “And that’s a pretty easy one. What else is on your bucket list?”
“Um…visit all fifty states. So far I’ve only seen five. California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Well, I guess technically six. My mom and I stayed in Council Bluff when we went to the Omaha Zoo, so that’s Iowa too.”
“Then New Year’s in Times Square definitely has to happen. That’ll cross another state off your list too. What states are the most important to you?”
“Definitely New York,” I mused. “And Massachusetts, because I want to go to Boston and Salem. And Maine, because I’ve heard it’s beautiful. And the most unlikely. Hawaii.”
“What if we try to plan a trip somewhere in the Northeast over the summer before I have to go to training camp? Maybe Massachusetts. It’d be pretty cool to see the Red Sox.”
“That sounds expensive,” I chuckled weakly.
“Yeah, I know. But we can look at prices and see if it’s feasible. Maybe we can skip prom and grad night and put the money we’d spend on those things toward the trip?”
“You don’t want to go to prom or grad night?”
“Eh,” he muttered. “Not really. Other than B and Melissa, I can’t stand anyone we go to school with. Because every last one of them has done nothing but make life miserable for the girl I love.”
I smiled. “I love you. So much.”
He leaned forward and captured my lips in a slow, sweet, tender kiss. I let out a whimper as he slipped his tongue out and started massaging mine, and he tightened his embrace and slipped an arm under my shirt, sliding it up my back and caressing my shoulder. I moved so I was straddling his legs, and he started to slide my shirt up my sides, looking right into my eyes as he did. I lifted my arms so he could pull it off, then brought my mouth back to his, needing another kiss like I needed oxygen.
Ian scooted down in the bed so he was lying down, then rolled us over so he was above me, pulling back to look me in the eye.
“You okay, baby?” he murmured.
I nodded. He’d never actually been on top of me like this while we were making out before, but I was okay with it. I liked having him be the only thing I could see or feel.
“I need your words, Ky. I know I haven’t been asking as much lately, but tonight, I need to hear a yes every time I check in with you. And I need you to tell me if you’re even a little bit uncomfortable with something I’m doing. Can you do that for me?”
“Yes,” I breathed. “Turn off the TV.”
“You sure?”
I nodded again. “The only thing I want to hear is your voice.”
He grabbed the remote, and with the click of a button, suddenly the only sound in the room was our mingled breaths as his mouth collided with mine again. When he pulled back to catch his breath, I’d never seen him look at me with quite so much adoration as he did now.
“I love you, Kyler Strong,” he whispered.
“I love you, Ian Thomason. So much.”
As Ian claimed my lips again, he pulled me up slightly and unclasped my bra, sliding it down my shoulders. Then he pulled his shirt off before laying me back down and his lips went to my shoulder, trailing feather-light kisses all the way up my collarbone to my neck. His hand slowly skimmed up my body and palmed one of my breasts, kneading softly before pinching my pebbled nipple. I let out a soft moan as I wrapped my legs around his waist, starting to writhe underneath him in an effort to relieve the tingling between my thighs.
“It’s just us here, baby,” he murmured, lowering his head to trail his tongue where his hand had just been. “Don’t hide from me. Let me hear you.”
He sucked my nipple into his mouth while rolling the other one between his fingers, and this time, there was no possible way to moan quietly. He was making me feel too good.
“Damn, that’s hot,” he rasped, taking his mouth away from my breast.
“No, don’t stop,” I whimpered.
