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I gave him a thankful smile and sat myself between his legs. I leant back against him and he put his arms around me. He kissed the side of my head and leant his chin on my shoulder.
“Where were you?” I asked, having nothing else to say to him. I didn’t really care where he was, I was just curious; he might have gone out less these days, but going to a party on a Tuesday wasn’t unheard of for him.
I felt him shrug. “At a mate’s. He found himself with a bit of a gathering and invited me over.”
“You could have stayed,” I said without thinking.
He huffed a laugh. “No. We’ve been through this.”
I nodded. “Right, my bad.”
“You want to talk about it?”
“I have no idea where to start,” I admitted.
“That’s okay,” he said, rubbing my arm where it lay over my stomach. “Just say whatever you want.”
“What if I want to say nothing? What if I want to tell you I’m in love with you? What if I want to say I feel like walking into that water and never coming out?”
He squeezed me tighter. “You can say everything. You can say nothing at all. You know that.”
I leant my head back against him and sighed. “I’m just so over it. Why can’t we just sit here in this moment forever?”
Roman kissed my shoulder. “Well we’re certainly not in any hurry to go anywhere, are we?”
“We can’t stay here forever.”
“Maybe not. But, we can stay here as long as you like.”
“We have to go to school tomorrow.”
“Do we?”
I smiled. “Well, I do.”
“But, you won’t have to deal with next year if you don’t pass this year,” he teased, hugging me close and dipping his nose in my neck.
I giggled. “I am successfully avoiding my current issues, thank you. I don’t need to add to them.”
“Can I do anything?” he asked me, his nose running up my neck and sending goose bumps across my arms.
“Just be you.”
“Always, Barlow.” He rubbed my arm again, then stopped when I jumped at an unexpected sting. “What have you done to yourself?” he asked.
I looked down as saw a dark splotch on my arm. “Ah. I had a battle with a tree and apparently I lost.” I stuck my leg out and saw a dark splotch on my shin as well.
Roman sighed and hugged me close. “What the hell am I going to do with you? Honestly. Babe, I can’t leave you alone for five minutes.”
“I guess you’ll have to stay by my side forever.”
“I think I could manage that,” he said so softly I almost missed it. It was the sort of thing I shouldn’t answer because then he could pretend he hadn’t said anything.
We sat in silence for a while.
“Lombardi?”
“Barlow?”
