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His shoulders visibly slumped as he exhaled and buried his face in her neck again and swooped her up in his strong arms. “Why the hell didn’t you tell me you had a twin sister,Savannah?”
For now, she’d spare him the real details of why she’d recently stopped telling people first thing about her twin but shrugged. “I figure people will find out soon enough. Being a twin doesn’t define me. Especially being the boring one.”
Pulling his face back to look at her again he shook his head, his expression souring. “There’s not enough flattering words in the world to describe you, babe. But boring sure as fuck isn’t one of them.” He leaned his forehead against her exhaling sharply. “Except you’d think having a twin is a pretty significant detail about yourself you would likely let others in on. Especially when it might make for a sticky situation. You saw what almost happened today.”
“I know,” Vannah winced. “I’m sorry but I figured since she doesn’t live in Los Angeles it probably wasn’t that big a deal. I just hadn’t counted on the possibility of you running into her without me.”
“Yeah, well I have.” He hugged her tighter and kissed her, then nipped her bottom lip. “More than once now and it was infuriating each time.”
Feeling her heart double over, Vannah smiled even bigger. “So, you’re free tonight? They’re headed home after dinner and after that I’m free for the rest of the night.”
“Hell, yeah.” Byron kissed herlongand deep again. When he finally pulled away, he let his head fall back. “Jesus Christ, Savannah.” He inhaled profoundly then exhaled with exaggeration shaking his head. “You don’t even know.”
“Youdon’t even know.” She nudged his stomach playfully. “So, you think it’s me you see kissing another guy and you decide telling me you’ll bespending the nightwith another girl is fair play?”
Byron searched her eyes without responding at first, then whispered. “No wonder you never responded.” He shook his head again with an air of remorse this time. “I’m so sorry. You have no idea how confused I was. You said you had friends you hung out with so when I saw you—” He shook his head even more adamantly. “Your twin—with that guy—I assumed he was one of yourfriends. I figured if you were okay with having multiple friends you did that with, what I said in the text wouldn’t be that big a deal.”
Swallowing the emotion back, Vannah stared at him thinking about just how big a deal it’d been but decided to keep it to herself. Even if he did know now that ithadbeen a big deal to her, she didn’t want him knowing just how much she’d begun to feel after just one week. Clearly, he was feeling equally entitled if he’d confronted Nena and Taz the way he had. Still, she didn’t want to get ahead of herself just yet. Yesterday and all morning had been an eye opener as far as how ahead of herself she’d already gotten. Despite this showing on his part that he was in fact feeling for her what she thought he might be, she owed it to her recovering heart to slow this down. At least until she knew for sure where this was headed.
After what Byron had called anagonizingweek of waiting to kiss her again, he’d taken Vannah outside and her knees nearly gave out as he did some making up for it. But he said her dad and brother being so close by made him nervous as hell. Since Vannah had driven to the gym with her family she had to go back in and leave with them. Byron said he needed to get home and shower anyway. She’d laughed when he said he had a knot in his gut now for an altogether different reason.
“I’m having dinner with your family after just one date?”
Though Vannah had nervously laughed it off, she was just as anxious. It’s why she kept to herself it wasn’t just her, dad, Nena, and her brother they’d be dining with. Her other brother Gordo and her mom would also be there. They just hadn’t been around for the show when it happened.
Of course, her family had a bunch of questions for her when she got back into the gym, but thankfully her mother had come to her rescue and told them all to just stop already. Though she had given Vannah that,we’ll talk later, look.
Nena opted to go back to Vannah’s dorm instead of doing some souvenir shopping with the rest of the clan until their dinner and Vannah knew exactly why. She’d be getting grilled. No sooner had her parent’s SUV driven away than Nena started the inquisition.
“Whyhadn’t you told me about this guy, Vannah?”
“I only started seeing him a week ago,” she explained.
Nena’s jaw dropped. “And he wasthatincensed about seeing you with other guys?”
“We had an incredibly romantic date last week,” Vannah explained inhaling deeply as they reached her dorm room. “We talked on the phone a few times during the week. He’s hands down the best kisser I’ve ever kissed, and we did so much of it last week.”
“Well, that’s not saying a whole lot, sis.” Nena teased as they walked into her dorm. “Not like you’ve kissed a whole lot of guys.” She turned to Xochitl who was in front of her laptop on the sofa as usual. “Hey, girl studying again? Every time I’m here it’s all you’re doing. Live a little, will you?”
“I have a paper due at midnight.”
Nena turned back to Vannah shaking her head. “You see, this is why I took this first semester off. After twelve years of school, I needed a little time off.”
“Yeah, well I have a set timeline,” Vannah said opening the fridge. “I’m not trying to waste time.”
“But you don’t have time for anything. When’s the last time you’ve even thought about making a video for our YouTube channel?”
Vannah winced feeling guilty as she took a swig from the water bottle. Nena didn’t even give her time to respond when she was back to Byron.
“Have you met this Byron guy?” she asked Xochitl.
Xochitl turned to Vannah in question. She knew all too well Vannah hadn’t wanted her sister to know about him. “We ran into him at the gym,” Vannah explained so she’d know she was free to talk about him now.
“Yeah, I’ve met him.” Xochitl nodded at Nena. “I don’t really remember meeting him, but I’d seen him before that day.”
Vannah explained to Nena about their nightmare night out at Frat Row, laughing at each one of Xochitl’s exasperated groans. She told her about the enchiladas she made and gave Byron when she’d dropped off his clean gym clothes at his shop. For the millionth time she sighed deeply. She figured she might as well admit now to her sister about how he’d thanked her with the most heavenly kiss she’d ever been treated to.
“Then he promptly asked her out that very night.” Xochitl shook her head. “And this one here didn’t think he was into her.”
