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The alarm clock next to my bed wakes me abruptly. Swatting at it until I manage to hitsnooze, I collapse back down onto my pillow feeling groggy and disoriented. Just as I start to give way to the drowsiness that threatens to pull me back under, everything hits me all at once and my eyes shoot open.
Sebastian. His fingers—the way he touched me, the way he kissed me, the undeniable pleasure he showed me. Pleasure I didn’t even know I could feel.
I dart upright, my eyes going directly to where Sebastian was lying next to me when I drifted off to sleep just a few short hours ago. I place my hand on the sheet as I look around the room, wondering how long ago he left. Considering the warmth of the spot he occupied most of the night, I’d say it wasn’t all that long ago.
Smiling, I pull the blanket up to my chin, remembering how it felt to open myself up to him in a way I never had before, remembering the things he said as he brought me to the brink and then forced me over the edge. It felt like fireworks had exploded inside of me.
If he can do that with just his fingers, I can only imagine how other parts of him will feel.
My face heats at the thought.
“Tess.” I jump when I hear my mother’s voice seconds before she opens my bedroom door. Having not realized she was home yet, I quickly try to gain some composure. “Hey, you better get up or you’re going to be late for school,” she says, peeking her head inside my room.
“Okay.” I nod several times in concession, a nervous tick of mine. “I’m getting up now.”
“I’m gonna head to bed if you don’t need anything.” She hesitates in the doorway, and for a moment I feel like maybe she can tell. Maybe she can see on my face what I was up to in this very room just hours ago.
“I’m good.” I force a smile. “You get some sleep.”
“Okay, honey. Have a good day at school. I love you.”
“Love you, Mom.” I let out a heavy exhale the moment the door latches between us.
My earlier elation deflates drastically when I remember that I won’t get to see Sebastian at school today, or the next four days after today for that matter. He received five days suspension and is being benched for the next two games for his fight with Dylan.
It makes me nervous to have to go back today without him there. I know there’s bound to be a ton of talk going on over what happened, and since it was all centered around me, once again I’m going to be surrounded by unwanted attention. Though if I’m being honest, I’m starting to get used to it. I’ve accepted that it just comes along with dating someone like Sebastian.
Finally managing to pull myself out of my warm bed and into the shower, it only takes me about thirty minutes before I’m on my way out the front door, a cold pop tart and bottle of OJ in hand. Because it took me so long to get going, I don’t have enough time to do my normal morning routine which usually consists of me sitting at the kitchen table eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch—one of my biggest weaknesses.
Checking my phone as I lock up the house, I’m seconds away from texting Courtney to see where she is when Sebastian’s car pulls up in front of my house.
My body instantly floods with heat when he steps out of the driver’s side door, pushes his aviator sunglasses down onto the bridge of his nose, and gives me a smile that nearly causes my knees to buckle.
I hesitate for only a moment before heading toward him.
“What are you doing here?” I question, trying to shake off the blush I can feel creeping its way up my neck and onto my cheeks.
I’m not embarrassed about what happened last night, but I definitely feel a little nervous about being around Sebastian. More so because I’m worried about what he thinks of me now.
“There was no way I was going to get through this day without seeing you first.” He’s on me in five seconds flat, pushing my hair over my shoulder before cupping my face in hands. “Fuck, you’re even more beautiful now that I’ve felt you come apart on my hand.” He grins mischievously before lowering his mouth to mine, kissing away both my doubts and my embarrassment.
In fact, by the time he finally releases me, my mind is only thinking about one thing—doing it again.
“Come on.” He pulls back, wrapping his hand around mine as he leads me to the car. “Let me drive you to school.” He opens the door, moving to the side to give me room to get in.
“Oh, um Courtney should be here any minute,” I say, remembering the text I was about send her.
“She’s not coming.” His smile widens. “I called her this morning and told her I was taking you.”
“A bit presumptuous don’t you think.” I cross my arms in front of myself, making no attempt to move. “What if I don’t want you to take me?” I tease.
“Get your gorgeous ass in the car, Tess,” he says slowly, a seductive warning laced with his words. “Or I will put you in it.” His eyes sparkle with mischief, and I get the feeling he would like nothing more than to exert that kind of dominance over me, and so would I.
It takes everything in me not to play into his threat just to see what he’ll do, but knowing I need to get to school I refrain.
“Okay,” I huff playfully before ducking under his arm and climbing into the car. I wait until he’s seated next to me, his large hand engulfing my small one, before commenting on the statement he made earlier. “You said to get through today, what’s happening today?” I ask, admiring his profile as he stares out the windshield, his gaze locked on the road.
“I get to go to work with my father.” He throws me a look that says it’s the last thing he wants to be doing.
