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“I believe I just did.”
Her head fell back and I crawled up her naked body to get to her face. “You smell that?” I asked, against her lips, kissing her. “You taste that?” I kissed her again. “That’s you.”
Her eyes widened. Shocked by my forwardness.
“It’s addicting. The taste of you, the feel of you, the love for you. I’m mad for you. You’re mine.”
A single tear fell down the side of her face.
“It’s just you and me, darlin’. I’m not going anywhere, and trust me, neither are you,” I stated in a possessive tone. “I’m yours.”
Another tear fell and I kissed that one away.
“Promise?”
“Always.”
She faintly smiled and whispered,
“I love you.”
14
Aubrey
We were halfway through the new school year.
Lucas and Alex barely said two words to each other and that happened only when we were all together. Something came between them. Cole Hayes managed the unthinkable. He drove a wedge between them and gave Lucas a run for his money. Half-Pint finally admitted to me what’s been going on with her and Lucas for years. Since they were kids. I tried to call Lucas out on his bullshit behavior, for stepping into McGraw’s old shoes and sleeping with anything that had a pulse.
There was a huge divide between them and I hated seeing Alex so torn up and hurt about it. Lucas, well Lucas just pissed me off. We were all young and stupid but little did we know they would spend years playing this cat-and-mouse game. The boys didn’t help the situation either. Dylan calmed down a bit about it, but I think it was just because I influenced him as much as I could.
Though it wasn’t much.
Jacob, well he was another story. He was probably one of the biggest factors as to why they stayed on different sides of the fence, fighting off their feelings that we all knew were there. He was as thickheaded as they come. Except, when Lily was around. I tried not to pay too much attention to it, just because she was still such a little girl.
Austin, I genuinely cared for that boy. It was hard not to. There were times where I swear he would look at Dylan and I, with jealousy in his eyes. Not because he had any feelings toward me other than friendship, but because he wanted the intimacy that came with a relationship. It wasn’t the sex he craved, it was the emotional connection. Sometimes I felt as if he was as lonely as I was before I met Dylan. Maybe he was born that way too.
It made me sad for him.
I couldn’t imagine standing in a room full of people who loved me and still feel so alone.
“You ready, darlin’?” Dylan asked, coming up behind me at my locker.
“It depends,” I giggled as he tickled my neck. “Are you going to let me drive your Jeep?”
He smiled, as he spun me to face him.
“Not a chance in hell.”
I frowned. “Why? I have my license. You were there when I passed. Remember, you wouldn’t stop flirting with my aunt?”
My Aunt Celeste loved, I mean really loved Dylan. I couldn’t blame her. He charmed the pants off her.
She never stood a chance.
McGraw got up at the butt ass crack of dawn, his words not mine, to witness this monumental event in my life. I was very excited to have two of the most important people in my life be there with me although I wished my mom had made it too. She was supposed to be the one to take me that Saturday morning, but at the last second she got called into the ER, for some head-on collision accident.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed and tried my best to hide it from both of them. Dylan and I watched Saturday morning cartoons instead, knowing it was one of my favorite things to do back home. When my doorbell rang not even five hours later and my Aunt Celeste was standing there with a great big smile on her face to take me to get my license, I jumped into her arms. I thought my mom called her like she had done so many times in California to fill her shoes.
