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Laying her hands out in front of her, she asks, “Help me up. I’m too far away from you, but I don’t want to fall and look like an idiot again.” She cringes as she must mentally recall her fall from earlier.
Wobbling on her blades, I help her move. With her legs together, she repositions herself on my lap and cradles my face with her dainty hands. She’s cold, and that’s my sign for us to get out of here soon before we both freeze our asses off.
I lay my hand on her soft backside as she wiggles about on my leg before she says, “You know, for a guy who doesn’t date, you sure do know how to impress a girl. Thank you.”
“You have my mom to thank for all of this.”
“So, you’re a momma’s boy, huh?” she teases.
“Since my dad passed away, yeah.” My sister, Mom, and me, we’re tight and as I’ve gotten older, and I've become more of a… how did Lily put it… celebrity, I appreciate them even more and we now share everything.
“Well, Ash Johansson, I accept your invitation and I will be at your game on Saturday.” Her nose scrunched. “Even if that means I am meeting your family for the first time.” Biting her bottom lip, she adds, “Feels kinda… Official.” She makes odd shapes with her mouth and drags out her last word.
“What did I tell you earlier?” I squeeze her thigh.
She makes a list of the things I have shared with her tonight during our dinner date on ice. “You are twenty-two, the same age as me, which is slightly depressing, as I work two mediocre jobs while you are a pro athlete and live in a fancy apartment in one of the nicest areas in Edmonton. You like horror movies, which I don’t but love hiking, just like me. Oh, you collect retro games machines, and, you really enjoy working out, which I find weird.” Her eyes question me as if asking if she got everything right, which she did.
“You missed something,” I tell her.
“Did I?” Confusion wrinkles her forehead.
“You left out the part when I told you that you are mine and you agreed.”
“Did, I? Are you sure?” Her mouth pulls to the side as she triggers her mischievous switch again. I love how much she fucks with me.
I’ve been known to give off some serious fuck off and don’t mess with me vibes. Something my teammates tell me I do often. They think I could bottle and sell my own brand of atmosphere. Lily doesn’t give a shit and slices through it with just one smart-ass question.
“You’re officially mine.” When I want something, I go after it, and I want her. I can’t get her out of my head. All I want to do is spend time orbiting her chaos and I can see myself having a future with her.
This is unlike anything I have ever felt before.
It feels great and I refuse to push that away.
She makes me want to smile, and that doesn’t happen very often either.
Forget my own brand of atmosphere. Lily has a unique one of her own; it’s addictive and all consuming.
And I want to be consumed by her innocence, joy, and the energetic cheerfulness she exudes when I’m around her because everything feels better when she’s nearby.
She takes her ransomed scarf from around her neck that she’s been wearing since we sat and loops it around mine to pull me to her.
Our lips a micrometer apart, they hover over one another like a hummingbird circling a flower. “I’m yours,” she finally says, then she leaves me dizzy, and wanting more with an incredibly passionate kiss, making it hard to believe that she’s a virgin.
Fuck.
She’s a virgin.
How do I keep forgetting that?
Struggling to catch her breath, she stops kissing me and murmurs, “I trust you.”
And I read between the lines, she trusts me to take her virginity, and while I would love nothing better, she has to be ready.
And right now, I know she’s not.
She barely knows me, but I will do everything in my power to open up and let her see a part of me that no one else gets.
This is a huge deal for both of us, and I want to prove to her that this isn’t a random hookup.
