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Thank you for being the only one in my life who has made me feel wanted. I know I was with Ryan at the time, but things changed for me that day. I no longer saw you as one of my best friends; I saw you as more. I’m sorry I left.” She tucks a fallen strand of hair behind her ear and turns her cheek to me, grabbing her schoolbook and opening it up. “Let’s get back to work.”
All I can do is just sit there with my jaw open. I’m frozen. She liked me. The feelings I had for her for so many years were finally returned, and she liked me back.Fuck, I’m an idiot.If she thinks I will let this slide and get back to the project, she has another thing coming.
I reach out for her hand, and as she turns to look up into my eyes, I let the fire consume me; I let every inch of my body burn because even in the flames of Hell, I would die happy for her. I grab hold of her behind her neck with my other hand and bring her in close, our mouths just a whisper apart. She looks down at my mouth, and that is all the confirmation I need before I graze my lips against hers and fall into the feelings that I have kept under lock and key for so long, and we kiss.
thirteen
abigail
Hekissedme.Parkerkissed me. One moment, we were fighting and at each other's throats, and the next, his lips were on mine, and I was basking in the way they felt, never wanting the moment to stop, but it did. He pulled away and then apologized. The idiot fucking apologized and then practically shoved me out the door as if his house was on fire.
My phone vibrates under my ass, and I reach down to get it.
My reply is instantaneous.
I put my phone down and slowly sit up from my bed, and it goes off again.
I drop my phone down and look around my room, is that fucker in my closet? I’ve been home for hours now!
My window slides open, and in falls Colin, landing on his ass. Serves him right.
“Hey there, gorgeous!” He smiles and flops down on my bed next to me. “What’s the game plan for tonight?”
“Hello to you too, perv.” I nudge him with my arm, and he falls off the bed as I let out a huge laugh.
He gets back up, lies back down, looks over to me, and says, “Ouch.”
I don’t know what it is about Colin that I like so much, but he is always making me smile and laugh, and I didn't know how much I missed smiling and laughing.
“What are your plans tonight?” He asks once more.
“Finishing the project that Parker and I were assigned to do and then going to sleep.”
“Boring.” He yawns. “I have a better idea. How about I help you with the project so you are done in half the time, and Parker can take the credit? Then you and I raid your pantry, pop some corn, and Netflix and chill.”
“Are you sure you are not a teenage girl, Colin?” I ask.
“What? Can a man not be in touch with his own femininity without being seen as a dame?”
“And there we are. Colin, I love you. Don’t ever change.”
“I knew you would, doll,” he says as he gets up from the bed and practically lifts me up as well. Holding me to his chest and his eyes looking down into mine. “I may be all fun and jokes, but don’t think that one day I won’t have you screaming those words and truly mean them.” He breaks from my chest and skips to my door. “Libations!” he shouts.
After finishing the project, and who the hell knew that under all that muscle and sass would be a genius, Colin and I raided the pantry and grabbed all the snacks and drinks that we could. We ended up doing a full-on Twilight movie marathon, him being team Edward and I, team Jacob.
I must have fallen asleep somewhere in the middle of the third movie. When I wake up, Colin has me wrapped in his arms with his body coiled around me. I try my best not to move at first. It’s nice being against him, but he must notice I’m awake. “Hey there, baby girl. Sleep well?”
I stretch out my arms and legs, “I am so sorry; I must have been more tired than I realized. What time is it?”
“A little after 2 AM.”
“What are you still doing here? Aren’t your parents worried you’re out so late?”
“Nah. They think I’m at Parker’s. Besides, you were so cute sleeping with drool rolling down your chin that I thought it would be best that I stay so you don’t drown.”
I go to hit him in the arm, but he catches me mid-air and uses the momentum to swing my whole body, so now he’s pinning me down underneath him.
The action has me breathing hard and heavy, not knowing what he is thinking but just the weight of him on me, his hard body on top of me, and all I can do is lay there helplessly. He looks down at me and gives a slight smirk.
