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“You’re going to get us in trouble if you keep doing that,” I said softly as I looked up at him.
Brett gave me a cheeky smile before his hand dropped. “Nobody is going to be able to see us in the cage they put us in.”
I glanced around the carnival, looking back up at the ride. There were colorful cages that you sat in, and from where I stood, I couldn’t see through them at all. Nevertheless, excitement flooded through me at the thought of being able to be alone with him.
“Fuck,” I said, my gaze locking onto Mia as she weaved through the crowd with her boyfriend. They looked like they couldn’t be more in love.
“What?” Brett asked, his body stiffening beside me as I stopped. “Is something wrong? Are you alright?”
“I’m fine, but Mia is right over there.” My voice was barely more than a whisper as I took his hand and pulled him behind one of the little buildings.
Brett grinned as he pinned me between his body and the wall. He rested his forearms on the wall, his head dipping to mine. I wondered if he could hear the rapid beating of my chest against my ribcage.
“Well, it looks like we’re alone now,” he said as he leaned closer.
His lips brushed against mine in a soft kiss. When he pulled back, the heat in his gaze made me think about everything else we could be doing now.
“You know, I was thinking we could stay here for a while.” Brett kissed me again, longer this time, capturing my bottom lip between his teeth.
I moaned softly, my hands sliding up his torso. My fingers weaved through his soft hair as he deepened the kiss.
When he pulled away, there was a goofy smile on his face. The rest of the world faded away as I lost myself in him. The scent of his cologne wrapped around me, and the heat from his body warmed mine.
“Let’s go on a couple of rides, grab a funnel cake, and then head out.” I grinned and kissed him again. “I think I have something else I would rather spend my afternoon doing after that.”
Brett smirked and kissed me again. “I can arrange that.”
When I got home later that night, exhaustion took over my body. I had a great time with Brett at the carnival. It had been years since I last spent hours on the rides, laughing and having a good time.
Going to carnivals was one of those things that stopped happening the older you got.
Brett started making me feel like having fun and acting like a child again was okay. Then, finally, there was no more wondering what my partner would think if I allowed myself to have fun.
He encouraged it in a way that several of my exes never had.
I’d just finished changing into biker shorts and a soft-cropped tank when there was a knock at my door. I pulled it open to see a crying Mia in my doorway.
She pushed me into my apartment, her words jumbled together as she tried to speak. Mia dropped down onto my couch, burying her face in her pillow. I could smell the alcohol rolling off her in waves as I shut the door before joining her on the couch.
“What’s wrong?” I asked as I lifted her feet and sat down. I pulled her feet back into my lap and massaged her calves. “You smell like a dive bar.”
“Jaxon dumped me.”
I sighed and tried to find some compassion. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel for my friend. I did. Breakups were miserable, and if I could keep her from going through another one ever again, I would.
Except Jaxon was an ass. I had met him on more than one occasion, and each time he had been one of the rudest people I’ve ever met.
“I’m sorry to hear that,” I said as I grabbed a throw pillow and put it over her legs, making myself comfortable. “Maybe it’s for the best, though. I know that you believe that everything happens for a reason.”
Mia lifted herself off the couch long enough to look at me. “I don’t know what reason there would be for him breaking up with me. We were having a great time at the carnival. Then after we went home and he fucked me, he told me we were over. I didn’t even have my clothing on yet.
My hands clenched into fists against the fabric. “What an asshole. He’s never been good enough to deserve you.”
“But I loved him,” she says, her words slurred. “I thought that he was the one and we would get married. I thought that we were going to have babies together and that we could name them things that rhymed with Jaxon.”
I bit down on a laugh, making a soothing noise as I rubbed her back. “Everything is going to be okay.”
Mia sobbed and flipped over, sending the pillow flying. “Can you call my dad? I want to go home.”
