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Kieran’s face was beet red. He whispered, "I’m goingto get you for this, Ace."
Jack described the poster as Kieran wearing some sort of ‘flimsy shorts’ (basically, trunks) while he was ready to jump in the water. It was shot for theuniversity’s swim team, featuring their star swimmer, Kieran Stone. I had a copy of picture framed and gave it to Kieran on his birthday. Who knew whatever happened to it? He probably hid it under his bed.
"What it's doing on your friend's wall?" My eyes were looking at Jack, but my question was meant to tease Kieran.
Kieran didn't wait for Jack to answer. He completely ignored me and started a new topic with Jack.
Thesauce from the burger I was eating must have dripped out of my mouth, as Zander started wiping the left side of my face with a napkin.
"Babe, stop teasing him," he said with a soft smile, his eyes crinkling at the corners.
"He deserves it,” I retorted. I liked teasing Kieran. A girl had an actual poster of him on her wall? This was real good. Storiescould be written from this.
Zander softly whispered, "You'regorgeous, babe," with his fingers slowly tracing the top side of my left palm.
Goodness, I was in the middle of a bunch of giants, with different conversations going on around me,and I was getting turned on!
"Zander."
"Yes, babe?" hesmiled knowingly.
"Stop it."
"Stop what?" he asked innocently.
I removed my hand from his. For the sake of my sanity, it would be so awkward for me to get all hot and bothered in the midst of all these guys.
"Ok, I'll behave," placing my hand back in his.
The rest of the dinner went along smoothly. The guys teased each other just like women did. Only their jokes were raunchier, dirtier. Our table was loud and rambunctious. We were all having a good time. Kieran was enjoying himself. He laughed, joked, and dished it out to the other guys.
I had really wanted to stay over at Zander’s, but his teammates rode with him. By the time, he dropped me off, it would be really late. It was best for me to have Kieran drop me off.
Kieran was parked directly in front of the restaurant; Zander and his teammates walked us to Kieran’s car. I was going to hug Zander to say bye, but he had a different idea. He gave me a long, slow kiss, in front of everyone present, garnering grins and cheers from his teammates. Then, with his smile wide on his face, he stepped away from the car and said, “Call me when you get home, babe.”
Kieran said bye to everyone. One of the guys motioned Kieran for a kiss, imitating Zander. Everyone laughed.
"He’s really good for you, Ace.” His voice was so low, almost as if he was speaking to himself.
"Ahuh,” I said to him, turning the volume of radio a bit louder. I wasn’t being rude; I just really wanted to listen to the song on the radio.
Kieran lowered the volume onthe steering wheel control.
"He's not playing games with you, Ace," he said, “The way he looks at you and acts around you – you’re important to him.”
A small smile formed on my lips, “He’s great. I mean, it still throws me off when he does something PDA-like in front of people.”
Kieran went on, his brown eyes bright, “He could choose to hide you, to keep everything just between the two of you. But I think he wants to let people know that you really matter to him.”
He turned on the left turn signal at the stop light, as we neared my place.
"I understand him. I let everyone know you’re my best buddy. He wants to let everyone know that you’re his girlfriend.”
“I know, it just feels different being his girlfriend,” I was rambling.
"Do you want to be?” he asked.
Kieran must have sensed that I was overthinking his question, he followed it up closely with, “Are you happy, Ace? Does he make you happy?”
