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I hadn’t planned to kiss her that day. The plan was to apologize and figure out why she hated me so much. I hadn’t expected her to cross my bedroom and look at me the way she did; with the same hunger that I had been shoving down for years, wanting to taste her on my lips again.
As I watched her emerge from the house, my eyes were drawn to the way her smile made her entire face light up, making my heart race. She looked happy. There were so many things I wanted to say to her and so many times I had wanted to call her. It just never felt like the right time. Something always told me to leave things where they were. She would have reached out if she wanted things to go somewhere.
Being my best friend's little sister, she was off limits. I had already crossed a visibly bold line I wouldn’t be able to explain if anyone found out. Specifically, if Asher found out, he would never understand or forgive me for touching her. She hadn’t sent me a single text, and she blocked me on all her social media, making her feelings perfectly clear. Yet, I spent the last three months wondering what she was doing and how she was handling her first semester.
I was in over my head with her. No matter how hard I tried to shove that box of emotions for her down, I couldn’t.
Her hair had grown out a little, and the way her jeans accentuated her perfect ass as she walked away didn’t go unnoticed. She looked ten times more attractive than I remembered. I’d never seen her look as irresistible as she did right now. Shaking my head, I tried to wash the image of her from my mind. I needed to stop.
Walking into the house, Asher tossed a sports drink at me.
“You can use Katie’s shower, unless you’d rather just go home and come back.”
The thought of getting in my car right now to drive across town wasn’t so appealing.
“I think I’ll save my car from the stench. You sure she won’t mind?”
Asher chugged the last of his drink before tossing it like a basketball into the recycling can.
“Nah. She probably wouldn’t even notice.”
I ran back out to my car to grab my gym bag that I luckily hadn’t taken out of my car yet. There were some fresh clothes in there, along with my soaps.
As I turned on the water, my mind immediately traveled places it should have been steering clear of. The smell of her shampoo was still in the room. My imagination conjured thoughts of its own as I imagined water running down her body, touching every intimate area as she stood in this exact spot. I wondered if her mind ever thought of me while she was in here. Guilt swept in and I hated to admit that there had been plenty of nights alone in my apartment that I stared down at the photo of us from my graduation. My cock immediately got hard as I looked down at her smile, remembering how she tasted. It was impossible to not stroke myself, pumping my hand faster until I released and felt even guiltier over the whole thing.
Reaching my hand up, I turned the water temperature down. I needed to stop. My imagination had been running wild for the last few months. I needed to break myself of thoughts of her. There was no way she was ever going to talk to me again, let alone be anything but a fantasy that I masturbated to. Looking down, I was at full attention yet again.
Just great.
The thought crossed my mind to wrap my hand around myself and release my pent-up frustration, but I knew Asher would question why I was showering for so long and decided against it.
Stepping out of the shower, water dripped down my body onto the pink bathmat below my feet. The door opened before I could even wrap the towel around myself.
Katie was standing directly in front of me. She didn’t move for a moment. The shock settling into my body had me frozen in front of her. As she went to turn and walk out of the door as she scrambled to grab the handle, she accidentally closed it behind herself instead. Her hand went up to cover her eyes.
“Sorry, I didn’t know you were in here. God damn fucking door.”
She pulled at the door, but it didn’t open.
“Seriously, this piece of shit door gets stuck constantly.”
There was nervousness and impatience in her voice. Crossing the floor in one swift step, my towel dropping from my hand, I pushed her against the door, caging her between my arms. My hand rose, pushing the hair off her neck as I leaned down, kissing her bare skin. She turned, looking down at my cock, which had only gotten even more erect at the sight of her right in front of me.
Her eyes shifted back up to mine as I leaned back in, kissing her again. It was wrong to kiss her without her consent but the way she was looking at me made it hard to resist her. I hadn’t known the last time was going to be it. I had gotten a call the morning after telling me I had three hours to get there and sign all my paperwork or I’d lose my place. There had been a mix-up at the rental office, and I was at the mercy of their rules.
Maybe if I just kissed her, it could fix her ignoring me. As I pulled away, her open palm collided with my face with a force I didn’t expect. My hand immediately rose to rub where I was sure a red mark was going to be. I probably deserved that. Her emerald eyes were flashing through emotions as her chest rose and dropped.
My hand hooked itself around her waist, pulling her closer as I kissed her again, biting her bottom lip gently before pulling back. Her hands pushed against my chest, forcing me back off her. The gaze of her eyes moved down to my waist and back up to meet mine as a rush of uncertainty fell over me.
“You promised you wouldn’t be a jerk.”
Her hand twisted behind her back as I heard the door handle turning. A single tear cascaded down her face in slow motion as she pulled the door open behind her, sliding her body between the small gap it created. Her voice sounded small as it faded.
“You lied Nathan.”
Falling into the door, my body pushed it shut as my head hunched forward, resting on the cold wood. I wanted to run after her. I wanted to tell her she hadn’t reached out either and I wasn’t the only one at fault. Instead, I just stood there, knowing it was just another fuck up on my part.
