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“Get your mind out of the gutter, Lawless,” he quipped.
I smirked and slid a hand down, close to his pocket, like I was going to slip it inside. He caught it and we resumed dancing.
“Well, are you going to give it to me?” I asked.
His eyes flickered with something sinister.
“When the moment is right,” he answered.
“Really?” I wondered. “Thisisn’t the perfect moment? I mean, the music, the lights, the romance in the air…”
“It’s Maya and Stephanie’s perfect moment. Not ours.”
“When’s ours then?”
“Patience isn’t your strong suit, is it?” he said.
I shook my head no, though I was smiling. “When it comes to you, I think I’ve waited long enough,” I told him.
“I do too. But you’re going to have to wait just a little longer.”
After hours of eating,drinking, dancing, and cake-cutting, Stephanie and Maya left to celebrate their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of a local hotel. The party started to break up and people said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. After seeing my mother and Rod off to their Uber and making sure that the gifts would get sent to Steph’s condo, I found my way back to Luke and we got into his truck.
I took off my high heels and kicked my feet up on the dash. Luke smirked.
Luke pulled out of Farrelly Grove and we drove back toward Blue Creek. I assumed Luke was taking me back to his apartment, but instead, he made the turnoff and headed down toward the water. To the spot where we had our first angry mistake of a kiss. To the spot where I ran out on Luke that night, heartbroken. I tensed.
“Why are we going down here?” I wondered.
He didn’t answer. He just parked his truck and turned off the engine. He shrugged off his suit jacket and handed it to me before getting out.
“Luke.”
Luke rushed around to my side and opened the door, helping me out of the truck and into his jacket. It had gotten pretty chilly out and I wrapped it tightly around me, trying not to be too obviously excited. The jacket smelled like him, and I liked having something of his keeping me warm.
“Come here,” he said, offering his hand. He opened the back of his truck and hopped up into the bed, helping me up with him. He had a blanket back there that he spread out and we sat down.
And this all started feeling way too familiar.
“Luke, what are we doing here?” I demanded.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that this isn’t the first time I’ve found myself in the back of your truck, by this fucking creek, wondering what’s going to happen between us,” I told him.
“I know. I just hope that this is the time I finally get it right.”
“Luke…”
Luke reached into his pocket and pulled out something familiar. A folded piece of notebook paper with a rose and skull scribbled in the corner.
“You promised you wouldn’t read that till I was ready to show you,” I reminded him.
“I didn’t. I promise,” he assured me. “But I was hoping that I could finally read it tonight. I really want to know what you wrote to me all those years ago.”
He handed me the note.
He was letting me take the lead on this.
