Falling For The Bad Boy

“Must be hard?”

“What?” Kirk Cooper…what are you getting at?

“Being in the dark?”

“Then shine the light on me,” I mouth off.

One second Kirk is getting ready to say something back to me and the next, he is ripped from the door by Kai.

“Told you to stay away from Katie,” he seethes.

Kirk holds his hands up. “Easy, little brother. I was just talking to her. I live here too ya know.” He looks to me and winks while mouthing the word later. I almost laugh because the way his face scrunches when he does it is so awkward.

“What was he saying to you?” Kai snaps at me, stomping into his room, and slamming the door.

I don’t appreciate the tone he is taking with me. “Nothing really. But that reminds me Kai…Raven told me about her cheating. Why was that so hard for you to tell me? Your girlfriend cheated on you, it’s not like it’s some BIG thing. I mean, I am sure it sucked really badly. But why wouldn’t you have just told me that?”

“Because it’s embarrassing, Kat. Do we have to talk about this right now? My dad is being a real asshole. My parents are fighting. Nothing ever goes as smoothly as I want it to. And now you’re mad at me.”

“I’m not mad at you, Kai. I just want you to be able to talk to me about anything. You’re the other half of my soul, remember.”

“I’m sorry. You’re right. You have shared things with me that you probably would never tell anyone. I’m a selfish prick. What can I say?”

“Hmm…your pride got in the way, and you want to get me naked and do bad things to me.” I smile as his eyes go wide.

“Killing me, Kat.”

“That’s the plan, Kai.”

Chapter 23

Kai’s dad reluctantly agrees to allow Kai to fly to LA as long as his mom accompanies him, and he doesn’t drop out of school. They are leaving late tomorrow night and driving up to Lexington to make the flight. I volunteer myself to help with Khloe. I will be using Kai’s car to drive her to daycare Monday morning, and I will pick her up after I get out of school and bring her home so we will be doing what we normally do on any other Monday.

Right now, we are having an awkward family dinner. His dad hasn’t said anything more about my being in bed with Kai this morning, and I hope he doesn’t, but he keeps giving me these side glances, like he is thinking of saying something, but isn’t sure what. It is freaking me out.

“Can we all get over the elephant in the room? The silence is killing me.” Kirk suddenly blurts out unexpectedly.

“What would that be?” Their mom asks.

Kent’s face is red. I just want to crawl under the table, afraid that he means me.

Kai squeezes my hand, and I shrink down in my chair. Kirk grins at me and says, “You know Kai and the band getting some sort of deal. We should be celebrating.”

“Have to actually see it on paper,” their dad says with a grunt.

Dinner continues with us all chewing our meal slowly and no one speaking. Khloe is already in bed, or I am sure she would be entertaining us.

After that mess, I don’t escape the night without an awkward sex talk from Kai’s parents.

They call us into the study as we are getting ready to head to Jake’s for a small party. Kai wasn’t too thrilled when I sent Penny a text and invited her, but he will get over it. I am sure Vance and Hunter will appreciate the thought.

I take a seat next to Kai on the small chaise. His dad is sitting on the leather sofa with his mom. “We need to discuss this morning. Yo

u two know the rules and you broke the main one. I won’t tolerate you two disrespecting our wishes. The thing is…we know you are going to have sex. I wish you would have waited, but we are past that now. I hope that you are on birth control, Katie. We don’t need…” Kelli squeezes Kent’s knee. “Well, you two aren’t ready for kids. You haven’t even been dating that long. So just, keep that in mind. And next time, lock the damn door.”

I just want to die right now. So embarrassing.

We are excused and told to be home by one a.m.