“What in the hell?”
I groggily roll over at the sound of a voice. My eyes pop open when I hear Jake reply, “Dad, be quiet. She’s sleeping!” Oh my goodness. Thankfully, I’m facing the wall and Jake, who happened to not being looking down at me. I closed my eyes and I hear Jake tell his dad to just get out in a hushed voice.
“Jake, you have a naked girl in your bed with your brother across the hall!”
“She won’t be naked if you get the hell out!”
A few seconds later, I hear the click of the door. Jake flops back down and looks over at me to see my eyes open. I can’t help it. There’s so much tension that I just laugh. Jake gives a halfhearted smile. “How am I supposed to face him now,” I ask once my laugh calms down.
“Just like always. Confident.”
“I guess I better go,” I say reluctantly.
“You don’t have to go. Just get dressed.”
I look to see the alarm clock seeing that it was a little after five. Wow, I slept for quite a bit. “No, I should probably go.”
At this, Jake pulls me to him and holds me tight. “I don’t want you to go Sweetness. You’ve been sleeping the day away without me.”
“You didn’t sleep,” I ask. He shakes his head. “How about I stay longer next time?” He kisses my forehead and says okay. I roll over and sit up. I get up to find my clothes and start to put them on while Jake lays on his back with one hand behind his head, watching me. I pull the my sweater over my head and look at Jake looking so sexy.
I walk over and climb on the bed to straddle him. I lean down and place a long, sweet kiss on those lips of his. “I love you,” I tell him.
“I love you Sweetness.”
Sadly, I get off him and wave goodbye once I’m at his bedroom door. Somehow, I manage to avoid Drake and Mr. Benson. I don’t know how, but I’m grateful. I spend the rest of my evening doing schoolwork.
Jake
I wait a few minutes after Emily leaves to go find my dad. I can’t believe he just barged in. I take my time pulling on my boxers and shorts. I open the door to find my father standing outside with his arms crossed. “Why didn’t you just barge in,” I ask.
“Don’t start Jake. You shouldn’t have been like that in the first place.”
“You already knew that we were active! I said so after we came back from Uncle Roy’s! You should have knocked. No one was here. We did nothing wrong.”
“Bullshit. Look, you just better keep that out of this house. What if it had been Drake instead?”
“Drake knocks.” My dad shakes his head and storms off. I walk over to Drake’s room and knock. Drake opens the door and smiles. “How was your day buddy,” I ask walking in. I plop into a bean bag and Drake goes into extensive detail about his day out with Dad. “I’m glad you had fun. Want to race,” I ask. Drake grins from ear to ear and goes to set the racing game up. I picked my car and Drake picked out the track.
He decided to go with a really curvy one, proudly stating, “I’m beast as this game.”
I chuckle and say, “Let’s just race.” After an hour or two of racing (and me losing), Drake pauses the game and looks over at me. “One day this week can just me and you hang out and do something?”
“Sure thing. Let’s go eat supper. I think I heard Dad calling us.” We race down the stairs and into the kitchen. We slide into our seats and have a family dinner that is slightly awkward since my dad is still pissed about earlier.
After supper, I usher Drake upstairs to take a shower and I do the same. I slip on some pajama pants and crawl into bed. I text Emily sweet dreams and a smiley when she replies with the same message. Soon, I fall asleep.
The shrill ringing of my phone goes off from a text message. I pick it up and look through my sleepy eyes to see a text from Emily.
Midnight walk? ?
I throw my covers off and grab a hoodie from the floor. I slip on a pair of shoes and sneak downstairs and out the door. Standing at the end of the driveway is Emily. She’s wearing one of my hoodies and pajama pants. “Do you rummage through my drawers and steal all my clothes,” I ask.
She smiles and shrugs. “I like them.”
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I greet her with a kiss and inquire about her reasoning for being out tonight. “I just wanted to see you.” She hooks her arm through mine before returning her hand to her kangaroo pocket. We walk down the road a bit and to our bench in the park. I sit down and Emily surprises me by straddling me.