Oh Christ. Why the hell is she asking me that? “God no, Heather. Why the hell would you even ask that?”
She pulled away, and her eyes met mine. The tears on her face made me want to punch myself in the stomach. I never want to be the reason she cries…ever again.
“That day at the hospital, she told me in the restroom how much you loved blow jobs and how good she was, and I’ve never done that with you, and—”
“Stop. Please don’t say anything else. Heather, I never want to hurt you or be unfaithful to you. No matter what happened in my past, it doesn’t matter anymore because I only love you. You’re the only one I want to hold in my arms. You’re the only one I want to wake up to every morning and kiss like it’s my first kiss all over again. You’re the only one I want to be with. ”
She stared at me, stunned. “What did you just say?”
“Uh…do you want me to repeat all of that? I thought it sounded pretty damn good the first time. I’m not like Gunner. I don’t think I could repeat it exactly even if I tried. ”
She shook her head and laughed. “No, did you say you love me?”
I smiled as I placed both my hands on her face. “Yes, I love only you. I think I knew it the moment you looked at me with those breathtakingly beautiful blue eyes of yours. ”
I lowered my lips to hers. I slowly started to get up, and her body moved right along with me. When I backed her up to my bed, she started to lie back. Never once did we break our kiss.
The passion and love I felt in her kiss was making my heart beat a mile a minute.
Then, right on cue, there was a knock on my door.
I stopped kissing her when she started laughing.
I smiled as I looked down at her. “I don’t think the gods are on our side today, princess. ”
I jumped up and pulled open my door. My mother was standing there with a shit-eating grin on her face. Then, she looked around me at Heather, and her smile disappeared. She snapped her head back to me and pushed me out of the way.
I turned around to see Heather crying. What the hell? She was just smiling and laughing a second ago!
“Oh, my baby girl. What did he do to you?”
“Wait a minute! Mom, everything was fine until you knocked on the door. Heather, baby, why are you crying now?”
She looked at my mom and smiled.
Oh Jesus, I’m so confused. Is she crying ’cause she’s happy? Because my mom stopped us from doing something? What the fuck is going on?
“Elizabeth, Josh is perfect! He…he just said…”
After quickly getting up, Heather ran and jumped into my arms. I held on to her as she cried.
Thank God I took two pain pills earlier.
“What did you say to her?” my mom asked.
I shrugged my shoulders. Hell if I knew!
“I love you, Josh Hayes. I love you so much!”
She kissed me, and I kissed her back, even with my mom sitting on my bed.
Heather pulled away and looked at my mom. “He called me princess!”
My mother jumped up and screamed. “Shut up!”
“I know!”
Okay… now, I’m really fucking confused.