I leaned into her physique, clutching her like a life preserver. I had been drowning all this time, years of barely staying above water with out realizing it, and she or he had been two homes down your entire time. Her pores and skin was tender, and heat from her time outdoors within the solar. I rolled her onto her again and lined her, agonizing over how excellent she felt beneath my physique, in my arms.

Why did I wait so lengthy to do that?

I pulled away from her kiss and gazed down at her. She had at all times been lovely, however by no means greater than in that second, eyes lidding with lust and full lips demanding to be kissed extra.

“I would like you,” Alyssa whispered, two phrases that ignited a hearth in my chest. “I wish to do that with you earlier than I depart city.”

Her phrases had been a shock. “What?”

“I would like… to have intercourse with you,” she whispered, as if it had been some troublesome admission.

I leaned again, realizing what was taking place right here. “I didn’t punch Darren simply to get in your pants.”

She frowned. “I didn’t say you probably did.”

“Then why now?” I demanded. “Why are you instantly throwing your self at me?”

“I… I don’t know,” I mentioned. “It was attractive. You’re attractive. What’s the issue?”

“You pushed me away within the pool.”

“So what?” she requested.

“So, I don’t need you feeling such as you owe me.”

“I don’t really feel like that in any respect!” Alyssa mentioned. “I didn’t suppose this might be bizarre. I’m going to Clemson, and also you’re going to Auburn. This could be the final time we see one another, or anybody else at this social gathering. It doesn’t need to be an enormous deal.”

The final time we see one another.

There it was. That was why she was doing this now, lastly giving in to all of the years of teasing and flirting. She didn’t really feel the identical method about me as I felt about her. This was some kind of job for her to perform earlier than going to school.

I felt dizzy, so I acquired up and commenced pacing. “You simply wish to do that as a result of we’re all leaving for school?”

“After all not,” she mentioned, however her coronary heart wasn’t in it.

“I don’t need some meaningless intercourse,” I insisted. I used to be bearing my soul out now, making myself susceptible, however I didn’t care. “You’re not some random woman to me, Alyssa. You imply extra to me than that.”

She snorted. “You might have a bizarre method of displaying it.”

Earlier than I may argue additional, her telephone rang. She listened for just a few moments, then mentioned, “I’m good. I used to be simply leaving.”

“Alyssa, wait.” I grabbed her arm. I didn’t need her to go away but. Not earlier than we figured this out. “Let’s speak about this.”

Alyssa slapped me.

I recoiled from the blow. Shock and disgrace fought for supremacy, and disgrace received out. Her slap wasn’t onerous, however that cheek damage a thousand instances worse than the one which Darren had punched.

Alyssa opened her mouth to say one thing. An apology, possibly. No matter phrases she meant to say died on her lips, and she or he hurried out of the room.

I stared at myself within the mirror. Any reduction I had felt earlier was gone. Now all I noticed was my father staring again at me.

There have been shouts outdoors, so I shook off my daze and hurried downstairs to see what was happening. A jolt of terror ran up my backbone once I noticed a white SUV screech to a halt in entrance of the home. My father, who was speculated to be at a convention downtown till tomorrow, had returned house.

“I didn’t imagine it when Ms. Ford referred to as me,” he growled whereas stepping out of the automobile. Broad-shouldered and thick within the arms, he managed to tower over me although I used to be an inch taller. “You threw a celebration?”

“I can clarify—”

His fist knocked me to the bottom. My ears rang. Classmates had been fleeing from the home, however I barely observed them. Alyssa was gone, and nothing mattered.

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