ABBEY

Immediately, I’m being nudged in my aspect with an elbow. “Parker don’t be impolite. I taught you higher than that,” my mother scolds me barely as she takes Abbey’s hand into hers.

I look from my mother then again to Abbey. “My apologies, good to…meet…you, Abbey,” I say, stuttering over my phrases. The awkwardness of standing with my mother mixed with the reminiscence of that night time and the considerably hostile look on Abbey’s face depart me barely aggravated. Irrationally aggravated. So, I do the one factor I can consider at that second with out giving each of us away and embarrassing my mom; I plan an escape route earlier than my feelings give me away.

I flip to Rosie, “Rosie, it’s good to see you once more. I feel I’ll run up forward and seize a espresso earlier than we head to Marianne’s.”

Now I’m standing within the Roasting Firm, out of breath with frustration. I couldn’t get away from them quick sufficient.

I shut my eyes. I used to be so taken off guard that I needed to take away myself to get my bearings so I can assume rationally. I’m a bit thrown off by this sudden encounter, and that’s not like me. I’m normally so calm and picked up. Perhaps it’s as a result of I’ve considered her so typically, after which there she was.

As quickly because the thought passes by means of my thoughts, I hear the bell on the door of the espresso store ring behind me, signaling somebody has entered. Andy, the barista, cheerily greets the shopper.

“Abbey, hullo.”

My physique stiffens on the point out of her title, and I pinch the bridge of my nostril because the tell-tale indicators of a headache seem. Once I open my eyes, a well-recognized slender physique steps for my part, her again to me. I watch as she waves her succesful hand in response to Andy’s greeting earlier than she whips round.God, I want I didn’t know simply how succesful that hand was.

As our eyes meet, her beautiful little pert nostril lifts within the air. I’m reminded of that night time after I pulled her out of the window as a result of she gave me the identical look then. A glance that causes me to wrestle between two conflicting ideas. I can’t resolve if I need to give her simply as a lot as perspective as she provides me or if I need to push her up in opposition to a wall, taking her exhausting and quick.

Proper now shouldn’t be the time, so I shake the thought from my thoughts.

Tapping her chin, “You do understand this isn’t a great scenario, and we’ve an issue, proper?”

Her apparent response to me is simply as intriguing as mine is to hers.

Even when we’re on the identical web page concerning the predicament we presently discover ourselves in, I can’t ignore the urge to push her buttons.

“I’m unsure why we’ve an issue.” I push my palms into the entrance pockets of my denims.

Her eyes drop for one cut up second within the course of the place my palms now relaxation. Oh, that is going to be enjoyable. I get the sensation somebody must hold this girl on her toes.

“Eyes up right here, Abbey. I feel your obsession with issues down there may be what bought us on this place within the first place…a lot of positions.”

Defensively, she crosses her arms, sticking her chest out. My God, what I wouldn’t give to have my mouth on her once more.

“I…I…look, I feel we have to hold this between us. I don’t need something to mess this factor up for Rosie. Not when she and Drew have lastly gotten their shit collectively. Can we simply agree on that?” Her remark brings my thoughts again from the perpetual state of lust that she appears to push it into simply by current.

I hear what she’s saying, and as a lot as I wish to proceed to make her uncomfortable, she has some extent.I’m additionally unsure how this impacts Rosie and Drew. We slept collectively months in the past, and now we simply should be mature adults about it.

“We will. It shouldn’t be too exhausting since I see no cause in any respect that we will’t be adults about this little scenario we discover ourselves in. We each need the identical factor.”

Her arms stay crossed, however she releases a relieved breath. “Good.”

“Good,” I repeat, observing Abbey.

Our gazes lock once more, and there’s a flash of one thing, however she drops her gaze earlier than I can decipher it.

“Good,” she says, once more.

“Good.” This time I give her a gradual, crooked smile.

“Nicely, I gotta get our espresso so we will get again to work. See ya…uh—round or one thing.” With that, Abbey swivels on her heels, leaving me standing there with nothing however the reminder of the best way her ass felt cupped in my palms.

Two

ABBEY

My coronary heart beats in opposition to my chest, and my respiratory steadies as my ft pound the pavement. Forward within the distance, the lighthouse alongside West Cliff Drive comes into view, so I choose up the tempo. That small beacon of hope, my end line. My head throbs, however I push on, my thoughts cluttered. That’s the rationale I run. To launch all of the muddle. To alleviate the stress of my ideas.

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