to my body, and I feel her sigh of defeat against my chest.
“Two minutes. But then I really have to go.”
“I think we can pump one out in two minutes.” I smile and tilt her chin up. She’s laughin’ and smacks me… okay, more like taps me in the arm.
“As romantic as that sounds…” She rolls her eyes. “That’s not what I meant. I just… can you just hold me?”
Hell yeah I can hold her. I’ll even kiss her too.
“Hey,” I say after what’s been way longer than two minutes, “you promised me you’d tell me that long story about why, you know, we don’t have to worry about, uh, protection.”
“Oh that’s right.”
She’s quiet, stifling a large grin as she traces patterns on my chest.
“So…?”
“I don’t really have time to tell you, but you deserve to know I guess. Especially since we’re probably going to be doin’ this a lot.” Her eyes go to mine, her mouth popping open like she just realized she said that out loud.
She’s so damn cute.
I kiss her, keeping my tongue in my mouth this time though in case of morning breath and not being able to control myself again, but it’s hard and urgent enough for her to know that yeah, I want to do this with her forever.
When we break apart, she wraps her arm around my side and squeezes me close to her. “Okay, so you know the whole dairy theory, right?”
What the hell? “No.”
She smiles and gives me a rapid nod. “Yeah! There was this awesome article about if you have a lot of dairy right before you have sex it works as a good birth control.”
Oh no. She better be jokin’. But her eyes are dead serious, and she squeezes me again.
“And I had like, a ton of milk, two thingys of yogurt, and grilled cheese yesterday. So we should be good!”
No. No. No.
“Hayles…”
She busts out in laughter, her body pulsing against me and it’s my turn to smack—more like tap—her in the arm.
“Ha. Ha. Ha. You think you’re so funny.” I smile and press my forehead against hers. “Will you please tell me the real reason now?”
“Okay, but the real reason has to do with a whole bunch of girly stuff you’ll think is nasty.”
“Try me.” ‘Cause after that dairy thing, I better make sure we were really ‘covered’ last night.
“I’ve been on the pill for like, two years now.”
Okay…
“Why?”
“Girl stuff.” She shakes her head. “Don’t worry about it.”
Don’t worry about it? How can I not worry about it?
“But last night… it was your first time, right?”
“Duh.”
“Then why—”
“Seriously, Brody. You don’t want to know.”
I wiggle my nose against hers. I probably don’t wanna know, but I hate when she keeps things from me. “Come on.”
She cocks her head, giving me the ‘you asked for it’ grin. “Okay, boy I’m in bed with, I used to have a high flow period and it was so bad I needed to be put on birth control so I don’t go through a hundred tamp—”
“Okay!” Ugh, she was right. I didn’t want to know. “I got it.”
Her laughter is so contagious, even though she just about made me puke.
“Alrighty, close your eyes.”
My eyebrow goes up. “Why…?”
“‘Cause I have to get dressed.” She tugs the blanket around her chest as she slides to the edge of the bed.
“And I have to close my eyes because…?” I saw everythin’ last night, and yeah I want to see her again.
“Because things look different in the light.” She smiles before putting her hand over my eyes. “And I don’t want you going, ‘Yuck! That’s what I did it with last night?’”
Is she serious? “Knock it off, Hayles,” I say, pushing her hand away. “You. Are. Beautiful.” I reach over to tug the blanket off her, but she fights me.
“Hey!” She’s giggling, and I take that as my cue to pin her against the mattress. Holding her arms above her head, I take in all of her while she’s laughing and yelling at me to stop ogling.
I can’t though. She’s too hot.
“Hayles?”
She stops laughing, but the smile is still on her face. “Yeah, perv?”
My eyes go to hers. I don’t even have to fight to keep them there. I want to look at her like this.
“Did you mean what you said last night?”
“Which part?”
Her hands slide from under my grasp and she rests them on my chest. It feels so good to be this close with her.
“That you’re falling in love with me.”
She reaches up and pulls the