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“Why did you come get me tonight?” “I’ll always come get you, Summer. Even when you don’t want me to.” She makes a face. “You’re nauseatingly perfect. I think I really like you.”
still
I wrap her in my arms, and she pecks my chin. “You being you is enough.”
“What’s wrong, baby?”
I’m not confident I can hold myself back from driving my fist into his face. Probation be damned.
“My sincerest apologies for ruining your plans.” “Worth it,” she beams, soothing the rubble in my chest.
“We’ll make it work, baby. We would have to for my rookie season anyway.”
“Our future. You make it hard not to want you in every aspect of it.”
She laughs, and the sweet sound strikes the heart that belongs to her.
“You’re doing that thing where you’re trying to be a gentleman, aren’t you?” “No, I’m doing that thing where I take consent seriously.”
“That is so sick and twisted. Of course, we can’t do that!” “Okay, okay, we’ll figure out a schedule.” She sticks out her pinky. “Promise?” “I promise, Summer.” I curl my pinky around hers.
“No place I’d rather be.” I’m all in. Mind, body, and soul, or whatever the fuck that movie Summer made me watch said. Down to my core, I’m hers. “I’ll just have to leave my mark, so you keep coming back for more.” Because she’s already left hers and it’s right in the center of my chest.
An hour after I’ve given my entire autobiography,
😭😭not the autobiography
“For wanting to sleep with my girlfriend? I don’t think so.”
He was probably looking forward to just falling asleep with me.
“Come on, I’ll even read your porn to you.”
😭😭😭😭
If there’s anything I can do to make Aiden’s eyes shine brighter, it’s a win for me.
Despite his winces of pain, Eric looks like he’d do it again just for Aiden.
Sunny’s Angels
lmaooo😭😭😭
“Come over here and you can read me like one of your books, baby.”
when he gives me a look that weakens my knees.
“Babe, the only time I want to see tears in your eyes is when I’m hitting the back of your throat.”
omg
“It’s 11:11. Make a wish!”
an angel number girlie😍🤭
“What are you doing? Make a wish.” I blink. I can’t think of anything more I would want. Not a single wish populates in my brain. “I don’t have one.” “Of course you do. Just think of something you really want. Anything. Quick!” I pause for a long moment, and I realize why my mind is blank. The reason sits in front of me with a special smile and shimmering eyes. There’s nowhere else I’d be than right here with her. “Summer, I already have you.”
“I have you forever, Summer. If those words come tomorrow or ten years from now, I’ll still be here to hear them. I love you enough for the both of us.”
“I don’t need years to realize how I feel about you. I already know, and I wanted it to be perfect, but then I just kept talking and—” She stops abruptly when she notices my expression, then takes my hands in hers. “I love you, Aiden.”
“You’re the only one I want. It was always going to be you, even if I never thought I would get with a hockey player. I mean, it was quite literally my last option. I probably should have chosen anyone else—”
“I love your patience and how ridiculously sweet and caring you are. The way you make me feel like what I want matters. I feel lost without you, Aiden.” She smiles wide. “I want to do everything with you, and I want you to do everything with me.”
“You and me, Crawford, that’s the only way I want it.” “Good. Because I love you, and I’m not letting you go.”
But with her, I want to unravel all the parts of me I’ve hidden.
Summer’s presence is luminescent. She’s the last fragment of sunlight in the overwhelming darkness.
“Your delusion is cute.”
“But you had really nice eyes,” I add. “Really nice eyes,” he repeats dryly. “That’s it?” “You just said you would bang me. That’s not a compliment.” “Are you kidding?” He turns me to straddle him. “I didn’t even want to like you, but I couldn’t take my eyes off you or your ass.”
“When were you looking at my ass?” “Every chance I got.” He grins and smacks my ass.
I stare into the green that tugs at my chest. Sometimes, I can’t believe he’s all mine to look at. Especially when he looks at me like I’m the most precious thing he’s ever laid eyes on. “They’re so pretty that I kind of get lost in them.
The way Aiden cares for me is something I’ve never experienced. I’ve complained about my dad to him constantly and not once has he told me I’m lucky to even have a dad. Or that there were people who had it worse—him for example. Never did he make my feelings seem less than because of his own experience. No one has ever understood me like he does.
“Sit on my face, baby.”
omg
working with a girl who’s the best thing to ever happen to me.
realize I am so embarrassingly in love with my girl that I’m certain if she knew the things running through my mind, she would laugh at me. It’s the kind of love that makes you do shit like run straight to her dorm after an exhausting ninety-minute game or power down an entire house full of people. Illogical and impulsive.
“Come on, Summer. I’m tired, and I missed you all weekend. I just want you in my bed tonight, please.”
“You don’t have to deal with everything alone, Summer. I’m here. For you. No other reason. I'd like to prove it to you some time.”
their final game coming up. “I think you might have attachment issues, Crawford.” “As long as you’re the one I’m attached to, I wouldn’t call that an issue.”
“Kidding. But you should tell him, he’ll be happy.” Amara and I exchange a look. “You want him to be happy? Since when?” I’m stunned by the new discovery. “Since he started making you smile,”
Her eyes swim with the hurt I can’t bear to see. The whole point of this was to avoid that. To never see her cry like she did that night in my arms. “Baby,” I start.
“My girlfriend was crying in my arms, and you expect me to stand by and do nothing? Fuck, no. Your problems are my problems too.”
“And I think if I can help my girlfriend with a problem, I will.”
out of her. “I know, and thank you, baby, but this won’t affect my future as much as it would have affected yours.”
“This is your career!” “And you are my future.” Summer falters, eyes searching my face. “I told you that you come first. That hasn’t changed. It won’t ever change.”
“You smell like me,” I say, noticing she’s wearing my hoodie.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, but I don’t regret a thing if it means you’re happy,” I say.
