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He passes me the large package. My fingers find a crease in the paper but I hesitate to rip the beautiful paper. Stars scatter across swirls of blue, purple, and black.
HE GOT STAR WRAPPING PAPER
“If I get a smile like that with something simple, I’ll have to get you stuff all the time.”
Im crying i love him
The rest of the afternoon is spent with me sketching a picture of Liam reading his book. I never want to forget the feeling of him buying into my passion and believing in me.
We never went a day without a text or phone call.
“I’ll always make time for you. But what if I don’t want you to go on a date with him or anyone else?”
Ever since my date with John, Liam lays his flirting on extra thick, like a new wave of possessiveness took over his lightheartedness.
She looks at me the same way I check out a salad.
Lol but fckclaudia
“Are you usually this much of a bitch? If Liam and I fuck around, it’s none of your business. Quit acting like a sad cliché because the scorned woman desperately clinging to a man storyline is overused. Feel free to leave whenever you want; this conversation is a bit dull.”
OK SOPHIE
Screw platonic, I want catastrophic.
“Let’s be friends with benefits?” Yup. That’s my genius idea. All five words of it.
Elena laughs and rolls her eyes. Jax raises his eyebrow, something indiscernible flashing across his face before he returns his attention to me.
“I’ve wanted to kiss you like that for months.” Liam’s voice strains as he places soft kisses down my neck.
“Shit, Sophie, you’re my naughty girl.”
“Then do your absolute worst. I expect no less from someone who promises so many wicked things. More show, less tell.”
“I’m more than happy to welcome you to the best night of your life.”
You get me in all of your McCoy glory if you get P1. I prefer winners.
screw it, I’ll give viewers quite the show, all for the blonde-haired, green-eyed woman invading my brain every single day.
“It’s already a given that you’re going. My family won’t stop talking about meeting my new friend.”
“Were you a Boy Scout before? That’s one good knot.” “Nope. I preferred the kids’ book club.” I sigh. “Only you could make being a member of a book club sound sexy.”
Damn, I nearly forgot about Try foreplay with ice.
“Don’t bring anyone up. While you’re traveling with us, you’re mine. The fucking end. Do you have a problem with that?”
My dad fights a smile as he tugs Sophie into a hug, shocking us both. “I knew I’d like you from the moment Liam said a girl wouldn’t give him the time of day.”
I’m not surprised when my mom changes the song to Coldplay’s “Yellow.” My parents like to meddle because they think life is all one big movie, with happy endings and fairy-tale stories.
I can’t help the way my heart clenches at watching Sophie with my nieces.
An unsolicited image of her hanging out with a kid who looks like me flashes through my mind.
Coloring opened them up to me, allowing them to tell me stories, both good and bad. An idea hits me to research more about art and kids once I head back to my hotel room later.
“Quit flirting with my girl.” Two words make my heart clench. My girl.
It’s ironic how, while exploring myself and learning who I am, I discovered someone else who brought out the absolute best and the downright worst in me. Falling in love is ugly like that.
“Besides the fact that they’ll become as obsessed with you as I am?
I lead Sophie to the Wrangler I rented, ready to knock off one of her last items.
“That’s my girl,
Basically anything with her because I like everything we do together, including our friendship outside of the bedroom.
“Care to ditch the condom that sure as fuck won’t fit me anyway? We’re both clean, right?”
I used to joke with her about breaking her, but at this moment, I realize I’m the one breaking little by little at her hand.
“When I wrote that item, I would’ve never ever thought this up. I’m impressed because this is straight out of a storybook. Thank you.”
“I’d buy you the whole damn night sky if I could.”
She’s my star in the dark sky, shining bright and guiding me back from the shadows.
“I don’t know why you’re ending our friendship. Just get over your feelings and let’s go back to normal.”
Liam stfu
“You know, I’m a fool. Thinking you could love someone besides yourself. For believing we could hook up and stay friends while neither one of us gets hurt in the process. I’m an idiot.” “Then stop making things weird. We promised not to fall for one another,”
“Please, Sophie. I really like you. Don’t ruin something between us for something like love.” His eyes plead with mine. “What does that even mean? There is nothing wrong with love.”
Everything hurts inside of me. My body can’t cope with Liam’s inability to recognize his feelings for me.
“Why the hell don’t I deserve her?” My mom takes over. “Besides the fact that you can’t admit you love her even though you clearly do? Is there a bigger reason needed?”
“Shit, Sophie. I really loved these shoes. You’re lucky my best mate loves you enough to buy me a new pair.”
“Sophie! Wait!” Liam’s voice echoes off the pit walls.
“That’s not true. Not anymore. I want you.”
“I do love you. I swear. I’ve done a shit job at realizing it, and an even shittier job admitting it to you. I love you more than racing itself. I’ve been miserable since you started avoiding me, where even spending a week without you is fucking torture. My chest aches, my sleep cycle blows, and my head throbs every fucking day. I can’t stand how I feel without you around. And I don’t want to anymore.”
My relationship with Sophie Mitchell will be just that. My relationship. I’m tired of you asking me questions about my personal life, or about her. She’s off-limits—to you, to paparazzi, and to any other straight male within a one-hundred-mile radius of her. She’s mine, the end. I’m a lucky bastard who she for some reason fell in love with. That means I’m not allowing my relationship to go to shit because of vultures who want to tear us down.
Jime liked this
But I can’t announce anything until I get the girl. Without her, there’s no point.
