To Love Jason Thorn

by Ella Maise

“Thank you, beautiful. I’m good.”

Be still my heart.

Soon enough, I fell into a fitful sleep where I was still a little girl who dreamed and wished for things she could never reach.

You already loved me once; I’ll make it happen again.”

I was completely mesmerized by her.

Funnily enough, we did look in love. Yeah, I was definitely in trouble.

My schedule was wide open for him.

“Maybe when you move here I can help with your creativity issues.”

Did he really not see how I felt about him? Not even a little?

“You’re right. I know you are right. I want to marry the fuck out of him.

I entered the room after her and saw Olive sleeping in the middle of the bed, her legs pulled up into her stomach. All my anger melted off me and my heart settled down. I would have to sit down and think about what that meant.

“Olive, baby, can you help me so we can get in the house and go to bed?”

“Open your legs, sweetheart,”

It took a moment for that single word to hit me in the gut. It took another to feel how right it sounded.

“You should look at me like you love me, Olive, the way I’m looking at you.”

Act and look like I loved him? Child’s play.

“We look like we’re crazy for each other,” he whispered,

she looked perfect in my eyes.

held her eyes because I needed that connection since it felt like we were busy falling in love with each other. She was seeing me, and maybe for the first time, I was seeing her too. Her voice called to me as much as her eyes did, but then she hid those beautiful eyes from me, and I found myself crossing the room to get to her.

“I’ve always seen just you, Jason.” Then my lips were on hers, and her lips were on mine. We kissed long enough to cover years. In front of everyone, her lips became mine and I took her breath for myself, because I needed it more than she did.

I wanted to own those secret smiles just as much I wanted to own her beautiful heart. I wanted to be the reason for their existence.

My heart was ready to be hers if she wanted to take it for herself and keep it for an eternity. I couldn’t stop.

“Thank you for making my dream come true.”

“Oh, no, sweetheart,” he said as he ran his nose against my neck, breathing me in. He was breathing me in! “That was all you.”

“From now on, he doesn’t get to touch a single hair on your head,” he growled

“Grab on to my hair and do whatever the hell you want to do to me.”

“In all the ways that matter, I’m your first, Olive. Do you understand?”

“Will they fall in love?” She gave me a small smile. “Very much so.”

think I would love to come home to this every single fucking day for the rest of my life.” My heart stopped.

I was getting used to it. Really. I definitely didn’t wanna gouge her eyes out or anything. That would be gruesome.

I think I like kissing you a little too much, and somehow you seem to like it almost as much as I do.”

“I’m in love with your sister, you idiot.”

“So thank you for finding me. Thank

I am it for you, Olive, the one, the right one—whatever you want to call it, I’m that.”