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His s sound fro to throw up Seth’s warrabs my arm and I’m yanked out from underneath Brent He tucks e fraasp and my hands fly up to coversound and I don’t knohether it’s myor Brent’s nose Brent rolls around on the car park floor clenching his face I grab onto Seth’s waist and tuck myself behind him Seth wraps an arm around his back and pressesSeth steps toward Brent again, but I squeeze hi and I’m not even sure why I want Brent to be spared Then I realize it’s not about Brent I couldn’t care less about hi stupid because of uides me away froainst his Range Rover Seth is pacing the concrete in front of h his hair I step forward "Seth? Are you okay?"

He tilts his head up to the cloudy sky, but his breathing doesn’t sloalk closer to him and run my hands over his chest and up the sides of his neck He tilts his head down to me, but I can’t see his expression, it’s too dark His breathing slows and he pulls lide over the top of " His voice is low and soft

"Yeah I it won’t stop"

"You’re in shock We need to call the police"

"No, we can’t You hurt hiht? You can’t hurt people You’ll lose everything you’ve worked for" He shrugs, but I feel him tense "I’ll tell Selena and she can tell her friend"

He nods "Then at least let me take you home"

"What about my car?"

"I’ll pick it up tomorrow"

Seth helps me into the car and we drive away fro what al wrong? Did I give off a wrong signal somewhere? A tear rolls down my cheek and I quickly wipe it away I don’t want to cry in front of Seth

"It’s not your fault, Olivia" He states, like he read rabby when he drinks I still showed up"

He frowned, his hands gripping the steering wheel tighter "Why?"

"Because I told Selena I would and I thought I’d be able to avoid it"

Even I realize how completely idiotic it sounds Seth and I don’t talk for the rest of the ride and e pull up outside uy with attitude issues, he sure was a sweetheart He walks me up the stairs and I unlock the door Before I open it, I turn to face hih his eyelashes frole he seems so vulnerable, so innocent

"Can you stay with me?" The words are out of my mouth before I have the chance to think about theaze falls from my face to the stairs "I don’t think that--"

"PleaseI don’t want to be alone You can leave when I’m asleep, if you want to"

He analyzesthe rest of the stairs When we enter my house, Seth kicks off his shoes and I bypass the diht switch on and look at Seth He seems uncomfortable and I have no idea how to irl non-sexual coht rab a pair of boxers and a tank top froe into theet rid of the taste of second hand beer and when I go back into my room I see Seth has taken his hoodie off, but kept his white t-shirt on He’s still standing in the same spot, aardly and I bite back a sht I cross the room to put the laather me close so my face is on his chest and his nose is buried in le in closer and wrap th not to run , over his body

"I’ainst the top of s up between us after dinner If I had, maybe this could have been averted"

"What happened with Brent isn’t your fault" I pause to conteo and I definitely shouldn’t have showed up even though I kneas going to get grabby All of this screaers twitch as I liftand move it towards his body I want to rub his chest and feel the warmth of his skin under my hand, but I rest it on his hip instead and Seth tenses underneathto throw ain"

On my head I feel his lips shter and I feel safe I can only hope to repay Seth for tonight, at so out on dinner last week" I mutter

"It’s okay, I don’t blame you I can be a bit of a dick"

"You really don’t like talking about yourself?"

"No"

Silence fills the room and normally I’d push for it, but I don’t want to ruin this My heart beat speeds up in the silence and the adrenaline of tonight begins to wear off There’s a constriction in s a deep inhale through his nose

"I don’t have thethat completely turned o just before my amateur championship bout in the MMAC tournament"

I wrap my arm around his waist andabout the first day I saw Seth in the gy MMA to look aftera little sister warine how protective he is of her

"And now you’ve decided to try again?"

"Yeah, it’s what he would’ve wanted Everything I know about MMA, I learned fros "Maybe he was a hard guy to please"

"Sounds familiar" I chuckle

He squeezes h out loud

"I’ether in silence It isn’t aard or uncomfortable It’s nice and I don’t want to fall asleep because I’ain

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