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"But you need to know this is who I am This is what it’s like to be my friend And this is why I don’t have a lot of the that I’ll probably do soain--and very soon--then we can try to be friends If not, then that sucks, but I get it"

I pressHe sounded so sincere and aard through that whole speech I’d already forgiven him the moment he showed up at my door

"You want to be friends?"

He nods slowly, his brows crinkling in confusion

I shake my head and throw his words back at him "I don’t know, Park I don’t think I can be friends with someone I’m attracted to"

His brows srins aton this hypnotically sexy tone "So on’t be friends"

"Then e be?"

He nibbles on his lip as he regards ht stands?"

"Absolutely"

"Hm" He crosses his arth of my body "That is a damn shame" He shakes his head and smirks at me "Well, we sure aren’t enereement "No We’re not"

"So if we’re not friends, and we’re not enemies, and we can’t…have sex, then what’s left?"

I knohat’s left, but I also know Park doesn’t date I’ic I wouldn’t want to see hiuess we’ll have to coh the doorway "How about Lurk?" She beams at me "Oh, or Parcy!"

Park stares at her blankly "What the hell is she saying?"

"I have no idea," I say quickly, shooting her the "go-away-now-or-I’ll-hs and bounces away

"On second thought," I decide, "how about we don’t give it a label"

Park flinches and narrows his eyes on hly "Yeah We don’t need to nas stiffly "Maybe we’ll be friends Maybe on’t" He picks up the box fro to figure out what I said to piss hiht your brothers ht want to play some Playstation with me"

Oh, my God That’s so sweet I s room," I say quietly

He nods and ducks out of the kitchen without another word

After Bree and I get the dinner oes downstairs to "watch arooames I never have I’m not even positive exactly how I should hold the controller as I perch on the front of the couch Ozzy and Jereuy dies--which is constantly

Park is even chuckling atto make the stupid little s on either side of h cheek brushes ers over ood, that crisp, clean scent with the faarettes His breath is arlic bread And he’s warm Very, very warm

"This is the button to juuy on the screen jumps

"Uh-huh," I whisper, but I have no idea which button I just pressed

"Noyour arms, he’ll only juain, but nowat his profile I note he has a scar on his earlobe that I never saw before I shiver as I think about pulling it intoon it

Whoa Where did that cohten around my waist and he twists his head to look atout in goose buers over my forear to be a problerazes ain His body jerks and he grips et up Not for a while at least"

My brows draw together "What do--" And then it occurs to me as he chuckles into ers back on ree enthusiastically Ozzy pushes his glasses up his little nose and talks s hier than a couple hours He starts clicking at buttons quickly and I just end up settling back against hiers wherever they’re supposed to go I try to figure out what I’ for hier to my lips and wink at Lucy She smiles and nods I tip my head to the left and raise ent style I hold back a chuckle She takes this gah breakfast, Jessie leaned into Lucy and very cal teams "Water War"