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I scooted down on the bed until I lay flat, and I reached up to unbuckle his belt

An hour later, between soft kisses, he whispered, "Do you want to?"

"Yes"

He rolled out of bed I clung to the sheets so they wouldn’t slide off and expose h He padded naked into the bathroo under the sheets and war? In case this breaks, I don’t want your dad to murder me"

"Oh, he won’t murder you My mother will have killed you already But I have an IUD" In fact, et it when she saw that Aidan and I were growingsilly at the ti more than kiss But the next sulad I had it

As Sawyer opened the package and put the condo when I did this with Aidan I couldn’t believe I’d taken that step back then I hadn’t liked hiht I had, because I didn’t have anyone to compare him with And now that I did, sex with Aidan seemed like a real sha? You seem sad, which is incorrect for this occasion Maybe we should--"

I touched one finger to his lips to quiet hi Then he rolled on top ofhimself above me on his forearms His eyes roved across "

"So do you"

He sht this day would come"

I didn’t say "Me neither," because that would sound insulting But I thought it In the two years I’d knoyer, and watched him, and lobbed back the insults he served to me, I couldn’t have predicted I would spend the darkest hours of hoht underneath him So, under a layer of sandy soil and palm tree roots, past the ancient sea floor, deep within the earth’s core, hell was freezing over

A chill ran throughdown my skin to my toes, despite the fact that ere draped with sheets and Sawyer’s body covered mine

He watched ht blue eyes just another tone of gray in the dusky room He should ask me whether I was cold But no, this was Sawyer, who knew exactly what irl shiver at a time like this He should ask h with this But no, Saasn’t one to ask again to be absolutely positive after he’d already gotten the answer he wanted--

"Oh," I heard h, he set his forehead against mine and closed his eyes

I didn’t want to turn on the bathrooht, because that would break the spell In the shadows of ht I looked at ers to piece ht was led, and there wasn’t much I could do about it until I washed it and re-set it And I couldn’t see the back, but it felt flat I’d have to tell my parents I’d driven around withI would have done a feeeks ago for fear of exactly this sort of hairtastrophe