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I deserved that "There’s nothing there, but whenever--if ever--I find soht decision for me and Keith Okay?"
After a short hesitation, he nodded, and then turned to walk toward the loft where his and Grey’s room was
I pulled myself off the couch and headed toward the bedroom, ready to crawl into bed and sleep for the few hours I had before I needed to wake up for my shift I checked on Keith, and s, completely sprawled out with all of the covers pushed all the way down
As I was pulling the cohtstand, and my heart skipped a beat
I stared at it until the screen went black again, then slowly straightened and walked around the room to retrieve it With shaky hands, I picked up my phone and held my breath as I prepared to check the lock screen
The air ripped froe that waited for ht you’d taken your words away froht
Deacon
June 5, 2016
"JESUS CHRIST, DUDE, stop yawning," Graha
I ran h my hair and bit back another yawn "Shut up, you don’t look any better than rus on his kid’s menu before he woke from his nap on the short drive over
"I need coffee," I said distractedly as I colored "It was a long night"
"Ew," Grey said, then pretended to gag "Ew, I don’t want to know"
"Did you really take ho?" Knox asked, and shook his head "Co"
"He didn’t," Graha e got home Iwas over"
Knox barked out a laugh, and everyone else sitting at the table looked a the three of us with clueless expressions
"Didn’t," I said through another yawn "JustI just couldn’t sleep"
"Yeah, I bet you couldn’t," Knox said through his laughter
I’d spent the entire night andon Charlie’s car outside the warehouse After the bullshit that had gone down at the wedding with Charlie, I probably would have done exactly what Graha girls in Candy But that ed everything
Stranger
I hadn’t been able to respond fast enough
I also hadn’t responded to anyone else, or given a shit that hours had passed or that night had turned to day as we’d texted
I still didn’t have a naes of twenty and thirty, so at least I knew she was legal And I knew she was singlethat was all I needed to know to not put a stop to this now The rest of the specifics didn’telse I learned about her through them mattered more than specifics ever could