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Onmy phone into my stereo and hit soine Dragons’ "Radioactive" coood After all, there’s no reason to be upset I wanted to sleep with Z to feel soet rid of the whole pressure that cauy I’d ever slept with I did that, and had a really good ti to coh, I ain, I focus on exfoliatinghair Conditioning the hell out ofbut what it felt like to be held and kissed and loved by Z

My eyes are closed, my head bent back under the water to rinse the last of the conditioner fro pulled back I screa even as I reach for the only weapon I have--a bottle of conditioner--and prepare to brain the intruder with it

"Whoa! Hey!" Z throws his hands up in front of him to protect himself from my imminent attack "I’m sorry I didn’t mean to scare you"

"Z?" The conditioner falls fro here?"

"I brought you breakfast I thought we could eat together"

"Oh Right Breakfast" I stare at hi to assiet breakfast"

He looks confused for a second, but then the sht I left"

"You did leave" I state the obvious, even as I turn the water off and reach for the towel I draped over the curtain rod

"I told you I’d be back in a little while"

He steps back into my room as I clie stamp and the only way for two of us to be in it at the same time--if one of us isn’t in the shower--requires us to be a lot closer than we currently are

"I "

He nods, his face blank even as his eyes search mine "Do you want me to leave?"

"No!" The answer comes out fast, before I even have a chance to think about it It’s a little bit e all that crap I was just telling ry"

Z’s smile is back and for the first time I realize it’s not the sives the world No, this shts up his face It creases his cheeks and the skin around his eyes It’s a real sht For the first tiht--I think I’ to see the real Z The one only Luc and Ash and Caet dressed and I’ll make coffee" He drops a quick kiss onaway

I watch hilued to his very fine ass even as I wonder who actually looks that good in a pair of thick snowboarding pants The answer is no one No one, that is, except Z Michaels

Though I dragged outready I don’t kno long Z is planning on staying--probably not long--and I don’t want to miss a minute of the time I can spend with him I know it’s a bad idea, know I’ll be disappointed if I put any hope at all into this thing between Z and me

Which is stupid, I tell reen oversized sweater It’s not like I want anything froht be kind of nice to be his friend I don’t have any, and he doesn’t have many…

I don’t know It’s just that there seems to be a lot more to him than what he lets people see I want to knohat’s there

By the tiet a little bit of makeup on and my hair dried with a diffuser--which takes forever--Z has breakfast laid out on my tiny table Chocolate croissants; breakfast sandwiches with egg, cheese, and bacon; fresh winter fruit salad

"That’s a lot of food," I tell hiot a few different things Plus, I eat a lot, so …" He ends with a shrug

"Right" Sudden co"

"Yeah The snowboarding thing"

I grab one of the plates he put on the table, heap it high with fruit and a big chocolate croissant, then grab a fork andto the bed

"You want to eat there?" he asks, eyebrows raised

"Don’t you know? There’s nothing better than breakfast in bed"

"Nothing? Da for corin "Especially when you know just how right you did everything last night"

"Oh, yeah?" He grabs a plate, shovels an astonishing aht?"