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I put the helmet on my head and started to fasten it, when Krit htened the straps I watched his face as he see sure my hel that I couldn’t help

"Nice," he said when he was done Then he winked and threw a long leg over the bike It remindedonto his motorcycle Krit held his hand out to ed to cli a fool of onna need to slid up close to ht," he said over his shoulder

I had a few inches between us The thought of sitting with ly between the I reirls on his bike like this all the ti deal I placed both of ing ainst his back Then he took my hands and placed them on his stomach I had to take a steady breath when I felt the ripples under et the fact I was plastered against Krit’s backside

"That’s better," he said with a pleased sound to his voice Then he started the engine The vibration ran through hter to him

A chuckle came from him before we started to move I closedelse I was sure that if I saw carsaround us, I would panic We hit a buainst his hard back, snappingelse, so in a quick breath, I let the heat froood Better than anything else I could ever re I wanted to tug his shirt up just enough so that I could slip a hand underneath The colorful skin that had the snake tattoo on it had been burned into htly injust that I couldn’t feel hi away fro like that He wasn’t flirting with me I knew the difference now Linc flirted with leam that told me he was interested inaround me

Krit’s eyes didn’t have that twinkle He was just friendly Maybe that was it Maybe I had stepped over some sort of invisible friend line that I didn’t know about before, and then he had run off Was he giving me another chance to prove I could be a friend and not treat hiirl out there?

Was that what he wanted froo of the tight hold I had on his shirt and s his stohtly to him, and I eased away fro his back Krit needed a friend Someone not in his world, someone who didn’t expect him to drink, party, and entertain them

And I wanted to be that for him I wouldn’t think about his ue Those would be off-limits I would think of him as a friend Someone who I didn’t have to impress and who didn’t have any expectations of me or me of him We would just accept each other

Krit pulled into the parking lot of a cute little diner The coastal blue color of the wood-frae front porch If it didn’t have the big sign out front that read, SUNNY-SIDE UP, I would have thought this was so lot still had several cars outside even though it was kind of late for breakfast and too early for lunch

Once Krit had parked, he took one of s felt a little funny, but the feeling went away quickly I started to take off the helmet, when Krit turned around and finished the task forat him hat I hoped told hi to be whatever it was he needed No one had ever needed anything frothe hel back at me

"Yes Once I realized I wasn’t about to die," I answered honestly

Krit laughed then reached for onna love the food here"

KRIT

I should have fked so up at the ass-crack of dawn just so I could take Blythe to breakfast was insane I could have gotten so her on the back of my bike was a terrible idea We should’ve taken her car

This was going to bethe friendship we had started Thinking about how good her tits looked in that tank top and how much better they had felt on onna have to call Brit when I got finished She would take the edge off

"You’re really talented I enjoyed hearing you sing last night," Blythe said in that sweether ned and wrapped around lad you ca you Green had hbor, and she is always curious" More like Green told Trisha I was hbor all the da lunch with her this week," Blythe said, s, but I could see the nervous look in her eyes "Iby it Just she asked o to lunch She seems really nice and all, and I haven’tI deserved it, but it still stung

Her eyes flew open more, and she shook her head with a horrified expression on her face Damn, she was adorable "I mean You, of course I mean, I think we’re, I mean, you’re, I mean, uh I know you’re afriendkind of" She stopped trying to ether and dropped her eyes toward the table

I had fked with her head, running off like I had Most girls would have shown up atattention Blythe had just accepted one on with her life She didn’t de of anyone Girls who looked like her usually used their beauty as weapons She didn’t make any sense She acted like she deserved to be treated poorly