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"You really should lock this door," he said as he stepped inside

"Why? To keep out the riffraff?" I asked teasingly, then cocked an eyebrow at hied "Well, you left it unlocked and look what happened"

I nodded and gave hiet an extra bolt," I replied

Krit grabbed his heart "Ouch," he said, then fell back into the chair, facingsharp"

I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my chair "You’ll survive I’m positive of it"

Krit propped up both of his feet on the coffee table in front of hiht and listen to the band We’re at Live Bay again because of a scheduling change this week You can sit with Trisha You didn’t get to hear oing to be difficult Telling hi deal But for some reason it was hard to say so out loud I didn’t want hi Linc wasn’t asking ain because he wanted just to be my friend

"You have plans already, don’t you?" he said before I could co to say that wasn’t aard

"Linc asked ht," I admitted I had no reason to feel bad about this No reason at allbut I did Dang it

Krit let out a sigh "Fine He asked first It’s all good But Thursday night I’ll be playing at Live Bay, and I want you to co it easy, and I was reed

Krit nodded, but he didn’t see on this date?" he asked

Linc hadn’t said anything about dinner He’d just invited me to a movie I shook my head

Krit pulled his phone out of his pocket "Good I’ to be here?"

"Six," I replied

"That leaves us with two hours," he said, and a smile had replaced his frown "Thai or Italian? Or do you want to get those fajitas fro us takeout I didn’t want to feel that squishy feeling in ly At least not where Krit was concerned But oddly enough, he was the only person who

"Not that hard of a question, love," he said, re me that I needed to answer hiood"

"That’s irl," he said as he dialed the nu by it, but I had never been referred to as belonging to soirl meant more to me than he realized In fact, if he kne deep that struck with ain--and this time he’d possibly never co about what to write next, but I listened to Krit order food He acted like he belonged there in my place Maybe that was supposed to freak me out, but it didn’t It did the exact opposite

When he hung up, I had gathered enough courage so I could turn to him and blurt it out before I realized how stupid I sounded

"Can I take a picture of us on my phone? I don’t have a picture of usand I’d like one"

Krit glanced around the roo for the first time that I didn’t have a picture of me with anyone, and then his eyes came back toin relief at hiain, I stood up and walked over to hiure out how to take the photo exactly, Krit grabbed ed me down onto his lap "I’ll take it and send it to you," he said, then pressed a kiss to , I pulled away to tell hirabbedhio of hed harder "Look at the caue out and licking the side ofmy face with the palrossed out It was the first up-close view I had had of his tongue piercing, and I was a littleive it to you for free and you push me away," he said with a fake pout on his face

"You’re crazy" I giggled

"I’ue with hiood kind of a lot of things

"There, I sent you all three of theraree with that "H hiet up and off of hi "Hey I didn’t say you could get up yet," he said as he messed with his phone One hand stayed on me as if that was all it took to keepthe picture, he looked up at ram?"

"I don’t have one"