Page 26 of Grumpy Spring Sunshine
Chapter 14
Brittani
Iwalked out of my house the next day, bounding down the steps, only to stop at the bike parked in front of my path.
I crossed my arms, ready for this confrontation for days. He was the one that needed to grow the hell up and have it.
“Keith,” I said, stopping at the sidewalk to stare at him. “What are you doing here?”
He shook his hair out and I had to stop myself from fanning my face. It was not fair to me that he got to look incredibly sexy while being a dumb grump.
It just wasn’t.
And I really wanted to stomp my foot in annoyance over it.
“I think we need to talk?”
I snorted at that, my gaze frosty. Right now, he didn’t get the sunshine, and when Caleb gets in here in just a few hours, he’s going to hate that Keith took my sunshine. It’s the one thing Caleb loved about me.
Okay, there were plenty since he was my best friend, but that was the biggest thing.
“You know what, I don’t have time, Keith. I’ve been trying to talk to you for days and you wouldn’t. And now is not the best time for me.”
“You’re going to get him?”
“Get who?” I asked, lifting a brow at him.
“Your friend, or whoever he is?”
“And just how would you know about him? I haven’t mentioned him to anyone other than Kylie, and you weren’t in the shop, right?”
He scratched the back of his neck and while I wanted to be annoyed with Kylie for lying to me, she was covering for him, of that I had no doubt.
“I was there.”
“Oh my…Keith, you are by far, the biggest coward I know. You know what, let’s talk. Let me start by pointing out that between the two of us, I have the biggest balls, do you know that? You handled all of this like a little kid. Not like an adult.
“You’re the stupidest man I know, running when stuff gets too hard or scary. And that’s the other thing, you’re scared.
“You’re scared to fall in love, to find finding something new, to maybe see something different. You can’t blame your parents’ lifestyle for your problems for the rest of your life. That’s wrong with them and shows how immature you’re being.
“Did they show you improper things, sure. But they showed you what happiness truly looks like, even if it’s different.”
I sucked in a breath, his eyes wide as he stared at me.
Damn right that little miss sunshine can be a fiery bird too.
“I don’t know what you wanted by coming here.”
“I wanted to apologize, Brittani.”
“Not accepted this time, Keith. Whatever this is between us, I can’t do anymore. I can’t keep playing the push and pull gamewith you. In fact, I won’t. I’m an adult and I’m over kids’ games. I should have seen that a mile ago, but I still went and fell. Not your fault, all mine. And I’ll own it. But if this is what you want, then forget it.”
“It wasn’t all bad,” he said, making me roll my eyes.
Such a damn typical male thing to say.
“You’re right, it wasn’t all bad. The sex was so unbelievable and amazing. I will forever thank you for that. But that’s all it was, sex. Right? There wasn’t any more to it?”
