Page 32 of Between the Boards
“Why were you crying?” Colton asks, pulling my attention back to him.
He reaches up and his thumb brushes under my eye, wiping away a stray tear. The gentleness in his touch sends a shiver down my spine.
“I’ve just been a shitty friend and I got called out on it,” I shrug. “I’ll be fine.”
His brow furrows. “You’re not a shitty friend, Kai. And anyone making you feel like that probably isn’t being fair.”
A small laugh slips out of me. “Thanks,” I say softly.
He shakes his head. “You don’t need to thank me.”
We stare at each other, and I wonder if he’s also feeling the magnetic pull that I am. I want to melt into his arms, let him comfort me in the way that I need right now, or distract me in the way I want.
As if he can read my thoughts, Colton slowly runs his tongue along his bottom lip and I watch, completely captivated. That same tongue made me have the best orgasm of my life days ago, and I wonder if I’ll ever get to experience anything like that again in this lifetime.
“See you at practice?” he asks, pulling me out of my thoughts.
“Yeah.” I nod, sounding as breathless as I feel. “See you there.”
“He lookedat me like he was going to fight me if I didn’t let you go,” Eliana says as we walk along the shoreline.
I laugh. “He did not.”
“He absolutely did.” She narrows her eyes at me. “Are yousureyou two aren’t dating? He’s awfully concerned about you.”
“I’m sure,” I say. “But…”
Eliana’s head snaps toward me and I wince at the intensity of her gaze. There’s no use hiding what Colton and I did now.
“There’s abut?”
“We kinda hooked up,” I admit.
She blinks. “Yeah, we all knew that you two hooked up after the bonfire.”
I shake my head, looking down at my toes as the water washes away the sand sticking to them. “No, I mean…we hooked upagain, but this time it was just oral.”
Eliana gasps and grabs onto my arm, pulling me to a stop and spinning me toward her, hands braced on my shoulders. “You’re kidding.”
I squeeze my eyes shut and shake my head, my cheeks growing warm.
“Kairi,” She hisses. “I thought you wanted Zale. What is happening?”
“I don’t know,” I groan, dropping into the sand. “It just sort of happened after my date stood me up.”
Eliana sits next to me. “Well…did you like it?”
“It doesn’t matter,” I shrug.
“It does,” she insists, nudging me with her knee. “Did you like it?”
I pull my knees in, resting my cheek against them. “...Yeah.”
“And you’d want it again?”
I shoot her a look. “Obviously.”
She exhales a quiet laugh, then looks out at the water, the only sound between us the crashing waves and screaming seagulls. “So you have feelings for him.”
