I'll Be His Girl: A Gender Swap Romance by Sophie Pert

Author:Sophie Pert [Pert, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2023-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

I stumble. I fall. He catches me. We're alone.

After our little chat Henry walked up into the middle of the group and announced to everyone that we had the afternoon to ourselves. No one had anything to do until the evening, until dinner, and we should spend our time with the one we came with reconnecting.

Knowing he was alone I tried to reach out to him but he patted me on the arm with a smile and pointed me towards Eli, telling me softly that I needed to dance with the one I came with.

I didn't feel like dancing. More than that, the prospect of it was terrifying to me.

But I went. I walked beside Eli and we traced the trail down away from everyone else and we rounded the corner and found ourselves deep in quiet and it was quiet, because we were alone.

We were alone when I stumbled again, when I fell, when he caught me. We were alone.

I find it easy to smile at him, I find it easier to blush. And after he sets me on my feet and steps back I have to bring it up.

"What were you thinking with these shoes?"

Eli shrugs and looks a little bashful. His eyes dart down and pull back up slowly and I can't help but feel like they're lingering on the long smooth lines of my bare legs.

"Honestly," he says, "I ran out of time. I was busy trying to get all the other pieces together that when it came to this outfit, I just kind of threw it together."

"Oh great," I laugh, "The one outfit where physical capability factors in was the one you skimped out on effort for."

He looks even more bashful now and I reach over and punch him in the arm as playfully as I can. It's a moment that's meant to evoke a relationship we never really had. We were friends but not bros. We didn't joke around like that, didn't wingman each other, didn't roughhouse.

And that meant the moment of contact, any moment of contact, only reminded me of the conclusion that I'd come to at the top of the hill.

Fuck. What am I supposed to do with this?

I turn away quickly, darting under a bush and rustling off the path. Eli calls out after me but I don't stop and when I hear him ungracefully shifting through the underbrush I only redouble my efforts.

In the end he catches me, though, or rather he catches up to me at least. I've settled in a clearing with dense trees on all sides and a thicket of soft grass underfoot and I'm sitting in the middle of it pulling off these terrible shoes and flexing my feet.

"That's better," I say, bouncing up and rocking back and forth, "Don't feel like I'm going to be constantly tripping anymore."

"I mean I did a good job catching you, at least," he tries and his voice is almost a little hopeful, but I shake my head.

"Wouldn't you rather not having to catch me at all?"

That question goes unanswered, by both of us.

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