Popped by Elizabeth Stevens

Author:Elizabeth Stevens [Stevens, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781925928037
Publisher: Sleeping Dragon Books
Published: 2019-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Bash

Something had very subtly changed between Paige and me.

I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But something had changed. I found myself wanting to make excuses to talk to her. It was crazy and I had no idea whether it was just because I was trying this whole putting her emotional needs first thing or if I was in a whole lot more trouble than I realised.

But whatever it was, I still went to sit with her once the Common Room was all-but emptied the next Thursday afternoon in our double free.

“Hey,” she said, looking up from her phone.

“Tonnes of admirers to keep at bay?” I teased.

She nudged me with her shoulder. “My mum always says it’s important to let people know you like them as much as you love them.”

I rubbed my hand over my chin. “I see. She sounds sensible.”

Paige scoffed, turning a smile on me. “Uh-huh. And what are you angling for? You want me drag you into the toilets for a quick hand job or something?”

I forced myself not to reply to that because I knew she was joking. My dick on the other hand wanted to make sure. I rearranged in my seat to keep him quiet and held out my sketch book for her.

“You’ve got your book with you. What’s new?” She grinned.

“What’s new is I thought you wanted to know what’s inside.”

She dropped her phone in her lap and looked at me in shock. “Sorry. What?”

I bounced the book at her. “I thought you wanted to know what was inside?”

She blinked. “Waving it at me and saying you think I want to know isn’t exactly permission, Bash.”

I shrugged. “It’s as much permission as you’ll get out of me.”

Paige looked at it in my hands. “Really?”

“What? Do you think I’m going to be standing here with it if I was clowning?”

A flicker of emotions crossed her face in quick succession – eyebrows narrowed in uncertainty, a hint of a smile, a nose wrinkle.

“Go on. Take a look before I change my mind,” I said, quickly.

She took it from me carefully, like it was something precious, and I sat next to her.

I watched her open the front page slowly. Her head cocked sideways as she looked over the first page and I spared a moment to look at the outline of her neck as though I was committing it to memory.

“It’s… You draw,” she said.

I nodded as I rubbed my hand over my mouth and jaw. “Yup.”

She looked at me like she couldn’t believe it. “You draw. Well.”

I huffed a laugh. “No need to be so surprised.”

She smiled and her cheeks tinged pink like she was embarrassed. “No. I’m not. I just…” She looked back down at the page again and slowly started flipping through them. “Why are you showing me this now?”

Honestly, because it was the least Casanova move I’d been able to think of. Girl seemed to like the whole emotional bonding thing, so here I was emotionally bonding. As far as she knew.

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