Remember Me by Bryce Taylor

Author:Bryce Taylor [Taylor, Bryce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5 – Let’s Do It

The sun has risen and I'm sitting on the front step thinking. About Jo. Of course. If and how much she is going to remember. Where we might go from here. When it might not be too soon to send her a message. Just to say, hey.

Who knows what else you would say after the revelations of last night. My mind has not come up with another possibility than that single word.

A car pulls up on my quiet street.

Jo.

Looking stunning. The light of my life.

Terribly, atrociously dressed in black and white horizontally striped tights, green canvas combat boots and an orange woollen cardigan. Hair in revolt. Clearly, she has dressed herself this morning. Pamela wouldn't let her leave the house in this.

Gorgeous.

I wouldn't change a thing.

Striding across the road towards me, a smile on her face. There is a hope rising inside me, an illuminating light. An implausible and intangible future at arms reach.

She is catching me in her arms. Her head buried in my neck. Drawing my scent in. She smells just delicious. I'm smiling against her neck. "Please tell me you are sober," I breathe in her ear.

My second most fervent wish right now. My first obviously being that she is still interested in me.

She laughs, a low pleased chuckle. Picks me up and swings me around.

Wow. That hasn't ever happened to me before.

I like it.

"I am," she says. Amused.

My arms start to tighten around her.

Then.

"What if I've changed my mind?" she asks, seriously.

My heart drops. A mile. Into an abyss.

"Kidding," she says watching my reaction with a smirk, "I shouldn't tease you, you are so gullible."

"I love you so much," I tell her. Sincerely. Because I need to say this out loud.

"I'm waiting to see how good you are in bed before I jump into anything," she says in return.

She is deadly serious.

I raise an eyebrow.

"I'm not joking," she says resolutely. "I've been there before. I want to know what I'm getting into before I commit this time. I'm not going to settle."

Fair enough. I'm happy that she isn't planning on repeating the mistakes of her last relationship.

Ok. Honestly, I'm not happy. However, I'm sure I can beat anything Mark could put up.

Pun intended.

I'm smiling because only Jo would think this is a good time to say something like that. That she couldn't lead with some sort of conciliatory line about liking me a lot. Though I guess the consolation prize is that she is planning on sleeping with me.

Luckily I don't get performance anxiety.

A smile stretching unbidden on my lips. I've never been so fucking happy in my entire life. Fifteen year old me can't quite believe this. That at the very least Jo is going to kiss me and who knows, maybe a whole lot more.

I wrap my fists in her cardigan. Pull her in.

Feel her body against mine.

Her fingertips resting on my hips.

Her grey eyes, clear and waiting, resting on mine.

My hand on her face, palm cupping her chin, my fingers stretching up her cheek, index finger resting on her earlobe.

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