Keep Me Still by Caisey Quinn

Author:Caisey Quinn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2013-07-30T23:00:00+00:00

~PRESENT TENSE: Used to locate a situation or event in present time. Or a tense situation you thought you had put behind you that turns out to be much more current than you realized.~

IT’S all I can do not to pull Landen from the cab and drag him back to my dorm room. The magic of tonight is already fading and the thought of losing him again has me on edge. If I ever start to forget that he can disappear at a moment’s notice, I touch the scar above my left ear to remind myself. It’s my permanent reality check. The one I need to remind me of the truth. Everything can change. Everyone can leave.

Corin was right. Kissing Landen, being kissed by Landen, changed me. The tension I’ve clung to for so long it became a part of me just lifted into the sky, and I didn’t care if I never pulled in another breath for as long as I lived. The world spun faster, and I think I left the ground for a few seconds while Landen explored my mouth. My whole body trembled, but not in the terrifying way like I’m used to. More like humming with the steady buzz of being alive.

Why do people need to do drugs when kissing feels like this?

“Hey, about what Ginger said,” Landen begins as he walks me to the front door of Campbell Hall. “She’s right. That probably wasn’t the best place I could have done that. I should have—”

“Landen,” I break in, placing a finger on his lips to stop the rest of his sentence. “It was perfect.”

He swallows and nods at me but I can tell there’s something else he wants to say. Dread settles over me, effectively cutting off my endorphin overload.

“Hey, um, Corin and Skylar seem to be hitting it off.” I’m trying to change the subject to dispel the awkwardness that’s shoved its way in between us. Landen clears his throat and glances over to where I’m looking. Corin is standing with her arms folded, watching Skylar tell her something that apparently requires a lot of frantic gesturing with his hands. “Wonder what that’s all about.”

“He thought he was going to get lucky tonight,” Landen says with a smirk. He pulls his gaze from our roommates back to me and grins wickedly. “Guess we’re both going home disappointed.”

He’s joking, Layla . Right, I know that. But he probably is disappointed. I’d never kissed a guy before. It wasn’t as if I knew what the hell I was doing. And if he’d hooked up with any other girl tonight instead of wasting his time on me, he’d probably be getting a lot more than a goodnight hug. But he didn’t .

I pull myself out from inside of my head and take a moment to appreciate how beautiful he is. Not that I haven’t memorized his face and then subsequently tried to forget it once already. But as I let my eyes cling to every inch

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