Pretty Thing by J. A. Huss

Author:J. A. Huss [Huss, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944475888
Goodreads: 44803196
Publisher: Science Future Press
Published: 2019-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - KALI

I dream about us. Not just Aiden and me, but all three of us. And we are all young still, for some reason. Late teens, maybe. Right around the time I started to notice Aiden was getting muscles and hair on his face. Right about the time I started to notice he was noticing me in the same way.

That day I stepped out of the shower, I realize. That’s what I’m dreaming about. How it could’ve gone different if I hadn’t called down to Kyle. It was a mean thing to do since I was the one making a move on Aiden and not the other way around.

But I can’t help wondering what would’ve happened to us if I had just let him look. Or even invited him into my room.

Would we have kissed? I was naked, so would he have touched me? Would we have gone all the way?

Surely not. And even in my dream I can’t get us that far around the bases. I didn’t date anyone until I moved away for chef’s school and even then, it was another year before I lost my virginity.

I was saving myself for you, Aiden.

That’s what I say in my dream.

But of course, that was just the teenage romantic in me. He wasn’t mine. He was never mine. Aiden always belonged to Kyle.

This thought wakes me up and I slip into that in-between world where you’re still in your dream thoughts but also hearing the real world around you.

Traffic down on the street. Someone shouting. A horn honks. A beeping truck backing up.

I roll over and realize I’m in bed alone.

“Shit,” I say, sitting up. “Aiden?” I call. No answer. I swing my legs out of bed, grab my robe off a chair, and slip it on as I wander down the hallway to the living room.

“Aiden?” I call again.

But my apartment isn’t that big. Just one bedroom and the front room, which acts as a living room, dining room, and kitchen all mashed up into the same space.

I glance at the bathroom door, hopeful.

But it’s open.

“Aiden?” I call again, realizing this is stupid. Because he’s gone.

Jesus Christ. “What the fuck?”

But then that inner voice—that rational one that only shows up when I’m making a big deal out of something I shouldn’t—says, Payback, Kali.

And it’s right. Because I did this to him one week ago exactly. I slipped out in the early morning and never said a word.

It’s just… I thought… we had…

But I was wrong. We didn’t come to any kind of agreement. We had sex, just like last time. Granted, this time we weren’t drunk, but—“Fuck!”

The door swings open and Aiden walks in. “Oh, good. You’re awake,” he says, tossing my keys into the little dish by the door.

“Where the hell did you go?”

He holds up a paper bag and a coffee holder with two coffees in it.

“Oh,” I say, relief flooding through my body.

He cocks his head at me and smiles. “You thought I bailed, didn’t you?”

“No,” I lie.

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