Separate Schools by Morrison KT

Author:Morrison, KT
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

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The first thing she did when they were alone together in her bedroom was step with her feet in between his and wrap her arms around him. She hugged him tenderly, rested her chin on his collar. Over his back, her hands began to work, squeezing his shoulders and his neck. She said, “I love you so much, Harrison.”

It was one of those sentences where a ‘but’ was expected. This was it. He said, “Just do what you need to do.”

Hands still working on him, she said, “What does that mean?”

“Say what you have to say.”

“I love you,” she whispered into his chest.

He waited a few heartbeats before his hands went to her, moving up underneath Colt’s flannel shirt and finding her bare chilled skin. Her stomach fluttered at his touch. She said, “Your hands are so warm.”

The tension he felt was now being squeezed out of him, a certain excitement coming on in its stead. He said, “What’s happening tonight? Just tell me.”

“I don’t know,” she said, and that stabbed him.

“What do you mean you don’t know?”

“I don’t know what’s happening.”

“Look at me,” he said. Hands taking her by the shoulders, he put some space between them and looked in her gray eyes. She was on the verge of tears as well, biting at the inside of her cheek and watching him. His hand moved to cup the side of her neck, thumb stroking on the fine angle of her delicate jaw.

She said, “I really don’t know what’s happening.”

“We’re not good, are we?”

“I hope we are,” she said, in a sanguine tone. In her eyes he saw some light.

“You hope we’re okay?”

“I do.”

He said, “It’s you. Your decision. You’re the one that has all the power.”

She tilted her head to rest against his hand, pinching it against her collar. She said, “That’s not true.”

He laughed without humor. “You know it’s totally true.”

Her hand came to cover his, the two of them holding her neck now. She said, “We’re going to be so far away.”

“Can I trust you?”

She closed her eyes.

He waited and still she didn’t answer. It was a really simple question, Taylor.

He asked again, “Can I trust you?” His voice was firmer.

She said, “Harrison, you’re the best guy in my whole life. My best friend.”

Here was that but coming.

Neck sweeping from his grasp, she moved away, turning her back to him. Arms crossed around herself like she was cold, she walked toward her bed with her head down.

He said, “That sounded like a but was coming.” Might as well get right to it.

She turned around to sit on the bed. She said, “I mean it. There’s nobody in my whole life I can rely on more than you.”

“Okay,” he said, and took a few steps toward the bed, stood near the foot. She looked up at him, patted the spot next to her. It felt like a trap.

He went anyway, took a few more steps and sat down next to her, turned his face to hers. “I love you so, so much,” she said.

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