Page 3 of Got to be You

“Well, you might be famous, but you’re mysterious.” He shoots me a wink. “Tell me about yourself.”

I lean in closer. “How do you know I’m not mysterious on purpose? Maybe I like keeping things to myself.” I waggle my eyebrows playfully. “Or maybe I’m just a normal girl with nothing to share.”

“I don’t believe that at all.” He takes my hand, and I feel like the air has been whipped from my lungs. My pulse pounds in my throat. I’m nervous and excited all at once. Luckily, as I look overto Anna, it looks like she’s having a good time with Adam despite her worries, so there isn’t any reason for me to hang around. Not that I think I’m able to because there is something about Jax that I simply can’t resist.

“I’m going to be buying you a drink and listening to you tell me all about yourself, because I need to know everything.” He gives me a knowing look that causes butterflies to flap violently inside me. “Starting with your name.”

“I’m Lilly. And I heard that you’re Jax? Hey, maybe you’re more famous than me.”

“Lilly.” God, I love the way my name sounds on his lips. “Nice to meet you, Lilly. Now, let’s go.”

I find myself giggling at him again, giddy and all excited about what’s going to happen next. I don’t know if I’ll be able to impress him, because next to Jax, I couldn’t feel more boring, just Lilly Jenkins who doesn’t have anything thrilling to tell, but maybe he’ll be fascinated with me anyway and we will have the best night ever… but just one night because obviously, I can’t get attached toanyone.

Oh, my God… I might be in love. Notreallove, I suppose. Much as the idea excites me, it can’t really be that. This is just the giddy feeling of having a crush on the hot rock star guy who seems to likemefor some reason, but I just can’t get enough of him. I’m head over heels for him in this moment and it is delightful.

I like everything that he tells me about himself, and weirdly, he seems to like me just as much. It’s as if I weirdly intoxicatehim and I love it. I can’t remember the last time I saw Anna, or anyone else, for that matter. I’ve found the person I want to spend the rest of my night with, and it’s him.

“I haven’t laughed like this in a very long time,” he tells me as he casually slings his arm over my shoulder to bring me closer to him. He does it in the cool way that I thought could only be pulled off in movies. I shuffle nearer to him, needing his warmth even if it’s boiling hot in here. Maybe I just need him…

Don’t get addicted to him,I try to remind my tipsy brain.You will be out of here soon…

If someone like Jax were to want me, and I meanreallywant me, not just for a one-night stand which is all that most college boys are after, then I would have to reconsider everything, wouldn’t I? I don’t think the people I’ve been friends with for the last three years will be pleased with my leaving for a guy…

Stop thinking like that.I really do need to stop myself. I’m getting carried away.

“This has been an awesome night.” I can’t deny that, even if I want to disguise the swirling storm clouds in the pit of my stomach, the butterflies flapping violently. “The best first night I ever could have hoped for.”

“Well, I hope this isn’t the last night we spend hanging out together.”

His eyes lock on mine, and I find myself in the danger zone of temptation, the craving really pulling me in now. That gaze of his, where he might as well be undressing me with his eyes, the beauty of his lips, the dimple on the left side of his mouth… never in my twenty-one years of life have I ever felt like this before.

And then it happens. He starts leaning in, and of course, a guy like this wants a kiss. As much as I know I shouldn’t because it’s a very slippery slope to find myself on, my head tilts slightly to one side regardless. He’s a magnet, and I don’t stand a chance. I can’t resist him however much I probably should…

Oh, my God.Once our lips connect, I’m thrilled and terrified in equal measure. The intensity of the chemistry flowing between us erupts as our mouths become one. My heart might explode out of my chest because it’s racing so hard. Talk about sparks, this is an eruption, this is fireworks, this is everything. I cling to him as his tongue snakes between my lips because I never want to let him go. I want this magical moment to last for the rest of my life. I don’t think it can ever get better than this.

“Wow,” I gasp as we finally pull apart. Jax doesn’t seem quite ready to let me go, either, because he rests his forehead against mine and stares deeply into my eyes. It might as well be only us in the room. Everyone else melts away into nothingness. There is a bubble wrapped tightly around us, and that’s where I want to stay. I would give up whatever I have to just to be here with him. “That was something else.”

“I know, right? I’m going to have to get you out of here.” I must look panicked because he laughs at the sight of my face. “I don’t mean that I’m going to seduce you or anything. You’re much too precious for that. I just want to leave before kick-out time comes and everyone has to go at once.”

As soon as Jax and I are outside, I’m glad that we’ve left early because it’s so nice for us to walk along hand in hand in the moonlight, in the quiet, extending a little more time for us.

Before it all has to be over. Unfortunately, I already feel like I’m in too deep. I can’t make it worse.

“I’ve a funny feeling that you aren’t going to give me your number, are you?” Jax suddenly asks.

“I want to,” I admit, “but I don’t think’s a good idea.” I sigh heavily, and I can feel him a little deflated as well. “I’m only here for a semester. So, dating isn’t the best idea for me.”

“Even if we could share the most magical semester ever?”

“I know we could. But then it’ll be hard to say goodbye, won’t it?”

“I suppose so.” Outside Anna’s building, Jax spins me around rapidly and crashes his lips to mine once more, giving me that all too magical sensation again. Am I really refusing a semester ofthis? Although I suppose it would be a distraction. “I guess we will just have to end this night on a high, then, won’t we?”

God, we really are ending tonight on a high. I’ll be thinking of this night for my whole time here, I’m sure. The one night of my life when I was cool enough to be on the arm of a rock god, a guy so handsome it makes my heart ache to let him go… but I’m being sensible and doing it anyway, to save me from heartbreak later on.

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