Page 42 of Our Moon
“That tickled,” she laughs. We had family dinner tonight, and I hid out in the backyard after driving my car around the corner, waiting for Ally to slip out. Evidently, it tickled when I grabbed her as she rounded the side of the house.
“Not was I was going for, baby girl.” A heated look comes across her face, and she pushes me against the side of the house and plants her lips on mine. Her arms wrap around my neck, and my hands go to her waist. When she pulls me in tighter her shirtslips up and I feel skin. I groan. “Baby girl, we gotta stop.”
She shakes her head, telling me no, but I pull away. “Chase,” she whines.
“Ally, you really test my control. You know that, right?”
She smirks and lifts up onto her toes to kiss me again. I give in, because she tastes so damn good; it’s too hard to resist, and I pull her body into mine. She moans in approval, and it takes all I have, literally, all I have, to pull myself away from her.
She has the most adorable pout face. Too bad she overuses it.
“Sorry, baby girl. You need to go back inside, it’s a school night.”
She rolls her eyes. It’s her typical response when I mention school. “Whatever.”
I kiss her on the tip of her cute nose and hug her close. “I’ll miss ya until I see ya.”
“Me too,” she whispers. I pat her on the ass as she walks away, and I certainly don’t miss the glare she shoots me before she rounds the corner.
I lean back against the house and wait a few minutes before heading around to the front of the house. Just as I break from the tall hedges that line the house, I bump straight into Alex.
“Shit! You scared the hell out of me.”
“What are you doing back here?” he asks, tilting his head to the side.
“Thought I heard something,” I lie.
“Didn’t you go home?”
“Forgot my keys.”
“Was Ally just back here?”
“I didn’t see her.” The lies come out too easily. I feel like such a jerk.
“I just saw her come from this way,” he presses.
“Maybe that’s what I heard then?” I offer. I think I’m playing it cool on the outside, but internally I’m freaking out. “But I didn’t see anyone when I got back there.”
He looks at me questioningly for another moment, then nods. “Yeah, okay.” Sadly, he has no reason to think I’d lie to him. I’m the worst kind of friend.
We both turn and walk to the front of the house. “See you tomorrow?”
“Yeah, see ya, Chase.”
That was close. Too close.
***
It’s a Friday night and I’m in the garage with the guys, practicing a new song to play at our gig the following night.
“Where’s Ally?” Trevor asks. She’s been a staple around the garage during practices again, so it’s unusual for her to be missing.
“Out with Lucy,” I answer.
“How do you know?” Alex asks, and I still.Shit.I know because she texted me. I know because I know everything she does, just like she knows everything I do. I know because I can’t keep my mind off of her for a minute. But I can’t tell her brother that. I can’t tell my best friends that.
“Heard her mention it yesterday,” I quickly cover.
