Page 14 of Spiralling Skywards
“Will’s just being protective. He’s known me since I was three or four, he’s like a big brother.”
He nodded his head but didn’t look convinced. I looked around the room, not sure what else to say, and spotted Sasha with my brother. He had his arm thrown around her shoulder, and they were listening to something his friend Callum was telling them. Will was just to the side of them, leaning against the bar with his eyes on me. I swallowed but tried not to let the surprise I felt show on my face. Why the fuck was Will watchingme?
He raised his glass and smiled, and I returned the gesture, feeling a little too warm and slightly uncomfortable.
“So, Sarah Carter, when you gonna let me take you out?” Liam asked from beside me.
My eyes met his. I was no longer just a little warm, I was burning up, about to ignite and combust in fact.
“I don’t recall you asking to take me out, Liam Delaney.”
“Well then let me rectify that. I’d really like to take you out for dinner or just for a drink if that’s what you’d prefer, and I’d really like it to be soon.”
“How soon?”
“Tomorrow night soon.”
It didn’t matter how soon. I was all over that shit. If he’d had asked me to go right at that very moment to the all night burger and kebab van on the roundabout by the motorway exit, I would’ve said yes. I would’ve said yes to just about anything he asked. I was drunk and so fucking high on him and the fact that he was paying me attention and wanted to spend time with me that I could almost touch the sky. Almost, but not quite.
The main problem with being so high was that it hurt so much more when you fell. It was even more painful to be dropped.
Excruciating in fact.
