Page 29 of Unmasking Secrets
And now? Now, it’s like she knows what I’m going to do before I do. I try and move to sit next to her, but she’s up seconds before. She maneuvers before I can be near her. I’m this fucking close to throwing her over my shoulder and taking her up to our room until she stops putting distance between us.
She can’t avoid me forever.
“Dude.” James sits down and shakes his hair out of his eyes.
I lean back in my seat and cross my arms. This is ridiculous.
“Aww, she’s not paying attention to him.” Tyler laughs across the room the table.
“Piss off.” My eyes follow her as she moves across the room.
After last night, I thought things were going to change. We admitted something was there in the past. Feelings like that don’t just go away, not with our history.
I saw the way she looked at me. She wanted me to make the move. I was trying to go slow so I could savor it. It was going to be the moment that changed everything. As if I could reset all the years wasted when we weren’t together.
My eyes follow her as she moves across the room, then I notice Tyler and James sharing a look.
“What?” I roll my eyes.
It’s the same look they would give each other when I was being an idiot. The problem is, I don’t know what I’ve done this time.
“Did you try something last night?” James narrows his eyes.
“We were interrupted, but there was a moment.” I admit with a gumble. “She’s…” I trail off.
She’s mine? She sure feels like it. I want her to be. I lean my head back with a groan.
“She’s everything,” I whisper.
Tyler gasps. His hand mockingly clutches his gray shirt. “Did he finally say it out loud?”
“You saw the tattoo.” James has a goofy grin on his face.
I stare at him. How does he know?
“I saw it when we were playing pool.” He shrugs.
“We almost kissed.” My head falls back and I close my eyes. I don’t want to look at my friends right now. Not when they weren’t even taking this seriously.
“What happened?” Tyler leans forward.
My eyes snap to his. “Y’all came knocking on the door.”
“Ah,” Tyler tries to bite back his grin. “So, what are you going to do now?”
“You look at her the same way she used to look at you in high school,” James whispers. “Don’t tell her I told you. Not that she confided in me or anything. I wasn’t her best friend, you were.”
“You’re wrong.” I argue.
There’s no way how I feel right now compares. It feels like my heart is walking around the room avoiding me. If I believed for even a moment that how I feel now, is how she felt then—Fuck, I’m an asshole.
How could I not see it? All those times we were alone. After all the opportunities she could’ve said something. She should have.
We both should’ve.
I stand from the table. “I can’t keep going like this.”
Tyler hits the table with his fists. “What are you going to do?”
