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seemed to notice my pleasant mood as well.
“You should’ve started working at the flower shop a long time ago,” he pointed out as we drove towards the movie theater.
“Why’s that?” I turned by body so I was facing him.
We’d both been working all week and were finally getting a chance to spend some quality time together. We’d made sure to see each other every day, but it wasn’t for very long. We were both beat by the end of the day and had to get up early in the mornings, so we both thought it wiser to make our nights early ones. Tonight was different though. We were catching a movie and then heading back to his house until I had to be home for curfew. His dad was away on a hunting trip and we were both anxious to have the house to ourselves. I blushed just thinking about it. I tried to focus back on the conversation, but he made it nearly impossible to think straight when he always smelled and looked so good. And whenever he’d smile at me in that way that told me he wanted me as badly as I wanted him, I was a goner. He could’ve told me to jump off a bridge and I probably would have.
“You just seem happier,” he said, drawing me back from my straying thoughts.
“Was I not happy before?” He took my hand and kissed the back of it, before resting our entwined fingers in his lap as he continued to drive.
“I adore 99.9% of you, Riley. I love every little thing about that 99.9%, but there’s that little tiny bit…the bit that reads way too much into everything that drives me absolutely insane.” He was smiling, so I knew he wasn’t being mean. Jesse was never mean to me. “And before you go reading into that statement,” Jesse continued, looking over to me with a playful grin. “Even though there’s a tenth of a percent of you that drives me nuts, I wouldn’t change a thing about you.”
“Good save,” I said and scooted myself into the middle of the bench seat, resting my head on his shoulder as he drove. “And just so you know, I adore the entire package that is you. All one hundred percent. There’s not a thing about you that drives me insane.”
He started laughing before he spoke again.
“Well, you obviously don’t know me as well as you think you do.”
“Then let me continue to live in my world of delusions because as far as I can see, you’re perfect.”
He just shook his head and put his arm around me before turning into the parking lot of the theater.
****
The movie was good, but I was more excited to get back to Jesse’s place. Ever since that first night at the pond, I now completely understood about raging hormones. It was as if sometimes I was in no control of my own body. It didn’t help the fact that my boyfriend was an absolute hunk. Perhaps if he was even a little bit ugly, it wouldn’t have been as hard. I was glad my mom had basically forced me to get on birth control once she realized Jesse and I were serious. I’d insisted I didn’t need it, but she didn’t want to take any chances and I now realized my mom was much wiser than I gave her credit for.
When we got to Jesse’s I wasn’t interested in any formalities as he shut the door to the empty house behind us. We had the entire place to ourselves. There was no way anyone would be interrupting us, so when Jesse put his keys down on the table by the front door, I grabbed him by the scruff of the shirt and pulled him into his bedroom. Before he could say anything, I reached down to the bottom of his t-shirt and pulled it over his head. He tried to look shocked, but I knew he was enjoying it as much as I was.
“I think you’ve got the wrong idea. I’m not that kind of guy.”
“You’re exactly that kind of guy and you know this is all you’ve been able to think about since you picked me up tonight.”
I took his hand and pushed him playfully onto his bed and he lay there with nothing on but his jeans.
“I don’t
“You should’ve started working at the flower shop a long time ago,” he pointed out as we drove towards the movie theater.
“Why’s that?” I turned by body so I was facing him.
We’d both been working all week and were finally getting a chance to spend some quality time together. We’d made sure to see each other every day, but it wasn’t for very long. We were both beat by the end of the day and had to get up early in the mornings, so we both thought it wiser to make our nights early ones. Tonight was different though. We were catching a movie and then heading back to his house until I had to be home for curfew. His dad was away on a hunting trip and we were both anxious to have the house to ourselves. I blushed just thinking about it. I tried to focus back on the conversation, but he made it nearly impossible to think straight when he always smelled and looked so good. And whenever he’d smile at me in that way that told me he wanted me as badly as I wanted him, I was a goner. He could’ve told me to jump off a bridge and I probably would have.
“You just seem happier,” he said, drawing me back from my straying thoughts.
“Was I not happy before?” He took my hand and kissed the back of it, before resting our entwined fingers in his lap as he continued to drive.
“I adore 99.9% of you, Riley. I love every little thing about that 99.9%, but there’s that little tiny bit…the bit that reads way too much into everything that drives me absolutely insane.” He was smiling, so I knew he wasn’t being mean. Jesse was never mean to me. “And before you go reading into that statement,” Jesse continued, looking over to me with a playful grin. “Even though there’s a tenth of a percent of you that drives me nuts, I wouldn’t change a thing about you.”
“Good save,” I said and scooted myself into the middle of the bench seat, resting my head on his shoulder as he drove. “And just so you know, I adore the entire package that is you. All one hundred percent. There’s not a thing about you that drives me insane.”
He started laughing before he spoke again.
“Well, you obviously don’t know me as well as you think you do.”
“Then let me continue to live in my world of delusions because as far as I can see, you’re perfect.”
He just shook his head and put his arm around me before turning into the parking lot of the theater.
****
The movie was good, but I was more excited to get back to Jesse’s place. Ever since that first night at the pond, I now completely understood about raging hormones. It was as if sometimes I was in no control of my own body. It didn’t help the fact that my boyfriend was an absolute hunk. Perhaps if he was even a little bit ugly, it wouldn’t have been as hard. I was glad my mom had basically forced me to get on birth control once she realized Jesse and I were serious. I’d insisted I didn’t need it, but she didn’t want to take any chances and I now realized my mom was much wiser than I gave her credit for.
When we got to Jesse’s I wasn’t interested in any formalities as he shut the door to the empty house behind us. We had the entire place to ourselves. There was no way anyone would be interrupting us, so when Jesse put his keys down on the table by the front door, I grabbed him by the scruff of the shirt and pulled him into his bedroom. Before he could say anything, I reached down to the bottom of his t-shirt and pulled it over his head. He tried to look shocked, but I knew he was enjoying it as much as I was.
“I think you’ve got the wrong idea. I’m not that kind of guy.”
“You’re exactly that kind of guy and you know this is all you’ve been able to think about since you picked me up tonight.”
I took his hand and pushed him playfully onto his bed and he lay there with nothing on but his jeans.
“I don’t
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