to
It's up top
Maybe I'm simply deluded
That's right
Here I am just wasting my time
All my time
And it's hard to justify what you can do
I'm so sick and tired of falling through
It's true, Maybe I've been wasting my time
All this time
Come creeping, no one can hear you now
I listen, so you can show me how
There's something that I'm missing here
Softly, stab my evil dreams
Faster, help me fall asleep
Come close, I don't wanna see you again
From time to time, we fall in line
But now it seems that we are blind
No one knows, that's how it goes
all the thoughts that we transpose
And I can't stop
even if I wanted to
It's up top
Maybe I'm simply deluded
That's right
Here I am just wasting my time
All my time
And It's hard to justify what you can do
I'm so sick and tired of falling through
It's true, Maybe I've been wasting my time
All this time
Just as I hit the last chord I heard the gate make noise, at exactly the same moment my phone began to ring. It was Notting. My heart sprung up into my throat. She fucking showed. Now what? I had to take Notting’s call and answered the phone. I would have to tell him I would call him back. What the hell was I getting myself into?
Smiling to myself, I realized that I didn’t even care.
PART TWO
FIRST KISS
8
Jake
I could still feel the warmth from her body on the sheets when I reached over, searching for her, and for a moment I wondered…had it been real? Bleary eyed I stared at the clock. It was only 7 in the morning. The sound that woke me must have been the door shutting – Aly sneaking away. We must have fallen asleep sometime after midnight.
She shouldn’t have stayed over. She’d kept trying to leave, but I’d keep pulling her back into the bed. Not that anything had happened. We’d just talked and hung onto each other, horsing around. Kid shit. I sighed, rubbing my eyes as I sat back down on the edge of the bed. What did I expect? She was a kid. Alyssa Montgomery. What the hell was I doing, hanging with a girl her age? If her parents caught her sneaking back in this morning…
I swore and tripped on the sheet tangled around my leg as I climb out of bed. I opened the door to the back yard to see if she was still visible, but I was too late. It was quiet and cool. I shivered, standing there, wondering when I’d see her again. I went back inside and reached for my phone as I climbed back into bed and saw that three texts had come through. They were all from Rachel Schaffer.
I didn’t read them – I just tossed my phone to the foot of my bed. I seriously didn’t even wanna deal with that shit right now. One drunken hook-up and what, she thought she had dibs on me? Yeah, she was an old friend, and she helped out with our band stuff…but I’ve seen how she plays hot and cold with other guys, she should know what’s up. And it’s not like I’ve ever shown even the slightest interest in her. But still, I just knew that it was gonna rain shit-balls once she realized that I was into Aly. I pushed the looming issue from my mind and tried to go back to sleep. This was my last summer vacation and I wanted to go into my senior year with my future in music secure.
I could smell Aly’s strawberry scented hair lingering on my pillow and closed my eyes, reliving our night. When she’d first arrived I’d sat down on my bed and she paced back and forth in front of me, I recalled how she looked in h er little black cotton shorts. Her long legs tan and smooth, it’d taken everything in me not to reach out and touch them. When I finally did, she had the softest skin I think I’d ever felt on a girl.
I guess I finally drifted off to sleep because I was startled awake by a knock at my door.
“Yeah, what?” I groaned.
“Rachel is here. It’s eleven o’clock,” my
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