Read Online On The Floor (Second Story) by Jennifer LaCross - Free Book Online

I could stare at this man all day. I can see the muscles in his back as he digs through his drawer for a shirt. The tattoo that I saw earlier is a tribal design that goes from his bicep up to his shoulder and travels down a bit onto his back. I can also see that he has a tattoo on his left side of his rib cage. It is some sort of quote and I want to get closer so I can read it, but my legs won’t work.
    He finally finds the shirt he was looking for and turns around to look at me giving me a smile. He starts to shake out his shirt and I see that the tattoo on his right arm comes all the way over his shoulder and onto his chest. And what a chest it is. His front is just as muscled as his back and I want to lick every inch of him. Every rock hard inch. Gulp.
    “Hey, Rachel!” I look up and see a pleased smile on his face. He knows I like what I see. Who wouldn’t?
    “Hey Jake! I’ve got my laptop and notebook. All ready for the planning party!” Planning party? Who stole my brain? I always say the dorkiest stuff around him!
    He puts his shirt on and goes to sit on his bed with his back against the headboard. He bends his legs and rests his arms on his knees. He looks delicious. “First, put your stuff on the desk and sit.” He smiles pointing to the other end of the bed. “Tell me about your night.”
    I set my stuff on the desk and go sit on the end of the bed cross-legged facing him. “It was okay.”
    “Okay?” he asks concerned.
    “Well, the guy was a total ass. He…”
    He interrupts me. “What did he do to you?” he asks with a hard look on his face. Whoa.
    “Calm down, Jake. He just said some really inappropriate things to me, so I put him in his place and left.”
    “Oh. Sorry he was such an ass. Continue,” he says gesturing with his hand for me to go on.
    “Whatever. It’s not like I was into him or anything. After that Jenna broke up with her ‘boyfriend’ of one night and we left early. But I had a fun time with Jenna before the guys got there and after we left. Then I talked to my sister for like an hour about her new crush. So, some bad and some good.” I smile at him.
    “Sorry about the bad. Happy for you about the good,” he says smiling.
    “How about you? How was your night?”
    “It was fun. I love getting together with the guys, but my night is definitely better now.” He looks down and then looks back up at me with a big grin on his face. He must be done with this friends garbage. Finally.
    “I agree. The night is definitely getting better.”
    We stare at each other for an eternity. At least it feels like an eternity. I could get lost in his eyes.
    “So, planning party?” he says breaking his gaze and getting up to get my laptop and notebook from the desk.
    We start to plan a few of the activities: the open mic nights, a trip to the organ pavilion at Balboa Park, and a trip to an art show in LA that is happening in two weeks. Only about ten of the freshmen from the floor are going since they have to pay some out of pocket. We all decided to make a weekend of it and we are going to stay in a hotel Saturday night and come back late on Sunday.
    By the time we are done dividing up all of the planning responsibilities, it's one in the morning.
    “Thanks for helping with the planning, Jake,” I say to him as I start to get up to leave.
    “No problem.” He pauses. “So you’re going to go?”
    “Um, yeah, I mean it’s one in the morning.”
    “If you want stay, I thought we could talk a little and get to know each other better. We know the basics about each other, but I want to know more about you. And I hope you want to know more about me.” He looks so sexy sitting on his bed and asking me to stay with him.
    “What do you want to know?” I ask sitting back down and smiling.
    “Do you want to do like a question thing? I ask something, then you ask. Like back and forth?”
    “Sure. Who goes first?” I smile big. I’m really excited to learn more about Jake.
    “I