SOUR

two

garrett stood in front of me. his arms around my waist. he pressed his forehead against mine, holding me close.

"rosie, I just want you to know how much i love you. more than anything else in the world. i'd do anything for you. you know that, right?", he whispered, not wanting to break the moment. his eyes were glued to mine.

i opened my mouth to answer, but before i could -

"rosalee! wake up!", emery yelled, bursting through my bedroom door, marison behind her, trying to hold her back.

"emery, what are you doing. it's sunday. leave me alone", i groaned, turning onto my stomach, shoving my face into my pillow.

"no, no, no. you need to get up. garrett and marshall are coming over in a couple hours", emery answered.

"emery, why?", i asked.

"because marshall texted me asking if they could come over"

"why?"

"because they wanted to hang out with us more. come on now. get up"

i groaned again rolled over onto my stomach. i pushed myself up and got out of bed.

"okay, i'm up"

emery nodded approvingly and left the room, dragging marison with her. i got dressed, and by the time i was done getting ready, the boys were walking in the door. as marshall went to say hi to emery and marison, garrett came up to me.

"well, hello rosie", he said. he subtly reached down to grab my hand and brought to his lips, pressing a kiss to it. i could feel my face heating up.

"i don't see you for a few weeks, and you've got a mustache?", i asked.

"you don't like it?"

"i didn't say that. in fact...i like it. it's kinda sexy"

"well, if i you thought that...i'dve grown it sooner"

"you've only known me for a month"

"yeah, but i could've started growing it when we first met. instead i shaved"

before i could answer, emery came over to us.

"hey. so we're thinking we might go get something to eat. you two coming?", she asked.

"why wouldn't we?", i responded.

"well, you looked like you were pretty okay just standing here so...thought you might want to be alone"

"emery..."

"sorry, sorry. if you're coming though, let's go"

we followed emery out the front door of our apartment, and once we got halfway down the hall, garrett subtly slid his hand into mine. i looked over at him to see he was looking at me, a small smile on his face.

"are you really trying to seduce my best friend?", emery said, looking back at us. we looked at her and garrett just rolled his eyes.

"last time i check em, i was definitely old enough to date whoever i want, regardless of it's your best friend or not. besides, you still have mari", garrett replied, smirking at her.

"if you're gonna seduce her, don't do it in public please"

"emery...if anyone is gonna be seducing anyone, it's gonna mari to marshall", i said, looking at the two ahead of us. emery turned to look at them.

"marison!"

"finally, she's not paying attention to us anymore", garrett said, laughing slightly.

"i thought she'd never leave us alone", i replied in the same joking manner.

"if you two keep it up, i won't!"