Arranged Love

Chapter 12: The Carnivale

171 READS!!!! OMG!!!! Y'all are the absolute best!!!!!! I need more song suggestions! For other chapters too even the older oness! I don't listen to music that much, but I like it when there's music with the video! Rainie or Lafael? I finally fixed the cover! Anyway back to Rainie! or Lafael!

This is the link to Lanie's outfit for the carnival

http://www.polyvore.com/lanie_carnival_outfit/set?id=155632446

*Lanie's POV*

I woke up in a really hot place. Assessing my surroundings, I remembered what happened yesterday. I can feel myself blushing. Thankfully when I blush its not horribly noticeable.

Rafe was holding me really tight. He looked quite harmless while sleeping so I studied him. He is a very good looking man. Definitely a 10. Actually he broke the scales.

I have a standard for measuring guys.There's a cute scale, then there's the hot scale. If you're in the hot scale, you're not really cute. If you're on the cute scale, you're not really hot, but more cute. I'd go for hot over cute any day. Rafe broke all the scales.

I touched his hair. Its so soft and smooth and silky and his jaw was so hard and so defined, although when he was asleep he didn't seem so intimidating. His lips were thin, just a bit smaller than mine. I'm surprised at myself, daring to touch him like this.Those eyes were mesmerizing, they looked like they did in that wet dream I had, then I realized something.

His eyes were open!

*Rafe's POV*

When Lanie ran her hands through my hair I woke up to find her studying me intently. I waited patiently for the moment she'd realize I was awake. As she did, she instantly froze.

"Good morning," her eyes flickered to my lips and she bit hers, "Lanie? Good morning?"

"Sorry, um can I use your bathroom?"

"Go, it's the door in the middle," She scooted off the bed and relieved herself, while I put on some sweatpants. She came out, "Thanks for last night Rafe, I-I appreciate it, guess I'll get going now," She turned around and reached for the door that would take her to the hallway. Before Lanie could go anywhere though, I pulled her back until she was facing me again. "Actually let's talk about Sarah now. We need to get her out of the way. I know it bothers you." I didn't really want to, but I know it's not right to drag this out when we could just get it over with.

"Can we go down to my room first?"

"Sure," I held my hand out for her. She slid hers into mine, and we made our way down to her room. Once there she sat on her bed against the headboard cross-legged, and I sat on the other end of her bed, my side facing her.

"Who is Sarah? I mean who is her family, are they close to yours, that kind of thing?" I rubbed my hand over my jaw for a second, "She's Sarah Fordue, she became Evie's best friend much the same way Mark became mine. At the time the two of them were great and Sarah was a good influence on Evie. Then I turned 23 and Sarah was 16 or  17 and we slept together. I was by no means a virgin and at the time she was another notch on the belt."

Lanie bristled at that. I didn't want to tell her these things, but she would have found out eventually.

"Every once in a while, we would sleep together mo-"

"She was underage for 2-3 years though right?"

"Yeah, I'm not proud of it, but... yeah,"

"As long as it was consensual I'm fine with it, so why didn't you start a relationship with her?"