With Him

Chapter Eleven

Tyler's P.O.V

We left the rink a little after three, "Want something to eat?" He asks when we get in the truck. "Im fine I think" I pull out my phone to check my number, 68 I should eat but I can wait till we get home.

"When was the last time you ate?" I knew he wasn't gonna just let this go easily, "Around nine-thirty" I didn't eat before we left, I was too excited.

"What's your number?" what? "You have my number remember? That's how we ended up here?" does he not remember our conversation last night?

"No not that number" he chuckles, "Your blood sugar" Oh wow, thats embarrassing. "68" maybe he'll let me wait till we get home.

"We're gonna stop at the diner and eat" he says and we pull out of the parking lot. "We don't have to" I mess with the zipper of his jacket, "Well that's too bad, we're goin and I'm paying" ugh he's too nice.

We pull up to a little diner and go in, we sit at a little booth in the back. A waitress comes up to us and hand's us menues then says she'll be back in a few minutes.

She comes back and we order, I get a Breakfast bowl without any meat and a Hi-C. James gets a order of pancakes and a Coke.

"Do you like my jacket" he chuckles, I look down and notice that I've brought the sleeves up to my face again and have been smelling them.

"It's warm and cozy" I smile at him, I really like it I don't want to give it back. "Hey Tyler" I look up and see Daniel standing by our table, in his police uniform with two other men in uniforms by him. "Hi", me and Daniel get along nice and usually it's not this akward when we interact but I've never seen him in his uniform.

I knew he was a cop he told us the first day, but seeing him here with a gun on his hip makes me nervous. Chris is a vet  so at least I won't ever have to see him with a weapon, and honestly I dont think Chris could handlea gun.

"James you treating her good?" he turns to James, is Daniel a protective dad? "Yes sir" James looks up at him, I swear he looks scared "Good, yall have fun" he says and him and his friends go over to a table on the other side of the diner.

"Sometimes he really scares me" he says once he makes sure Daniel is far enough away to not hear him. "Yeah I've never seen him in his uniform before, he's like a completely different person."

Our food comes and we eat, "So um I hate to do this to you but I gotta go home tonight" he says after taking his last bite. "What" I don't want him to leave, I want to spend time with him, "We'll have family coming in from out of town for the holiday so my parents said I had to be there, and I won't be able to come back they don't leave till Sunday night" so I won't be able to see him at all.

I finish my food, "Are you okay, I'm sorry about it" he puts his arm across the table, I tuck my hand in the sleeve of his jacket and put it in his hand.

He looks a little taken back, "I-i wanted to hold your h-hand, but touching hurts" he tilts his head. "Hurts?" "Yeah when people touch me its like fire on my skin I hate it, even Greyson" he nods.

I grab my little bag and take my insulin, this is very akward while he watches.

We go to the front counter and he pays for us. "Have you ever had a boyfriend?" He asks as soon as we get in the truck, where's he going with this...

"No" I look over at him, "Have you had a girlfriend?" maybe he just wants to know. "Yeah, she's a cheerleader at our school. We only dated because it was kinda expected of us to with me being a football player" he says start up the truck.

I get that, Greyson dated a cheerleader once because he was a football player. He didn't like her but stayed with her till the season ended.

"But back to my question, how have you never had a boyfriend?" he turns his head to me for a quick second.

"Um well, I dunno" I never really talked to anyone at the schools I've been to so. "Well, what if I wanted to be your first boyfriend" my face heats up, do I want a boyfriend?

If it's James yeah, I do.

"What if I wanted you to be my first boyfriend" I don't know where all this confidence is coming from but I'm glad it's here. "Well then, Tyler will you be my girlfriend?" we stop at a red light, "Well James, I think I'd have to say yes" oh my god, what did I just say?

"For real, you aren't kidding, not playing with me right" the light turns green and we turn down our street. "Why would I be kidding?" We pull into the driveway, "I dunno, just had to make sure" he parks the truck and turns it off.

He unbuckles his seat belt, but instead of getting out he turns his body to me. I unbuckle mine and stay put, seeing where this is gonna go. His eyes go from my lips to my eyes again, he leans forwards then his lips are on mine.

I'm taken back I don't really know what to do. I try and kiss him back then he pulls back, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that" his cheeks turn pink.

"I-its fine" I avert my eyes from him my face turns red, "You sure, I shouldn't have done that without asking" he says moving to try and look at me. "Yeah I'm sure" I nod, "Okay, you ready to go in" he goes to open his door. "N-no!" I reach out for him and he turns and looks at me confused.

"N-not yet, my face i-is all red and they'll ask questions an-" he cuts me off, "Okay, we can wait till you're ready".

"So when are you leaving?" I ask wanting to think about anything but the kiss, "probably around five" I look at my phone, it's almost four. "So I won't see you till monday?" I don't know why but I feel something, like a pulling at my chest.

"Yeah, I'm sorry" he sighs, "It's fine" the feeling grows more. "Um, we can go in now" my face has calmed down and it'll look like it's from the wind.

"You sure?" I nod, we get out and as we're walking up to the house I take off his jacket and hand it to him. "You can keep it if you want" he says taking it, really, he'd let me keep his letterman?

"N-no I don't wanna steal your jacket" maybe another time, I don't want to walk in the house and everyone see me wearing it they'd know.

It's not like I'm embarrassed to be his girlfriend but I know everyone will freak out and all the girls will be all excited.

I just don't want all that attention on me. We walk through the door and there's no one in the living room, kitchen, or dining room that's weird.

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It's a little past midnight when the girls are coming to bed, I'm sitting up with my back against the headboard and my knees brought up to my chest, waiting for a text from James.

He left at five, I walked with him to his truck to say bye. He wanted a hug I could tell but I don't do hugs, that's touching times 100.

I then locked myself in my room, I'll be fine if I don't eat dinner.

"So Tyler how'd the date go?" Addison asks as the walk through the door. "Good, I think I'm his girlfriend" I don't know why I worded it that way.

"You think?" Vivian says climbing into her bed, "Well he asked me to be his girlfriend" "And what did you say?" Brooklyn pipes in. "I said yes" "Then he's your boyfriend" Addison says.

"YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND!" Vivian jumps off her bed, "Does Greyson know yet" Brooklyn asks. "Well, I haven't told him yet I'm not sure if James did" I look back at my phone and see that he still hasn't texted me. Maybe he wants me to text him first?

Vivian is very exited about me being your girlfriend -Me

I wouldn't expect anything different from her, she gets excited about everything -James

He responded almost immediately, had he wanted me to text him first?

We're you waiting for me to text you first? -Me

Maybe -James

Sorry, I was waiting for you -Me

We text for a bit more before I can't keep my eyes open anymore. We say goodnight and I plug my phone in and go to bed.

I can't believe that I have a boyfriend now, I'm excited... I think.

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I can just imagine Tyler being all cute in James big jacket.