Came With A Warning

Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

Atticus

"Don't ever stroll into my house like you own the damn place again. Got it?" I say as soon as Atlas hops in my truck. He gives me a sheepish grin. "If I knew you had a girl over I would've called first. Since when has that been going on?" "Not long" He punches my arm firmly. "She's hot, great choice." I glare in response. "Clearly she needs to work a little on the giving aspect but that's okay, she'll learn hm?" "She gives plenty." His brow quirks and with that I throw my truck in reverse to head down to our fishing hole. "Anything spectacular?" "Everything about her is." I admit. "No shit, you caught feelings already." My shoulders lift in a shrug. "We haven't known each other long enough to catch feelings" "But you have" "How could I not? She's different from anyone I've ever met." "How?" He asks "She's forward, she really has no filter and for some reason I think its the sexiest thing in the world. She's ambitious and knows what she wants. Luna makes me laugh, we stay up every night talking until she falls asleep. I... I fucking miss her when she's not around, and I think about her all day. I dunno" I realized I've been mindlessly babbling about her and I stop myself even though I could go on forever about her. "Shit, why not officially ask her out then? There ain't no way that you feel all that and she feels nothing." "She's leaving in September for school and made it clear she's not looking for a long term relationship, this is a summer fling." "But for you..." He trails off. "I knew what I was getting myself into, she warned me early on, gave me the choice to continue or break it off. I knew if I did I'd regret it." "Shit, man." "We're gonna be friends though, once she does leave. I'll be good with that." He gives me a look. "What?" "From what I've heard right now, and saw earlier" I glare at him once again "Sounds like your falling for her and it's been like a month since you met the girl." Fuck, it feels like I've known her forever but at the same time that it all just happened yesterday. "Yesterday was the first" "Oh your fucked bro. You are beyond pussy whipped" "I don't like that term. I prefer... wrapped around her finger." I am that. "You fall too fast, too hard." "Hey so did Pops and look where it got him" Atlas smiles. "Getting married after three weeks is actually fucking insane and we aren't in the olden days anymore so for the love of all that is holy do not fucking do that." I laugh "They're the happiest old couple I know." I shrug his way, jokingly of course but he rolls his eyes. "No, like I said, summer fling. That's it, that's all." "Alright well let me know how you're doing in t-minus one point five months." I give him a thumbs up and continue down the dirt trail.

"Let's have a fire tonight" Atlas murmurs softly, careful not to scare away the fish. "Alright" I nod. "I'm gonna invite this girl, she works at that sno-cone place downtown. Red head, shes fiery too." "How old is she?" "Probably my age, haven't had a whole lot of opportunity to talk yet. I got her number last week." "You need a hair cut" I tell him "Especially if you want to impress her" "Yeah, I've been meaning to go. I'll do that before tonight. Invite Luna too, I'd like to apologize again for earlier." "You aren't sorry" I glance over and he's sporting a sheepish smile. "She's hot. But it was unintentional" "She is hot" I reaffirm his statement and he chuckles. "You're fucked" Yeah, I probably am.

"So then I told him, if I want to wear a thong and fucking pasties out, I damn well fucking will." My sister quips to her friend as they lounge in the chairs around the burn pit. I glance over my shoulder at her with my brows furrowed. "What?!" She asks in my direction "I wouldn't want to see that, so thank God you listened to the man" I see her blood boiling. "I did not fucking listen to him, I'm wearing the shorts he told me I wasn't" She lifts her fingers in air quotes "Allowed to. But how fucking stupid is he. I'm a grown woman and he thinks after we've been dating a month he can control my wardrobe. First of all its a hundred degrees out, secondly I'm sitting around a fire, oh hold on let me put on my fucking tunic and veil. I forgot I'm a nun now." Her friend Jessa nods as if agreeing. "You'd be a shitty nun" An empty beer can hits my back and I laugh. "You don't understand Att, if you let a man control something as simple as what you wear then he thinks he has all this power but really you just lose respect for him" "Oh I'm not saying you should let the dick control you, I'm just fucking with you." Addison rolls her eyes and sighs. "It's gonna be okay, you'll find someone better" Jess reassures but Addison claims she has to go to the bathroom and leaves.