The Hook-up

Chapter 43

"What?" she asked confused.

"Yeah. Then you're always there." He told her.

"But it's so fast...." She looked at him still confused unsure how to respond.

"Just think..." he said moving his fingers through her hair smiling at her. "I come home at like 3 in the morning..." he moved his hands down her waist making her tingle. "But then I leave at like 2 in the afternoon because I have to be somewhere the next day...." He let go of her teasing her. "If you were there...then..." he leaned in whispering into her ear, "You can have me." He moved his lips to hers kissing them lightly.

"Is that all you're thinking about? So you can have sex with me when you're home for a day?" Lauren asked a little upset.

"I mean...." He looked down at the floor realizing that she might be right.

"You want me to say that's okay...." She said pulling away from him a little. "But I'm not. I want more."

"But...baby...you're more than just that..." he said touching her cheek.

"I am...but...we fight all the time Bruno....I don't want to move in with you and then have one of us do something stupid..." She questioned.

"Then we have really great make-up sex." He smiled at her.

"Bruno!" she pushed him a little.

I'm sorry...." He smirked at her. "I'm done being stupid. And you never were..." he told her kissing the top of her head. He held onto her back hugging her while they looked at each other.

"Okay. But we have to promise to talk to each other about things. I don't want anything bad to happen..." she told him. She watched him dig in his pocket for a few seconds pulling out a key.

"This is yours..." he said handing it to her.

She looked down at it not sure what to say. She ran her fingers along the grooves in the key looking over at the table where her keys were. "Hand me those..." she pointed to her keys watching him hold them in his hand. He took the key from her hand struggling for a few seconds to get his key on the key chain. He handed it back to her.

"There. It's officially." He said proudly handing the keys to her.

"But we have to wait. I'm not leaving tomorrow, Bruno." She told him.

"Then the next day." He laughed taking her hands. "Come on. Let's go to bed."