The Life I Wish We'd Lived

14.Nice Saves by Ninja Skills

Kat's POV

I walked back into the kitchen and tossed the charger to Paisley saying "Here hoe."

She flinched when the cord whipped around her neck almost like I'd lassoed her. We all laughed knowing I couldn't do that again if I tried. I walked to Eli's side wrapping an arm around his waist, him resting his arm across my shoulders.

"Thanks skank." She says jumping off the counter.

Eli drops his hand to the small of my back pulling me closer to him. Paisley stops briefly at the door looking at us with a smirk saying "You two behave yourselves."

I burry my now red face into his shoulder listening for any sound to tell me she's actually gone.

Next thing I know Eli's hands are on my waist lifting me to sit on the counter. I laugh as he does this not only because of how cliché it is but because I am extremely ticklish. Sitting on the counter makes me just barely taller than him. He has both hands flat on the counter on either side of me so I can't escape, so I wrap my legs around his waist pulling him to me.

"If she comes back I'm going to kill her." He mumbles.

I laugh knitting my fingers into his hair. "I'll help hide the body."

"Good to know you have my back." He says looking up to me.

"Always." I say rolling my eyes, smiling down at him.

Letting out a satisfied sigh I rest my forehead against his. "You're amazing. You know that right?" I say to him.

He pulls away seeming surprised by my words "I'm not amazing..."

"Oh but you are. You put off your feelings for me for years. You watched me date guy after guy even when you told me they were bad news. You listened to me ramble about how 'perfect' these guys were and then held me while I cried after they broke my heart. Even this summer you—"

I was cut off when Eli's lips crashed into mine. I was frozen for a couple of seconds before returning the kiss. When he pulled away I took a second to recover before continuing my rant causing him to roll his eyes "— you didn't even say anything before we came home, you let me talk about Chris and how exited I was to see him.—"

"Exactly Kat. I should have talked to you before we got home. I wasn't even thinking about Chris. I was only thinking about how hurt I would be if you just shut me down." He says looking down as those last words left his lips.

I lift his chin forcing him to look at me. "But everything worked out. Chris has Niki, and I love you."

"I love you too." He says kissing me again.

His hands move to my hips digging in slightly to the skin there as our kiss deepens. I pull away to catch my breath and he trails kisses down my neck and collar bone stopping at my most sensitive spot a moan escaping my lips. I pull his face back to mine before he leaves a mark and he chuckles. He pulls me even closer to him. I know he is now supporting most of my body weight and I tighten my hold around his waist. We fight for dominance and I tighten my hold on his hair and he moans.

A door slams upstairs and we snap apart looking up at the sound. Eli puts me down and I untangle my hands from his hair.

"Lexi." is all I say before running upstairs to find my best friend knelt over the toilet emptying her stomach of the alcohol she'd consumed earlier.

I pull her hair back and use my extra hair tie to put her hair in a bun, keeping it off her face. I open the cabinet above the toilet and grab a rag and run it under cool water. Lexi was now leaning against the bathtub so I hand her the rag returning to my room to grab the medicine and water we'd left for her.