Sinister (Lethal Fear: Book One)

23 - Decision

"....well what about that time when I tripped over the coach and fell flat on my face?" Dylan asked.  "You didn't see that?"

We were on the couch. Merri-lee was muted. I was laying on Dylan's toned chest and it felt like the best pillow in all of station three. We had already been here for a few hours, engulfed in talking the day away. I didn't mind if we did.

I pursed my lips and then shook my head. "It wasn't embarrassing to me. I kind of thought you were perfect, that you could do no wrong."

"Thought?" He looked down at me.

"I had to take you off a pedestal," I said. "I had to realize you were a person and not just some god. That you could make mistakes too but that only made me like you more."

"I'm not perfect." He murmured into my hair.

"Neither am I."

"But what made you take me off that pedestal?"

"When you let David take the blame for the fire,"I didn't like thinking about the hunting trip. So many tragedies took place. So many people had lost their lives. 

"I figured that." 

I could tell that just talking about the things that had happened on the trip were upsetting him. I leaned up to kiss him lightly on the lips. I let myself linger on his eyes for just a moment, just taking time to admire them. "Okay, have you witnessed any of my slip-ups?" 

He grinned now."Each and every one of them. Starting from the time in animal awareness when you fell and-"

"And landed on top of the porcupine." That was a horrible memory. It took me a whole week to recover from that and even longer for Christine, Kia and Lexi to stop talking about it.

"Or the time you farted while Mrs. Carver was talking." He did air quotes on farted then burst out laughing.

Another horrible memory. We had all been sitting on plush mats and I was wearing a leather jacket.I had taken it off because the heater had been turned on. My hand accidentally rubbed my leather jacket against the mat. 

Leya was the first one to say," Did you just fart?"

"How did you know that wasn't really me?" I asked.

"Because I saw your jacket." He was still laughing now and I blushed.

 "I never thought you actually noticed me." I sighed. That whole time, I thought Dylan Lance had no idea I even existed. Sure, I was the commander's daughter but the only daughter people acknowledged was Lexi. She was pretty, funny and witty. Why wouldn't someone notice her?

"Didn't know you had such a huge crush on me." He teased and that just made me blush harder.

"Don't get all big - headed now," I grinned. "You weren't the only cute guy in our class."

Dylan made a face but laughed now, leaning up to kiss me. Just being with him sent a happy surge through my body and I kissed him back. It was like melting into him and I pressed my hands against his chest.

Dylan's hands were on the back of my neck, brushing against the almost-healed claw marks from Alec. His hands then slowly traveled down my back, pulling lightly at the hem of my flowy tank top. I was probably going too far but I was so engulfed in him.

I let him take slide my shirt over my head and shrunk back just a tiny bit. This was the first time that a guy had ever seen me without a shirt. Yes, I was wearing a bra but I felt so exposed. However, JI was almost happy that it was Dylan who got to see me like this.