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Sleepover.

  I struggle to get Bryan to let go. "Oh my gosh, Bryan." I say as I give up and rest my head on his chest. He sits up and pulls me with him against the wall.

  We just lay there for a second, my head on his chest and his hand on my hips and the other resting on my head. "I've missed you, cutie." He laughs. "I've missed you too." He looks at me and then throws me on my back to the bed.

  He begins to tickle me nonstop. "Bryan stop!" I laugh and latch my legs around his waist. And pull him onto me, us both laughing uncontrollably.

  Then the door opens and we stop. It's Jess, "Hey, I thought you were here. We have to talk." She smiles at me. I follow her out of the room and we go into her room and Rob is already sitting in a rocking chair in the corner, waiting. "Quinn, you and my brother are the cutest people together and personally I love you guys as a couple." Jess says simply. I roll my eyes. "You guys are always playing this tease game at your stupid sleepovers and these sometimes are thin walls." Rob says. "What's your guys' point?" I cross my arms.

  "We want you to get Bryan to stop sleeping around with hoes and realize what's right in front of him. An amazing, smart, confident, beautiful girl named Quinn." Jess says as she hugs me.

  I leave the room and go back to Bryan. "Where were we?" I bite my lip and climb slowly over top of him.

  He stares at me with his mouth slightly hung open, like he couldn't believe what was about to happen next— in his case he was thinking sex— and he was just in plain shock.

"Maybe more like this.." He scoops me up and pressed my back against the wall and now it's my move in this game. I whisper softly into his ear, "we aren't doing this." And I push off the wall but his grip stays on me like glue.

  "Quinn, I need this... More than you know..." He begins to make tiny bites at my neck. But then something came over me... "You don't need me, you only are using me for sex." I push him off. I can't believe I stood up to him like that.

  "Oh my gosh! What's wrong with me?! I can't even have a sleepover with my best friend without craving her." He rests his forehead in his palms. He groans in frustration, letting himself realize what he's done.

  "I crave you as well, it's just I can tell limits." I admit. Wow, it took real courage for me to finally say that out loud to Bryan, I'm proud of myself.