Love Game

Chap Ten: Story of the kiss.

I woke up in the morning with a raging head-ache and a very sore throat.

"Oh my God." I whispered and pressed my hands to my fore-head.

"Are you okay?" I heard a voice and I jumped up in my bed.

What the hell?!

"Wha..?" I was startled when I saw a sleepy, groggy-eyes and a bare-chested, rather sexy looking Neal standing in front of me.

My dry throat went totally parched.

"Hey, Summer? You okay?" He asked again and this time he came and stood beside me.

Whoa. A shiver ran through me when his hand touched my fore-head and it wasn't a I'm-in-pain shiver but rather a his-touch-make-me-go-bonkers shiver.

"Um. Yeah." I gasped out and shrugged away from his touch.

This man was danger. Feeling .. this had never happened to me before, not even with Adam and I had been crushing over him since forever! And here comes Neal who just has to be near me and my heart goes ka-boom.

"What are you ..? Why are you here?" I asked him and he smiled!

He gave me that 250-watt smile, again!

"You asked me to stay." He said but I wasn't actually listening. I was stuck-up on his smile. He looked devishly handsome when he smiled, his whole face would light up and he had that lop-sided smile that drove woman mad.

How can God be SO partial when it comes to men? I mean this man had everything going for .. wait! What did he say?!

"I asked you to stay?!" I demanded and he nodded.

He looked like a 9-year-old on a sugar rush!

"No way!" I denied and he nodded vigorously.

"Yes-way! You asked me, rather coyly if I may add, to make you a cup of coffee and then while you were sleeping you mumbled and I quote 'don't leave me' and I stayed." He said and then he grinned.

Oh, my God. I did not do that!

"You .. remember everything?" I mean he was literally quoting me for Christ's sake!

"Yeah! Yesterday goes into one of my best night's list." He said happily.

And Oh, my God, again. He had a list and I was in it! And I was happy by that fact! Just what the heck was going on with me! I like Adam! I sorta love him, why am I feeling all shy on Neal?!

How could this be possible! I mean, I've known him for two months and Adam for years! And all Neal ever does is tease me! I sighed and I saw Neal raise an eye-brow.

"What?" He demanded.

"I'm embarrassed." I muttered and hung my head. I was a freak. A big one at that.

"Don't be. You looked rather sexy yesterday when I got you back. If only you weren't drunk ..." Neal said and my head snapped up to meet his gaze.

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed and he feigned a sigh.

"Oh, it would have been so good." Neal bent down and whispered in my ear. Shivers, tingles and then some jolted in my body and then I heard his low chuckle.

That ass. I was going to give him a piece of me.

When he started moving back, I took hold of his arm and jerked him back down.

"Neal? I know. I would have rocked your world." I whispered and then before he could so much as move, I was out of the bed and into the bathroom.

Oh, wow. I couldn't believe I had said that. But did it feel good.

His look of shock and the darkening of his eyes said he actually reacted to my words.

Ha, tit-for-tat.

I washed my face like twenty-times before taking a quick-shower and changing into my denims and a tee.

I had just wrenched open the door when I banged into .. Neal.

"Whoa. Steady, there." Neal said and held onto my arms. I raised my head and was momentarily lost.

He was still not wearing a shirt.

"Deja vu." He whispered and then tingled came back.

"Why aren't you wearing a shirt?!" I demanded and a wicked gleam came into his eyes.

"Cause you puked all over it last night." He said.

"WHAT?" I yelled.

OH MY GOD. I did not! I did not! I did not! I did not! I did not!

Please tell me I did NOT!

When Neal just nodded, I blushed.

Ew. Eww. Ewww.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, Neal. Ew, I can't believe I did that .. I wasn't in my sense, I would never have done that if I was sober, I swear it all.." I stopped when Neal's finger pressed on my lips.

It was more the shock of the contact than anything else.

"Chill. I'm kidding." He said and then he howled with laughter.

"You ... jerk!" I spat out at him and punched him in his stomach.

"Ouch, Summer." He growled but I poked my tongue out at him.

"That was a very gross lie." I spat at him and he nodded.

"I know, I'm sorry. Forgive me?" He asked.

Wow, just like that, I wanted to say yes. But I shook my head.

"Please?" He asked and then his arms went around me and held ontp my waist.

My heart-beat went crazy.

"Please?" He whispered again and his face came closer to mine.

I couldn't say anything! He was so close to me and his bare torso was flashing and he smelled heavenly and he was warm and he was sexy.

"Please?" He asked again and gently kissed the corner of my mouth.

OH, MY GOD.

THAT jerked me out of my reverie.

"Okay." I gasped at him and Neal gave me a heart-melting smile.

"Thank you." He whispered and then his lips covered mine.

I was shocked. NEAL was kissing ME!

And I liked it!

His hold on me tightened when I went limp in his arms and he pulled me closer. My mind went blank and the world disappeared around us and all I could feel was his lips making love to mine.

"Summer." He whispered against them and held me tighter. This time his kissed made my toes-tingle. It was insistent and demanding.

And I was scared, I broke apart and breathed heavily.

"Wow." Escaped before I could even think what I was saying.

Neal laughed.

"I second you. But I think I should go now." He said and I just stood there, tingling all over, staring at him.

Neal picked up his shirt and came towards me.

"See you later." He said, bent down and gave me a chaste kiss and then he was gone.

While I stood there with just one word stuck in my mind.

Oh, hell wow.