Love Like This (Interracial Young Adult Romance) SAMPLE

Chapter 1

Copyright © 2012 Nicole Mckoy

I woke up with my boyfriend Clay’s arm draped across my midsection. We had been together for a year now. It was just last year around this time we had made things official. It had been my sixteenth birthday and Clay’s parents agreed to let him plan me a big bash hosted at his house as his gift to me. Most of the school had been invited and the party lasted all night. My mom had given my brother and I permission to sleep over at Clay’s after the party so we didn’t have to get home so late. I was so happy that night my party was perfect Clay had made sure the night was special. A little before my birthday he and I had started flirting more than usual and we had made out a couple times when my brother wasn’t around. It was that night after the party was over and I was so happy, that Clay had pulled me aside and talked to me about us making things official. He said he didn’t want to just be a guy I flirted with and kissed sometimes. He said he wanted to be my boyfriend. I was so excited. I had always thought Clay was attractive and nice. But he was my brother Aaron’s best friend. They had been friends since we were all kids. Before Clay’s mother got married he use to live next door to Aaron and I. It had only been during his freshman year that his mother married a rich doctor and became a housewife. Clay’s mother had always been good friends with my mom, with them both being single mothers they just bonded. Clay’s father had done just like mine and bolted the second the child was born. Well sort of. It wasn’t until after my mother had my brother and became pregnant with me that my father had decided he didn’t want to be a parent.

I felt Clay stirring beside me and looked over to notice him waking up. He always looked so cute when he first woke up. The first time I ever woke up next to Clay had been the morning after my sixteenth birthday Clay and I woke up next to each other in his bed. We hadn’t done anything that night except make out and fall asleep but it was still such a special moment I would never forget. “Morning beautiful,” Clay said. He leaned up enough to kiss my lips. I loved waking up like this, even though it didn’t happen nearly enough. The only reason I had been able to have him sleep in bed with me last night was because my mother had a double shift at the hospital. She was a nurse. 

Clay and Aaron had been at football camp all summer, which was hard on us because we went from being together everyday to not at all for two whole months. We talked and texted over the course two months but it was still hard. So when he and my brother got back from camp he texted and asked if my mom was home I told him no and he said he’d tell his parents he was sleeping over. My brother didn’t mind because Clay was his best friend its just he had no clue Clay was my boyfriend. Clay had stayed up talking to my brother up until Aaron invited his girlfriend Angela to spend the night. When Angela arrived she and Aaron went up to his room for the rest of the night. Clay hadn’t really talked it over with my brother about sleeping over so he had no clue that Clay never left our house. “Morning handsome,” I said, against Clay’s lips.

Clay rolled us over so I was straddling him. “You look good in my shirt baby,” he said, moving his hands to my waist. After my brother went to his room last night. Clay and I sat on the couch watching a movie until he began kissing me. Soon we were making out and breathing heavy. He had picked me up and carried me upstairs to my room where I welcomed him home properly. Clay and I had taken an intimate turn in our relationship after the homecoming game and dance last year. We had only been together a couple months then but we had known each other for so long it just seemed right. “I thought you said I looked better with nothing on, was that a lie,” I teased. Clay laughed and pulled me down into a kiss. It wasn’t long before he had his shirt off me and me pinned underneath him. “I love you so much Kendra,” he whispered in my ear as he moved his hands along my sides. “I love you too Clay,” I said. He began kissing my neck on down just as my bedroom door opened.