Ascending Paradise (Book 1)***Published now on Amazon!!***

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I heard knocking on my door and groaned before gasping and sitting up.

"Sweets are you up?" Dom's voice came through the door and I rubbed my face looking for a clock. It was 11:15.

"Yeah, just getting dressed give me a minute!" I shouted hopping out of bed and rushing. I threw on jeans and a long sleeve before reaching my converse and tugging those on.

"C'mon sweets I'm starving." He said knocking on my door just as I finished.

I reached for the door unlocking it and then walking back over for my phone. "I'm ready sheesh." I smiled at him and he looked at me funny.

"You weren't up when I first knocked were you?" He asked with a smirk and he leaned in the doorway with his arms crossed blocking me from escaping.

"Why would you ask that... you heard me moving around in here." I lied and smiled at him, just a small one so he would think I was telling the truth.

"Your hair is still all messed up." He said reaching out and tucking one strand down behind my ear with an even wider smirk that turned into a laugh as I started trying to feel around my hair.

I should have kept a brush in my room last night. Dammit.

"Move and I will brush it out." I told him and he started laughing but let me pass. I walked into the bathroom and brushed it out and settled for just putting it up in a pony tail.

"Are you ready to go yet?" He asked looming in this doorway with a grin on his face.

"Let me just say goodbye to my mom." I said and when I walked out into the kitchen where she usually is it was empty.

"She let me in on her way out." Dom said behind me and for some reason I was a little hurt that she didn't say goodbye to me when I always make a point to do it with her.

"Let's go then." I said and grabbed his arm pulling him out. I grabbed my keys knowing that I needed to get back in the house. Dom's truck was right behind my car so close it looked like it had already bumped it. "Really?" I asked pointing at it.

"I didn't hit it. Promise... it was just to make sure we didn't take your small ass car." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"You're just huge... don't make fun of my car." I said pushing on his shoulder before hurrying around to my side of the truck.

He unlocked it and I hefted myself into the seat taking a deep breath of air only to hear him holding in his laugh.

"You're just so small." He reached out and was about to pinch my cheek when I turned my face and nipped his finger. "No biting." He said laughing again as he shook his finger in front of my face.

"Not pinching my cheeks." I said waggling my own finger at him.

"Fine, pick a station." He relented and started the truck. I turned on the radio looking for a good song on but just sighed and turned it off. "No good ones today?" He asked looking over at me.

"You sing me one." I said and he let out a smile and I just waited. "I'm serious Dom... please?" I said and poked out my bottom lip and reached for his hand and held it in both of mine kissing it gently where I had bit him.

"Fine." He sighed and I waited for his song selection.

Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move
Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am

Some try to hand me money, they don't understand
I'm not broke I'm just a broken hearted man
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do
How can I move on when I've been in love with you

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving

Policeman says son you can't stay here
I said there's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you see me waiting for you on the corner of the street

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving
I'm not moving
I'm not moving

People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl, oh whoa
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world

Maybe I'll get famous as the man who can't be moved
And maybe you won't mean to but you'll see me on the news
And you'll come running to the corner
'Cause you'll know it's just for you

I'm the man who can't be moved
I'm the man who can't be moved

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we meet
Oh, you see me waiting for you on a corner of the street

So I'm not moving
'Cause if one day you wake up, find that you're missing me
I'm not moving
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
I'm not moving