Lines

Chapter 10

Growing agitated, I walked to Jaron's window which unlike mine faced the front our dorm to see who was honking and why it seemed to be so urgent.

My mouth fell agape. My first guess was that it was an Uber for one of these stupid boys I lived with. My last guest was that it'd be Connor parked outside in that red Mercedes I was familiar with.

I had suddenly remembered the missed FaceTime call and how I had neglected to respond or send a text to let him know that I was up.

It was almost 1:30 so I'm sure that he'd figured I'd be up by now. I began to feel less bad about responding when I thought about the week he's went ignoring my calls and texts once night falls.

I looked back at Jaron to make sure that I wasn't going crazy. He was just as shocked as I was.

Bzz! Bzz! Bzz!

I flashed my phone at Jaron to show him who was calling.

Bzz! Bzz! Bzz!

"Answer it!" he practically yelled at me.

I sighed and thought about it for a second. Do I really want to? Of course I do.

Bzz! Bzz! Bzz!

After one moment of pretending to have an attitude, I answered the call.

"Heyy!" My tone immediately switched up. I was now enthused and smiling as hard as ever looking at his beautiful features through the FaceTime call.

"Why I ain't hear from you yet?" His voice was playful, but there was also a seriousness in his tone.

"I—" before I could even speak, I was cut off.

"You know what, that doesn't matter. I miss you and I want to see you. Come outside to the front."

"How did you know I'd be here?" I sassed.

I looked at his face as he gave me the Really? look.

"Boy, bring your sexy ass on" he laughed before hanging up.

I looked at Jaron who held his hands up in surrender. "This has nothing to do with me" he said, walking away from his window and back to his bed.

Sigh. "I'll be back up after I see what he wants."

I pretended to be uninterested, but deep down I was gassed. After not seeing him for a week, I was beginning to have withdrawals and every time I'd ask to see him after I was done with class and all my work, he'd always have something to do. It was nice that I didn't have to ask this time.

I ran to my room before going outside to make sure that I looked my best. I placed a hat on my head to hide the fact that it was almost time for a new haircut.

I opened my top desk drawer and scrambled through it to find some chapstick so that my lips wouldn't be chapped. I then grabbed my dove dry spray and did a quick spray under each arm. Now I was ready.

Having already taken a long time, I hurried out of my room, down the hall and down the last flight of stairs since Jaron and I only stayed on the second floor.

Once I reached the door, I slowed my pace so that I didn't seem like I was pressed to get out here. I casually walked to the car trying to hide the big ball of excitement built up inside of me.

Once I approached the car, I opened the door and got in, greeting Connor with a smile.

Without even speaking a word, he leaned over to my side of the car and placed a kiss on my lips. I closed my eyes as I allowed him to dominate the kiss before he pulled away.

He licked his lips and smile and all I could do was smile back.

"I missed you" he spoke.

I blushed before responding. "I missed you too."

He bit his lip as he pulled off. At first, I was curious as to where we were going, but didn't bother to ask because I was just happy to be spending time with him.

After about a minute, I realized that he was only driving around to the school's parking lot. Not many cars came down the street that the parking lot was on and only two other cars were parked in here so it was pretty secluded and a good place to talk.

He pulled in and out the car in park before removing his seatbelt and reclining his chair and leaning back so that he could get more comfortable.

"I have a question" I say, breaking the silence. He looked at me to continue.

"The day we met, why were you in a lyft when you have a car of your own, a nice one at that. Not to mention it was a lyft line" I laughed remembering the day as if it had only happened yesterday.

He adjusted his body, repositioning himself so that he was still laying down, but he was now facing me. I followed suit.

"I'm responsible enough not to drive to parties, especially if I know that I'll be drinking. And what can I say, I'm kind of a cheapskate" he shrugged, continuing my laughter.

We paused for a moment and engaged in a stare off. It was a very intense stare off filled with lust and attraction.

"I wish I could spend everyday like this with you."

"You could if you didn't always disappear off to some mysterious place every time I tried to get you to come over."

"It's not like that Terrance, I promise."

I rolled my eyes, not being able to continue my stubbornness with him. He had a way of making me submit to him. "Where do you be going anyways?"

"I'd rather not talk about that right now. Or any time soon for that matter. We'll cross that line when we get to it."

I decided not to respond. I didn't want my insecurities from last situations to get the best of me and I wanted to trust him so I tried my hardest to do so.

"Would you like to come upstairs?" I asked. It was still early in the day and I didn't have many plans. From the looks of it, he didn't either.

"Of course I would" was his response. With that, he turned off the car's engine. I could've sworn I heard music playing, after the car shut off, but I figured I was probably just imagining that because it stopped shortly after.

I had forgotten that I'd told Jaron that I was coming back to his room, but he would understand once I told him why I made the sudden change in plans.

After we exited the car, Connor locked his doors and we walked toward my dorm. I felt bad inviting him in after Will had just been here the night before.

It was easier not to care when I wasn't physically around him, but now, as bad as I felt, I decided to just push the memory to the back of my mind and pretend that it never happened.