No Strings Attached

Chapter Eight

Grant grabbed my hand tightly once I was finished getting ready. "Where.... Where are you taking me?"  I moaned, still half asleep.

"Get in the car." he said as he pushed me into the passenger seat of his Toyota Tacoma.

He put his key in the ignition and turned the car on, and turned his radio off.

We drove like that for a while, in silence. Then we came to a brutal halt. I lifted my head from my shoulder and opened my eyes.

Where were we? All I saw around us were trees and grass, well that's all I could make out considering it was still only 3:30 am and dark as hell.

Grant pushed me out of the car and led me to a bench not far off from where he parked.

"Will you tell m-" I tried to say before he had cut me off.

"No, Nicole.  This is my turn to talk. You can't do this to me. You can't make it seem like you're interesting in me and the next pretend like you don't even know me. Look, I really, really like you Nicole. I like you more than I've like any girl my whole entire life. And... And when you just stopped talking to me, for those three whole weeks, three fucking weeks Nicole. It made me not want to fucking live anymore.

"I know you don't see it, but you're so beautiful and amazing and I just want to be with you and I know I can't change you're mind if you don't feel the same but, fuck, I'm sure as hell gonna try." Grant said, letting out a deep breath.

"Grant..." I paused, "We aren't meant to be together."

"You don't know that Nicole." I  looked down when we put his hand on my waist. He looked down at me and lifted my head up with his index finger. "You have no idea what we could be."

But the thing is, I did know what we could be. The answer the was nothing.

Grant grabbed my face as he looked down at me longingly and leaned down.

The next moments seemed to last forever. He kissed me and it was like fireworks were going off in my stomach. I wanted this to go on forever.

I loved the feeling of his lips against mine, but I knew this couldn't last.