The Middle - Volume Two ✔️

Chapter 26

Jamie

I open the closet door cautiously, looking around to make sure the coast is clear. It isn't. Kids have started leaving their classes, and the hall is gonna be flooded with people soon. Shit.

"Okay, I'll leave now. You wait a few minutes, then you leave." I say to Shaun, closing the door again.

"Whatever you say, Superstar." Shaun flashes me a wicked grin while fastening his belt around his pants.

I swat him over the head. "Cut that out. This isn't happening again, so I want you to be civil with me from now on, like you would with any other girl you aren't hooking up with. No flirty comments. No nicknames."

"Sure thing." He says, reaching out and flattening his palms against my hair. "Your hairs a mess. You look like you just had sex in a broom closet or something."

I feel my cheeks flush in embarrassment as Shaun chuckles while smoothing my hair down. I shake him off of me, and check that my clothes are on properly. I look okay, I think. Shaun, however.

"Fix your tie, it's squint." I inform him, and he looks down. His tie never actually came off, but I did pull on it quite hard at one point, loosening it a little.

"Better?" He asks, redoing his tie. I nod before turning back towards the door. I wanna peak through again before I leave, in case anyone I know is walking past.

"So, your dad's leaving tomorrow? You wanna come to my place to give me my shirt back then?" Shaun asks.

"I thought you told me to keep it?" I say, monitoring the hallway situation through the crack in the door. I think I'm safe to go now.

"Yeah, but I told you before. You looked so sexy in my shirt. I wanna see that again." I feel him put his hands around my waist from behind. They come to rest on my stomach. Um, no.

"Shaun, stop it. This isn't happening again, remember?"

He pulls my ass into him. "Yeah, yeah, whatever."

I haul his hands off of me and spin around so that we're face to face again.

"I mean it. We're done, okay? Tell me you understand?"

He rolls his eyes at me before trying to wrap his arms around my waist again. I stop him and take a step back, effectively backing myself up against the door.

"You and I both know we aren't finished here." He whispers into my ear. I frown and shake my head.

"Except we are." I push him back by his chest. He's too close to me. "We agreed this would be over when it's over. Well, it is now officially over."

He holds my gaze for a moment, before frowning slightly and taking a step back from me. He folds his arms across his chest and inhales slowly before he speaks.

"Sure, it's over for now. But you and I both know you're gonna come running back to me the minute some other fuck boy pisses you off."

Uh, excuse me?!

"No, that's not how this works." I state.

"Yeah, we'll see." His frown deepens.

"What are you so annoyed about?" I demand. I thought he was cool about this? Why the sudden change of attitude?

"I'm not annoyed. I'm just being realistic. We're not even close to being done with each other, and you know it. This thing is too good to have only lasted a few weeks." He says with a shrug. I need to pull out the big guns.

"Shaun, I don't even come when you fuck me, so it can't be that good." I say, deadpan.

He blinks at me a few times, before shaking his head at me in disbelief.