Never let you go

Chapter 22

Hunter:

After spending most of the day in my apartment by myself I begin to go stir crazy and all I can think about is Grey. She's in my every thought. I keep thinking about her smile, her laugh, her soft brown hair, her gorgeous blue eyes, her scar, and the way she makes me feel. She's incredible. Eventually I can't take it anymore and I decide to text her and tell her to come over. I could have probably played it a bit cooler and not have been so obvious about how I much I want her here but then I remind myself Grey isn't the type of girl I need to play games with. She's different.

When I hear a knock on the door I know it's her and not just because she's one of the only people to ever visit me and because I just told her to come over. It may sound crazy but it's like I can feel that she's close. My body just reacts a certain way whenever she's near and it was doing it now.

"Hey" I say as I open the door and step aside so she can come in.

"Hey" she says back. "I brought over some movies and junk food."

"Perfect" I say back to her. Normally I would like to take her out like I did last night but I was just too worn out today. She didn't seem to mind though and I was actually pretty excited about just relaxing and hanging out here with her watching movies and eating junk. I had fun doing this with her and besides it meant that we would be spending the whole night in my bed. A guy could do worse.

I follow her into my room and cringe at the soreness in my muscles and ribs. I was probably way too mobile last night but it was worth it. I have no regrets. I could never regret any time that I spend with this girl.

"No bruises today" I say as I observe her face. The one from last week is practically gone. I didn't even notice it last night but I realize she must have covered it up with make-up.

"No" she laughs. "No bruises today."

She sits on my bed making herself comfortable and I like that she seems more at ease now than she did two weeks ago. She dumps out the movies and the junk that she brought out of her bag and displays them for me. She brought all good movie choices as usual and I see that all of my favorite snacks are there too. This girl is way too good to me.

I join her on the bed and as I situate myself I end up letting out a small groan from the pain in my ribs that are technically still healing. Dammit. I stiffen hoping that Grey didn't notice but I have a feeling that she did.

"Are you okay?" she asks me concern filling her voice.

"Yea" I say my voice tight because it feels like I just got stabbed but I don't want to worry her more.

"Hunter" she sighs. "Let me go get you some ice" she says as she hops off the bed. She returns a couple minutes later with an ice pack wrapped in a towel. "Here" she says as she hands me the ice pack. I take it from her and put it on my sore ribs and sigh as the ice immediately begins to numb my skin. "Better?" she asks.

"Better" I say relieved.

"Good" she says as she releases a giggle.

We pick a movie and settle into comfortable silence as we watch it. As usual I find that I end up watching her more than I watch the movie but I don't care. I'd rather stare at her anyway. She catches me a few times but doesn't say anything. She just smiles and rolls her eyes. She's back to her natural look today and I love it. Her hair was still slightly damp when she got here and she has it swept to one side of her neck so that the other side is bare. I stare at her bare neck and imagine what it would be like to kiss her there, to kiss her everywhere. To make things worse she's wearing a loosely fitted red shirt that hangs off her shoulder leaving even more skin exposed. This was torture. But in the best way. I still can't get over how sexy she is and I love that she doesn't even have to try. That was the best part. She is just sexy by being herself.