Dirty Little Secret

Softness and Pauses

Jason's POV

    It's finally the weekend and I find myself more excited than I should be to be able to take Nick out today.

    He doesn't know it, but the two of us are going to go out and have our first real date.
  
    I make myself get out of bed after ten minutes of trying to convince myself that another ten minutes won't hurt. When I press my ear closer to our door, I hear Nicks even steady breath, the sound of it soft and wert just like him, and it makes my heart warm at the thought of it.

   I would give anything to have him sleeping in my bed right now, but for the past week since we've been home, our parents have been highly invested in Nick.

     They always check in with him before we go to bed and even some times during the night, I wake up when they go into his room and check to see if he's there. And the more things like this is happening, the more I think that there's a missing puzzle between him and our parents. Soemthing that's not really connecting. 

   But they have had the same interest in me except not as nice as they've been with Nick.

    I can't even go to the store without them questioning me or where I'm going or who I'm going to see. It's annoying and getting me pissed off a lot faster than it should be.

     I shake my head to my thoughts and go to get in the shower, making sure to use my scented soap. As much as Nick complains about me not being able to smell like him, we both know the smell of me gets him into a ditzy every time.

    After I'm all clean and smelling good, I get out of the shower and dry myself off before typing my towel around my waist and making my way towards my room.

   I close the door and begin getting ready, making sure that I don't forget to pull on a hoodie since they might be calling for snow and even wolves get chilly when it's snowing. I keep my shoes off, and walk over towards our door and open it, leaning on the door frame.

    I don't want to come too far into the room, because if our parents decided to come into the room before I had time to get back to mine, it might be an issue.

    'When the fuck is Christmas break?' Ryan asks, trying to hurry up the process and honestly, I don't blame him.

     'Two more months of this. Just two.' I promise him, but the answer doesn't seem to satisfy him in the slightest.

     "Runt. Wake up." I call over to him and he sighs and turns away from me. But once he realizes who it is, he turns over forwards the door and smiles at me lazily.

    "Hi." He whispers and it melts my heart.

     "Come on. Get dressed. Be ready in thirty minutes." I tell him and even though he groans and shakes his head, it's very clear that the smile on his face means that he's excited.

     I smile to myself as shut the door between us before I sit on the floor and open my my laptop. For the next thirty minutes I go through cities and towns close by that maybe we could move to. Though I know it's in vain.

    More often than not we'll have to move halfway across the country in order to be completely free of our home.

    Completely free to be together.

     After half an hour of fruitless soul searching, there's a soft knock on my door , and I pause to pull on my shoes and tie them, teasing him a little with the wait, before I turn and head towards the door and open it to reveal a shy looking Nick.

     "Yes?" I ask, mockingly and he huffs and crosses his arms.

    "You said we were going somewhere." He says and I chuckle at his expression before nodding and shutting the door behind me after making sure I have everything I need.

    We make our way downstairs and we find ourselves in the kitchen where I grab the keys and call out bye to Clary whos sitting on the couch watching TV with her friend.

    We get outside and I walk to my car, sliding in the drivers seat after I unlock it and allow Nick to slide in as well into the passenger seat. Once we're both ready to go, I pull out of the driveway and make our way towarfs a new place in town that I would never go by myself, but will for my runt who makes me softer than I ever planned to be.

    It's funny how before you meet your Mate, you have all these ideas about what life is going to be like, and then you see their hazel eyes and hair pink lips and that soft smile and you know.

    You just know.

    Even though you might be scared.
   
     Even though you know that this might not end up the way that you secretly want it to, you would do anything to keep that look on their face, and you do.

      And I do.

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I think this was the perfect way to stop. I love this book and I'm glad so many of you feel the same way about it I do. I love you all! Always reach out to be if you need to!

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