“You mea-”, I said elbowing myself up but as I snapped my head to face him, his bare chest greeted me. I closed my eyes in reflex, not having the chance to cherish those pecs. Shoot. I sound like an obsessive fan.
“You don’t like?”, he teased with huskiness lacing in his voice. I could feel his warmth in my skin and it was making me quite hot.
Panic suddenly risen in me. I pushed his chest away with my eyes still closed but instead managed to punch the air making me lose my footing, ending up smacking my face right up onto something hard.
“If you put it like that”, Gerald chuckled lowly. I could feel the rise and fall of his chest, and the vibrations from his chuckles… wait, hang on…
I opened my eyes to see his chest literally in a drooling distance from my face. I gasped probably because of where my face was caught up in but a part of me was saying it was because of the beautiful sight right in front of me. Darn.
“Sarah I am sor- what the hell do you think you two are doing!”, Rach shrieked behind me. Does she know anything about knocking? Or stating her presence?
I snapped my head over Rach, pushing myself up from a half-naked Gerald who was lying on the comforter. Oh my word. My eyes grew wider of the sight. It was not like that! “Rach I can explain. It wasn’t like that. Look I was-”
“Let’s just talk about it tomorrow…”, Rach said with a smirk on her face, “…sorry for ruining whatever you were doing”.
“Yeah we were getting to the undressing part”, waving his hands off at Rach as she giggled stepping off the tent.
“Why did you say that to her?”, turning my attention to Gerald now with a glare. “She will just think something happened”.
“Sorry for throwing myself into you”, he said rolling his eyes. “Nothing anyway happened”
“Yes but-”
“I ain’t going to do it”, he cut off nonchalantly.
“Oh”, I said sounding almost disappointed. Was I disappointed that he does not look at me like the usual girls he has himself with? Was I disappointed that he does not have the eye at me?
I pulled my blanket off the comforter, shoving it into my duffel bag. I had my back on Gerald and I sifted quickly through my bag then zipped it close.
“What are you doing?”, Gerald asked as I grabbed my pillow off the comforter.
“I am not gonna sleep here with you”, I told him as I hooked the duffel bag in my right arm.
“Why?”, he asked me with it seemed sadness filling his tone.
“Errmmm I am a woman and you…”, I looked down on him and smirked, “you’re just a boy”.
He stayed silent after that and it served him right. I crawled out of the comforter dragging my pillow and duffel bag behind. I was about to get to the tent’s opening but Gerald yanked my arm, pulling me closer into him.
“I can show you how man I am”
I froze the second those words rolled out of his tongue. My heart turned up a notch, beating really, really fast. My stomach twisted in and out of the knots, and my breathing coming out a little bit jagged.
Chapter 16
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