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and kiss me with those
delicious lips of his. I could tell, just by looking at them, that he’d be a
good kisser.
    ‘You’ve gone rather flushed Mia,
are you feeling faint again? Do I need to pick you up now just in case?’ he asked
with a charming grin.
    O god, how to make me worse. The
thought of those muscular arms around me and his chest pressing up against my
face again was just too much. I jumped as my phone blasted out Fall Out Boy’s “The
Phoenix” in my bag, I’d left the volume on rather loud.
    ‘Shit, sorry,’ I muttered, annoyed
at the intrusion.
    ‘F.O.B fan?’
    ‘Yes, I love this album,’ I said as
I managed to silence it. I looked to see that I’d received a text.
    Mia, I miss you so
much. We really need to talk, call me, please. Kai xx
    ‘Who’s Kai?’ Gabe asked as he
looked down at my phone.
    ‘Wow. Are you majoring in reading
upside down and being nosey?’ I exclaimed as I hastily shoved it back into my
bag.
    ‘Sorry, you should’ve read it in
private if you didn’t want me to see it. So is Kai your boyfriend?’
    ‘Yes … I mean no … I mean … we just
broke up.’ God why did I feel so nervous around this guy?
    ‘How come?’
    ‘That’s a bit of a personal
question given that I’ve only just met you Gabe.’
    ‘You’re complaining about getting
personal now? You openly objectified my arse and quite happily snuggled into my
chest as I carried you for over five minutes, I didn’t hear you complaining
about getting personal then,’ he replied looking amused.
    ‘I could hardly complain, I’d
passed out and I’ve no recollection of snuggling,’ I objected.
    ‘But you’ve already admitted to the
ogling. That’s personal, so you owe me one.’
    ‘Fine I apologise for staring at
your arse and that it may in anyway have made you feel devalued as a human
being, but don’t tell me that you didn’t enjoy touching me up as you carried
me.’
    ‘Touching you up? I had my hands
rather full at the time,’ he raised an eyebrow in surprise.
    ‘Wow, way to make a girl feel good.
Are you trying to say my arse is fat?’ I scowled.
    ‘Far from it, I think your bottom’s
pretty awesome, in fact I think it’d make me feel a lot better if you were to
reciprocate, bend over right now and let me stare at yours for a minute or two.
I’d feel we were even then,’ he grinned, leaving me stunned and silent. ‘So,
you’re not going to tell me the reason for the break up with this Kai?’
    ‘Mutual bottom appreciation aside,
I don’t know you well enough for this conversation.’
    ‘Bet he’s kicking himself for
letting you go.’
    ‘No one let me go,’ I said
indignantly. ‘I dumped him. Not all women are desperate for relationships you
know,’ I snapped, then regretted it. I didn’t want to come across as a total man
hater, not to him anyway.
    ‘What are you desperate for?’ he
asked poignantly.
    ‘Some fun, I don’t want all this
serious commitment crap,’ I replied with a shrug.
    ‘I thought that’s what most women
wanted, commitment from a guy.’
    ‘I’m not like most women.’
    ‘No, I’m getting that,’ he said
with another knicker wetting smile that reverberated to my core. ‘Anyway, here
are the English notes from yesterday.’
    ‘Thanks that was really kind of you
to do that for us.’ I took them from him and gasped as his fingers brushed mine
and I felt that surge again.
    ‘Gabe,’ I heard a voice call from
behind him, ‘Gaaaabe.’ He looked back and then looked back at me, shifting on
his feet and looked very uneasy as an attractive, very well-toned and tall
blonde came up behind him. ‘Gabe, come on, we have to get to practice.’ As she
drew next to him she slipped her arm through his and I could’ve sworn I saw him
tense up.
    ‘Hi, I’m Julie, Gabe’s girlfriend.
Who are you?’
    Girlfriend??? Damn it. I tried
desperately not to look too bothered at the news. ‘Hi, I’m Mia, nice to meet
you.’ I reached out and shook her