“I love you too baby - so much that it scares me,” he whispered to me, his own tears making their way down his beautiful face.
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We just got home from dinner, and Ryan brought me over to my dorm. I was sitting outside in the car in Ryan’s Commander, looking out the windshield.
“I had fun,” Ryan told me.
“Me too,” I smiled back at him.
“I love you Kate . I hope you know that,” he said to me seriously.
“I love you too Ry,” I said to him. “Can we make this work?” I asked him.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, we barely made it through last year,” I sighed.
“But we did make it through,” he pointed out.
“We did.”
“Then it’ll work out fine. Plus, now that I’m only a mile or so away - maybe 5 minutes away, it would be easier on both of us,” he smiled assuring me.
“Yeah,” I said to him. I think I’m only fooling myself. I don’t know if I really want him here. I have a feeling something is gonna go terribly wrong. “Goodnight babe,” I said to him as I leaned over the console and kissed him.
“Goodnight,” he said when we pulled away. “Call me before you sleep. I can't sleep without hearing your voice,” he said, pouting. Which I knew most guys say that to multiple girls but I knew that Ryan was serious. We had this fight once over the summer and I didn’t talk to him. I fell asleep and he was awake all night long because apparently he didn’t hear my voice and it killed him.
Maybe this could work.
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“So, have you seen the cute guy yet?” Audrey asked me first thing in the morning, Tuesday. I laughed and nodded. “Isn’t he so fucking fuckable?” she asked dreamily. I almost gasped. “I’ve seen him on magazines and stuff, but fuck, I didn’t know he was that sexy in person.”
“What?”
“He’s the son of the owner of Forbes,” she grinned.
“Ohh, that’s nice,” I said playing dumb.
“Was that sarcastic?” she asked me.
“Kind of,” I chuckled.
“Even early in the morning, he looked so fucking sexy,” she gushed.
“I know,” I said right away, and covered my mouth.
She beamed. “You think he’s hot too!” she accused.
“He’s pretty fine,” I smiled
“I call dibs,” she smirked at me. It might’ve sounded like a joke she was dead serious. But then again, I had nothing to worry about, because he’s all mine, bitch! Ehh, that went overboard. It just sounded right. “Anyways, so I heard that he went to high school in Santa Monica. Did he go to your school?” she asked me
“Yeah,” I told her. No point in lying.
Her eyes widened. “So, what was he like in high school. Is he hotter now, or back then?”
“Definitely now,” I chuckled lightly.
“Oh?”
“Yeah. In high school, he was pretty fine. I mean football and basketball did him well, but he didn’t really work out during the end of senior year, so I told him that he was starting to get belly fat. He got scared and started working out so he looks a lot better now,” I told her, remembering Ryan’s reaction when I told him that. He was … Let’s say when you go up to Crystal Dane and tell her that she’s fat. That gasping face? Oh yeah, that’s what Ryan looked like.
“You’re getting fat,” I told my bestfriend/boyfriend.
He gasped. “I cannot believe you just said that!” he told me.
I poked his belly. “See, it’s jiggling,” I told him, holding down my laughter.
He lifted his shirt, showing his 6 pack. “I still have my 6 pack though!” he frowned.
“But it jiggles,” I said poking it again.
“But I still have it!” he argued.
“But it jiggles,” I argued back.
“I’m hitting the GYM when we get back home,” he said.
“Good,” I smirked.
“And when I get my figure back,” he said, and chuckling at how that sounded. “When I get my hot bod back, you aint getting none of this,” he laughed at me, poking his tongue out.
“It’s all mine babe, it’s