“I don’t know where it is. It is one of the very, very few things that Jake West is bad at. Finding constellations.”
“That and referring to himself in the third person.” I roll my eyes. “It’s over there.” I point.
“I can’t see it.” I face palm. “Wait a minute.” His head leans over mine and turns to the sky, expecting to see from my point of view. “Where is it?” He asks. I point again. “Aha! Found it!” But the excitement was too much because he fell over me.
“Urgh!” I groan. He is heavy as hell.
Maybe it is because of the muscles.
God, Madelaine, just shut up.
“Could you do me the favor of getting off me?”
He sees my annoyed face and states, “Umm… Don’t know Brown. Youarevery comfortable.” I roll my eyes.
“You know what? I’m not going to argue. I was already planning on sleeping here tonight.”
“Then I’ll stay too.” He informs, getting off me. That’s better. Wait,what?
“Oh no, you won’t! Didn’t you hear that I find the art of stargazing calm? You definitely don’t calm me down.”
“I know I make you excited, Brown, but you didn’t have to make itthatobvious.” He smirks, winking at me. I blush and sigh in exhaustion.
And then I take one look at the stars, get lost in the sky, and fall asleep.
16
Brown and West, Sitting On a Tree…
I wake up with the sound of voices. I open my eyes and… I’m embraced with Jake!? How are we cuddling? And why did I get to be the little spoon?
Then I see that the voices came from Riden and Allison. I get out of Jake’s arms and smack him.
“What the hell, Brown!” I send him a pointed look, and he sees that we have company.
“Oops, caught in the act.” He smirks, and I punch him, hard, on the arm. “Ow!”
“Isn’t it a lovely afternoon?” Allison asks.
“Oh yes, it is.” Riden responds.
I sit on the blanket.
“What do you meanafternoon?What time is it?” I ask, half asleep and rubbing my eyes. I admit, it was the nicest sleep I’ve had in a long time.
“Only 2 PM.” She responds relaxed.
“I need food.” I say.
Glad that on weekends we don’t have a shift in the library, or else we would be late.
“Your dad is already cooking, so come on, get up!” She says, putting her arms in front of me to help me get up. Meanwhile, Jake is already up and talking to Riden. The latter speaks.
“What the hell were you talking about yesterday, Mads? Come on, don’t be shy. Tell us the whole story.” He grins, and Allison is looking at me and Jake, ready for an explanation.
“I don’t know why, it just came out of my mouth!”
“Yeah, right.” Allison speaks.
