“I’m in.”
“I’ll pick you up at six-thirty?”
“Sounds perfect.”
“You’re what’s perfect,” he murmurs before saying goodbye.
Holding Brennan’s hand the whole time was my anchor. The movie relied almost entirely on cheap jump scares and bloody prom clothes—every knife slice followed by a pastel gown sliced by an up and coming designer who wanted to make a name for himself.
As we leave the theater and make our way to the ice cream parlor, I declare, “I spent more time mourning the dresses than horrified.”
He grumbles, “It wasn’t what it was hyped up to be.”
Raising on my toes, I press a kiss to his cheek before patting his arm patronizingly. “You’ll be okay.”
He whirls me around until my back is braced against the light post. He then points to his lips. “How about kissing me to make me feel better?”
“You’re…”
“Adorable? Charming?”
“Incorrigible.” Still, I lean forward and brush my lips against his.
He grins.“But efficient.”
I beckon him closer. “Absolutely.”
His breathing picks up. That’s when I tilt my head to brush my lips against the outer shell of his ear and whisper, “Ice cream. Chocolate with sprinkles. You owe me for sitting through that crap.”
Brennan’s head falls back as he howls with laughter.
We started with coffee. Moved on to meals. Movies. Bowling. And with every date, I’m falling for him all over again. I tap my pencil to my lips before admitting, “I feel safe with him.”
That’s because Brennan takes care of making me feel that way.
I pull up our text string and reread it.
King of My Broken Heart :
Trust me
Me:
I do. Just not with trying out goat yoga.
You want me to lie there while they poop on my back?
King of My Broken Heart :
Wait, they don’t have diapers on?
With deliberation, I go in and edit Brennan’s contact in my phone before grinning over the end of that text.
King of My Heart :
Yeah, let me look into something different.
There’s a risk in opening myself up like this with Brennan. One I never faced the first time around. Part of me was still bracing for worst case scenarios, that is until earlier tonight when we went out.
