I cursed as I slipped on my slippers and ran to the door. I slipped on a piece of paper sitting on the floor in the hallway and rubbed my knee as I answered the front door.
A delivery man stood in front of the door with a giant edible arrangement of fruit and a small box. I smiled at him and took my stuff into the living room and pulled out my phone. I read the card stuck on a pick in the arrangementThinking of you -LI grin from ear to ear and shake my head.I dial his number, knowing he probably won't answer since it's the middle of his work day. I had just gotten home from school and had changed when I got my arrangement."Hello, beautiful.""You sent me a fruit arrangement?""Yeah. I was looking through some of my pictures on my phone and saw the one you took of yourself and couldn't help myself.""What's in the box?""Open it."I open the small box and find a small white teddy bear that hWe talked daily about my past. He was a lot cheaper than a therapist, and probably the worst about cracking jokes, but opening up to Liam helped. Or at least it did up until a week before Thanksgiving. We hadn't gotten as far in my rambling for him to know the real significance of what Thanksgiving was to me, but I kind of fell into a depression. Hayley and Kimmy talked about Thanksgiving at work. I would see the stuff at stores and people wishing me a good time with my family. I smiled and thanked them and swallowed back all of the feelings. Even when Liam called, I couldn't get out of my head and I knew he could tell because he would ask for a video call since I wasn't speaking a lot.And I would just get dressed for work or lay in bed and let him watch me and try to coax me into speaking to him. I'd smile at him and tell him I was okay, but my heart wasn't.A couple of days before Thanksgiving, I dropped my phone in between my mattress and be
After Jordan left, I called Liam like I said I would and felt nervous as the phone rang. He answered quickly and I took a deep breath. "Hey.""Hey." His voice was tight and clipped. Not like his usual lazy greeting."I'm sorry." I whispered to him.He sighs heavily on the other end and I close my eyes. I snuggle into the couch and pull my blanket over myself tightly. While I had been okay with Jordan here, it was short-lived."I...It's not like you have anything to apologize for, Kelly. You're allowed to have the type of days that you don't want to talk to anyone, but...atleast a text back."The weariness in his voice is evident and I take a deep breath. "I know. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you worry. It was just...it wasn't a good day.""It hasn't been a good two and a half weeks for you, Kelly. You've been off and I know I'm not your boyfriend or anything, but I still worry. I...You scared the sh*t out of me."I furrow my eyebrows at him and press my lips together. "How did I
There was a time where I began loving the chaos at the Starr household. Children screamed and yelled and chased each other around and laughed and cried. Noel and Marlene would tell for the kids to calm down and stop teasing their sister or other little things like that. Now it was overwhelming to say the least. I dodged kids left and right, but yet they ran at me hugging me tightly and yelling at me about how much they have missed me.I did my best to keep my smile plastered to my face, even as Sarah watched me with jealousy clearly etched on her face. None of the kids were surrounding her, but I assumed they already got over the novelty of her being here."Kelly, do you like my dress?""Yes it's beautiful!""Kelly, is he your boyfriend?"I laugh and turn to look at Liam who nods fast."What about James?""James is married. To Sarah. She's pretty, isn't she?"James' five year old sister crinkled her no
Liam steps into the room, eyeing me as I sit up slowly. James walks out and I take a deep breath."Hey." I lick my bottom lip and give him a small smile. "Hey.""Are you okay?""Yeah.""You're not.""So why did you ask?""It's something I'm used to doing." He sighs and walks to the bed and sits down. He looks around and wrinkles his nose."So this is it, huh?""What?""James' bedroom from highschool."I nod and look around. "Yeah.""Is this how it looked back then?""Down to the very smell." I wrinkle my nose and lay my head on his shoulder. He wraps his arm around me and inhales deeply."I'm sorry about what happened out there.""You didn't do anything." I tell him, shrugging."I know but it still sucked. I know she's just a kid but damn..."I shrug again and let out a breath. At this point, my nose is stuffed up and my eyes feel
I try to read the expression on his face, but he gives nothing away. He caresses my face and hands me the test. I take a deep breath and let it out slowly. There's no plus sign. I'm not pregnant. This overwhelming feeling of disappointment crashes through me and I put my hands to my face. I didn't want to be pregnant. I mean, at least I think I didn't. But after talking to Liam and seeing how willing he was to go through it all with me, hope had sparked inside of me. I take a few shuddering breaths and feel his arms go around me. He hugs me tightly to him and I know, just know, how relieved he must feel. I lift my face and he kisses me hard. I kiss him back, letting his tongue slide against mine, sighing against him.He stands up, bringing me with him and then pulls away, unbuttoning my blouse one bottom at a time, staring down at my chest. He untucks my shirt from the pencil skirt I'm wearing and pushes it down my shoulders, pressing his lips to my neck, and I close my eyes, letti
Peppering his throat with kisses, I straddled him and moved my hands over his broad, muscular shoulders. I ground my hips against him and took delight in hearing him groan beneath me. It sent shivers of ecstasy down to my core. I moved my lips to cover his and felt his hands on my shoulders push me gently from his lap. I landed unceremoniously onto the cream colored carpet of the bedroom we had borrowed at one of our mutual friends' party. "What the f*ck, Dex!?" I stood up and smoothed down my white mini-skirt and fixed my blue knit crop top. "I've told you before, Kelly, I don't like when you kiss me after you go down on me. It's disgusting." I felt my cheeks flame and I grabbed my denim jacket from next to him on the end of the bed and pulled it on. "Did you have to push me to the floor? Jeez." I flipped my hair over my shoulder and walked to the floor length mirror in the corner of the bedroom. I fixed my long, wavy blonde hair back into place and glanced back at him."I'm sorr
"Boom! Gotcha!" I snickered as I set the game controller on the beige carpet in front of me. James groaned and wiped his hand over his face, grinning. "How are you so good at this?""My dad and I play all the time." I shrugged and straightened my legs out in front of me, careful not to let my skirt ride up. "That's just luck. She couldn't beat me one on one if she tried," Michael commented from the gaming chair next to me. "Dude, I beat you all the time. If she beat me, that means she can beat you." Michael curled his lips and shook his head."She must be cheating. What other games can you play?""I'm good at Mortal Kombat.""Shut up." Michael nodded at James and he quickly switched the game over. I rolled my eyes and took a sip of my drink right next to me. Michael flicked his lighter and lit the blunt we were working on and passed it to me after he took a hit.I took a small hit and coughed, not used to it. Both of the boys grinned and I rolled my eyes. I passed it to James as he
His heartbeat in my ear was slowly lulling me to sleep. I could feel my eyes droop and I tried to fight it because I didn't want this night to end. His fingers stroked through my hair slowly, over and over again, making me even more tired. But it felt so good. I was pretty sure we had both gone to sleep for a good twenty minutes when suddenly my phone rang. We both jumped at the loud sound in the dark, quiet room. I dug my face into his chest and covered my ears, ignoring it.After it quieted down I took my hand off of my ear and settled back down. "Do you want to check it?" He asked me through a yawn. I shook my head against his chest and inhaled his cinnamon and cologne scent. We settled back down and just when I felt so relaxed, my phone blared again. I huffed loudly and sat up, looking around for my jacket. I could barely see anything but saw the light from my phone screen. It was clear across the room on a small futon he had against the far wall. I groaned and stomped over to t