“She usually comes over to my house.”
“Really?” I ask surprised.
“Why?” he says sounding slightly annoyed.
“Cause every time I go over to the sorority house she’s there.”
“Yeah, she doesn’t come over too often,” he states.
“But then, when do you guys see each other?” I ask feeling confused.
“Here and there,” he says as he pierces me with his sexy blue eyes again.
“Seriously?” I ask shocked.
“We’re both busy,” he says sounding slightly agitated.
“You with football and her with sorority stuff?”
“Yeah.”
“Sure, I hear you,” I say ignorantly.
“You hear what? Say what you gotta say, Hails.”
“Nothing, you two do what you want; it’s your lives, no one else’s.”
“You’re right it is, so just drop it,” he snaps back. I decide not to say anything else and just stare at the sky, watching the stars. I can feel my eyes start to get heavy, but I’m not ready to go inside yet.
A little while later, or a few minutes, I have no idea, I hear Liam, “Haley, let’s go inside, you’re falling asleep.”
I snuggle into his side, “No, just a few more minutes please?” I ask before falling back to sleep.
I wake up a little because I’m lifted into the air, “What’s going on?” I ask through sleepy eyes.
“We fell asleep outside, its freezing and I’m bringing us inside,” Liam says kindly.
“Okay,” I say before falling asleep in his arms. He lays me down on the spare bed that’s in the game room, “Can you stay for a few minutes, please?” I ask as I settle myself under the blankets.
“Yeah, what’s up?” he asks.
“Nothing just lay with me,” I ask finding courage to ask things I would never ask. He looks at me with a weird look, but complies, lying beside me on the bed. It doesn’t take long for me to fall back into a peaceful slumber.
I’m not sure what time I wake up, but it’s still dark out and I see Liam passed out beside me, with his arms holding me tight against his chest. I could get used to this.
When I wake up a few hours later, it’s now morning and Liam is no longer beside me. I hop up, fold the blankets, and put them away, along with the coats, before walking out the bottom door and heading home. No sense in making things weird or awkward for myself. I head inside and decide to grab a shower before making myself breakfast.
After my shower, I throw on yoga pants and a hooded sweatshirt, throwing my hair up into a ponytail before heading downstairs to grab something to eat. I decide on egg whites. I make myself a sandwich before seeing Kenzie walk in the door looking pissed.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s too damn early to be up,” she says as she flops into the chair across from me.
“Then why are you up?” I ask confused.
“Because apparently Liam did something wrong and Meg was bitching at him,” she says looking annoyed.
“Did something wrong?”
“I don’t know, something about him falling asleep in the game room and her waking up and him not there, some shit like that. It was enough for me to wake up, get my shit and walk across the street.”
“Oh that’s weird, well hopefully everything will be great in the world again soon,” I say as I take a bite of my sandwich.
“Who knows, she leaves today anyway, so at least there’s that.”
“Leaves today?” I ask confused again.
“She only came for a few days to visit the Masters and hang out with Liam. She’s heading home today.”
“Well, won’t he go with her?”
“I guess not. He looked relieved to know she’s leaving today. I guess that’s why she was really pissed that he fell asleep downstairs last night.”
“That makes sense.”
“Wait, when was Liam downstairs? He wasn’t there when we went to bed,” she asks me with a curious look.
“Oh, he came down a little while after you guys went to bed. I guess I was outside longer than I realized.”
“So what happened?” she asks being her nosey self.
“We watched the stars and I fell asleep.”
“You feel asleep? How do you fall asleep with Liam beside you?”
“I was tired, it was late.”
“Then what? I feel like you’re not telling me something,” she says with a look.
“Nothing, he woke me up, we came inside, I fell asleep, and he laid on the bed and went to sleep. I got up this morning and headed home,” I say leaving out the fact that he laid beside me on the bed. She doesn’t need to know that.