Chapter Fourteen. 

            “Bro!” Scott laughed when I closed the door behind her. “What the fuck was that man?”

            “He’s whipped!” Mark shouted. “That’s what it was.”

            “I’m not whipped Mark. She’s just fine as hell and we had a good night was all.”

            “So you guys aren’t fighting anymore?”

            “Nope. We’re good… really good.”

            I smirked when the memories of this morning came back into my head and Scott just rolled his eyes, shoving his hands into the pockets of his jeans before he focused his attention back on me once more.

            “Well just make sure you don’t fuck anything up Justin. Her and Jonah seemed pretty-“

            “Her and Jonah aren’t together anymore.”

            “OH SHIT.” Mark laughed, Colby joining in as well. “You swoopin’ in bruh?”

            “Trying to but nobody tells her, got it? And just for the record she’s off limits now to all of you.”

            I moved my eyes to Colby’s and locked eyes with him for a second because I wanted him to know that in no way shape or form is he going to ruin this for her and I. He seemed to understand though because he nodded his head and looked down at his fingers for a second.

            “You finally came to your senses.” Scott said, patting me on the shoulder. “When are you telling her? After break or before?”

            When I was silent for a couple of moments they all looked at me and waited for me to say something but the weird thing is that I didn’t know how to respond. I haven’t even thought about telling her and I really didn’t want to. I felt like throwing up every single time I thought about it and now that it has to actually happen at some point I just don’t even know where to begin.

            “Did you already tell her? Is that why you were so happy?”

            “No. I haven’t told her yet but she’s uh, she’s spending break with me.”

            “OH SHIT!” Mark erupted into laughter and I started to laugh too, along with everyone else. “She’s meeting Pat and Jer?”

            “Don’t call them that but yeah, I guess.”

            “You guess?” Scott asked in disbelief. “You’ve never asked one single girl out on a date and now all of a sudden Reina’s meeting your parents? She’s really that important to you?”

            “Fuck Scott, stop getting sappy. She’s meeting my parents, yeah. I want her to meet them and it’s happening so that’s all there is to it. As far as telling her goes, I think I’ll do it whenever it’s the right time. It’s not the right time right now because she just got out of a relationship and I’m not going to rush her into things. We’ll both know I think when the right time is.”

            “I just don’t understand it.” Mark said. “You guys are practically a couple now. You look at each other like two puppies in love and you kiss all the time, you cuddle, so why are you not together? Why not just be a couple?”

            “Because she doesn’t think of me like that. At least I don’t know yet. I won’t know until I tell her so we’ll just wait and see.”

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            Later that night we were all gathered at Casper’s and I was anxiously waiting for Reina to get here. What my brain wanted to do was slow down and just take things slow with her to you know, not go too fast or anything, but I couldn’t help it. Whenever I thought of her I kept thinking of this morning and how good we were and just how happy I was for the first time in my damn life. When I woke up I didn’t want to be away from her and that’s what scared me the most. I was becoming attached and there was nothing I could do about it.

            “We need to talk about this.” Scott said to me when the two of us were alone at the bar. “I didn’t want to get into detail with the rest of the guys around but are you sure you want to do this Justin? You’re ready to bring her to your parents?”

            “Yeah. I’m more than sure. Why are you making it seem like it’s a bad thing that I do? Aren’t you the one that kept pressuring me to admit I liked her? Well I like her and I want to take her to my parents.”

            “And I know that Justin. All I’m trying to say is that when a girl meets the parents they know what it means. I don’t think any girl goes to meet someone’s parents and still thinks they’re just friends, you know? When she goes there it’ll change things for you guys so I just want to make sure you’re ready for that.”

            Taking a sip of my coke, I leaned back more into my chair and just nodded my head to let him know that I understood. I get that maybe bringing her home for a family visit might give off some vibes but what more vibes could I possibly give off? If she doesn’t know I like her by now I don’t know how else to tell her except to physically say it but I can’t bring myself to do that. Granted, we always kissed and everything before, but last night and this morning were different. I wasn’t the only one to think that.

            “I’m ready.” I said. “Reina’s the-“

            “Talkin’ bout me?”

            Reina took me by surprise and wrapped her arms around my neck, the smell of her flooding into my nose. She always smelled so good and when my face went as red as a tomato I think Scott just rolled his eyes and focused his attention on Casey who seemed overjoyed to see him as well. I was expecting Reina to act somewhat weird after what happened this morning but she was just her same flirtatious self, playing with the ends of my hair as my arms came around her waist to hold her.

            “Never that.” I joked. “I think you’re hearing things.”

            “Hm… I don’t think so.”

            My eyes scanned her up and down to analyze her outfit and I got drawn to the leggings she was wearing because not only did they look good from the front but I can’t possibly imagine what her ass looks like in these from behind and the thought of it made me let out a frustrated sigh. I haven’t had sex in almost a month now and that’s a damn record.

            “So Reina.” Mark said, placing his drink down onto the countertop. “Heard you’re spending break with Justin back at his place.”

            As soon as he brought it up I wanted to punch him because I don’t need her to think I talk about her all the time whenever we’re apart. It’s embarrassing more than anything but when she looked at me and gave me a smile I smiled too uncontrollably.

            “Yeah!” She exclaimed. “It should be fun.”

            “Maybe you guys can actually make it official instead of pretending nothing’s going on.”

            “Mark.” I spat. “Seriously? God, you’re so-“

            “Justin and I are best friends Mark. Friends who like to do other things sometimes, yeah, but that’s it.”

            I wish I could say that what she said didn’t hurt but it felt like a brick just slammed down onto my heart because I thought I wasn’t the only one who felt different. I thought the both of us felt the same and we both felt like things were changing but was it really only changing for me? Was I the only one catching feelings here?

            She turned to look at me again but I avoided her gaze and took another sip of my drink after the boys got quiet and just changed the topic of conversation. Reina wasn’t an idiot and she could tell something was up so she turned around so she was facing me and wrapped her arms around my neck again. As mad as I was, she always seemed to make me better by doing this stupid shit. It shouldn’t make it better because she doesn’t even mean it but in my mind I could pretend.

            “Justinnnnn.” She teased, pulling herself closer to me. “Why do you look sad?”

            “I’m not. I’m just tired.”

            I wasn’t touching her back and that seemed to get to her a little maybe because she made my hands grab her ass, my heart picking up speed. This is not fair for her to do to me. If she doesn’t like me she should just leave me alone but that wasn’t our agreement. Our agreement in the beginning was this but I don’t know how much longer my heart can go through this.

            “I hate it when you’re mad…” She whispered, kissing my neck. “Don’t be mad at me…”

            “I-I’m not Reina.” I stuttered. “Fuck, I’m not.”

            “You sure?”

            When she started to give me a hickey I gently pushed her away and cleared my throat to try and get some control over myself. I couldn’t even think straight and I felt bi-polar. One second I’m pissed as hell at her and the next minute I want to make out with her and just do so many things to her it’s not even funny. I’m crazy and I’m insane and it’s all because of her and her mixed signals. There are so many mixed signals I don’t know what she really wants.

            “I’m sure.” I finally managed to say, pulling her back into me. “I honestly don’t think it’s possible to stay mad at you.”

            That made her happy because she entwined our fingers together and that same electrical current shot through my entire body as my heart stopped beating for a second. I didn’t want to let go and thank god she didn’t either because instead of letting go, she turned around so her back was in-between my thighs against the seat and my hands came around her shoulders, our fingers staying entwined for the entire rest of the night.

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