Throwing my hands up, I got on the bed and replied, “Fine.”
Holly’s parents’ spare room looked like they’d plucked it right out of one of those modern home magazines or a posh hotel. Everything was brilliant white and super clean. The bed was comfortable and that was pretty much all I cared about right now.
Kai was back with two glasses of water in minutes and handed one to me. “Drink it all. I know, I know,” I said, smirking at him. He was literally seconds from saying it.
Narrowing his eyes, he sat down and put the other glass on the bedside table. “Do you need to get changed before you crash?”
“Yeah, but I have nothing to change into right now.” There was no way I could sleep in jeans and a tight top and I didn’t know where my overnight bag was. “Take your top off.”
“Tegan!” He fake gasped. “You need to stop making these advances towards me.”
“Kai, I’m drunk and tired and I can’t sleep in my clothes.”
Gripping the bottom of his t-shirt, he pulled it off his head and threw it at my face. I laughed as the material hit my head, just managing to hold the water away before it spilt everywhere.
“Are you going to make me turn around while you undress?”
“No, please get a good look.” He either didn’t note my sarcasm or just didn’t care because he didn’t look away. “Kai!”
Raising his arms, he turned to face the wall and I managed to get changed in semi-privacy. I got into bed and, without asking if I was decent, he came back over and got in beside me.
We were sharing a bed? I wasn’t sure if that was a good idea, not because I was worried something might happen but because, well, you probably shouldn’t share a bed with another man when you had a boyfriend.
I was going to say something but Kai was here because I’d got drunk and he wanted to make sure I was okay. I didn’t really have a right to kick him out of bed and make him sleep on the floor.
“Lay on your side, princess,” he said, shoving me over.
I laughed and battered his arm away. “You’re going a little over the top.” He laughed and sat up against the headboard. “What are you doing?” I mumbled, half asleep already.
“Sleeping.”
“Sitting up?”
“There’s no sofa in here and the floor’s hard.”
Now I felt bad. “Lay down. I promise not to jump you.”
“You don’t have to promise that,” he said.
With a deep chuckle, he scooted down and laid beside me. I watched with heavy eyes as his chest rose and fell. The sound of his breathing was comforting, soothing and I quickly fell asleep.
***
I was woken up in the morning by my so-called friend shaking my arm. As I drifted back into consciousness I heard my phone ring and then Kai’s voice.
It took me all of no seconds to fully wake up when he said Lucas’s name. My head felt fuzzy as I sat up too quickly but I still managed to slap Kai’s arm with blurred sight.
“Hold on,” Kai said, laughing, “she’s right here.”
I took the phone and held it to my ear. “Hey, Luke.”
“Hi. Are you ready to be picked up?” Fuck it, he sounded angry.
“Um, I need to get ready first. Can you give me half an hour?”
“Okay.”
“Thanks,” I replied and gave him Holly’s address.
I ended the call and turned to glare at Kai.
“Hey, you wouldn’t wake up,” he said, holding his hands up. “Was he mad?” Oh, he was loving this. There was a definite smug arrogance about the way he asked that.
“He was fine.” I got off the bed and my overnight bag was on the floor. Kai had to have found that because it definitely wasn’t here last night. Was it?
“How did this happen?” I asked, pointing to my bag.
He kicked one leg over the other at the ankle. “Got it this morning.”
“So when I was making you take your top off?”
“No. For once I wasn’t working on an agenda to see you half naked and in my shirt. I was a bit preoccupied worrying about you.”
I bit my lip. Okay, I felt horrible. “Sorry.”
He shrugged. “Understand why you thought it. If you weren’t off your pretty little face I would’ve tried it.”
Suddenly, I didn’t feel so bad anymore.
“Prick,” I muttered, snagging my bag and going to the bathroom. I could still hear laughing through the wall as I turned the shower on.
Lucas turned up at exactly half an hour after we spoke. “Hey,” I said, giving him a kiss as Holly let him in.
His arms held me tight, almost too tight, and he touched his forehead to mine. “Hey.”
“Come through, I’ve just got to say bye to everyone and grab Soph.”