"He is," I answered for him, "now out.”
She waited for Keegan to answer, but he kept his eyes trained on me. Snagging her bag from the floorboard, she stumbled out of the car. "Bitch," she mumbled under her breath, rolling her eyes and bumping into my shoulder harshly causing me to stumble back in surprise.
"Keep rolling your eyes, sweetheart. Maybe you'll find a brain back there," I called out behind her, catching the quick movement of her middle finger waving through the air at me.
I shook my head, ignoring her gesture and hopped into the car. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Keegan spat out as soon as I shut the door behind me. "You can't just go around kicking girls out of my car."
I eyed the person next to me who drove me absolutely nuts but made me happy at the same time. His hair had grown out a bit in the past week and it looked like he hadn't shaved, giving him an unruly, but sexy look.
"Yes I can," I revealed, boring my eyes into his.
His hands gripped the steering wheel. "The hell you can. Surprise Daisy, you don't call the shots anymore," he fired back, his jaw clenching.
"I can," I repeated, "because you're mine."
"Bullshit," he snapped, shaking his head and narrowing his eyes my way. "Now it's your turn to get out."
He turned the keys in the ignition, starting the car.
"I just want to play a game real quick," I rushed out, fumbling through my bag for my phone hurriedly. I was nervous he was going to kick me out before I had a chance to tell him everything.
His jaw muscles clenched together and the veins in his neck grew more prominent. "I've already played one too many of your games," he huffed, his face hot.
"You'll like this one," I promised, plugging his USB cord hanging out of his radio into my phone. "Give me five minutes. If you don't want anything to do with me after, I understand but please, just listen first." My stomach fell at my own words. What was I going to do if he chooses to not be with me after this?
"Five minutes," he bit out, proving how serious he was by pulling out his phone and setting a five-minute timer on it. "Alright, let's see what you got." He leaned forward, propping his phone up on the dashboard and I watched my time start to count down.
I felt like a game show host preparing to shout out the lucky prizes for the winner. "We are going to play a game where we both play a song that reminds us of the other person or how we feel about the other," I told him, nervously. "I'll go first."
He gaped at me, blinking. I could do this. My pulse raced when I tapped my finger against the play button and the song I'd had on repeat all night, Nickelback's Far Away started pouring out of the speakers and I let the words of the song tell him my feelings. He stayed silent the entire song, his lips pressed together in a firm line with an unreadable face, until the song went dead. It fit us perfectly. We had both been lost and made mistakes, running away from each other, when our bodies ached with the need to be together.
"When I lost Tanner, I lost myself," I blinked, trying to stop the threatening tears from releasing themselves. "I hated my life. I honestly hated just about everything. Then you came crashing into my life and made me do things I thought I would never do again. You made me feel things I thought I would never feel again. You made me smile, laugh and be happy. You showed me that I could love more than one person in my life. Trust me, I know I'm not perfect. There will always be a broken part inside of me from losing Tanner but I want you to finish the job you took on of healing me." By the time I was finished, the tears had broken through and were streaming down my face, the salty taste hitting my lips.
I paused, waiting for anything he was willing to give back, but received nothing in return. "Say something," I said, softly. Every muscle in my body locked up in fear of his rejection. "I know I have my faults. It's my fault Tanner is gone and it's my fault we are no longer together but-"
"About damn time you came to your senses," he said, over my words. Smiling, he leaned over and pulled me into his lap. "Baby, we all have plenty of faults but I think ours go pretty damn well together." His arm ran down my back pulling my ass into him. "And I mean, very well together," he groaned, kissing my neck. "And I'm sorry for being such a stubborn jackass. I told you I would do stupid shit, just be patient with me."
I laughed, holding my arms out against his shoulders to look in his electrifying eyes. "I love you," I told him, enunciating every word slowly.