“Um Kai…think we can take this to the grass or the car even? I have gravel digging in my back and I don’t think my ass has fully healed from the brick the other night.”
“Come with me.” He pulls me up and dusts the gravel and dirt from my back. He starts walking me towards the farmhouse.
“Thought you said Jake never goes in there?” I question with my brows furrowed. I don’t want to upset Jake by going in his parent’s house without permission.
“It’s fine Kat. I go in every few weeks and make sure the place isn’t falling apart.”
He jerks me forward and we walk onto the wraparound porch and make our way to the back entrance. “This porch is so awesome!”
“Yeah it was cool growing up. Jake and I used to race our hot wheels around it.” Kai smiles at the memory.
He goes on to tell me about growing up with Jake. They are cousins. I had no idea. That explains why he probably had more than enough reasons to want to keep Raven away from him. She must be working her way through the family. Okay that is mean but still…
Kai unlocks the door and pulls me inside. He flicks on a light over the stove. This house seems so sad. It just sits here untouched, except for when Kai checks on it.
“In here,” Kai calls from another room. I find him in a bedroom that must be the guest room. A hint of jealousy flickers in the back of my mind, wondering if Kai ever came in here with Raven. I know they have a history and I cannot be angry about what happened before me, but it hurts my heart all the same.
I push my bad thoughts away instantly when Kai smiles at me wickedly with those damn dimples that make me crazy. I tear my shirt over my head and unhook my bra letting it fall to the floor.
Kai removes his shirt too. He goes over, looks out the window, and laughs. Curious as to what is so funny, I go over and wrap one arm around his waist, looking over his shoulder with my bare breasts smashed into his muscular back. Well dang, Penny is at her car making out with Hunter not Vance.
“I got nothing,” I say with a laugh.
“Yeah me either,” Kai says turning into me.
“I don’t want tonight to end,” he says somberly.
“Why is that?”
“Because when we wake up tomorrow, I will be getting ready to go to LA, and see what my future holds, and you won’t be there to share in my day.”
“I’ll be with you Kai, we share one soul. Wherever you go, you take half of me with you.”
“Killing me Kat.”
“I want you so bad Kai.”
He pulls me onto the bed with him, wrapping his arms around me as he oh so slowly but softly starts kissing the side of my neck. And we just lay there, together, holding on to tonight.
Chapter 24
It’s been two weeks since Kai left for LA. Two weeks since our lives have been turned upside down. My boyfriend, Kai Cooper, is on his way to becoming a rock star. Cooper’s Religion signed a major recording deal for two albums and two tours. One for the states and if the first does well the second will be international. He has been the talk of the town and the school. It has been so hard not seeing him. Things are moving so damn fast. I miss him. I miss those dimples owning my soul.
Things are only going to get harder. Like today, for instance, it is my eighteenth birthday and Kai can’t be here. He is in a studio in LA working on his first single. He offered to fly me out to him but with his schedule and the way the flights are, we would have gotten to see
each other for maybe an hour. And that would be long enough to piss both of us off.
Penny is coming to pick me up. We are meeting up with Raven to do something to celebrate my birthday. Becks wanted to tag along, but Penny told him no, that this is girls only. Beckett apologized to me but things are still awkward between us.
And Penny well she has been flirting and texting with Hunter and Vance. Neither of them seem to mind that she is talking to both of them. She says she doesn’t care that they are screwing random girls in LA either. She said she wasted enough time on Aaron, and now she just wants to have fun. Raven and Jake called it quits when he drove her home that night from the party. She has been acting weird. Every time I talk about Kai, she rolls her eyes and makes little snippy comments. I don’t know if she is jealous or if now that Jake doesn’t want her she wants Kai back? That’s what Penny thinks. She keeps telling me she doesn’t trust Raven.
My phone buzzes with a FaceTime call from Kai.
“Hi,” I answer flipping the video around so he can see me.
“This has to be quick, but Happy Birthday Kat. I love you.”
Then I see Vance, Jake and Hunter squeeze into the frame, and they shout “Happy Birthday Kat baby, I love you,” mocking Kai. Then they start making kissy sounds like middle schoolers.