The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window (8 page)

I shook my
head
. “Why don’t you go back out and make
the most of it. There’s no point in us both laying here awake.” I
pulled away from him so he could get out of the bed.

He shook his
head and pulled me back to his chest
.
“I’m fine where I am.”

After about
half an hour
, I raised my head and looked
at him, he was asleep and looked really peaceful and sweet, and not
to mention hot. I’d never really looked at him that way. I knew he
was gorgeous and had an awesome body, but it just never occurred to
me to look at him in
that
way. My eyes moved to his
chest. He really was incredible and had a perfect six pack. I
reached out one finger and traced the lines of his muscles on his
stomach, just wondering what they would feel like.

He
shivered
. “I’m feeling a little
violated,” he stated, making me jump and pull my hand away
quickly.

I giggled
because I’d gotten caught. “Welcome to my world, you make me feel
like that all the time.” I shrugged.

“
I suppose I
do, sorry,” he said casually.
Immediately
I wondered why he wasn't like this all the time, if he was then I
would probably be in love with him like every other girl was. “Hey,
seeing as we can’t get to sleep…. how about we play a game?” he
suggested, sounding excited about it - which was probably a bad
sign.

I rolled my
eyes
, trying not to imagine the stupid
games that he would come up with. “I’m not playing a game with you,
it’ll be something like a strip game, or something else crude
that’s going to involve you seeing me naked,” I said, frowning and
pouting.

He laughed
and grip
ped hold of my pouty bottom lip
between his thumb and forefinger. “Don’t pout, Angel. If the wind
changes you’ll get stuck like that,” he joked, running his thumb
along my lip. The movement made my mouth water for some reason. I
stuck out my tongue and licked his thumb jokingly, expecting him to
pull away and say it was disgusting. He didn’t. Instead, he made a
little moan in the back of his throat. The sound made something
deep inside me tingle and throb.

He moved his
head closer to mine and
then stopped, his
lips were a few millimeters away from mine. I couldn’t breathe, my
heart was racing, but it wasn’t the usual fear I had, it was
because I
wanted
him to kiss me. He seemed to be waiting for me
to give him a sign to say it was OK. I gulped and closed the
distance, pressing my lips to his lightly. It felt like he gave me
a shock, my body started to tingle and throb with the need for him
to touch me. A thousand butterflies seemed to take flight in my
stomach, but I knew it wasn’t because of the alcohol.

He responded
immediately, pulling me closer to him and running his hands down my
back. I raised my arms and put them around his
neck
, tangling my fingers into his silky
brown hair. His lips were soft and fit perfectly with mine. He
sucked lightly on my bottom lip and I opened my mouth, not really
knowing what to expect from my first proper kiss. He slipped his
tongue in my mouth and massaged mine slowly, tenderly. The taste of
him was amazing as he explored my entire mouth; my whole body was
burning, wanting more.

Suddenly
, he pulled away making
me whimper and wonder what I’d done wrong. He snapped his head up
to my door, clamping his hand over my mouth to keep me quiet.
“Shout that you’re fine,” he whispered. I looked at him
confused.

“
Amber! Open
the door!” Jake shouted, banging loudly
,
making the door rattle.

Liam nodded
at me and took his hand off of my mouth. I cleared my throat
quickly. “Jake, I’m fine. I’m tired so go away!”
I shouted, trying to make my voice sound angry.

“
Ambs, have
you seen Liam?” Jake asked through the door. I looked at
Liam
, horrified. What on earth was I
supposed to say to that?
Yeah,
actually he’s in the bed with me, half naked, and I’ve just had my
tongue down his throat. Now can you go away, you’re
interrupting
? Yeah, I don’t think that
will go down too well with my brother!

“
I went
home,” Liam whispered, nodding encouragingly
.

“
He said he
was going home
, Jake. Now go away,” I
shouted, biting my lip and hoping he’d buy it. Liam bent his head
back down and touched his soft lips back to mine again, pulling
away with a sigh when Jake shouted again.

“
Amber,
are you OK? You sound a
little strange.”

I
giggled
. “Yeah. I got sick so I came to
bed, but I’m fine now. I’ll see you in the morning. Oh and by the
way, I’m not cleaning up, so you need to do it all,” I teased,
smiling at the thought of him cleaning the house on his
own.

“
Whatever
, Ambs, we both know
you’ll help me anyway,” Jake replied, laughing.

I looked back
to Liam who smiled his beautiful smile at me and pressed his lips
back to mine again, making the tingle come back instantly. His hand
slid down my side slowly as he slipped his tongue back into my
mouth, his taste exploding onto my taste buds. He reached the
bottom of his t-shirt that I was wearing and slipped his hand
underneath
, running his hand up my thigh
and touching my hip. His fingers traced along the material of my
thong, so that his hand was on my ass. My skin seemed to be burning
wherever he touched me.

It was at
that point that I snapped back into myself. This is way too fast. I
pulled my head back and put my hand on top of his to stop him from
moving it any further up my top.

“
Oh
s
orry. Too fast, right?” he asked,
looking a little guilty. I nodded, trying to get my breath back and
calm my body down. “That’s OK, Angel. Let’s just get some sleep
then,” he suggested, with a huge smile. He moved away from me
slightly and laid on his back, pulling me tightly to his
side.

I put my head
on his chest and slung my leg over his and my arm across his waist;
he reached down and took hold of my hand
,
intertwining out fingers. His lips grazed the top of my head and I
closed my eyes, feeling happier than I had done for a long time.
Just before I fell asleep I had a horrible feeling that this was a
mistake that I would end up paying for tomorrow. I mean, I’d just
made out with my brother’s best friend, who is a total man-whore,
and who only cares about himself.

Chapter 5

I woke in the morning with a pounding headache. My
cellphone was ringing somewhere nearby. I stretched out my hand to
get it, but I couldn’t reach. I stretched a little further and
managed to knock it onto the bed so I could answer it.

“
Hello?” I
yawn
ed.

“
Amber! Where
the hell are you? We’re supposed to be practicing,” an angry male
voice shouted. I winced away from the sound and tried to get
up
, but Liam was near enough laying on
top of me. He was pinning me on my stomach, his arm and leg thrown
over me, and he was using my back as a pillow. It was actually
surprisingly comfortable.

“
Justin?” I
croaked, looking at my alarm clock, but the numbers were all
blurry, I couldn’t make it out. I squeezed my eyes shut then opened
them to see that the time was now 8:42 a.m.

Shit!

“
Yeah. Who
the hell else do you think it’s going be? You were supposed to be
here at eight thirty, Amber. Are you coming or what?” he asked,
clearly annoyed.

“
Um
, yeah, I’m on my
way.”

Liam groaned.
“Tell him it’s Saturday and I’m tired, Angel,” he moaned into my
back, making me giggle.

“
Listen
, Amber, kick that hot
piece off ass out of your bed and get over here! We have a new
routine, and you need to learn it,” Justin said, sounding amused
now, he’d obviously heard Liam. Justin was the only person that
knew that Liam stayed with me, he didn’t know the whole story as to
why, but he knew that he did.

Liam drove me
to my danc
e practice every Saturday,
hung-over or not. His two stipulations were that I buy lunch, and
not tell my brother. Both of which were fine with me. Jake knew I
danced but he had never actually seen me do it, I had a feeling he
wouldn’t like it too much if he did. Liam and Justin got on really
well, which actually really surprised me at first, because I
wouldn’t have thought that a macho ice hockey player could be
friends with an openly gay guy who likes to wear something pink
every day. Shows how much I know.

“
I’ll be
there in a bit and I’ll bring doughnuts to apologise,
OK?” I offered sweetly. I didn’t want him
annoyed with me all morning; he would work me twice as
hard.

He sighed.
“Fine, just hurry up.”

I wriggled a
little and pushed my
cellphone back onto
the side. “Liam, Justin said I need to kick your hot ass out of my
bed and get there,
fast.
” I chuckled.

He groaned
and buried his face into my back
. “Damn
Saturdays are a pain in my ass,” he muttered, rolling off of me
onto his back. I turned my head to look at him; he was giving me
his trademark smirk. “Your t-shirt’s ridden up a bit there. Want me
to get that for you?” he asked, looking down at my backside. I
quickly shot my hands down to feel that his t-shirt that I was
wearing, was now up bunched up around my waist, which meant he had
a clear view of my ass in my thong. I didn’t quite know where we
stood after last night, but I think I had the right to tease him a
little. It’s not like he’d never seen me in my underwear before, he
saw enough of me last night while I was being sick in just my
underwear!

“
No thanks. I
got it.” I climbed out of the bed and stripped off his t-shirt,
throwing it in his face so I was just standing there in my bra and
panties. “Thanks for the loan,” I said with a smirk, walking
seductively over to my closet, trying to find some sweatpants or
something I could wear to dance in. I heard him gasp then moan
quietly and I bit my lip to stop the giggle escaping. The
bedsprings creaked; suddenly his hot breath was blowing down my
neck, making my whole body break out in goosebumps.

“So, am I allowed to touch you today?” he
asked quietly.

Jeez
, is he really asking for my
permission? I turned to face him; he was standing directly behind
me in just his boxers, looking like a Greek God.

“Um…. I don’t know…. do you want to?” I
asked, a little unsure of myself. He’d been with so many girls
before, all of them probably prettier than me, and that was my
first real kiss last night for goodness sake, I bet I sucked
royally at it! He nodded his head eagerly; his eyes were locked on
mine. He wasn’t even looking at my body even though I was almost
naked, which made my stomach do a flip for some reason.

I stiffened
as he lifted his hands
, slowly, giving me
the chance to stop him, he put them on my hips. His touch sent a
hot flush to my skin and butterflies to my stomach. He pulled me
forwards into his chest, and trailed his fingers slowly around to
my back, one hand going up to grip the back of my neck lightly and
the other hand tickling its way downwards. He brushed his hand over
my ass gently, just once, before bringing it back up and putting it
on the small of my back. His eyes didn’t leave mine the whole time.
Nervous excitement was racing through my body and I just stood
there, frozen, not really knowing what I should do. This was all so
totally new to me and I was almost scared to death, but in a good
way somehow. He bent his head slowly and I felt my eyes widen,
waiting for his soft lips to make contact with mine.

Just as they
were about to connect
, my cellphone rang
again, making us both jump. We both looked at the phone, my heart
was slowly returning to normal rate as I started to come back to
reality. Liam was glaring at it, and I had the impression he was
trying to shoot lasers out of his eyes to make it stop ringing. I
giggled at his exasperated expression and pulled away from him to
answer it. The caller ID said Justin, again.

I sighed and
flipped it open. “I said I’m on my way!” I rolled my eyes even
though I knew he couldn’t see me.

“
Just making
sure you and your hot ass friend didn’t go back to sleep,” he said
with a chuckle as he hung up. I snapped the phone shut and looked
back at Liam; he was still watching me but was
get
ting dressed at the same time. I
smiled at him and he smiled back, it was nice. Usually, he changed
into
asshole daytime
Liam
in the morning, teasing me almost as
soon as I wake up, but today he seems different. I couldn’t help
but wonder how long it would last. I went to my closet and grabbed
a pair of black leggings and a tight white top that just covered my
ass; I grabbed fresh underwear and went to the bathroom to
change.

As I walked
past him
, he grabbed my hand, making me
stop. “You know you have the sexiest ass in the world, right?” he
whispered, just before he pressed his lips to mine lightly, sending
what felt like lightning bolts around my body.