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I let out a laugh as he sat down and set all the food on the coffee table. He started to take out 4 sandwiches, 5 bags of chips and two drinks.
Good lord who was this all for?

“I wasn’
t sure what kind of chips you liked so I just grabbed a few of them. You like sweet tea right?” He asked as he started to
spread out the fest before us.

“
Um
mm
…
…WOW Gunner!
YES I love sweet tea!
I would’
ve been happy with just the sandwich thank you! The cracked pepper chips are my favorite though.” I s
aid as I let out another laugh.

How in the world did he think I would eat two sandwiches? “I don’t think I can eat both sandwiches though, I’m sorry.” I said as I lo
ok
ed over at him. He was already taking a bite
of his sandwich.

“No problem sweetheart! I’
ll eat what you don’t want. We can just throw the chips in
the pantry for later!” He said as he
unwrapped
the other sandwich
he had bought for me.
I smiled at how much he reminded me of Jefferson.
Jefferson could
eat a cow I swear.

My god Gunner
was so
damn
cute
when he ate. Shit he was just so damn cute
period!
No
,
he was beyond cute. He was handsome.
I practically could feel the heat coming from his body. I needed to move away a bit before his
leg touched mine. If it did I’
m
pretty sure I would fall apart.

I lo
ok
ed over at him just as he lo
ok
ed over at me.

“You
okay
sweetheart? Are you not feeling
well? You need more medicine?”

I j
ust smiled
at him and
sho
ok
my head no and to
ok
a bite of my sandwich. He smiled that big
cro
ok
ed
smile and jus
t when I thought it couldn’t get any
worse
,
I no
ticed the god
damn dimple on his cheek.

FUCK
ME
…..this was going to be
very
hard.

Chapter Six

Gunner
……

Okay
, I have seen plenty of girls eat
before and
I never thought twice about it. But when
Ellie
ate, my
whole world about stopped. Who
am
I
kidding;
everything she did made my whole world stop
. She ate all of her sandwich and finished off her chips and the brownie I bought her. Thank god she was not one of those girls who would only eat lettuce and snack on carrots.
Jeff
came out
dressed and ready for his date.

“Alright I’
m out of here. You sure you are
okay
with this
Ellie
?” Jeff
asked as he bent d
own to give her a kiss goodbye.

“Yes! I said I was fine! Have fun tonight!”
Ellie
called out as Jeff
slapped me
on
the back and made his way out the door.

“Did you get enough to eat
Ellie
?” I asked her as I cleaned u
p the mess on the coffee table.

“Oh
my gosh
YES! I’
m SO full and SO tired! Thank you
so
much Gun
ner for getting my favorite! I’
m surprised you even knew that.” She said as she lo
ok
ed up at me with those beautiful blue
e
yes that caught my breath
every fucking time she looked at me.

“No problem sweetheart. It was my pleasure. I heard Jeff say enough times what he was bringing you for lunch so I put two and two together that this must be your favorite
place
.

“Do you mind if
I watch a movie with you? I mean I’m
tired but I don’t think I could fall asleep this early.”
Ellie
called over her sho
ulder to me
as I brought all the trash out to the kitchen
. Holy hell, just her asking
to watch a movie with me and B
AM
…..h
ard dick!
I needed to get it together or it was go
ing to be a long fucking night.

“Of course I don’t
mind
! On the table next to the sofa are all of our movies if you want to pick one.” I called back out to her. “You
want something else to drink?”

“Um
…just water please.” She answered me with a smile so sweet my heart about dropped to my stomach.
I would giv
e anything to have that smile greet
me each and every morning.

“
Soooo
, you really were planning on just staying home tonight and watching a movie? Seems to me you would have
some hot date like Jefferson
. A guy as good lo
ok
ing as you surly has a girlfriend.”
Ellie
rattled off as I walked
up to the sofa
and set her
bottle
water down along with another beer for me
.

“Yes, I was really planning on watching a movie tonight and no, no hot date or girlfriend.”
I said back to her with a laugh.
“
Jefferson would laugh his
ass off if he heard you say he
was
on
a hot date!”

I sat down on the sofa and reache
d around the back and pulled up
a blanket for her.

“Do you want me to get you a pillow?” I asked as she lo
ok
ed through the movies.

“Oh no…I can get it. You don’t have to wait on me Gunner. I’
m perfectly fine to get things o
n my own.”

Go
o
d lord I could watch her lips move for hours. I tore my eyes away from her mouth and lo
ok
ed up to see her staring back at me. Yep, thi
s was going to be a long
night. We sat there for I don’t know how long just staring at each other before I jumped up and walked into Jeff’s bedroom to grab a pillow and another blanket. I needed to adjust my growing
dick as I walked down the hall.

I walked into my bedroom and quickl
y changed into some sweat pants
. If things kept going the way they were my dick was going to be squished in my jeans all night if I didn’t change.
On the way back into the living room I stopped in the kitchen to get a bag of ice for
Ellie
’s hand.

I sat back down on the sofa and handed her the pillow
and the other blanket. I also grabbed the small sofa pil
lows for her to prop her hand up on
.

“Thank you
Gunner.” She said in the sweetest
voice I’
ve ever heard.
There goes my heart again for like
the
umpteenth time
today
.

“
Sure,
um
…got to rememb
er
to keep this elevated
.
You find a movie you liked?” She lo
ok
ed up
at me
with the most adorab
le smile. I couldn’t help but
smile back at her.
The things this
girl’s smile did to me
and
in more than one place.

“YEP!
I can’t believe you have this!!! I
love
this movie.”
She said with
such
child like
excitement
.

I lo
ok
ed over to the movie she was holding and it was Cars.
No fucking way!

“You want to watch Cars?” I said with a laug
h.

“Hell
s
yeah!
This is like my all time favorite movie!
!
Ari’s
little brother and I watch
it all the time. You don’t like Cars?
I can’t believe it?! It’
s like…the BEST movie EVER!
Why do you even have this movie if you don’t like it?” She rattled off so fast I had to laugh
at her.

“No
!
No!
Cars is
perfect
Ellie
! It actually is
my favorite movie
also
. I love watching it
and I’
m not afraid to adm
it I bought it.
I have a secret love of saying Ka-Chow
when no one is listening
!
” I said as I to
ok
the movie from her hand.

“
Cars it is!”

I walked over and put the movie in the blue ray player. I turned back around and if I was not mistaken
,
I would say s
omeone was just checking my ass out.
I gave her a smile and a wink and watched that beautiful blush take over her cheeks.

“Are y
ou comfortable sweetheart
,
need anything while I
’
m up?” I lo
ok
ed down at her poor hand. It wa
s still pretty swollen
but didn’t lo
ok to bad
. She was trying to adjust herself on the sofa with all the pillows and the blanket. I let out a small laugh and she lo
ok
ed up at me.

“Glad to know I’
m amusing you. I can’t do this with just one hand. ARGH! I feel so usel
ess. Shit!”

She threw her head back against the sofa. Poor thing, I knew she was in pain and w
as trying to act like she wasn’
t.

“Here
Ellie
sweetheart,
let me help you.” I reach
ed
over and set the pillow on the end of the
sofa. “Here, lie down.”

I picked up her legs and t
he
instant I touched her I felt a j
olt
of electricity
go through my
entire
body. Good lord I can’t even help her with the simplest of things without g
etting a reaction out of my betraying body
.

“
Really I’
m
okay
sitting u
p Gunner. If I lie down you won’t have anywhere
to sit!” She p
ractically jumped away from me.

“Don’t be silly
Ellie
, lay down.
Please
.”

I smiled when I saw her relax. She lifted her legs onto the sofa and I adjusted the pillow for her. I to
ok
the smaller pillows and put them on the edge of the sofa so she could put her hand up. She to
ok
the ice and I saw that she winc
ed when she put it on her hand.

“Do you need more pain medicine?” I asked her as I
moved the coffee table over to where she could at least reach over and g
rab her water if she needed it.

“No, I just to
ok
some not too long ago. Gunner really, you do
n’t have to do all of this. I’
ll be
fine. Besides the fact that I’m just feeling sleepy I’
m
okay
, really!”

I was now kneeling on the ground in front of the sofa a
djusting her blanket.

I lo
oked up at her and
was stopped in my tracks.
Her beautiful light brown hair was just past her shoulders and had a bit of a wave to it. Not curly but not straight either. Her blue eyes lo
oked like the sky and her smile…… well damn
her smile would always be my undoing I decided at that
very
moment.

I smiled at her and for some reason I reached up and pushed her hair behind her ear. Every time I touched her I felt her heat move through my body. I wanted so badly to reach down and just brush her lips aga
inst mine. And then it
hit
me,
I would do anything for her
. I would
lay down my life for this
girl.