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I glanced over at my window and looked out to Elijah's bedroom. I shook my hands out, calming myself down for what I was about to do.
I unlocked my window, pushed it up, and leaned across the narrow space between my house and my neighbor's. I knocked a few times on the window of Elijah's room and waited until I heard his footsteps enter the room. He shoved his own window up and his eyes widened when he saw me leaning halfway out of my room.
"Well? Are you gonna help me or what?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
Elijah's eyes widened when he realized what I was asking. He snatched his arms out, slipping his hands under my armpits as he effortlessly hauled me into his room.
He swung me around in his arms, making me squeal. I felt him chuckle into my hair as he set me down on the floor with his arms still around me.
He placed his forehead on mine, searching my eyes with his green ones.
"What did you want to tell me?" He knowingly smirked.
"That you're a freaking jerk for making out with that bitch, Bianca-"
He let out a sigh of aggravation. "I thought we went over this..."
"Sorry, I just had to get that out. What I wanted to say was this."
I wrapped my arms around his neck and tugged his face closer to mine. Before he knew what was happening, I had pressed my lips to his.
"Veronica," he growled against my lips, giving me goosebumps. I smiled and deepened the kiss as our tongues danced together.
He pressed me tightly against his chest as his hands rested on my hips. He tightened his hands, making me gasp. He smirked and lowered his hands to my thighs, gripping them tightly as he lifted me off the ground.
I wrapped my legs around his torso as we kissed. I broke away and looked down at him.
He tucked my hair behind my ear and smiled deviously as he took a few steps back.
The next thing I knew, we were tumbling backwards as his legs knocked into the side of his bed. We crashed to the sheets, limbs entangling in each other.
"Eli!" I giggled when I landed underneath him. He grinned and lowered his body on top of mine, making every inch of my skin ignite as if it were on fire where his body was pressed to mine.
Propped on his elbows on either side of my head, Elijah nuzzled my neck, pressing kisses just underneath my jawline.
He suddenly stiffened on top of me when the sound of the front door being unlocked and then opened, squeaked loudly throughout the house. Crap, I'd forgotten about Mr. Reed.
We stayed frozen like that while we listened to the heavy footsteps come closer and closer until they were just outside the bedroom door. I held my breath, shooting a panicked look at Elijah who had his eyes focused on the door of his room.
I would be so embarrassed if Zachariah Reed found us like this. My cheeks already burned a deep shade of red just thinking about it.
"Elijah, are you home?" A familiar voice asked just outside the door.
Elijah's eyes flew to mine. They were as huge as saucers when he recognized the voice wasn't his father's. I knew that voice all too well.
It was his brother's.
My heart started thumping in my chest just at hearing his voice. Why was I still reacting to him this way?
The doorknob twisted. In the blink of an eye, Elijah had leaped off his bed and threw the sheets over me, obscuring my view. I involuntarily inhaled Elijah's intoxicating scent that completely surrounded me.
Elijah cleared his throat. "Uriah? What are you doing home? I thought you were supposed to be on your way, if not already, to live with your father?" He questioned as Uriah opened the door.
The wooden floorboards creaked beneath Uriah's feet as he took a step into the room. A chair scraped across the floor and I guessed he chose to sit down in Elijah's desk chair.
He let out a lengthy sigh before answering. "Long story short; I couldn't stop thinking about Veronica."
I sucked in a sharp breath. What!
"So you ditched your father and came back home for some girl?" Elijah asked incredulously.
"It took a while, but it was worth it because she isn't some girl," he refuted.
I could not believe this was happening. The boy who I had been in love with had gone to live with his real father, ending our relationship which was when I realized I actually had feelings for the other Reed brother.
And now I was in his bed while my ex boyfriend still obviously had feelings for me.
I honestly couldn't think of a worse situation than this.
Just hearing his voice still made my heart melt. I must still feel something for him, I thought to myself while I laid inconspicuously underneath the dark sheets.
But I also thought I had been...in love with Elijah.
Oh God. I couldn't sort out my feelings.
"What's your father gonna say when he realizes you came back home, hm?" Elijah muttered.
"I already told him. But before you say anything else, I will go back to live with him. I just have some unfinished business with Veronica."
"Like what?"
"I want to tell her that I'm still in love with her. While I was speaking with my father, he said that he would pay her rent if she decided to have her own space in his apartment building."
Elijah didn't respond for a long time, giving me time to process everything Uriah had just said.
First of all, I wasn't sure if I could even return his feelings. Sure, I definitely felt a spark in my heart when I had heard his voice. Second of all, my parents would never allow me to go live halfway across the country with my ex boyfriend and his father. Third of all, I haven't even graduated high school yet.
And then there was the fact that I had just made out with Elijah and I didn't think I could leave him behind easily.
I could just barely make out Elijah's form through the blankets. He shrugged and I knew I wasn't going to like what he was about to say.
"Go get your girl, man," he said before mumbling under his breath, so low I doubted Uriah even heard, "It'll be better that way."
It'll be better what way?
I hadn't realized I had spoken my thoughts out loud until I saw both of the Reed brothers staring at me with identical expressions of shock.
Before I had known what I was doing, I'd shoved the sheets off of me and sat straight up, raising my voice at Elijah.
Well, shit. My face flushed and I wanted nothing else but to somehow get away from here and hide forever.
Uriah could only stare at me. Mixed emotions swirled in his eyes and twisted his features. First shock, then embarrassment, and then confusion.
"Ronnie-"
Uriah cut him off. "Veronica? What are you doing in Elijah's bed?"
When he put it that way, it made it sound dirty.
I flashed my eyes to Elijah who seriously looked pissed off at me for ruining my hiding spot before I turned to look at Uriah.
"I can explain. This isn't what it looks like," I said, repeating what Elijah had said just hours ago after I caught him with Bianca.
"Uh, yeah it is," Elijah said, standing up.
Uriah looked at me as if he was looking at me for the first time. That's when I noticed the buttons of my shirt had been undone and my hair probably looked a mess. I was in deep doo-doo to say the least.
But, I wasn't even dating Uriah anymore, so why was I feeling guilty? He'd been away for a while now and he just decided to suddenly return.
Oh right, because he had just practically admitted his love for me without knowing I was right here all along, in his brother's bed with my clothes all messed up.
"Did you guys..." He trailed off, hinting at what he suspected Elijah and I had just been doing.
The thing was, whatever he was thinking, he wasn't wrong.
Elijah clapped Uriah on the shoulder. "I'm afraid it is what it looks like, bro. I think you should just go concentrate on college."
"No, wait," I said, holding up my hands. Two sets of eyes shot to mine to see what I had to say. "Elijah, it was wrong of me to do this when I don't even know how I feel. Especially now that Uriah came back, awakening the feelings I thought were gone-"
"Really, Ronnie? Because right now, you sound like a huge hypocrite to me. You were angry when I just did this same exact thing with Bianca, yet now you're the one doing it to me. Am I just a game to you, too?"
Uriah looked between the both of us, unsure if he should step in and say something.
Elijah shook his head, angrily. This was such a mess.
"You know what?" He said, intensely locking his eyes on me. I squirmed under the pressure of his gaze as he said, "Choose."
I wildly looked at each boy. He couldn't possibly have meant what I thought he did.
"I-I can't do that," I refused, looking down and clenching the sheets in my fists.
"Veronica," Uriah's sad eyes focused on me as he said, "I really hate to make you do this, but I actually agree with Elijah this time."
He continued.
"Who is your first choice?"
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