Page 104 of Untouchable Player

He knows me so well.

I walk him to the door and give him a deep, lingering kiss, and when I turn around, my mom’s standing in the kitchen doorway, grinning ear to ear.

“Jesus Mom!”

She ignores me, “hi Jesse.”

“Hi Mrs Jones.” He rubs his neck.

“I told you, call me Anna, want some pancakes?”

“No, thank you, I have to go to class.”

“Okay, well I’ll see you later?”

I push Jesse out of the house as fast as I can.

When I come into the kitchen, Mom’s humming to herself while she flips pancakes.

“Do you have to do that?”

“What?”

She looks happy and I decide to let her have her moment.”

“Nothing.”

“Oh honey, your dad and I are going on a little vacation this weekend, so you’ll have the place to yourself.”

“Oh?”don’t smile, don’t smile, don’t…

“Don’t worry, I didn’t hear anything last night.”

Oh god, kill me!Why would she say she didn’t hear anything unless she heard something? So maybe we got a little carried away when we thought everyone was asleep. We don’t usually get an entire night together and now I’ve experienced what it feels like to dothat,it’s really hard to stop. It’s also practically impossible to be quiet when Jesse’s so incredibly good at it.

I help Mom clean the breakfast things away and go up to my room to get some studying done. I’m pacing myself, but I still have to study. I want to go into my senior year as prepared as possible so I’m not overwhelmed.

The less I think about senior year the better. Who knows what Jesse will be doing, or where he will be doing it. At least it won’t be in North Carolina.

I have my headphones on and don’t even hear Harrison barge into my room until he snaps them on my head.

“Ow!” I spin in my chair, “you’re so immature.”

He seems to find it funny.

“What do you want?”

“I need to borrow a razor, you do need to shave, don’t you?”

He barges into my bathroom before I can even stand up.

“Borrow one off Dad.”

“Whose is all this stuff?”

Shit!

He picks Jesse’s dirty t-shirt up and studies it.