Our Summer

Chapter 36

    After I kicked Brayden’s butt at checkers (okay, I kicked his butt the first time – the other two games? Let’s not go there), we all played Monopoly. I would have won that, but Jamie got Boardwalk and Park Place. Lucas just failed at everything.
All day we played games and laughed at each other. Revenge was a big deal, especially in Trouble.
I was disappointed when the day came to an end. I was even more disappointed when Lucas was the first to go to bed. I sighed and told myself I’d get a chance to talk to him tomorrow.
Jamie, Brayden, and I all stayed up pretty late talking and messing around. When Jamie announced she was going to sleep, I did as well.
She used the bathroom before me, and when I came out, I was surprised to see Brayden still sitting in the living room. It reminded me of the other morning when he was sitting on the deck.
I shrugged it off and went to my room to go to sleep. It took me forever to fall asleep, and once I finally did, a knock  on my door woke me up.
I rubbed my eyes and looked at my alarm clock. 1:43. I flipped my lamp on and dragged myself out of bed.
I opened the door to see Lucas in a pair of pajama pants and nothing else. Of course, I’ve seen him shirtless before, but it affected me differently when it was 1:43 in the morning, and I had just woken up.
“Hey,” he asid. That was it. Just ‘hey’. I raised me eyebrows and he gave me a little smirk. He looked tired – which somehow made him more attractive. I bit my lip and smiled back. My face had started to heat up.
“It’s two o’clock in the morning,” I pointed out.
“I know,” he replied, looking away. “I couldn’t sleep,” he explained. “I woke up when Brayden came up.”
“And…?” I prompted him. He shrugged.
“I wanted to talk to you.”
“So you came and woke me up at 1:45 in the morning?”
“Probably not my greatest idea,” he grinned sheepishly.
“Not really,” I agreed, but I let him into my room anyways.

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