“Whatever you want to call it to make yourself feel better is fine with me.”
* * *
The rideto my home was pretty silent. It was awkward to be so close to Bo again. Our breakup had been mostly mutual, but it hadn’t been my idea. For a while I believed that he had broken with me for Zara, and part of me still believed it, but it was all in the past and the universe had handed us a second chance. Who was I to push him completely away?
“That’s it right there, the third one in on the right.” I pointed out my house as he pulled off to the side of the road.
“Is your number the same?” he asked, grabbing my hand so I couldn’t bolt out of the car like I had planned.
I nodded. “Same as it has been since high school.”
A flash of Bo holding my hand like that in the senior parking lot when he would drive me to school made my heart skip a beat. They do say your first love is the most powerful, and he was still my only real love. That chemistry wasn’t going to ever go away.
“I’ll text you now. My number changed when I signed with the Hogs. I needed to weed out the people that wanted to know me just for the fame.”
“Thanks.” I rolled my eyes at him.
“I thought you hated me.” Bo’s frown made wrinkles form under his eyes. They were slightly red and had dark circles under them. He had probably been up all night worried about me, checking to make sure I was okay.
My phone vibrated with a text from Bo’s new number.
Hey Sexy ;)
“How could you ever think I hated you?” It hurt a little that he could ever think that.
He shifted in his seat to look directly at me. “Does it really matter any more? It’s all in the past.”
“You’re right. Pick me up at seven tomorrow?”
He leaned over and kissed the nape of my neck. “You know I’ll be a little early.”
I pulled his chin up and let myself fall into the temptation of his soft lips for a few seconds. The soft, relieved sigh that heaved Bo’s chest escaped into me as my nerves calmed a little.
“Some things never change. See you tomorrow.”