The Bad Boy (27 page)

“
Why?”
I looked down at him. Usually, that’s something you ask when a
loved one has died. Austin was going to be waking up in the next
twenty-four hours.

“
Just
in case he slipped about who did this to him.”

That did make
sense. I ran a hand through my hair trying to think of what was
said in the ambulance before Austin passed out. My cheeks flushed a
little when the words came flooding into my mind. “He uh… well….”
Why was I so embarrassed? It wasn’t bad; in fact it was actually
sweet.

Jared held my
stare and asked. “Why are you blushing?”

“
He
didn’t say anything about the boys.” I said truthfully but that
wasn’t enough for Jared.

“
Then
what did he say?” His thumb was still now and I knew he was curious
and I had his full attention.

“
Nothing.” I looked away from him.

“
He
said something because you are blushing Emilie. Tell me. Now.” His
voice was getting a little irritated and I sighed.

I sucked in
breath. “No matter what happens to me, you better make things right
with my brother. He’s a good person and deserves someone
good.”

Jared cocked his
head to the side. “What?”

I rolled my eyes
and sucked in my bottom lip. “Those were his last words to me.” I
couldn’t make eye contact with him. Even though we were sort of
together now, it was still a surprise when Austin said it to me and
it was embarrassing now for some reason.

“
So
you only apologized to me because my dying brother asked you
too?”

That made me snap
my head to him. “No!” So shocked at his words, I didn’t have time
to see his smirking face until after I had shouted at him. “Jerk.”
I slapped him on the shoulder.

“
I was
only kidding Emilie. No need to get violent with me.” His smirk
became dirty. “Save that for the bedroom.”

My mouth dropped
open and my cheeks turned scarlet. “You are disgusting Jared
McKingsley!” I couldn’t help the smile that broke out on my face
though. It was good to have the old Jared back. I would take the
dirty-jokes-Jared over I-hate-you-Jared.

“
I
told you before Emilie. If it’s with you, I will go as dirty as
dirty can go.” His hands started rubbing my thighs.

I sent him a
glare and stopped his hands. “Your brother is right there and we
should be visiting him!” I scolded turning my attention to
Austin.

“
Well
maybe if you didn’t sit down on my lap trying to seduce
me—“

“
Jared
shut up.” I said sending him a dark stare before going back to
Austin. My lips turned down a little as I took him again. God, I
hope he woke up sooner than the doctor said. It’s painful to watch
him like this even if he did look peaceful.

“
He
really is a fighter…” Jared’s breath fanned across my neck as he
spoke making the littler hairs on it stand up.

“
He’s
a McKingsley. What do you expect?” I laughed leaning forward and
brushing some of his hair off his forehead. “It’s too bad for you
though.”

“
Why’s
that?”

“
Because he’s my favorite McKingsley boy by far!” I squealed
when Jared started tickling my sides.

“
You
want to take that back?” His fingers started working faster and I
almost fell off the chair from laughing so hard.

I went to open my
mouth when the door opened and a nurse came walking in. She smiled
at us and Jared finally stopped his assault. “Sorry kids but we
can’t give you any more time to visit.”

I nodded and got
off of Jared’s lap. I leaned forward and kissed Austin’s forehead.
Looking down at his face I smiled. “You really are a fighter
Austin. See you when you wake up.”

I moved away and
caught Jared looking at me. He seemed guilty but I didn’t know why.
I exited the room with the nurse, giving Jared privacy to say
good-bye. It was the least I could do for him.

Jared closed the
door behind him and nodded a thank you at the nurse.

“
Ready
to go home?” I asked looking up at him. He seemed a lot better
since when he first got here.

“
Yeah.
Are your parent’s home?” I was surprised by his random question but
answered anyway.

I shook my head.
“No. They had business meetings out of town. It took me a while to
convince them to go but they finally did. How come?”

He slipped his
fingers into my mine and we headed towards his car. “Going home
isn’t exactly what I want do to at the moment. I feel like I let my
parent’s down and I…”

I squeezed his
hand. “You can stay at my house.” He gave me a small smile and then
I added. “And you didn’t let anyone down Jared.”

As I un-locked
the door to my house, I was happy that Jared had asked to stay the
night. I didn’t realize how creepy it felt to go home to a dark,
empty house after the night I had. It was now almost two o’clock in
the morning and we had school the next day.

Feeling fatigue
wash over me, I trudged up the stairs with Jared behind me and went
to my bedroom. I was going through my pajamas when the thought hit
me. I looked over at Jared who was sitting on my bed taking off his
shoes.

I had nothing for
him to wear.

“
Why
are you looking at me?” I shook my head and zeroed in one a
smirking Jared. “Does me being on your bed make you all hot and
bothered Emilie?”

I glared at him
and turned back to my pajamas. “I just realized I had nothing for
you to wear to bed.” I pulled out of my big t-shirt that I always
wear to bed and closed the drawer.

He shrugged and
pulled off his shirt. Then he stood up and started un-zipping his
pants. He pulled them off and threw them on the floor with his
shirt. He stood there in his boxers smirking at me. “I usually
sleep like this anyway.”

I tried to hide
back me checking him out but it was impossible. With a body like
that, you would be stupid not to check him out.

I held up my
shirt. “I’m going to change real quick.” My voice was squeaky and
that only made me blush.
I sound like a fan girl who just meet
her freakin idol or something!

Before I could
reach the door though Jared was in front of me blocking it. “I just
changed in front of you. I think it’s only fair you do the
same.”

“
I’m
not changing in front of you. It will give you ideas and I’m not
sleeping with you.” I tried to move past him but he grabbed hold of
my hips and held me in place.

“
Technically you are because in about ten minutes we’re going
to be in your bed together,
sleeping
. Second, we admitted to
liking each other Emilie, you don’t have to hide anything from me.
I want you to feel comfortable around me and this is where we are
going to start.”

I just stared at
him, perplexed. This was Jared McKingsley. Man of many women. The
guy who likes to fight more than agree. The guy who makes so many
sexual jokes, you would think he has a freakin app on his phone
giving them to him when needed.

Then my face
softened. This was the guy who beat up Conner for me. This was the
guy who took care of me. The guy who cried in front of me because
his brother was in the hospital. This was the real Jared McKingsley
who wanted me to feel comfortable around him.

The real Jared
McKingsley who admitted to liking me for so damned
reason.

“
You
really have a way with woman.” I finally said laughing a
little.

A grimace crossed
his face and he let go of my hips, moving towards my bed again.
“Yeah, just get changed and we can go to sleep. We got school in
the morning.”

I was curious why
his mood changed but didn’t question. We were both tired and
honestly going to bed sounded amazing at the time.

I still had to
change and I knew Jared wasn’t going to let me leave the room to do
so. Thankful the lights were off; I started stripping out of my
jeans and shirt. Standing in my bra and underwear, I felt my body
heat up in a blush. Why was I finding this so
embarrassing?

I grabbed my
pajama shirt and lifted it over my head, pulling it down fully so
it fell two inches above my knees.

“
Now
that wasn’t so hard was it?” I jumped not realizing Jared was right
in front of me. “C’mere.” He grabbed my hand and tugged me towards
the bed.

I let him pull me
to the bed and when he slid onto it, I didn’t hesitate to join him.
I don’t know why it felt right to just not think and instead act
when it came to Jared. He seemed different to me. The first time
talking to him, he was a complete jerk to me and then out of
nowhere he started joking with him.

And now he
admitted to liking me and is being
sweet
.

Of course me
being me, I had to open my mouth and ask. “What made you change
Jared?” My back was to him but I could feel his body
tense.

“
I
don’t know what you are talking about Emilie. Unless you are
talking about the hard-on I have then…”

I laughed and
switched onto my other side, so I was facing him. “You are such a
perv!” I slapped his chest. I snuggled closer to him laying my head
on his chest. “You said you used to hate me but then that changed.
Can you tell me why? I know I already asked but since we are kind
of together—“

His hand clamped
down on my mouth, successfully shutting me up. “Not tonight.
Please. I’ll tell you everything soon, just lets go to sleep.” I
saw an emotion flash across his eyes and knew that I really had to
shut up this time.

I nodded my head
and he dropped his hand. “Sorry.” I mumbled feeling a blush rise on
my cheeks.

“
It’s
fine. You were always a nosey person. It’s annoying but I’ll deal
with it.”  

“
Hey
Jared?”

“
Yeah?”

“
Say
hi to the floor for me.”

“
Wha—?“

His body rolled
off the bed, taking the sheets with him and he landed in a giant
heap on the floor.

“
I bet
that hurt your hard-on.”

 
A blaring noise broke out around my room and I shot up in bed.
My heart was racing and  I put my hand to my head. I was
having a dream of last night and the sound of my alarm was being
the ambulance sirens. My hair was matted to my forehead and I
shakily pushed it back.

A moan came from
next to me and I looked down to see Jared rolling over. “Can you
turn that damn thing off?”

“
We
need to get up for school Jared.” I got out of the bed and walked
over to my alarm turning the annoying beeping off.

“
I’m a
guy. We talk ten minutes to get ready. Wake me when you are going
to leave.” He closed his eyes again and stuffed his face in the
pillow.

Rolling my eyes
at his laziness, an idea came into my head. “Fine.” I drawled open
and closing my drawer. I held in my hands a bra and underwear. “I’m
just going to shower but I’ll leave the door unlocked for you, just
in case you need something.”

One of his eyes
opened and they caught onto the bra that I swinging on my
finger.

“
I
guess getting up now won’t hurt.” He threw the blankets off of him
and then smirked at me. “You know we can save water by showering
together. I think that’s the best idea I ever had.”

I walked
backwards towards my bathroom giving him a seductive smile. “Yeah.
Too bad my shower can only fit one person.” With that I slammed the
door in his face laughing when I heard him yell from the other
side.

“
Not
cool Emilie.”

“
Life
isn’t fair Jared.” I shot back turning on the shower and starting
to strip out of my t-shirt.

The door swung
open and Jared strode in grinning at me. “Yeah but it does have
loop holes. Like you forgetting to lock the door.”

I covered myself
even though I had underwear and a bra on. It was different than
last night because this time he could actually see me clearly. “Get
out!” I barked moving further away from him.

He laughed and
winked at me. “Glad I can make you so flustered.” With that he
closed the door and I bolted to the door locking it this
time.

“
Jerk.” I mumbled stripping completely naked and getting in the
shower.

A half hour later
I was dressed and throwing my wet hair up in a messy bun. I wasn’t
in the mood to actually do anything to it. I put on a little amount
of make-up and then turned around to see Jared lying down on my
bed.

“
Are
you going to wear the same clothes as yesterday?” I asked noticing
him still in his boxers. I really wish he would put on some
clothes. He was practically naked.

“
Yeah,
unless you have a dress I can borrow.” I shot him a dirty look at
his sarcastic comment. “What? I mean what did you think I would
wear?”

“
I was
trying to be nice.” I said throwing him his clothes. “Put them on
so we can leave.” He got off the bed and slipped on his pants then
his shirt.