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I put my clothes on and put my shirt back on when I hear the water come on before he steps out of the bathroom I prop ain

“Did you touch yourself?” I ask

“Yeah” He slips back into the bed with h roo man

“I could have done that for you”

“Go to sleep, sweetness” I s my face in his neck

“Parents get horow heavy He pullsin the world is right with him in my bed

“Then I’ll stay until five” I kiss his neck, loving the sound of that as sleep takesmyself away from Chandler’s body is not easy She’s warm She’s soft She smells like the perfectto be hoet in trouble I’e of it I slide out of the bed as quietly as possible, grab my clothes, and tiptoe down the stairs In the dark hallway between her faet dressed

The sky is still dark when I step outside I give one last lingering look to the house and head off to my car, which I parked down the street Halfway there a voice calls out, “Berk?”

I nearly fall on ing into view His T-shirt is tucked into the back of his shorts, and stea from the top of his head He went on a run this early in the ?

“What the hell are you doing here?” he asks, swiping a hand across his sweaty forehead

The back of my own neck starts to feel daht I forgot so here the other day”

“Oh?” His eyes widen in innocent surprise, and uilt

I spent the night in his girl’s bed, holding her inthat Davis has a thing for her Even though Chandler doesn’t have the sa like shit, not sleeping, getting up before dawn to run or not even going to sleep at night I have to tell him

“Look, I—"

He throws an ar me to the front door “Let’s eat first Should ake Chandler up?”

“Ah—“