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I blow out a breath as I take my phone from her hand and do exactly that. Then I choose the 3D one and put the rest back on the nightstand. “You’re keeping your key, right?” I ask, knowing that I gave Lis keys to my parents’ house pretty much right after she started spending every night here.
“Yeah, I will,” she says. “I mean I’ll move back home, obviously, but I can always check in on things here.”
I nod, dropping my cheek to rest on top of her head. “I fucking hate this,” I whisper.
“I know,” she replies, her face turning into my neck. “Me too.”
I fall back onto my bed, taking her with me so we’re lying side by side. Rolling onto my side, I prop my head in my hand, the other one moving to rest against her stomach. “Lis,” I start, swallowing hard. “I need you to know that I’m only going back because I have to. I really,reallydon’t want to.”
Lis smiles up at me, her hands moving to rest against mine on her stomach. “I know you don’t, Nick,” she whispers. “But it’s also seriously okay if you do want to go back. I understand, I get it.”
I’m shaking my head before she’s even finished. “No,” I say, my eyes meeting hers. “I thought it was what I wanted. Once upon a time. Making the US team, going to the Olympics, it was my dream. Our dream even,” I add, giving her a small smile. “But that’s changed now, for so many reasons, and I really need you to believe that this is what I want.”
Lis stares up at me as she takes in my words. I can see the emotions warring it out on her face, the way she absorbs everything I’ve said, the small amount of doubt that still lingers. And I get it, because thisisa dream we both had for so long and now I’m just giving it up. It’s not like me and she knows that. But things have changed.
“When I first left, I missed you so bad,” I continue. “I was so sad, so fucking lonely, even with Max and then Alex around. You were my everything for so long, Lis and when I suddenly had to go days without you, I hated it.”
“Me too,” she whispers, her eyes filling with tears.
With a smile, I lean down and press a soft kiss to her lips. “When we broke up, I honestly thought I was going to die. Yeah, I know that sounds dramatic,” I add with an eye roll when she hits me with a smirk. “But it’s true. You are my other half, Lis, and I can’t function without you.” I slide our joined hands under her sweater, so they’re resting against her skin. “I know that I could go back, and I know that you would support me and that this time we would find a way to make things work, I know that, okay. But the thing is, I don’t want to,” I say.
“You don’t?”
“No,” I reply, shaking my head. “I know what’s important now and I know what I can’t live without.” I pause, leaning down to kiss her and then her stomach. “I love you so much, Elissa,” I continue. “That’s the one thing that hasn’t ever changed for me, but it’s the most important thing. I don’t want to miss out on that ever again.”
Lis lifts one of her hands, curling it around the back of my neck as she pulls me closer. “Nick,” she whispers, her lips against mine. “I love you too and all I’ve ever wanted is for you to be happy.”
“I know, babe,” I whisper. “And I love you even more for that. But I want to make you happy too. I wantusto be happy.”
Lis opens her mouth to speak, but I silence anymore words with a soft kiss that quickly turns deeper. I feel her fingers gripping my neck tighter as my body falls against hers, my hand on her stomach sliding higher as I lift up her sweater.
“Nick,” she moans, pulling me so I’m practically on top of her, her hands now lifting off my top.
I pull back as her fingers trace the lines of the tattoo on my chest. “You’re always with me, Lis,” I whisper, lifting her arm to my mouth as I kiss the inside of her left wrist, right over her tattoo. “Always.”
She smiles, pulling me back to her again as she kisses me hard and deep, her hands moving to my jeans now, fingers fumbling with the button and zip. My hands do the same, the two of us undressing each other as a sense of urgency overtakes us.
The second our clothes are on the floor, I fall onto my back, taking Lis with me so she’s straddling my hips. Sitting up, I press a kiss to her lips, her neck, and her collarbone, as my hands grip her hips, lifting her before lowering her onto me.
“Oh god,” she breathes out, her head falling back.
I wrap my arms around her, holding her close as my lips kiss a path up her neck to her mouth. Lis starts to rock against me, her movements slow, taking me deep inside her with every roll of her hips. We don’t stop kissing, our eyes opening to watch each other as we share this moment.
“Elissa,” I groan, never wanting this to end as she moves against me, my arms wrapped tight around her as I grind against her, wanting this to last forever, but also needing to make her come.
Sex between us has always been amazing, even back when we were two kids who barely knew what we were doing. There have just never been any barriers or inhibitions with either of us, the two of us always so close that we trusted each other with everything and that just made everything so good.
Nothing about that has changed.
“Nick,” she murmurs, her breathing growing ragged as she continues to move, never upping the tempo. I unwrap one arm, my fingers moving between us as my thumb finds her clit. “Oh god, yes,” she whimpers, her mouth finding mine.
“Lis,” I groan, as a jolt of electricity shoots down my spine. “Elissa, fuck.”
She lets out a long groan, her head falling back as her body tightens around mine and I feel her come, pulling me right along with her.
I checkmy bags in at the oversize luggage area before Lis and I make our way toward security. I don’t want to go through, don’t want to leave at all, pulling her to the side as I wrap my arms around her in a tight hug, my face buried against her neck as I inhale her scent, desperately trying to memorize it.
“I don’t want to go,” I moan.
