Page 20 of Learning to Walk


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Downstairs Guy stroked his hand down Cash’s arm until he was holding Cash’s hand in his. “Let me help. Let’s show him what we can do together.”

They were still talking about Skee-Ball, right?

It probably should’ve been easy to tell, but Cash moaned again and Downstairs Guy looked really pleased with himself as he swung Cash’s arm back. “We’ll show him how good we are.”

Maybe he wasn’t talking about the game?

Oh.

They got the ball in the highest point circle.

Maybe he had been talking about the game?

As the ticket counter on the tiny screen kept going higher and higher and the game made slot machine sounds, I wasn’t sure anymore.

It definitely proved my point that dating was not as easy as everyone said it was. But as I watched them move together and Cash blushed, I decided I didn’t care. Watching them play Skee-Ball was one of the most erotic things ever, even if he hadn’t meant it that way.

Damn it.

I was never going to hear slot machine sounds the same way again.

I must’ve missed something because they were both looking at me and Cash finally found words. “No, I think it’s Gareth’s turn.”

To get cuddled or to play?

“He likes games.”

Both?

Cash wasn’t being helpful and Downstairs Guy’s heated stare was distracting but not informative. “Um, I like games.”

I was back to wondering if we were still talking about Skee-Ball when Downstairs Guy smiled even wider. “I love hearing that.”

As Downstairs Guy stepped away from Cash, his hand trailed over Cash’s back making him shiver. They were perfect together and that was all my brain could focus on. “What if I’m not as good?”

I was pretty sure I was talking about the game.

Hopefully, I was talking about the game.

Downstairs Guy didn’t seem to think it was stupid, no matter what I meant. He just kept walking over to me slowly, a subtle rhythm in his stride that made me think of the music that was playing loudly through the speakers. “It’s not a competition. We’re just here to have fun and to get to know one another. Everyone is different and that’s not a bad thing. It adds spice and fun to whatever we’re doing.”

I gave up wondering what we were talking about when he reached out and took my hand in his. “Come play with me. We’ll just have fun.”

I really hoped playing with him would be as fun as it would be memorable because as his fingers caressed mine and the warmth of his body sent a shiver through me, I knew I’d never forget it.

Chapter 6

Cashel

“We can’t ask him upstairs until we know what his name is. If we ask him up, we’ll do…we’ll dothingswith him.” Gareth wasn’t the most articulate as he leaned forward between the seat and the door of the car to whisper to me, but he wasn’t wrong.

We’d definitely do things, at the rate the neighbor guy’s smile was getting to us.

“How were we supposed to know that he’d pay cash for dinner? No one does that anymore.” He had to have done it just to fuck with us, but we’d run out of time to figure shit out.

Our sexy and fascinating neighbor was walking around the front of his car, set on being the gentleman or maybe the Dom. He’d said he wanted to help us out and we’d agreed to wait, but that was mostly to panic where he couldn’t hear us.

“What do we do?” Gareth seemed to have decided I was the brains between us, and I wasn’t sure where he’d gotten that stupid idea from. “Do you want him to go upstairs too?”

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