I felt myself blush as he gave me a slow once over, and I smiled back at him.
“Thanks, you don’t look so bad yourself. Where do you want to go study?”
“Let’s go to the seventh floor, it’s pretty secluded up there.”
“Hey, that’s where I usually go when I don’t want anyone to find me.”
He pointed back and forth to our heads and grinned at me. “We must have that ‘great minds think alike’ thing going on.”
“I think so,” I said as I smiled coyly at him.
We found an empty table and Jonathan sat across from me and we laid out our books and notes and dug in. Every now and then we would glance up at each other at the same time and Jonathan would smile and wink at me, and I swear the butterflies danced like crazy in my belly. It was so nice to be there studying with him, not wondering how he felt about me. We were so easy with each other and everything between us just fell right into place. Here I was, studying with the hottest guy in school, when just a few short months ago I didn’t think I would ever let anyone in again.
We studied until almost 1:00 a.m. and then we gathered our stuff and went back to our dorm. He held my hand as we walked back together and we gently swung our linked hands as we strolled back to the dorm. After we were inside, Jonathan turned to me and put his arms around me, his eyes searching mine.
“Will you stay with me tonight?”
I wanted to, I really did, but it was so late and I was exhausted. I started to turn him down but he cut me off.
“Just to sleep Sky, I promise. I like having you in my bed next to me, and besides we can sleep in since we both don’t have class until 10:30.”
I was too weak to say no to his gorgeous, pleading eyes.
“Okay, just let me wash my face and stuff and grab my PJ’s, and I’ll be down in a few minutes.”
“You can sleep in one of my t-shirts, you don’t have to bring PJ’s, besides you look super sexy in my shirt and I like it.”
I could feel the color flooding my cheeks as I smiled at him. “Okay, I’ll be down in a few minutes.”
Katie was sleeping so I was careful to be quiet as I grabbed my shower caddy with my toothbrush and facial soap. I washed my face in record time and then I went down to Jonathan’s room and couldn’t wait to cuddle up with him.
I changed into his t-shirt which nearly swallowed me like the last one, and climbed into his bed next to him. He turned out the light and I could see his face faintly in the dark as we lay facing each other. He gently stroked my hair and then raised my chin and kissed me on the lips.
His voice was soft in the dark. “I’m so glad you’re here, Sky.”
“Me too.”
We drifted off to sleep, wrapped in each other’s arms and there was no where in the world I would rather have been.
His performance was canceled that Friday so I didn’t get the chance to see him play again. Jenn was super bummed but I reminded her that they would be playing at Fall Festival in a few weeks.
The next two weeks passed pretty quickly and I slept in Jonathan’s room every night. We fell into a pattern of studying together almost every night and then I would sleep in his room. Physically, we fooled around a bit but we hadn’t had sex yet, but I knew it was coming soon and I couldn’t wait to be with him in that way. We were both swamped with homework so we didn’t actually have a lot of time to talk to each other in that time. We studied together almost every night until we could barely keep our eyes open, but we didn’t have a lot of down time with each other so I was really looking forward to that.
Chapter Fifteen
That following Friday was Fall Festival and Jonathan’s band, Sonic Blaze, was playing in the gym, which was huge, and I was really excited because a dance floor area was being set up. He told me that he would be singing every song to me and he wanted to meet up after so that we could hang out together. I was super psyched because we didn’t hang out at all the weekend before, Jonathan had to go home for the weekend for some business thing with his family’s company, so I couldn’t wait to spend some quality time with him.
I was dying for classes to be over that Friday, and the second I was done for the weekend I rushed back to my room to meet Katie. We went to an early dinner off campus at this greasy, but delicious burger place, and then we went back to our room to get ready. We were meeting a bunch of people over at the gym for the concert and Katie could not stop talking about it.
“This is so cool because the lead singer is your boyfriend! I feel so cool!”
“You are cool Katie.”
“So are you! We’re too cool for school!”
“Okay, I spoke to soon. Nerd alert!” I teased her and she playfully swatted my arm. We were giggling like kids when Jenn came to our room.
“Oh my gosh, you both look amazing! Tonight is going to be so much fun you guys, I can’t wait! Jake said the guys were taking bets on how slutty Barbi’s outfit is going to be.”
We all let out a devilish giggle.
Ugh, I had forgotten about her. She was one person I was really not looking forward to seeing. I hadn’t seen her for a while, which was nice, but I was sure she was going to be hanging all over Jonathan again and I knew that that night, I wouldn’t put up with it. He had made it pretty clear to me that his eyes were fixated only on me, and I didn’t want big boobs Barbi to try and overstep her boundaries. I would tell her off if I had to.
“Jenn you look gorgeous too! So, do you have your eye on anyone yet?” I gave her a teasing smile as I grabbed my ID.
“I do, but no one as gorgeous as your guy.”
I was a bit taken aback by that but then realized that I shouldn’t be. Well, I guess Jonathan was my guy and the whole campus probably knew by now since we were together so much.
“My guy?” I raised an eyebrow at her and feigned ignorance.
“Yes, your guy, the gorgeous Jonathan Hunter. He only has eyes for you and I know that at least a dozen girls are super bummed. We all see the way he looks at you Sky. I hope I meet a guy who looks at me that way one day, Jonathan is definitely smitten.”
I smiled to myself at that thought and I couldn’t wait to see him at the concert.
We got there around 8:00 and the gym was packed and the band was going on at 10:00. Music was blaring from the speakers in the wall, and it was decent, but everyone was waiting for the good stuff, the live stuff. Fall Festival was sponsored by the Inter Greek Coucil, and since the whole campus was invited, there was no booze, it was a totally dry party.