CHAPTER 5
Sirin spends the next day trying to undo some of the damage Agan managed. He’s gone before I wake up, but he left a message asking me to meet him for lunch, and even though it feels rushed, it’s nice to see him before he hurries off again.
I spent the afternoon with Kita and her parents again. None of them mention Agan. I don’t know how to feel about the fact he’s basically been forgotten.
Maybe it would be better to say he’s been removed… Almost as though he was never a part of the family in the first place.
Who knows, maybe I’ll forget about him eventually too.
But it’s too strange and I skip movie night with Feather and Jade and the others.
Curled up on the couch, I wait for Sirin to come home, and when he does, I jump and let him catch me and consider trying to never let go.
“If this is the new normal of my nights, I think I love it.”
“Me too.”
“I love you.” He kisses my throat. “I love you.” My cheek. “I love you.”
When his lips find mine, I linger in the sweetness of that kiss.
But he does, eventually, put me down. He has to. I know that. It doesn’t mean I have to like it.
I do like that he sets me down, seemingly with the only goal of getting his uniform off before he picks me back up again.
Arms around his shoulders, legs around his waist, I laugh as he pushes my back up against the wall.
Before I can remind him that we need to eat or talk, or do any number of other things, he presses a kiss to the base of my throat. “I told you I’ll always protect you, and I mean that.”
“Good.”
But I know what he’s talking about.
I look from him to the table where the second cup waits. “We should probably deal with that, shouldn’t we?”
“Probably.”
“I’d like to be able to be with you without worrying about that.”
“Me too.”
Holding his head in my hands, I kiss him again. “I want to grow old with you.”
He hums. “What happens when humans grow old?”
“I’ll get gray and wrinkly.” I tell him and his brows dip in confusion.
“I’m very excited to see what that means.”
Laughing, I tip my head back against the wall. “It’s not going to happen for a while.”
“But I will be around when it does.”