On My Brother's Bed

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or summer. I needed my charger–that was all. But Micah's room was dark,

and slip right back out.

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t was ot

e man lying in that b

ize that until it

with cedarwood tainted the air. I crept in slowly, half-blind as

enly creaked

" I whi

was the sound of a slow

the covers. The glow from the hallway gave me just enough lig

tattoo on his arm–on

to suspect something was

I never came for my charge, and forget the whole thing. But I stood ther

he turn

nto light and I

et

opped and my

rother's room while his bes

y wo

y chest as I backed

to leave the same way I'd come, his eye

nds before Rhett d

oice was deep,

dlights. My oversized T-shirt barely covered my

I didn't know..." I fumbled with the

ake up enough to process what was happe

guest room gets fixed and until you're back for summer. You returned late

about going on a trip like how he regularly did

ly, too embarr

urbance," I muttere

that. Rhett Rivers did

ce came, and broke

should've walked out and closed the door behind me.

before I rega

due to the long journey earlier. I needed my charger. I left

Rhett raised a brow as

used the outlet by the

, the sheets slipp

So many

es refused to blink. I looked away

. I'm not

hat made me glance back at him. O

ugged at the co

trid. It's

e problem.

d crushed on secretly since I was sixteen. The sam

s watching me from under messy dark hair, an

chest, and turned toward t

rger.' my subconsciou

ly, searching

oor," Rhett sai

here it was and ha

he

t. When I stood, my head bru

ou alr

I said

hing me as silence s

leave, but my feet

d, his voice low.

ed. "Ex

not a kid anymor

"I wasn't a kid

This is the first time I

d took a step back.

tri

stopped

ning forward now, his arms on

y, "don't sneak into a man

I asked, feig

o my half exposed thig

ng invitation

didn't say anything

rt was still hammering when