The Consequences of Forever (1) by Kaitlyn Oruska Read Free Book Online

regular house. I leaned against the siding and pulled him close to me.
                  “I love you,” I told him, feeling the need to express that more than ever.
                  He looked surprised, but a slow smile spread over his face. “I love you, too,” he whispered, leaning in and kissing me tenderly. I melted in to him, the way I always did.
                  It was magic, kissing Adam, every time. And it never got old, and never went away. Every time was like the first time.
                  I unzipped his leather jacket and slid my arms inside, wrapping them around his waist, feeling the warmth of his skin underneath his t-shirt. He rubbed his forehead against mine and pulled me even closer.
                  “It’s cold out here,” he remarked. “Do you want to wear it?”
                  I shook my head and pressed it against his chest. “No, I just want to be close to you.”
    He lifted my shirt up slightly, stroking my bare skin. I shivered at how cold his hands were, but it felt too good to ask him to stop.
                  “Do you want to come over?” He asked. For a minute, I considered it; just getting into his car and leaving, not telling anyone where I was going or that I was leaving at all. I knew that Nora looked at me as the responsible one, the reasonable one, the one that did what she was told and didn’t argue. Hannah would leave with a cute boy in an instant and while Nora wouldn’t exactly be happy about it, she’d expect it.
                  Adam tilted my head up and touched the side of my face before sliding his hand through my hair. “We can hang out in the guest house,” he told me, grinning slyly.
                  “I thought your mom hid the keys.”
                  “She did, but I found them again.”
    I bit my lower lip, contemplating it. I knew what hanging out in the guest house really meant; that was where it all began, the mistake that had led to this. Maybe I should go. Maybe it was the best place to reveal the secret that I’d held for only twenty-four hours, though it felt more like a lifetime.
                  “What’s bothering you?” He asked, moving his hand from my hair to the base of my neck. “Nothing has to happen. I just want to be with you.”
                  “It’s not that. I just, I have to help Nora, and Hannah and Scott are in there now…”
                  I saw his jaw clench at the mention of Scott. “He’s in there?”
                  I nodded, wondering why I’d felt the need to mention that.
    “Why didn’t you tell me?”
                  “I know you’d just get angry and upset and I didn’t want you to have to worry about it.”
                  He moved his body away from me slightly, and I immediately held onto him, hating even the smallest amount of distance between us.
    “I hate him being around you.”
                  “It’s harmless, Adam.”
                  “The guy is still nuts about you.” His face softened slightly. “I can’t exactly blame him for that, but I hate it.”
                  “You have nothing to worry about.” Possibly the biggest lie I’ve ever told, but not for the reason he might be thinking. I pulled him closer to me again and kissed him, wanting to kiss away all his jealousy and insecurities. I wanted to kiss away everything he was going to feel when I couldn’t hide this anymore.
                  He kissed me back and it was like every other time before. The world around us disappeared. There was no Scott anymore, no Hannah and her schemes, no Nora and her rules, no guest house and no mistakes, no unplanned pregnancy that would never feel like reality. It was just the two of us, Adam and Lainey, alone in the world that we had created, a world where