Chapter 47

When I woke up the next morning it was because the smell of bacon and eggs was radiating from the kitchen. I slowly opened my eyes and looked around the room. I sat up and realized I didn't have my t-shirt on, it was laying a couple feet from my bed. I leaned over the side of the bed to try and pick it up but seeing how I was still half asleep I ended up falling off the side of the bed with my elbows rubbing against the carpet as I crashed down.

"Fuck." I moaned as I laid on the floor for a second.

"Avery you're so clumsy." Sara said mostly in her sleep. I just smiled and sat up to put my shirt back on. I climbed to my feet and grabbed Kristinas shirt off the ground and threw it on top of Sara.

"Put this on." I said getting back underneath the covers.

"Why?" She replied groggily

"Because you have no clothes on" I said touching her stomach under the blankets, because my hands were cold and so she'd realize she was still naked.

"Fuck don't do that. Your hands are freezing. " She screamed. I just laughed as she sat up to put the shirt back on. When she laid back down I pulled her in close to me. Her face was nuzzled up on my chest and her arms were wrapped around me. I wanted to stay here forever. I wanted to hold her and never let go.

"Avery." She said

"Yeah?" I asked

"How come you never talk about your dad?" She asked taking me completely by surprise.

"Uhh I don't know. I guess I just don't really like to talk about it. Why do you ask?" I questioned.

"When you left Sophie started asking me questions about you and I just realized that there are some things about you I don't really know. Like about your dad. Ave you haven't even told me when your birthday is." she said looking up at me. Her honey brown eyes looking straight into mine.

"And I know Kris knows all these things about you. But I don't." She finished still looking me in the eyes.

"Kris doesn't know when my birthday is." I said. It was the only thing I could think to say. This conversation caught me completely by surprise.

"Why not?" She asked so innocently and so cute I couldn't help but kiss her forehead.

"Because I don't tell anyone when it is. I've never really celebrated it and its just awkward when people try and tell me happy birthday or buy me stuff. So I just don't tell them." I said. She just looked to the left and kind of made a face.

"June 17th." I sighed. She just looked at me and reached up to kiss me.

"What else do you want to know?" I asked still holding her

"How did you and Kris meet?" She asked. Geez these questions were not going to be easy.

"I met Kris my sophomore year. I mean I had always seen her and knew of her but we didn't actually meet until after season at the end of sophomore year. Braddock just had us shooting around in the gym and no one on JV wanted to play me one on one so I just kept shooting around. Kris came up to me after a while and asked if id play her. She kicked my ass, but we kept playing. Over and over. She won every time. Then during the summer she asked if I would play on some summer leagues with her and we just sort of clicked. Soon after was when my dad died, and she was having problems coming out. We just kind of depended on each other. For a while she was all I had and I was all she had." I finished my little back story with a sigh. Sara just nodded her head.

"I know you don't like her." I said looking down her.

"I never said that." She said.

"You didn't have to. But you have to know Sara, I will always choose you over her. Sara I'm so in love with you its insane. I'm not good at talking about things, and I really suck at saying how I feel, but I don't ever want to lose you. I'd do anything for you." I said leaning in to give her a soft kiss on the lips.

"I love you too. And I trust you a lot. Thats why I try to be so cool about everything with Kris but I just want you to know that sometimes it does bother me how much you run to go help her. She's a big girl Ave." she said

"I know. I know you're right. But I just, I know how it feels to go through something and feel like you're all alone. I just don't want her to feel that way, but I'll try and lay off." Sara had been really patient with me through everything with Kris and she has been so supportive and always been there for me. I didn't want to do anything to hurt her.

"Thank you." She said.

"So I've spilled my guts. Whats something I don't know about you?" I asked

"Hmmm, let me think." She said putting a finger on her lip.

"I never told you this but the reason we had to move here was because at my old school a couple girls found out I was gay and would pick on me every day. It got so bad that I got into a fight with one of them and I ended up breaking her nose. My parents didn't want me to have to deal with that so we moved." She said tracing little circles on my arm.

"I didn't know. I'm sorry." It's all I could think to say.

"Its okay. I mean I broke a girls nose, and now I have an amazing girlfriend. I think I turned out okay." She said smiling at me.

"Anything else you want to ask?" I asked

"Yeah." She mumbled

"What is it?" I asked

"Can we go eat I'm freaking starving." I just laughed as we got out of the bed to go eat. My hand was on the door knob already when I saw Saras panties lying right by my foot. I looked down and laughed then picked them up.

"Forgetting something?" I asked holding them up with my fingers.

"You're the one who takes my clothes off. How am I supposed to remember to put them back on?" She said with her hand on her hip. I just threw the underwear at her to put back on.

"Just put them on so we can go eat." I laughed. I opened the door and she walked out. I just watched as her hips swayed in the extra large t-shirt. I was lucky to have her.