Page 56 of Surrender
“You don’t even know what I’m thinking of.”
“I do. Your eyes say it all, and we are not participating in anything you’re thinking of right now in your parent’s house.”
Dallis pulled her flush against his body. “Let’s just play a little bit.”
“No.”
“Come on, baby. Do you know how many times I’ve walked in on my parents almost fucking? At this point, they owe me one,” he responded in nearly a whine.
“What did I just say to you?”
“Colbie,” he tried again, but she only raised a brow at him. “Fine,” he conceded.
However, instead of letting her go, as she had thought he would. He leaned down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. When he pulled away, he released her and sat on his bed. Colbie decided to continue her exploration and saw a few college brochures on his dresser.
She held them up, turning to him. “Have you applied to any of these yet?”
“Not yet.”
“It’s already December. You shouldn’t put this off. We can do it together if you want,” she told him. Even as she was saying it, her heart began to feel a bit heavy thinking of him going off to college hours away. Of all the applications in her hand, the closest one was still over four hours away.
“You’re sounding like my teacher right now, Colbie,” he told her. “If you’re asking if I want to apply to them with you, Ms. Morris, then no.” He took them out of her hand and tossed them aside. “However, if you, Colbie, want to help me apply to them, then fine.”
Colbie bit her bottom lip. She was well aware that sometimes when talking to him, she tended to put on her teacher’s voice when he just needed her to be his girlfriend.
She walked over to him, and he spread his legs so she could stand between them. “I’m asking as your girlfriend.”
Dallis pulled her down into his lap. “Then we can do it together.” They’d only been sitting like that for a few seconds when there was a knock on his closed door.
“Put your clothes on and come down. Dinner’s ready.” She heard his father state.
“If we were doing that, Old Man, you’d hear us from downstairs.” Colbie placed her face in her hands as Dallis laughed.
She got up, and he took her hand, leading her out of the bedroom and down to the kitchen.
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Dallis and his dad were cleaning the kitchen after dinner, while Colbie and his mother were in the living room talking about who only knew what. He could hear them laughing now and then and assumed that his mother was telling his girlfriend some embarrassing stories about when he was younger.
As he rinsed and dried the dishes his dad was washing, he thought back to her telling him they could complete his college applications together. Honestly, he hadn’t known how to take it. Dallis had felt that she would be a little more reluctant to see him go off and leave her, especially as far away as each school was.
Yes, he’d gotten the brochures, but it was because college recruiters had come to the school the Friday before the break and were handing them out left and right. He had no intentions of applying to them.
He hadn’t wanted to go to college. At least not until recently. He had been content with graduating high school, working at the company his father and uncles owned, and eventually taking over with Arsyn and Hayden.
However, now, he decided that he would go. Colbie had gone, and he figured he would as well. He wasn’t so much doing it for her as he was for himself. If he planned on being with her, he wanted to match her intellect and wanted her to know that he was a man worth being with. In a way, that gave him satisfaction in himself.
So, yes. Dallis was going to college, but he had already made up his mind that he was going to the university in town. He’d already looked into it, and they had a great business program. It was where Arsyn was currently going, and Dallis knew his friend had done a lot of research before settling on a university.
He hadn’t gotten around to telling Colbie his plans yet, because he wanted to know that he had been accepted. The last thing he wanted to do was tell her, not get accepted, and have her push him to apply elsewhere because he knew that it was something that she would do to see him further his education.
Dallis knew that sometimes when she talked to him about certain things, she couldn’t help but approach it as his teacher, which he could understand, because hell, she was. Though he much preferred that anything they talked about out of the classroom be considered a conversation between two adults in a relationship.
He was willing to give her time. He knew that he couldn’t expect her to stop it all at once, and wasn’t that what any good relationship consisted of? Patience, compromise, and understanding.
“So, dinner went well. I was glad Colbie wasn’t as nervous as when she first walked in.” His father stated after the silence between them had dragged on for a bit.
“It did. I think she and mom are hitting it off a little too well in there.” Dallis responded. Though, he didn’t mind that fact at all.
