Pieces of Me by Pua Ramona (small books to read txt) 📕

I put her things in the back of my truck and I see she’s trying to keep herself from crying. I grab her by her elbow and I turn her so I can see her face fully. I pull her into me and I wrap my arms around her waist. She automatically wraps her arms around my neck, and she struggles a bit because she’s so short. She’s on the tip of her toes and I think a piece of me falls in love with her. I hear her little cute sniffles as she says “I’m sorry my brothers love me the way they do.”

I lean my forehead on hers and I say, “I’m not. If anything I’m fucking glad you have those giant fucks to protect you, beautiful.”

She laughs a little, looking up at me as she says “Thank you for coming.” God, I love the way she smiles at me.

I kiss her on her forehead and feel myself relax against her. “I almost didn’t”

She leans back a little to tiler her head up looking at me in question. “Then why did you?”

“Because there is this girl that I couldn’t stop thinking about and I needed to see her” I answer and she blushes again. I fucking love the color it brings to her cheeks.

“But why?, she says, smiling one of her small smiles for me.

I look her in her brown eyes and say, “Because my heart was starting to hurt.” She tries to hide from me but I grab her face and say “And I realized I was wasting precious time thinking about her, instead of holding her.”

Her eyes start to tear up and she kissed me on the cheek, whispering “My heart was starting to ache too.” I don’t know how long we stand in the parking lot holding each other, but I don’t want to let her go. However it’s getting cold and I felt her shiver a little. The last thing I need is her brothers giving me shit for keeping her out in the cold all night.

“Are you ready to go home beautiful?” I ask.

She shakes her head no and says “Can we go somewhere and watch the sunrise? If you can’t it’s fine.”

I grab her hand and kiss the inside of her wrist. “I’ll go anywhere just as long as I’m with you Sina.” She smiles her shy smile, turns her head a little and kisses the inside of my palm. I swear another piece of me falls for her harder right there in the parking lot. I’m fucked. This girl is going to own every piece of me, and she’s going to tear my heart out of my chest when she leaves.

I’m so relieved she asked to watch the sunrise. It means I don't need to think of another reason to not take her home yet, plus I’ve never done that before, not even with another woman. She will share my first shared sunrise and that makes me want her heart more. I know the perfect spot to take her to watch the perfect sunrise too. It takes us fifteen minutes to get there and as I park the truck I look over to see if she's still awake, but she’s fallen asleep on our way here. I don’t want to wake her up yet so I sit here and study everything about her face. Even in her sleep she looks sad and it hurts me a little to know that she isn’t at peace with whatever she is going through. She has pieces of loose hair in her face so I move them out of her face gently. I run my fingers lightly down her cheek and she starts to wake up. She opens her eyes and my heart flips. She’s so beautiful. How the fuck did I ever go on in life without her? Everything about her is breathtaking. From the way she smiles, the sound of her voice, the way she walks, and the way she is around people. I completely understood what Reese meant when he said she just draws you in, like a moth to a flame.

She smiles at me with her tired eyes and says, “Hey you.”

I lean in and kiss her softly on her lips. I hear her sigh a little with her eyes closed “Hey beautiful. Do you still want to watch the sunrise?”

She sits up, looks around and her face lights up “ Absolutely” she says.

I kiss her again and say, “Let me see if I got something in the back for us to sit on.” I get out of the truck and grab the blanket that I left in the back from the night Reese, Lei and I went to a concert in the park a few weeks ago. I walk around to the passenger side and she’s just sitting there lost in her own thoughts. I open her door and she looks at me and her cheeks automatically turn red “Are you ready beautiful?”

She looks at me and says “Ready as I’ll ever be.” She steps down from the truck and my arm has a mind of its own, wrapping itself around her tiny waist. She looks up at me and says “Thank you for bringing me. I used to come here with my dad before he passed.” I’m afraid she’s going to cry but she doesn’t, she just looks like she’s remembering good memories of him.

“Do you want to talk about it?” I ask.

She takes a deep breath and says, “No, I just want this to be for us if that’s okay with you.” I smile and kiss her forehead. We get to the perfect spot and she helps me spread the blanket, as she pulls the edges taut she scrunches her face up and asks “Hold up, is this yours and Becca’s fun time blanket?”

My mouth drops open and I say “Fuck no Babe! This is my friendship blanket. Only Lei and