Not Even Close (A New Generation) by Elizabeth Reyes (sight word books .txt) 📕

video then moved on to her Taz and Xochitl sitting in her dorm. “I’mwaiting for him to call me back and then we’re gonna do the Richard thing.“Seeing her clutch her heart made Byron smile. “Oh, my God my heart is beatingso hard.”

Byron squeezed her tight. “Damn right you better be nervous aboutsomething like this ever happening for real.”

Just watching it, had her squirming even more in his arms still.They watched as she talked to him on speaker and then loudly moved the latcheson her already opened dorm door. Her brother leaned into the phone and suddenlyByron knew why the “Vannah, I’m glad I caught you.” Line from Richard hadsounded like he was talking right into the phone.

She very obviously muffled the phone making silly faces, and nowByron was laughing with her. “I can’t believe I fell for this shit.”

Savannah laughed again turning to him. “You have no idea howfreaking nervous I was about this.”

They continued watching the footage of her talking to Byron onthe phone. When she told him, Richard had broken up with his girlfriend and mentionedhim still having feelings for her, she covered her face and leaned her elbowagainst her steering wheel.

Good.

Apparently, she was completely aware of what just saying thatwould mean. While hearing it again was annoying, seeing her reaction to it wasthe satisfaction he needed. She literally squeezed her eyes shut when shereferred to the whole fucking hanging out shit.

“That was all Nena. She knew that would piss you off. Sowas the Richie thing,” she added then laughed. “Just so you know. This is whatI meant about her being evil for fun.”

The segment explained the build up to the big blowout. It wasn’t videoit was just audio of the conversation between her and Nena as she drove to themarket.

“I can tell he’s already annoyed by the whole Richard thing.”

A very similar snigger to Savannah’s was heard then Siennastarted speaking. “This is perfect but call him Richie. Oh, my God!” Siennawent on with more damn squealing so like her sister’s earlier. “Just imagine Vannahif he had an ex, say her name was Samantha and you knew this, then one day youtwo are being all cutesy and he calls you Sammy? How pissed would you be?”

Savannah gasped but laughed. “I’d cry!”

“I know! It’s why it’s so perfect. You calling him Richard at thatmost inopportune moment will piss him off, but you calling him Richiewill nauseate him.”

“She is fucking evil!”

Savannah laughed loudly doing the dancing in place thing, even ashe pulled her tightly against his hardening erection again. “Seriously. I wasfucking nauseated!”

The next part was of her setting up the phone in the kitchen, andit suddenly made sense why she’d acted so weirdly when he’d walked in.

“Who were you on the phone with just before I walked in?”

“Nena!” Savannah turned to him wide eyed. “After that hot butsweetest reception I got from you, I called to tell her I couldn’t go throughwith it. But of course, she begged me to just do it.”

They watched the rest of the video, with her fast forwarding mostof their talking. Though there were a few parts she slowed so she could turn tohim and kiss him. Byron knew why too. The parts she slowed were the parts wherehe wasn’t just all over her, but he gazed at her like a lovesick sap. If he hada prayer of trying to deny it before, there was no chance of it now. This wasabsolute proof of how bad he had it for her. “Geez, can I look any more sprung?”

It was one of the first moments since she pranked him that he’dfelt like kissing her deep. She’d apparently paused it because the kiss went onforever. “Don’t play with me,” she whispered when they finally pulled away.

Byron couldn’t help scoff. “Are you kidding me? Watch the video. Youhad me losing my shit—”

Her lips were on his before he could finish. She stopped for amoment just to look into his eyes, touching his face as she tilted her head.Like so many times since he’d met her, Byron felt the air sucked out of him.Without saying another word, she went back to the video. It wasn’t until shefast forwarded it to the intense part of their video that it even registered.At that moment in the video, he was too damn fired up and feeling completelyblindsided to catch it then, but now he did. She referred to him as babywhen shit got real and he’d been ready to throw her the fuck out. Just likehearing her refer to him as her boyfriend, for all the world to hear no less,she’d never even called him babe before.

“Rewind that,” he said, and she turned to him with a wince.

“You really wanna hear that part again?”

Byron turned to her, his smile flattening. “Not the part aboutyou being with him a week ago, Savannah. I never wanna hear you saysomething like that to me again.”

She stared at him, her eyes threatening to go all bright again,but when he didn’t smile, she didn’t either. Instead, she bit her bottom lipand nodded. He stared at her hard taking a deep breath because all kiddingaside, the heated blood in his veins hadn’t completely settled. He needed thisto be perfectly clear. Especially after today. This may’ve been a prank, andhe’d let her slide despite what she’d put him through, but only because theprank had inadvertently served a purpose.

Before this stunt, he thought he’d been being petty about his constantniggling concerns. Given the way she acted in that set up video, clearly, she alreadyknew what she was in for when it came to this kind of shit with him, and sheseemed okay with it. But he needed to be sure.

“I wanna hear the part where you call me your boyfriend in theset up again.” He stared into her surprised eyes with a purpose. “Because Iwasn’t sure before and your sister was right. That whole hanging outshit, did piss me off. So, I wanna be clear about this. Was that just for thecamera, or is that what you consider