Just Once (Book 1 in the Just Once Series)

Chapter Thirteen

Jack’s POV:

I woke up with the sun shining in through the window, warming my chest.

A slight movement, a soft sigh and I looked down. The most beautiful creature was sleeping against me; her hand resting on my shoulder, my chest being used as a pillow. I smiled as I watched Brook sleep.

I had dreamt of holding her like this for so long. Far too long to be healthy, and as I watched the sun cast a warm glow over her creamy skin, I couldn’t help but admit I was in love with her.

I loved her. I think I always had. There isn’t one moment after meeting Brook that I didn’t love her. Even as a kid, who didn’t understand what love was, I felt it for her.

I lifted my hand gently, though I kept my other hand resting on her waist and I ran my fingers lightly down the side of her face.

She murmured something softly, moving closer to me and I didn’t resist the urge to lean down and press a gentle kiss to her forehead.

“Wake up sleeping beauty,” I whispered softly, pressing my lips light to hers.

“Hmm, that has to be, the nicest wakeup call ever... but the cheesiest line I’ve ever heard,” she murmured as she moved her body slightly as she woke up more fully.

Raising her head, she looks up at me, her eyes sparkling and her smile so damn gorgeous.

“I don’t care if it’s cheesy, it’s true. You are beautiful, Brooklyn,” I said now, resting my forehead against hers and feeling light and happy for the first time in so long.

We lay like that for a long time, just resting in each other’s arms, watching each other. It was amazing, the amount of things you can say to a person without actually speaking them.

Simply looking at her, here in my arms with the sunlight showering over her body in a golden light and making her hair shine beautifully. The feel of her body pressed up against mine, her hand resting on my chest and the undeniable flash of love in her eyes, it was amazing, terrifying, but amazing.

I’d never, not once in my entire life, felt so complete, as I did now with Brook in my arms.

“I never want to let you go,” Brook is the first to speak, the first to break the trance like state we had been in.

I can’t help but see the sadness beginning to fill her eyes and I know I will do anything to make her happy.

“Then don’t,” I whisper gently.

Resting my forehead against hers, I kiss her lips gently, “You don’t have to let go, Brook,” I murmur, knowing I can’t let her go, not yet.

Because if I was able to have Brook as my own, for even one more day, then at least I had the chance. I knew, even a lifetime with her would be too short, but if a day was all I got, then I’d make it last in my mind forever.

“What else can we do?” she said gently, her hand reaching up and touching the side of my jaw softly.

“Be mine. Give us a go,” I all but whisper, my heart pounding in a heavy rhythm as I wait to see what she would said to my suggestion.

“Jack...” her voice is cautious and I know what she’s going to say before she even has a chance to.

“We won’t have sex, Brook. We won’t overstep that line... just be mine,” I said in a last resort and she moves closer to me, worry and uncertainty filling her eyes.

“I don’t know, Jack. What if we give it ago, tell everyone, deal with everything they throw at us, all the chaos and shit and then end up breaking up? Think of the gap we’d cause, not only in our everyday life, but in our family one. What would my mum and Nate say, they’d freak out, you know they would,” she whispers now.

“And theirs Rick and Katie too, what about them? We’re cheating Jack and I don’t want to be that sort of person. My mum always says, once a cheat, always a cheat. I don’t want to lose the trust between us later on down the line because you think I’m being unfaithful or I think you’re being unfaithful. I don’t want to live my life like that,” she murmurs softly and I wrap my arms around her tightly, resting my chin on the top of her head.

“You think too much,” I mutter now and she laughs gently. She’s always been like that, always thinking ahead and seeing all the different things that could go wrong, yet never the things that could go right.

“I know. But I’m still right,” she says and I nod softly, because I know she is.

Yet I’m still not ready to let her go.

“How about we give being together ago, but keep it hushed. Tell no one, keep it a secret, and see how things go?” I said now, looking down at her.

“And Katie?”

“I’ll break up with her as soon as college starts up again,” I promise. Katie isn’t anything compared to Brook.

She smiles softly, her eyes beginning to shine with hope as she looks up at me and nods, “Ok.”

“What?” I asked, shocked.

“Ok, we’ll give it ago, keep things quite, see how they go,” she laughs gently.

“I won’t share you, Brook. We do this, you break things off with Rick as soon as,” I warn now.

“Ok. I’ll break up with him as soon as we go back to college, sooner if I see him,” she promises and I can’t help myself. I cup her face in my hands and kiss her.

She was giving me a chance and I wasn’t planning on losing her, not now, not ever.

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