Unbroken SHIFTER'S HEART: EDITING IN PROGRESS

*21.Wes, Garret and Amy...

I glanced left and right for cars on the street then began to cross. The sun was soft and golden looking and there was a slight breeze in the air. I smiled for the tenth time in the last five minutes. I was officially a grinning fool, that’s what Derek and Garret had reduced me to.

I felt myself blushing as I remembered what Derek and I had done in the bathroom after breakfast. It was indescribable. Although I did suddenly feel shy and embarrassed when we came out and I saw a grinning Garret in the kitchen. It kind of felt weird being with one and not the other. But as Garret, who must have seen the look on my face told me, it was ok to be with one of us alone. Apparently I didn’t have to be with both of them at all times. And I didn’t have to feel bad about it.

I still don’t know what exactly is happening between us, is it a fling of some sort? Or are we rekindling our old flames? I had no idea, and I could only guess they didn’t either.

But as I walked out of their apartment this morning much to their dismay, I remembered Garret telling me last night at the club to give him a chance, just one week? So did he mean one week to have the fling and screw around or one week to prove himself so that we could explore something more?

Holy hell, here I was getting into something I knew nothing about and already I was over analyzing like I always do. I should for once go with the flow and just see where this takes us. Except I don’t want to, I want to know if this is an open relationship of sorts. Are they still going to be seeing people? Am I? Am I going to get hurt later because I didn’t see something coming or I read too much into something? I didn’t have the answers to any of these and I sure as hell wasn’t going to ask one or both of them.

As I stepped into my apartment, I was enveloped in big warm arms and crushed against an equally hard chest. Wes, I thought to myself as his smell over crowded  my senses and I hugged the hell out of him too.

“Where the hell have you been? I was so worried”. He screamed in a panicked voice.

I giggled and pushed him away, he was so cute when he was worried, “Calm down I’m ok” I said to him as I made my way to my kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee. It was already made I registered, which means he must have been here for awhile. “Thanks for making the coffee”.

“Forget the damn coffee, where were you and why didn’t you pick up your phone?” he asked, agitated, he was tired, I noted. Something must have been really bothering him if he was this angry, and I don’t think it was me not coming home or picking up the phone entirely.

“Hey, hey, hey, calm down will you. I’m sorry I worried you, I didn’t mean to, and my phone was turned off that’s why. But I know you’re not just mad over that, so why don’t you come over here and we will discuss it over coffee and some cake”. His shoulders visibly slumped and he dragged himself to the stool in the kitchen. There must be something really bothering him because the old Wes I knew, my Wes was never like this.

“You were always good at reading people Gracie, especially me”. He mumbled as he stared blindly into the cake I set in front of him. It was an Oreo ice crème, one of his favorites.

“That’s what best friends are for”. I amended. “So tell me”.

He was quite for a long time and we just sat there until he said “It’s all messed up really, I don’t even know or understand what’s happening, the whole thing makes me beyond furious”. His hand fisted together when he finished.

“What does? What is making you mad?” I asked in a calming voice.

“So you know how neither Luke nor I have been around much lately?” he asked and I nodded, even though I hadn’t noticed it, god! This thing with my mates was taking over my life. “Well, it’s because we are on this high profile case and uh…” there was a period of silence where he just swallowed. I felt my heart constrict for him, he was really hurting over something.