Thirty One

"Are you hiding?"

She rolled her eyes "Hide from what? You, who keeps on pestering me all day long? Seriously, Mason, I didn't think you had a nagging streak in you"

"Well, I'm trying to keep you here so I have to check in on you every hour to make sure you're not across Europe or Africa" a week had passed since they met his parents and since he'd dropped the three big words. Eva hadn't said it back, which was fine with him because he wasn't trying to force her to do something she wasn't ready to do but he'd had to keep an eye on her. Make sure she didn't bolt. Back at his parent's house, he'd seen the panic in her eyes. And Mason was sure that she would slip through his fingers if he wasn't careful.

He'd called his mother and they'd confessed they weren't happy because of the article that had made him out to be a cheater. They weren't angry at Eva but they thought she could have handled it better. He told them the same thing and they apologized. Promising to make it up to her. E