It's Not Like That Novels & Stories

Not finished. Not even close.

“I don't like it when you say we are having fun. What do you mean by that anyway?” “I--” I was going to tell him I didn't know but he cut me off. “Makes it sound like oh hey we aren't anything and have no attachment but are just people having casual sex with no strings attached and we could do the same with others as long as we are cool with it. Do you know how that sounds?”

she emphasized. “Because you’re beautiful,” I honestly answered. I caught a slight blush coloring her cheeks in the soft glow of the street light. “Are we eating at a closed establishment?” She said pointedly to the dark building. I chuckled and softly grabbed her hand to wrap around my arm. She didn’t pull away, and Morpheus was purring in my chest at the physical contact. Like he used to do when Selene was near. I waved the thought away. Sophia was a Beta with a wolf. Selene was nobody.

Fuck at this point I don’t even know. “tsk tsk Ella, you won’t be able to get away that easily,” I say through gritted teeth.

Without condition. Real.

Lilly put. " She sure is," Gina added laughing. I'm not in love So don't forget it It's just a silly phase I'm going through And just because I call you up Don't get me wrong, Don't think you've got it made I'm not in love I'm not in love like to see you But then again That doesn't mean you mean that much to me So if I call you Don't make a fuss Don't tell your friends about "the two of us" I'm not in love, no no,

“𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝘂𝘁. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼

This is neither. "It's nothing," I say anyway. "Overworked. Long few days." "Didn't ask for an explanation." "I know. I'm giving you one anyway." Something in his face shifts, not quite a smile, but close enough to it that I feel it land somewhere in my chest.

“I wonder why.” “I don’t own a cellphone.” I shrugged and he laughed. “You must be joking.” He stopped laughing when he noticed I wasn’t laughing along with him. “I don’t.” “Lyra be serious, there’s no way in hell you don’t own a phone.” He stared at me like I had two heads or something. “I don’t own one, why’s that so hard to believe.” I shrugged. “Wow.” He took a sip of his coffee. “But why don’t you own one, they come in very handy you know.”