LTTA-I PROMISE YOU

Dalila wasn’t completely back to normal but she was getting better, though she still missed Bryce like crazy. On the plus side, Bryce was there, in an awesome hotel room and she had just celebrated his nineteenth birthday with him last night and woke up in his arms. They spent the night making love and cuddling. Today after class they were going up to her dorm and Bry was going to meet Violet and Steve.

“One hour, and I’ll be back. You better be ready, got it?” she beamed, practically bouncing.

“Yes, yes. I’ve got it.” chuckling, he walked her to the door.

“What are you gonna do while I’m in class?”

“Shower, I’m dirty from all that awesome sex.” She laughed, blushed, and kissed him.

“I love you, so damn much.”

Class seemed to be dragging, she was sitting there tapping her foot the whole time. But finally when it was finally time, she almost ran out of the class. This was one of the few classes she didn’t have with Steve and she was anxious for him to meet Bryce. She and Steve had gotten really close over the last few weeks, mostly after she came back after Thanksgiving. If it wasn’t for him and Vi, she probably would of slept her way out of school. It was snowing when she got out of class, thankfully not too bad but the roads would be slick. She climbed into her old car and was thankful for the snow tires her parents bought her for Christmas. It seemed to take forever to get back to the hotel but she ran up to the room, unlocked the door and found Bryce snoozing in nothing but a towel on the bed. Oh my…she thought… what a sexy sight to see.

Slowly and gently she climbed over him and planted a few kissed over his face while she straddled him. Dalila ran her hands down his warm chest and stopped right below his belly button. She could feel him growing harder under her and she was growing wet. Bending down she kissed his lips.

“Mmm, sorry love. You wear me out”

“I don’t mind… you are incredibly sexy like this.” she bit her bottom lip looking at him.

“We should probably go, huh?” he asked, mostly wishing she would say no.

“Yeah, but we’ll pick up where we left off when we get back.” He sighed and lifted her off of him, going to the bathroom to get dressed. He came out a few minutes later, his hair still wet and messy. Not too tight dark jeans and a grey t-shirt, he looked hot.

“Ready? I can’t wait to show you off!” Bryce rolled his eyes with a smile on his face and nodded.

They drove mostly in silence, he hadn’t said anything but Dalila could tell something was wrong. She figured they could talk about when they got back to the hotel. They had the rest of the time alone since Christmas break was right around the corner. She was so excited about it just being the two of them, no one else around but them.

Bryce sighed loudly but D was off in her own little world. He loved her more than anything in the world but he was pretty frustrated right now… They had never really had a fight about anything but he wasn’t certain it was going to stay that way. Maybe he was over reacting but he felt like she talked about Steve a lot… Not just a lot but almost every time they talked… I’m just jealous he’s here with her… Either way, he was about to meet him and had to deal with it.

“Here we are!!!” she ran to the other side of the car, waiting for Bryce to get out. Once they got up to her dorm, Bryce’s hands were sweating. “Vi? Steve?” Violet was on her bed, texting her boyfriend of all people, they had been together for two weeks. In Violet world, that was a long time, and Steve was watching TV on his iPhone.

“D!” Steve was the first one to get up, he ran over and hugged Dalila, squeezed her tightly then looked at Bryce.

“Bryce, this is Steve. Steve, Bryce.” They shook hands but tension was all around both of them. Violet came over and waved at Bryce.

“Nice to finally meet you.” she smiled.

“Same to you.”

Steve looked at Bryce, gave half a smirk then walked closer to Dalila. She and Violet had been whispering about something and giggling a lot. I want to punch this guy in the face Bry thought when he looked at Steve. He’d seen that look before in a guys eyes. He wanted Dalila, Bryce didn’t care what she said.

“So how long you in town for?” Steve asked.

“Till the 31st.” he said curtly.

“Ahh, not too long then.”

“Never is long enough when it comes to D.” he put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. Dalila turned to face him and gave him a kiss. “Love you”

“Love you too” Dalila was smiling ear to ear when Steve turned and walked to her bed. She followed him with her head, he looked sad. “You ok Steve?”

“Oh yeah.. Just not feeling too good right now.”

Mmmhmm thought Bryce make her feel sorry for you.. Good move ass. Bry grunted a little and Dalila looked up at him.

“What?”

“Nothing, just tired.”

They stayed about an hour, all the time Steve being ‘sick’. Dalila didn’t leave Bryce’s side for long, which was nice but when she did Steve seemed to perk right up. When they got back to the hotel room, Dalila had planned a very sexy evening but Bryce had something else in his head. The jealous bone had taken over and it was hard to control. Dalila crawled onto the bed and patted for Bryce to join her.

“No thanks, I don’t feel like sitting down right now.”

“What’s wrong?”

“You do realize that Steve has the hots for you, right?” he blurted out.

“Oh please” she breathed out.

“Don’t oh please me… I seen the look in his eyes every time you got close to me. And the look he got when you were close to him.” Dalila could tell her was angry, anger wasn’t a very common emotion for him so she wasn’t sure how to deal with it.

“I don’t know what you want me to do…”

“I don’t either… It’s just frustrating! He’s here with you when I can’t be! And I hate it..” he ran his hand through his hair and looked back and Dalila who was sitting on the bed, eyes wide with concern. He walked over to the bed and sat near her. “I’m sorry my love… It’s hard for me to let HIM be my substitute while you’re here.”

“Is that what you think he is? I’m not substituting you… I met him here at college, we became friends. That’s it, that’s all. YOU are my boyfriend! Steve isn’t going to change that! If I thought for just one second he was trying to get us to break up, I wouldn’t be his friend.” her anger had bubbled over while she was talking, which turned into a raised voice. “How could you even think that of me?” she asked in a hushed voice.

“No Dalila… not of you. Of him.” he cupped her face with his hands. “I love you and I trust with everything I have.” He stood up again. “I bought you something for Christmas, and I was going to wait but I think now is a good time to give it to you.”

“O…k…” she said slowly as he walked to his bag. When he walked back she didn’t see anything in his hands. He sat next to her on the bed again. Then in his hand she saw a small blue box and her heart began to pound.

“I love you with everything I have, and I’d love for nothing more for us to be together for the rest of our lives, but I also know that we are still young, so this” he opened the box to show a beautiful silver ring with a simple and small diamond. “This is a promise ring. I promise that if you will have me, I will be with you for the rest of our lives. I promise that if it is also something you want, we will get married one day, start a family. I promise you all the things you want in life that I can provide.” he looked up and tears were running down her cheeks. “You don’t know how much I hope those are tears of happiness.”

“Yes. Of course. I promise all those things to you.” she said, still crying. Bryce stood up quickly.

“Really?!”

“Yes really!” He tackle hugged her and kissed her face, all over. He got up and pulled the ring out of the box and slid it onto her finger. He was beaming with pride.


The rest of the stay went off without a hitch, only a few hiccups. Mostly to do with Steve, but it was good and fun. But like any other trip the time went by too fast and it was time for Bryce to head back home. It was amazing being together for so long, mostly just the two of them. It was just so natural for her to be with him.