Love Aint Always Pretty novel Chapter 55

Secrecy

- the act of keeping information secret; the quality or state of being hidden or secret

Origin: English

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"You have got to be kidding me!" He says.

I laughed as I watch him take off his shirt and now he's left alone with his white boxers while I'm still on my blue Sunday dress. I watch him as he push his hair back, god he's so handsome.

God I could see his crotch as the wet thin clothing sticks to it.

"Staring at my crotch?" He teased.

I rolled my eyes at him and smiled away.

It was still raining and we're still playing this game. It's fun though and I love how he strips in front of me.

"Why are you so good at this?" He groans while smirking.

"Now you see I'm not the girly girl."

"Well yeah but I seriously can't wait until you miss a shot then you'll get to take off that dress." He grins.

"Perv." I smirked.

"A handsome perv."

I tried to suppress my smile. "Well the ball's still in my hand though so... Lay-up."

I ran to the ring while dribbling, grasping the ball with my two hands. I leaped from below, raising the ball in front of my face with one hand and bank it into the basket.

"Yes!" I chimed.

"And the crowd screams!" I whisperingly yell as I imitate a cheering crowd.

Nick laughs.

"You're 6'4 and yet you suck at basketball. Like seriously Nick." I teased with a soft chuckle.

Nick stares at me with a half smirk. "Hey, nobody's perfect."

I smiled in agreement

It was Nick's turn, he dribbles and did the exact same thing and he was successful about it too. "My turn." He says proudly, grasping the ball on his hand.

"Dunk." He says.

I gaped. "No fair. I can't dunk."

"We're playing basketball, aren't we?"

I squinted my eyes at him as I cross my arms together. "Oh how bad can it be. I know I can do it."

"Good luck shorty." He teases me and then laughs.

Nick starts dribbling the ball, crossing it in between his legs with a smile on his face. He starts running then jumps up so high enough while he leaps, lifts the ball above the rim and throws it through the net. "And Wilde scores!" He yells.

I laughed as I dramatically clapped.

"Good. Good." I say.

"You saw that? I was flying. Now that's what we call a dunk." He boasts.

I steal the ball from him as I stood right across the ring. Shit, I don't know if I can jump high like Nick and I don't think my hands aren't that big enough to control the ball. I did the exact same thing that Nick did, I jumped as high as I could.

He bursted in laughter.

I failed.

He bites his lip, "Strip for me."

I shake my head in disbelief that I missed a shot. Ugh, Cameron never taught me how to dunk and well it came in handy though. At least I'm teasing Nick right now. I started taking off my dress and his eyes never leaving me. I placed it on top of his wet clothes as now I'm left with my white underwear.

"It has gotta be white. Nice." He says.

Nick walks towards me with the ball in his hand. "One on one?" He asked.

I smirked. "Do we have to strip?"

"It's too unfair for me. You've got two left on you. I only have one. How about loser's have to end up doing anything the winner's have in mind."

"Three points."

"Okay. Three--"

I quickly stole the ball from his hand, cutting him off from what he was gonna say and ran to the board as I dribble.

"Hey that's called cheating!" Nick calls out.

I laughed as I did another layup. "In your face, Wilde. Let's base on one point each shot. 1-0."

As the one on one game kept going on, my wet skin against his wet skin and I loved it. He'd place his arms around me then steals a kiss but he's the one that gets distracted easily when I kiss him. I kind of a little bit cheated. Nick is good with basketball. His height and huge hands were a big potential for him to win this but I want to win this. Cos if ever I win this, I want him to tell me everything about Catherine. That's why I need to cheat so I could win. Even though I was clearly cheating, we still tied in two points. Now I'm panting, he's panting.

The ball's on his hands, he's dribbling it. I have to steal it or else he'll win. I reached for the ball, he did a crossover so quickly and ran so fast to the ring that I couldn't catch him. He leaps up below the ring and banks the ball inside the basket.

I sigh and then he looks at me. He knows I'm sad that he won. I really wanted to win this.

"Didn't see that coming." He chuckles.

I smiled ruefully. "Whatever."

Nick laughs and starts grabbing our clothes. He hooks his arm around my neck and I looked up to him. He planted a three-second kiss on my forehead.

"It's just a game. Let's go get inside and heat up. My balls are freezing." He says.

I chuckled.

•••••

Around ten in the evening, when I was done having a hot shower with Nick, literally hot cos we had lukewarm water to warm us up. I quickly changed to Nick's loose shirt and pulled my dolphin shorts up with no underwear on me since the one I had was wet cos of a while ago. I grabbed a towel and headed to Nick's room as I rubbed my hair.

"Nick?" I called out to him.

The door opens and he was already on his black jogging pants with no shirt on. He was also rubbing his hair.

"Hey." He greets.

"So, what do I have to do now?"

He smirked and opens the door wider. Both of us headed inside his room with the lights all on. I sat down on the bed while he grabs a grey sleeveless on then puts it on him.

"Since you were so bummed about my win." He trails.

"I wasn't bummed!"

"Oh come on that crestfallen look when I made that dunk for my final point."

I rolled my eyes at him.

"And because it's my birthday, I'm giving you my win." He added.