Free For Now (Forever Book 1) by Kylee Richards Page B

pretend not to hear him and start cleaning the dishes.
                  “Morning,” he says hesitantly.
                  I continue doing dishes and mumble, “Good morning.” I just can’t get up enough nerve to look at him yet.
                  “Would you like some help? I can dry,” he offers.
                  “Sure,” I reply, thinking that if we were both busy doing something, we can postpone questions.
                  “Are you doing okay this morning?”
                  I know what he means by this question, but I pretend not to understand. “Yeah, doing well.” He looks like he doesn’t know what to say, so we both just work in silence for a few minutes.
                  When we finish with the dishes I wipe my hands off, I finally look up at him. He is looking at me intently. “So…umm, does that happen a lot?” he asks me. I play dumb and hope he is talking about some other horribly embarrassing thing that happened. “Well, it seemed like you were having a nightmare last night. Do you want to talk about it?” he continues.
                  “Uh, yeah, I guess I had a nightmare. I’m fine, I don’t even remember it anymore,” I lie. “I guess it was because I was in a strange place. Umm… thanks for comforting me last night.” I look down, not able to look him in the eyes anymore. “I know that Ryder left you in charge of me, but that really isn’t in your job description.” I force a laugh.
                  “You really think that that is all it was? Of course, I would comfort you. We are friends, aren’t we?” He tips my chin up, so I’ll look at him. I shiver at his touch and his intense gaze.
                  I give him a wide smile. “Yes, we are friends,” I say once the fog in my brain clears.
                  “Good. Are you sure that you don’t want to talk about your nightmare?” he questions.
                  “Yes, I’m sure. Like I said, I don’t even remember it.” He looks at me like he doesn’t believe me, but lets it go.
                  “What would you like to do today? Ever been to Washington DC before?”
                  “Nope.”
                  “Well, what would you like to do? I’ll take you anywhere you want to go. I’ve been to the Smithsonian. That’s interesting.”
                  Felling a little more like myself after the subject change, I frown. “I don’t want my first sightseeing experience to be something that you’ve already done. I want it to be something that neither of us has done before. So we both get a new experience.”
                  “I really don’t mind going again. But if you insist that we must do something new, what do you have in mind?”
                  I shrug. “I don’t really know what there is to do here.”
                  “Let me make some calls and I’ll come up with something.”

Chapter 14
     
    Camden
     
                  “Segways?” she asks me uncertainly.
                  “Yes, have you ever been on one?” I ask her.
                  “No.”
                  “Well neither have I. So we will both be able to experience this together. We are going to take a little tour around DC.” I smile at her worried look.
                  “Well, that is what I requested. So let’s go,” she says a little apprehensively.
                  Once we learn how to use the Segways, we’re off. She actually gets the hang of it very fast, while I on the other hand take a little longer. The guide takes us by the major sights. I love watching the look on her face every time we see something new. I’ve traveled my whole life with my family and now the band; I don’t ever have that feeling anymore when I travel. She is in