Hey y'all! I just wanted to let y'all know that the final book in this series titled "Write In My Heart" is now up on my profile. It follows Noah's writing teacher Mr. Hill (aka Asa) from Tear In My Heart as he tries to get over his crush on his childhood best friend, Johnathan. Here's a sneak peak!!:
One of us was going down, and it sure as hell wasn't going to be me.
As we continued moving in a circle around one another, my eyes remained on his. I couldn't break eye contact, that would show weakness. Yet, I was also hyperaware of everything around us. The way the soft mat beneath us squished as we stepped on it, the loud hum of the air conditioning unit, sounds of our teammates as they restlessly sat on the benches waiting to go home.
But, what I was focused most on was him. Not so much on the look in his eyes that was simultaneously playful and screaming "I'm going to rip you in half", but also on his body language. The way his muscles rippled and moved beneath his smooth skin, the way the sweat droplets on his forehead chased each other down his face, and, most importantly, the way his nostrils slightly flared before he decided to make a move. Exactly the way they did in that moment.
I stepped out of his reach as he lunged forward at me, though he barely missed me. Johnathan was fast, criminally so. But it didn't take him long to recover and go for the spot he always aimed for: my legs. I didn't have enough time to fully get out of his way. But, if we were going down, I was going to make sure I was on top. So, just as he grabbed my legs and we were both sent crashing down onto the mat, I took advantage of his crouched position and grabbed onto his back and twisted us, causing me to land on top of him once we landed.
Obviously surprised at my maneuver, he struggled to get out of my grasp, but due to the way I had him pinned down, he wasn't budging. "Good, Asa! Good maneuver,"Couch Henderson said with a few claps as he kneeled down next to us, watching as Johnathan struggled.
"Come on, Johnathan! Find a weak point and break out!" Coach barked, which encouraged him to fight harder.
"Come on, Johnathan," I said in a mocking tone to get to him, "you're only making things worse for yourself," I lowly said through gritted teeth as I invested all of my strength into keeping him pinned down. He was thrashing wildly like a wild animal in a trap, and it was making it harder for me to keep him down. I hadn't expected him to be going so strong for so long.
"Asa, you...know me better than that," he gritted out as he continued struggling. "I always find a way."
Before I could blink, he'd somehow flipped us so that he was on top and I on the bottom, and was applying an uncomfortable amount of pressure on me. But I was being stubborn. I wasn't going to back out when I'd been so close to victory. I struggled against his grip, but he was much stronger than I was, and I didn't have any surprise attacks that would give me the upper hand. Besides, in addition to fighting him, I had to fight my entire being to not physically react to the way his body was pressed flat against mine. And I was losing both of those battles. Badly. "Come on, Asa," he softly whispered in my ear. "You're only making things worse for yourself."
I was sure he'd meant it as a way to irritate me by spitting the words back at me I'd said to him mere moments before, but the combination of his husky voice and the way he said my name just right made my knees weak and my heart race. As he pulled away, his grey eyes bore into mine as a small grin tugged at the edges of his soft looking pink lips.
Good God he was teasing me without even trying.
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Read the rest of this chapter in "Write In My Heart"! It's up right now and I'm really excited for it. I'll see y'all over there, but don't worry, there's at least one more chapter with Ty and Addi that I have planned!
Love y'all— Jordan :)