22: The Young Blood

[ K A R A ] Ryder took me up to his room as mine was currently being occupied by a Kardashian wannabe. I stood in the middle of the room with my dress soaked through and through from the rain. Ryder grabbed two towels from the en-suite bathroom and wrapped me in one of them. He dried his hair and face with the other one. Slowly, he then slipped out of his wet dress-shirt and let it fall to the ground. His naked body was slightly wet and glistening from the rain. I swallowed hard as he strode over towards me. "Are you sure about this?" he said, while he helped me dry my hair with the towel. "For the longest time, I told myself I was waiting for true love. But that was just an excuse. I wasn't waiting, I was putting it off. I guess I was afraid... I'd get hurt." "So what changed your mind?" "You. You make me want to be brave." I said and his lips twitched into a smile. He tossed the towel off to a chair without taking his gaze away from me. Closing the distance between us, his finger tra