It didn't happen very often that Jake was the first one up, but he'd been drifting somewhere between sleep and consciousness for a while now, always aware of the girl sleeping in his arms. He wasn't sure what to expect and he'd been afraid she'd wake up screaming, but maybe he'd properly exhausted her the evening before. Not that it stopped him ( Read more... )

Jake had been pretty sure he'd gone to sleep on his own last night and he couldn't quite remember being woken up either. So how it came to be he was tangled up with Caroline in a way that was rather more intimate than the spooning they'd been doing before, he didn't know. Neither did he particularly care and he sleepily rubbed his hand over her ( Read more... )

Anyone sane would have come up with this idea somewhere in the middle of summer. Jake obviously wasn't sane, or there was just part of him that forgot about such things as temperature. He kept a hold on Caroline's hand as he led her away from Apocalypse Avenue and down the brushes. The sun had gone under a little while ago, but there were still ( Read more... )