I Appreciate You Chapter 6
Sara has been home for a few hours now and she still hasn't told me what went on with Eric. I'm guessing it can't be good because she slammed the door pretty hard when she got back.

I'm just about to sit down when I hear the doorbell ring. I got up to answer it and when I opened the door I froze. "Eric? What are you doing here?" Before he has a chance to answer, Sara is suddenly at my side.

"What do you want?" she asks him.

"I just wanted to talk to Ryan." he tells her.

She nodded, and as she turned to go upstairs she whispered, "Come and get me if you need me."

Once I hear her bedroom door close, I move over to the chair and sit down, and Eric turns to face me. "You said you wanted to talk. What are you waiting for?"

He sighs and suddenly he starts talking so fast, I have to stop him because I can't understand anything he's saying. "Whoa, Eric! Slow down! You need to calm down."

He looks over at me and I can see the pain in his eyes. He comes over and kneels down in front of me. "Ryan I'm so sorry for what I did to you. That kiss with Calleigh didn't mean anything. I love you more than anything and I don't want to loose you." Now Eric has tears in his eyes and his face is buried in his hands as he starts crying.

Seeing him like this brakes my heart. I want to pull him into my arms and never let go. "Eric." He looks up at me with tears rolling down his face. I take his hand and pull him up. "I forgive you." I whisper.

Eric starts crying again, harder this time. Only now he's crying from relief. I bring him over to the couch and then I just hold him while he cries.

When he finally calms down I bring him up from his leaning position against me, and kiss him. I can feel him smile into the kiss and he leans back so we're laying on the couch with me on top of him. When we finally break apart to catch our breath he says the one thing that makes me remember why I fell in love with him.

"I really do apprecaite you Ryan."

I laugh then whisper, "Eric." I lean back down to kiss him. He starts to unbutton my shirt when we hear Sara clear her throat. Eric and I sit up and start laughing. I turned to see Sara blushing like crazy, and smiling while she fanned herself. "I guess you guys made up, huh?"

Eric takes my hand and we walk over to her. "Yeah, we did." I say.

"Well it looks like the two of you are eager to make up a little more, so why don't you go home and do that so I don't have to light my couch on fire." she says.

"Sounds good to me." Eric says.

I let go of Eric's hand and I go over to Sara and hug her. "Thank you."

She hugs me tighter and says, "You're welcome."

Eric and I hardly made it to our bedroom without tearing each other's clothes off. Eric made love to me for over two hours. We both finally collapsed, breathing heavily. Eric's holding me in his arms when I ask him, "So how hard did the girls hit you?"

He chuckled and said, "Hard enough."

We both laugh at that before we fall asleep in each other's arms.

TBC

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