The Friend Zone (The Relationship Quo Series Book 2)

by Nicole Strycharz

  He pulled out and flipped me over. He moved the hair from my face and unsnapped my bra in front. Once it was off he pressed his chest down into mine.

  The pace we usually kept feverish slowed and I realized with our eyes locked he was now making love to me. Not just a lustful humping. Now he was driving in hard then withdrawing slow. Then he invaded me slow and withdrew quick. Coming down on his forearms he gripped my hair on either side of my head and kissed me with attentive strokes of his tongue.

  Now that I can say the words freely they surfaced without thought, “I’m so in love with you,” I confessed with our breath mingling and our hearts colliding. “I love you.”

  He pulled up my legs so I’d wrap them around his waist, then he rolled us so I was on top. “I love you, Chloe…” He said as I lowered myself on his dick then came up again to plunge back down.

  My head fell back when my body tremored in a flash orgasm and he rolled my nipples between his fingers to make the contractions last.

  His cock thickened and pulsed inside of me and then I felt the heat as his cumming warmed me.

  This is pure love, pure happiness, pure joy.

  In the early morning we made it back to his place. The sun was rising over the trees but it was already shining in our hearts.

  I changed to a tank of his and he went to lie on the couch. I ended up laying on him but the opposite way with my head on my folded arms over his ankles. My legs were down on either side of his upper body so he had a picture perfect shot of my ass in boy short panties.

  He rubbed under my ass cheek while stroking his beard and I kept my face to the side to watch him. We communicated so much in the quiet.

  I love you, I’m happy, We finally figured this out, stay here with me.

  It was all said in silence as I stroked Goliath.

  He smoothed his hand up my cheek then down and massaged the back of my knee. His hands are so meant to be on my skin. This didn’t last very long, because then it was time to make love again.

  This time, we went to his bed and it lasted into late morning. Now I’m lying on my back with my legs up straight against the wall and his head is on my stomach. No phones, we turned them off and he’s walking his fingers up my thighs.

  We’re natural every time.

  I pushed my fingers through his hair and stroked his beard. “We have very ADD sex,” I said.

  “Yeah, we don’t sit still.”

  “We also have some strange mash-up of pole dancing, yoga sex.”

  “Poga…” he laughed.

  “I like that.”

  He held my hand and oh that feels so good. Not long after we fell asleep.

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  MOSES

  Now it’s April again and our decision to love has proven to be the best thing we’ve ever done. We are what we’ve always been.

  There’re still movies, but now I hold her when we watch.

  There’re still late night talks, but now it’s pillow talk.

  There’re rainy days where we hang out like before, but now we have our ADD poga sex too.

  There’s her schooling and her dancing and our shop and my yoga but at the end of the day, we’re sealing it off with a kiss.

  She’s my friend first, but she’s my lover too and I’ve never had it like this before.

  “Let’s go to the hookah bar,” Brianna says as we walk the outdoor mall.

  Chloe and I are holding hands but she doesn’t know, because we haven’t told the world yet and her sightless eyes don’t see our outward affection.

  I looked down at Chloe, “up for it?”

  She smiled, “sounds good.”

  I bent down and kissed her lips. Just a chased kiss, so Brianna wouldn’t hear anything.

  Brianna was holding my other arm and sighed, “we should go to a regular bar and try to meet dates. We’ve all been single too long. I’m starting to think we should form a threesome.”

  We laughed and I squeezed Chloe’s hand.

  We got to the hookah lounge and Brianna parted with us to go to the bathroom. I sat against the wall on a plush cushion and spread my legs then patted the floor between them. Chloe crawled over and sat against my chest so I could hold her. She feels like gold and she smells like Spring.

  “Know what yesterday was?” I said in a whisper.

  She shook her head. “Tell me.”

  “Yesterday made it six months…”

  Her head swiveled around and she held my jean clad knees, “No way…us? We made it six months?”

  “Yeah, I was afraid to tell you yesterday in case you flipped out.”

  She laughed. “No…I’m done self-sabotaging my happiness. Plus, we’ve been together for years not months. Like you said…we might just now of realized it but…it’s not new love. It doesn’t even feel like new love. It feels normal. Twenty-one years and six months my love.”

  I tightened my arms around her and hefted a sigh. “Good…because I did something yesterday that I also didn’t tell you about.”

  She felt tense but then relaxed, “what’s up?”

  I loosened my grip to hold both her hands. “Look,” I instructed. She looked at our hands. I spread mine palm up so hers were palm down on top.

  “Our hands?” she frowned.

  “Yeah Baby Girl, keep looking.”

  She moved hers back and went still when she saw it. I smiled and kissed her ear as she turned my left hand over.

  “Oh my God…” she sat up more in my arms and gently inspected my ring finger, “Moses…I’m kinda…” her voice is wobbling. She’s become a big fat cry baby now that she’s emotionally bloomed. “I’m kinda freaking out…did you really do this?”

  “Yeah…will you? You don’t have to.”

  She left a tear drop on my hand.

  There on my left hand’s ring finger is a tattoo…two thick black lines with space between where an elegant script spelled the word Friends… like my charm.

  She looked back at me and held my neck to kiss me. It was a great kiss, it was felt in my bones.

  When she stopped I nuzzled her nose, “It’s like ten percent proposal…for the future not right this minute. It’s ninety percent promise that I’ll always be your best friend. I was thinking you could get the same one…in the same place…but yours will say best. Like our charms…”

  Her big eyes were spilling tears in a stream of touched love. “I want to do it now…” she looked back at my hand and brought my knuckles against her cheek, “I want mine today. I’m so…” she shook her head because I guess there wasn’t a word.

  So I kissed her because we don’t need words. We have us. We have friendship and best of all we have love.

  Honest, open, giving, protective, hopeful, encouraging, forgiving, unzoned love…

  Thank you for reading my book! I hope this story touched

  you.

  This one like The Divorce was special to me. Writing these people was natural but emotional because things like Divorce and even the dreaded friend zone are real parts of life that people struggle with.

  Remember not to zone love. Love is an infinite and powerful thing. It has different faces and it can definitely get complicated but a life without love isn’t worth the risk.

  I don’t believe in labeling love but I do believe it has many shades; mother’s love, sibling love, friend love… as long as you surround yourself with it and stay kind, your life is blessed.

  You may or may not have a friend who zones you like in Chloe and Moses’ case, but so long as you have genuine love, anything is possible.

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  Here are other books by Nicole! You can find her Paperback & eBook copies at Amazon.com.

  The Relationship Quo Series

  The Divorce &

  The Friend Zone

  Coming Soon

  The Co-Parent

  Stand Alones

  Meadow Creek

  The Maybrook Trilogy

  A Valentine for August

  A Passion for Henrietta

  A Song for Giselle

  Short Story Novellas

  Nollaig Shona Duit; A Christmas Tale

  Bealtane; Tales of the Fae

  Midsummer’s Eve; Tales by Moonlight

  Coming Soon More Maura and Shea

  The Duke of Golden Shire

  Book One

  The Duke of Golden Shire; King of Hearts

  Coming Soon

  Book Two

  The Duke of Golden Shire;

  Throne of Vengeance

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  ~REFRENCES~

  In ‘The Divorce and The Friend Zone,’ I mention a two true Amazon Bestsellers, and Close Friends, Authors Martha Sweeney, and C. Dougherty. Their books are available in eBook and Paperback.

  The Just Breathe Trilogy by Martha Sweeney

  Breathe In

  Breathe Out

  Just Breathe

  Yes! Jenzy and Chloe’s Coloring Book by Martha Sweeney was real! And you can own one too!

  Titled:

  Bookish

  Adult Coloring Book

  You can connect with Martha in the links below!

  Website: www.marthasweeney.com

  Facebook: www.facebook.com/Author-MarthaSweeney

  Twitter: @MSweeneyAuthor

  Instagram: www.instagram.com/MarthaSweeneyAuthor

  Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/MarthaSweeney

  Books by C. Dougherty

  Bleeding on the Page

  My soul exposed

  Coming Later in 2016

  Looking Into Infinity

  (poetry collection)

  You can connect with C. Dougherty in the links below!

  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoetryGoddess88/

  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElusivePub

  Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14852754.Cynthia_Dougherty_Bernal

  Amazon Author Page: Amazon.com/author/cdougherty

  Print: Bleeding on the Page: My Soul Exposed https://www.amazon.com/dp/1530190061/

  Ebook: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F7VZ8YE/

  IG: https://www.instagram.com/Poetry_Goddess88/

  Nicole Strycharz,

  Nicole has been writing historical romance for over ten years. Her passion for history fuels the creativity for her novels and she finds the tools there to create a compelling plot.

  However, she's evolved into writing contemporary romance as well, with more modern stories to come.

  "The Divorce" and "Meadow Creek" are both nominated in the 2016 Indie Book Awards! "The Divorce" also won second place in the 2016 Best Cover Design in 'Urban Literature Magazine.'

  Nicole lives in Virginia with her three children and their amazing Grandparents. She is always reading or working on the next book between mommyhood adventures.

  Want to Read what was in Chris’ Letter to Moses?

  Something about that letter is what changed Jenzy’s heart…but what was it?

  Read ‘The Divorce’

  Jenzy: I love my husband, but he doesn't see me anymore. We were college sweethearts and for seven years I've been his wife. Five of those years were bliss; the last two have been a long fall from grace. He’s the love of my life, the sexy and smart man I saw my future with, but now I don’t think he sees it too. I’m tired of not being seen, I’m tired of not being heard, and I’m tired of being in love alone. I was his optimistic hippie girl that he couldn’t get enough of. Now I’m just his annoyance. So I told him, I finally found the backbone and this is our story....

  Chris: My wife just told me she wants a divorce. What the hell do I say to that? I thought we were fine-, well fine is a bad word, I thought we were okay. Doesn't matter what I think because she's moving out and I can't really let this happen. Yeah, she annoys me, we’re total opposites, but I knew that when I met her, she hasn’t changed…maybe I have? I was her anchor, her safety, her home. Now I’m that guy that’s wrecked her and there are plenty of men willing to repair the damage I did. So I have a plan. Find out what happened to change my affection for her within the last two years, and win her back before someone else does, because I still love her, and she still loves me....I guess....

  The Relationship Quo Series covers all the awkward and agonizing parts of relationships that we humans have to face. From Divorce to the Friend Zone; all the rough topics we don’t like talking about. The complicated Facebook Status’ and the “it’s hard to explain’ situations. The next release is called The Co-Parent where I’ll explore the dynamics of yet another toughy. I hope to follow up with many more.

  After all, we humans never fall short of awkward love lives…

  Chloe: Moses has been my best friend since kindergarten. We met when I shoved him face first in the dirt and took his action figures. Ever since, we’ve been tighter than blood, but we’re not blood, and my body knows that. My heart has known that for years.

  The fact that being a pole dancer has interfered with my relationship status is an understatement. Moses is literally the longest I’ve been with a man, except I’m not really

  ‘with’ him.

  Now I’m approaching a place where I’m curious enough to tell him about my feelings. I’ve gotten close, but a man as hot as my bestie has had really small gaps between girlfriends. I know it could be a big mistake, and he’s never seen me that way, but I won’t know for sure unless I act right? Only problem is, I might be too late again.

  Moses: I’m not blind to the fact that my best friend is dangerously hot. She’s basically every man’s dream but she’s not mine. I’m the one that protects her, councils her, and encourages her, knowing she will do the same for me. She’s my girl.

  But now something is different, and I can’t put a name to it. Something feels changed, but I’m putting all that on the back burner because I think I found my perfect girlfriend.

  Still, Chloe is in my head; I’m not sure she would handle knowing that. After all, I’m in the friend zone…