by Amy Brent
“All done?” She asked quietly, and he nodded. If they remained quiet, people out in the hall would only hear the television and he walked over to the bed. “Why do you have the paper in here?” Amy held it up, and he smiled at her.
“I was looking to read about the team and grabbed one the other night. You write for it?” Colton asked her as she nodded. “The music festival?”
“Did you read my article?” Amy asked in surprise, and he nodded as he climbed onto the bed.
“It was well-written. I’d heard that you were a writer.” Colton told her before he kissed her and slipped his hands beside her thighs. Her mouth was sweet with the taste of fruity gum, and her lips were soft as they molded against his. She opened her mouth as they deepened the kiss together and he moved his head to drive his tongue into her mouth. It was getting heated as his phone chimed on the night stand and they parted to take a few deep breaths. “Let me see if this is important.” He checked the screen to see an invite to join the guys at a bar and Colton smiled as he told James he was going to study before he tossed the phone to the floor. “They’re all going out.” He pressed a soft kiss to her lips before he pulled away. “How come you’re never there with him?” Colton didn’t want to say Trey’s name since it made what he was doing all too real.
“I did at first. I was so eager to fit in then and be a part of his world, but I learned that I wasn’t like the other girls. I am here to study and get a degree, not party every night of the week. He feels like shit most of the time and you boys are lucky that you’re on the team and get to squeak by the way that you do.” Amy chided him as Colton shook his head. “Oh come on. I have heard all about you, and I saw you at the bar then. Girls all over you and it seems that nothing has changed.”
“I still study.” Colton stood up for himself as he kissed her again and they slowly moved so she was on her back and his body was pressing against hers as they moaned and breathed deeply together. Things started to move faster as he lifted her shirt and tossed it to the floor before she unhooked her pale pink bra to free herself as he stared down at her. “Gorgeous.” He kissed her swollen lips again and moved his mouth down to her neck to kiss down the softly scented skin as she whimpered softly. “I couldn’t stop staring at you in that shirt the night in your room,” Colton admitted in a whisper as he thumbed her nipples with his hands gently. He lowered his mouth to suck one between his lips as she arched her back and slid her legs between his. Amy wrapped one around his thigh and pulled him closer as he groaned into her mouth.
They stopped before they had sex but Colton was so ready to. He chose to slip his hand down her unbuttoned pants instead and finger her to a rough orgasm that rocked her whole body before he pulled out his fingers to taste her sweet honey. She was tight, and he could bury himself so far inside of her when he finally took her. “That was amazing.” Amy breathed as she relaxed against his pillows and took a deep breath.
“I agree,” Colton replied as something filled him that he had never felt. He glanced at the clock and her eyes followed.
“Oh, shit. It’s after one,” Amy said as she widened her eyes. “I have class at seven.”
“You should get some sleep then,” Colton softly murmured before he kissed her lightly. “Want me to walk you?”
“So sweet but probably a bad idea at this time of night.” Amy reluctantly told him as she stared into his eyes. They both got up clumsily and kissed for a few moments before she walked towards the door.
“I think we should keep this here,” Colton told her as she gave him a wide-eyed gaze before she reached it.
“There’s an us?”
“I know I am acting stupid, but I need more of you, Amy,” Colton told her as she lifted her lips to his for another kiss. He shoved a piece of paper into her hand that he’d scrawled his number on and told her to put it in his phone as a girlfriend. They could use that to figure out when they could get together she peeked out of the hole in the door to make sure the coast was clear before she hurried to her room.
Colton realized that his bed still smelled like her when he went to lay down again, and he closed his eyes. It was a good thing that he and Trey weren’t so close that his goalie was ever in this room. He had to know her scent well, and Colton took a deep breath as he felt sleep taking over.
In the morning, he rose early and went to get some coffee from the machine with a spring in his step. Colton shook his head as he headed back to his room to get ready for some late morning classes while he drank it. He hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep but what there had been was rich with dreams of Amy coming over and over in his mind as he just let the dream play in a loop in his mind. His phone was chiming when he came back, and he noticed a new number with a text message that told him good morning with a kiss. He saved Amy as Bree in his phone and erased the message before deleting it. He changed into some worn jeans and a bright green t-shirt with some Chucks to head over to his Comp class.
Colton was majoring in Communication just in case Hockey fell through but he felt pretty confident about that future. He couldn’t wait to talk to Amy more and learn about her major, her thoughts and her dreams. Colton stopped walking and glanced around to make sure that nobody was going to bump into him before he started moving again. Her thoughts and dreams? What the fuck was he thinking? Colton had never asked any girl about any of these things, and that included Jasmine. She was a repeat and they never really talked.
He drifted through his classes and grabbed a slice of pizza from the little place in the middle of campus and some soda since he was starting to feel tired. They had late practices almost every night of the week, so he needed some energy. Colton also knew that he should start eating a bit better. When he found a table in some shade, Colton noticed Amy sitting by herself at a table several feet away under a tree as she typed on a little computer. She looked focused as well as beautiful in a long flowing green skirt that would match her eyes with a dark brown t-shirt. Her hair hung in a thick braided over her shoulder, and he smiled as he watched her behind his sunglasses before someone tapped him on his shoulder. Colton turned around to see Kenna and Jasmine standing there smiling down at him as his heart sank. Amy was just across the way, but when he stole a glance at her, it looked like Trey had joined her. “Hey, ladies,” Colton said as he forced his gaze back to them and the scowl that was forming on his face away. “How are you?”
“Great,” Jasmine replied with a smile. They exchanged a long look and Colton raised an eyebrow as he watched them. “We were wondering if you wanted to come by tonight for some dinner and maybe drinks.”
“Coach is on us this week. I think we’ll be practicing every week just to keep up the wins,” Colton told them as Kenna frowned at him. “It’s hockey and studying for me for a while.”
“That’s too bad. We’ve had a good time together.”
“Sure. Maybe one of these weekends?” Colton asked as he glanced over to see Trey kissing Amy as he leaned across the table. Fuck. “I heard something is going on Saturday?”
“Phil is having something at his house,” Jasmine confirmed as Colton nodded and told them he might see them. They walked away talking softly, and he glanced over to see that Amy had left her spot. Was she with Trey? He finished his lunch and tossed most of it into the trash before he went to his next class and then straight to practice.
They worked hard into the night. All of the guys went home tired, and Colton was almost certain that Trey was going back to the apartment that he shared with friends judging from the look on his face. Colton rushed back to the dorm and checked his phone as he walked into his dorm to see a message waiting for him.
It was from Amy telling him to text her if he came home before eleven. Colton glanced at the phone to see that it was ten fifteen, and he sent one back asking her if she was free. It had bothered him seeing her with Trey at lunch, but he knew that was unreasonable. He needed to take what time he could get. He just needed her close to him. Colton was pleased when she said she’d co
me over for a little while, and he waited for her to get there before he hopped into the shower just like the first time. The sight of her in a blue dress on the bed after he cleaned up was too much to take, and he moved to eagerly kiss her as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
CHAPTER 5
The days and nights started to blend as both Colton and Amy survived on little sleep and barely made it through their long days. They fell asleep more frequently in his bed after heated make-out sessions that burned into more within just a few nights. He knew that every night was one longer than he should be doing this but he couldn’t stop now.
The night that he stripped her and buried his face between her legs to make her come a few times with his tongue and lips was when he stopped seeing other girls. Her taste was too intoxicating, and he didn’t want anybody else, which seemed to suit her because he sensed her discontent with his past. He didn’t know how much she saw Trey. He just knew that they hadn’t officially ended.
Colton felt a bit disgruntled when his friends and the girls didn’t seem to understand why he’d slowed down He had been a player for so long, and he couldn’t admit to sleeping with Amy, so he made up some story about a girl a few towns away. Colton told everyone that it might turn into something, and he was waiting to see before he jumped into anything else.
Trey seemed like he was just doing the usual with the parties and girls when they weren’t practicing or playing. The night that Amy and Colton couldn’t hold back was the same night he realized that he didn’t have any condoms in the room and rested naked against her as he took deep breaths. “Damn it. I don’t normally have any here, and I guess I forgot to get some.” He rested his forehead against hers as he let her heat wash over his body.
“How’s that? I’d think you would always have them ready.” Amy took a jab at him as he winced and pushed back away from her. Colton rested against the wall and ran his hands through his hair with a sigh.
“I don’t do anything in here. This is my space…my privacy. I need that somewhere.” Colton finally told her in a weary voice as he closed his eyes. He was so fucking tired but he wanted her so bad, and he felt the blood rush right to his hard cock.
“You’ve never had a girl here?” Amy asked him in surprise, and he shook his head. “Why me?”
“You’re different.” It slipped out before he could stop the words and Colton raised his head to look at her. “I always use them. Always. I’m clean.” Colton swallowed before speaking again. “Are you?”
“I am on the pill, but I make Trey…I make him wear something. He doesn’t know that I am.” That confirmed that she was still sleeping with him, and Colton felt a painful wave of jealousy rush through his body. He felt her move against him as he sighed and turned his face towards her for a long kiss. “I want you inside of me. I want you bare.” Amy whispered as she pulled him over her and wrapped her legs around him. She was more flexible than most thought, and he stared down at her with dark eyes.
Colton watched as he sank inside of her with a drawn out groan. She was so tight around him; wet and warm. Nothing had ever felt like this, and he pulled out only to drive himself back in again, and they started to move as the bed squeaked and she slid her nails down his back. “Need to slow down.”
“I need to be inside of you,” Colton told her as he pulled back and looked around the room. He dropped his messy comforter on the carpeted floor, and they moved down there where he proceeded to take her with deep thrusts at her whispered urging. It was quieter, and they rocked back and forth against each other before he recognized the look on her face.
“Colton…I’m so close…fuck me harder.” He covered her lips with his and kissed her as he thrust with a muted groan and felt himself explode at the same time that Amy did. That was a first with any girl, and Carlton pressed his face against hers as he breathed through it and memorized the feeling of their bodies so connected.
Amy kissed him softly as she relaxed against the blanket and pulled him close. “I hope that meant at least a little for you what it did for me. I have never felt anything like that before.”
“More than you know, baby. I haven’t had sex for a month…I waited for you.” Colton told her as he slid his hands over her sides slowly.
“A month?” Amy confirmed as he nodded and kissed her.
“I knew the night I tasted you that I didn’t want anyone else,” Colton admitted as she pulled him against her and started breathing harder.
“Colton…I didn’t know. I don’t know what to say.” Amy broke as she spoke and he heard the tears in her voice. “I care about you so much, but I have been with Trey for so long. I just can’t cut it off yet.”
“I know. I knew that going into this.” Colton assured her as he slipped out of her and kissed her neck. “It’s fine, Amy.”
They both fell into a fitful sleep back on the bed, not willing to part but also not talking about the odd place they were in at the moment. She left in the morning before anyone would be up as usual after he’d taken her on her knees on the floor hard enough to have to hold his hand over her mouth when she came.
Colton returned to his empty bed after she was gone and closed his eyes as he felt the night catch up to him. He was in hell and burning fast. The trouble was, he was enjoying the heat of the flame too much.
He woke up hours later and sat straight up in bed to see sunlight shining through the small window of his dorm. “Damn it. Shit.” Colton cursed as he ran ah and through his hair and looked at his clock. He was going to miss every class that day if he didn’t get up but Colton wasn’t feeling it. He just stayed in his room and showered for practice later that afternoon.
All of the guys seemed as out of it as he felt as Colton looked around the locker room and he was grateful for the Saturday off before the game. Clearly, there was a lot more wearing Colton out, but these intense practices weren’t helping matters. He took the ice with the other guys as he bitterly reflected that this is life was like in a relationship when you played a sport like he did, apart from the fact that nobody else knew about it.
The guys worked together and managed to finish at nine o clock. They each headed back to their rooms instead of grabbing dinner together, and Colton noticed Trey on his phone on the sidewalk with a frown on his face as he walked towards a sandwich shop while stifling a yawn. “She’s acting weird, man. I don’t know what’s up her ass.” Trey said to one of his friends as he sent another text.
“Perhaps it’s the fact that you’ve been dipping it all over the school,” Lance teased him as he rolled his eyes.
Colton let the frustration boil in his veins as he ordered a pastrami sandwich and asked for it to go. He went back to his room and locked the door as he munched and watched television. There had been no text from Amy and Colton just decided to let it go tonight.
He found himself back in his bed with her the following night before she claimed she had to meet a friend for coffee in a little while. When asked about her plans, Amy stared at Colton with weary eyes. “I am still attending school, Colton. I need to talk about some class stuff. Jesus, I don’t bitch about you guys having practice every damn night.”
He sensed that they both tried to fight their attraction but ended up together in his room several times a week over the next month. The team won every game, and Coach was thrilled along with the school. Colton knew that scouts were coming in a few months from the NHL to see who they might want for their teams, and he felt a nervous energy that almost compared to the feeling he got when he was with Amy, only hockey had a more concrete future.
After a couple of months, Trey announced to his friends that Amy had broken it off with him over dinner one night after a game. Colton almost jumped out of his seat to go to her as he wiggled in place and took a bite of the sandwich on the plate in front of him. It was vague, and she had told him something about his future being so overwhelming and uncertain. Colton had a hard time staying at the table, but he left as soon as he could and headed back to the dorm
s. He sent her a text, but she just replied that she was tired and just wanted to sleep.
When he saw her the following day on campus, she did look fatigued, and her face was so serious. He tried to get her attention, but she only looked at him quickly before she dropped her eyes to the path in front of her. Colton miserably focused as Trey tried to stop her and she just turned to look at him with her back to Colton. All of the good moments behind closed doors blended into one as he watched the girl that he wanted, the only girl. Colton still hadn’t seen any of the others, and while uncomfortable, they seemed to move on with other guys on campus.
He was just turning to head to class when he heard his name called across the grass. “Hayes, you mother fucker.” It was Trey, and he was angry. Colton rarely heard that tone unless Trey was yelling at them to get their asses around the net and do their jobs. Colton stopped and took a breath before he felt something slam into the back of his head. “You had them all. Every fucking girl on the campus would spread their legs for you and you go after mine?”
Colton fell to his knees as he grasped his throbbing skull in his hand. Ice filled his veins, and he took a deep breath. “What do you mean?”
“She just told me. Amy told me everything. That’s fucked up man…we’re brothers. We’re teammates.” Trey dropped to the ground next to him, and Colton could hear the betrayal in his voice as he winced.
“You cheated on her. You didn’t want her.” Colton told him as something that sounded like crying rose out of Trey’s throat.
“I was an asshole. I lost her because of that, and I hate myself. It was so much better when we weren’t here.” Trey whispered as he sat on the grass and stared forward. “I forgot who she was.”
“I figured out who she was,” Colton admitted as the guys sat there quietly for a moment. “She’s amazing.”
