Love with Every Beat

by K. L. Shandwick

  Smirking again. “I do.”

  When we went inside Lily’s eyes were huge with surprise, she was staring at all the people dressed up in cowboy and cowgirl outfits. “Dancing.” I winked smiling at the disbelief on her face.

  Jack shouted, “Yahoo.”

  Elle clapped her hands. “I love line dancing.” She grinned.

  Jack was hysterical trying to coordinate himself. I mean the guy could move but very poor at taking instruction and following others. That soon changed when a big busted cowgirl join in beside him to show him the ropes.

  Jack leaned in. “My lessons just got much more interesting,” he said with a saucy wink to Lily.

  When the band stopped playing, we all ate the biggest ribs we’d ever seen. Jack joked, “Jeez, I thought mammoths were extinct.” Smirking, I licked my fingers.

  “Everything in America is bigger and better Jack.” We finished eating and there was feedback on the mic. A screen came down from the ceiling over the bar and Elle shouted, “Whoo Hoo! Karaoke!”

  Jack smirked at Elle. “Duet!” they screamed at each other.

  Lily rolled her eyes at me, and I chuckled. She explained that whenever they went to anywhere with a Karaoke machine Jack and Elle believed they were Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.

  Jack rushed up and put all our names down. When I went over to the host I told him what I intended to do, and he placed my name appropriately on the list.

  There were some pretty talented people singing mainly country music in the bar. “You having fun?”

  Lily nodded and turned to look at me smiling. “Yeah, it’s a blast, thank you.” She was gazing into my eyes.

  Softer I said, “I love you smiling, and knowing it’s me that’s making you smile. Am I wooing you yet?” Lily started chuckling.

  “Keep it up I thought I felt a twinge somewhere.” She grinned.

  Lily’s name came up first, and she was nervous when she sang, ‘It’s Raining Men’ by Geri Halliwell with Elle. Elle was making Lily giggle her way through the last part of the song. Elle had definitely danced to that tune before. Jack and I played like we were their fans and cheered loudly for the girls, they were fabulous.

  Jack wasn’t a threat to me, he was exactly the type of guy Lily needed as a friend. “I can see why you and Jack are friends.” I said to Lily when he and Elle were singing.

  She turned to stare at me. “You can?”

  Nodding, I stated, “It’s not something I can mess with, your friendship. The guy is totally on your wavelength, you just completely get each other.”

  Lily smiled. “Yeah, that, and he always wants to spoon with me in bed.”

  Frowning, I spat my drink. “No fucking way.” That was definitely not happening again.

  Patting my knee, she said, “I’ll leave you to tell Jack that one.” Lily winked.

  Smirking, I thought, we’ll see about that. Elle and Jack came back, and I told Jack that I wanted to chat before we went home. Jack bunched his brow, then shrugged and sat down.

  Nerves weren’t usually an issue for me, but when it was my turn, I knew I was going to put myself out there. That wasn’t easy when people knew what I did for a living now. Singing a country and western song in a karaoke bar, I was just hoping no one filmed it and put it on ‘you tube.’

  Lily stared at me intensely when I started talking. Never once taking her eyes off of me until I finished what I wanted to say.

  “I just want to take a minute to dedicate what I’m singing to my lady over there.” All eyes in the room turned to look where I was pointing. Lily looked so beautiful, and she blushed and tucked her hair behind her ear.

  “To help you understand, I haven’t been a great boyfriend to Lily.”

  Booing ensued, and I didn’t expect anything different. I deserved it, but it was embarrassing Lily so I moved quickly on. “I hurt her badly, and I need to make it up to her. She agreed to give me a second chance yesterday, so I’m counting on this song to help me tell her some of what I want her to know. I was going to write a song for her, and I probably will, but right now, this song is perfect to help her listen to how I feel.”

  Dierks Bentley, “Come a Little Closer,” began, and I knew that Lily probably hadn’t heard this song before.

  Smiling, and gazing intensely at her, I sang the words, “There ain’t nothing that love can’t fix, girl it’s right here at our fingertips, so come a little closer baby…”

  By the time the song was over, Lily was tearing up, and I was sweating. It’s a tough gig singing to a country and western crowd when you’re a rock star. Jeez, I was glad when I squeezed the last note out and replacing the mic I commented, “I love you Lily, today, tomorrow, always and forever.”

  Snickering as I walked back, Jack placed his two fingers at his mouth and pretended to throw up. Lily was half crying half giggling at Jack.

  “There was enough cheese there to solve the world’s mice food shortage,” Jack said, and I grinned widely.

  Singing was always a risk, but it had been effective, and Lily seemed happy all evening. When we went home, Jack and Elle went up to Lily’s place. She asked me up but I felt that if I did I’d have set us right back again. We were taking it slow.

  “Thank you for coming on a date with me tonight.” I smiled.

  “Thank you for asking me.” She smiled back.

  Placing my forehead on hers and looking into her eyes, I said, “I love you, Lily Parnell.” Taking her face in my hands I kissed her tenderly, before asking, “Can we do this again? A second date?”

  She grinned. “Can’t wait.”

  Staring at her for a few seconds, I said, “You’re so beautiful, Lily. You’re amazingly hot, you know that?” Not sure how I did it, but I walked away from her and went home. Lily was worth it and her needs had to come before my own.

  Chapter 43 – Shaking

  Back at Lily’s place at eight in the morning, I placed a breakfast tray with pancakes, maple syrup and OJ, and an Orange Lily. The meaning of which is passion. Again, I left her a short romantic note.

  My very own Lily,

  Your passion is my passion. The wait to hold you in my arms is worth it. Alfie X

  Determined to make it up to her for the following two weeks I did everything I could think of to make Lily understand what she meant to me. Nothing compared to her and I had to get that message across to her, and after two weeks I felt both of us were ready to take things forward again.

  I was as frustrated as hell by that point. Physically shaking with want for her at times, but there was no way I was pushing it. Everyone had gone to watch XrAid and party afterwards, and Lily and I danced a little too provocatively toward each other. Suddenly we’d reached the point where it was inevitable we’d climb to the next level again.

  “I love you, Lily,” I said, smiling, my voice soft.

  She lifted her head to look at me. “I love you too, Alfie.”

  This was no joke, one of the most serious occasions of my life, “Nothing is going to keep us from doing this. You understand, Lily?”

  Leaning in, I kissed her hard, and fuck, did she kiss me back with a hungry kiss. Breaking the kiss I set my wine on the table beside the couch, and did the same with her, pulling Lily on top of me to sit astride my lap.

  Damn, we were as bad as each other, hands all over, sweeping across one another’s skin, me undoing her bra, hers tangling in my hair until I pushed her shoulders back, and arching her back under one hand.

  Her hands skimmed up my body and immediately tangled in my hair. My hands slid up the back of her blouse, my thumbs stroking her back with my calloused fingers. I pinched my bra clasp together, freeing it. My hands skimmed around to her belly, and I pushed her, arching her back away from me.

  Palming and plumping her gorgeous breasts, before taking the nipple of one in my mouth through her silk blouse and sucking hard. Placing my mouth around one nipple, I sucked it through the flimsy material. Lily moaned loudly, “Oh God.”

  O
ur eyes locked, and I shoved her blouse and bra up to her neck and sucked on one then the other breast. All the while Lily was squirming on my lap, gyrating her hips and grinding her pussy on my stiff dick.

  “Bed,” I said, picking her up and catching her legs in my arm. My hands gliding over her ass as I held her tightly and took her to the bedroom.

  “Oh God, Lily, I can’t believe I have you here.” My body trembled at the thought of what was coming. When I lay Lily down the mattress sagged underneath me.

  Gently, I crawled over her. “Fuck,” I said shaking my head. “You’re so fucking beautiful… my beautiful girl.” Dipping my forehead to hers, I stared into her eyes. Palms stroked her hair as I tenderly touched it, before cupping her face in my hands.

  Outlining her face with my fingers, I let a thumb sweep over her mouth, as her eyes stared with lust and want, back at me. “I still can’t believe you’re here.” Licking my lips, I lowered my face so that my lips could brush over hers. “God, I want you so much. I’m scared to touch you.”

  Feeling her soft skin, I slid my hands up and down her arms before taking her hands and clasping my fingers in hers. Only then did I deepen the kiss. My hands memorized every inch of Lily while the taste of her was fresh on my tongue.

  Lily’s arcs or jolts of her body told me I was hitting the spot as I touched one or another of her erogenous zones. Each response triggered another, resulting in goose-bumps or a soft moan and her arching her pelvis up to meet the straining bulge in my jeans.

  Sitting her up, I lifted her blouse and bra over her head and threw them on the floor. And finally I was able to peruse her body once again. Part of me couldn’t believe we had arrived at this point again.

  “Perfect,” I murmured placing my mouth over her breasts again. Sitting back I tapped the waistband of her jeans. “Off,” I ordered staring into her eyes again.

  Painstakingly slow I removed her jeans, tapping her hips to slowly draw them down her legs. My fingers grasped the waistband of her jeans, and I tapped her hips again. She lifted her butt, and I stood, sweeping her jeans clear of her.

  Staring down at her, my eyes ticked from her face down—down her neck, over her breasts, taking in that sexy as fuck piercing, then down to her tattoo on her thigh, “Music is the sound of feelings.” The first time she said those words, little did I know the significance they would have for the both of us.

  Music had brought us together, my feelings for her were like hearing the greatest love song ever written, but at the same time, music was the one thing that could make the feelings of happiness turn to despair as well. Lily wanted to make music more than she wanted me.

  “So fucking beautiful, I can’t believe you’re mine.” Staring intensely at her, I began taking off my off my clothes, shucking out of my jeans and socks. My dick straining in her direction, twitching as it connected with what my eyes saw. Lily was sinfully sexy lying on the bed, one arm above her head, the other across her belly. Damn.

  Eyes on me, Lily’s gaze had centered on my dick, she was following it as I climbed back over her and settled between her legs, taking my weight on my forearms.

  Lily widened her legs and drew them up, and I squeezed her between my forearms. Skin to skin… finally. She felt incredible, her satiny smooth skin brushing over mine as I rolled her on top of me. Kissing her deeply in a hungry kiss, so full of everything we couldn’t express with words.

  Lily’s hips undulated on over my hard dick, and I groaned loudly pre cum oozing out of my straining dick. “Oh, Lily.” She sat astride my length and wiggled hard against me, my reaction was to arch up into her pussy to great more friction. “Mmm,” we both said at the same time and grinned.

  Watching Lily’s eyes as I drew my hands down over her breasts and belly was amazing. Dragging my nails gently as her eyes grew more and more hooded with lust. Her sensual stare ripping the fuck out of my heart. “You’re incredible,” I whispered.

  Pushing her down my legs onto her back, I pulled myself from under her, my fingers sliding up and down to her thighs. Feeling her pussy, I almost passed out with pleasure at just being able to touch her again. “God, you make me feel so fucking horny. You’re so hot and wet for me.”

  Pushing her legs wide and pulling her knees up, I placed my head on her thigh and played gently with her pussy, teasing her with my finger at her entrance. She kept arching her hips trying to get me to put my finger in.

  Lily moaned loudly, and I began whispering how much I loved her, how she made me feel, how I felt touching her pussy, asking her if she liked what I was doing. Smiling, I lifted my head and met her gaze, licking my lips.

  “I’m going to taste you, you smell so fucking sexy. I could lie here beside you all day like this.”

  When I went down on her she shivered and moaned loudly, “Oh, yeah.” Lily’s free leg flopped widely at the knee.

  Looking up I smirked, “You liked that, huh?”

  “Uh, huh,” she said as she arched herself closer for more.

  Using my tongue and my fingers, I worked Lily’s entrance until she was stretched and relaxed, then moved up over her placing my forehead on hers, staring into my eyes as I continued to fuck her slowly with my fingers. I could feel the build, she was almost there.

  Giving her a faster pace, she began to clench down on my fingers as her climax tore through her, bucking her head off of the bed. At the same time I was whispering, “Let it go, beautiful, that’s it, I got you.”

  Within seconds I was back between her legs, licking her slowly for a while longer, only when Lily shifted under me did I crawl up and kiss me gently on the lips.

  “I’m going to make love to you now, Lily. Are you ready for me?” I said it in a breath that was barely a whisper. I wanted Lily to focus completely on what was happening between us.

  Reaching down for a condom, Lily grabbed my wrist, “Don’t, I’m on the pill, and I haven’t been with anyone since you. Are you clean?”

  I hesitated, partly because she was telling me she hadn’t been sleeping with surfer dude and partly because she thought I’d been sleeping around. “I haven’t been with anyone since you, Lily, no one.”

  She started to cry. “Don’t,” I murmured kissing over them. “It’s okay. Shush.” Taking my dick in my hand, I began to stroke it over her pussy, the feeling was mind blowing. “God,” I groaned in a whisper.

  “I’m almost scared to do this, it’s been so long. If I go inside you, I won’t want to come out again.” I meant it—I was trembling, scared I would lose control or come too quickly because it had been so long since I’d penetrated her.

  Lily wrapped her legs around my back and pulled me closer. And painstakingly slowly, I began to push my dick inside of her pussy. Damn, it was tight, clinging so snuggly it almost took my breath away. A weird feeling, because she was so slick and ready but her tiny pussy needed coaxing to handle me. I moaned, “Oh, God, fuck…So fucking, amazing.”

  I held her body with one hand and pulled her toward me as I thrust into her. Suddenly, her walls relaxed, and I was sinking deep inside her. Lily gasped, and I began to rock into her slowly.

  Clenching around me, the pressure began to build for Lily again. “Let it go,” I whispered, and her pussy clenched in a milking motion inside of me as her whole body began to vibrate and shake. Her legs shaking as I pleasured her, she screamed my name, “Alfie,” and came again. She grinned at me and mouthed, “thank you,” and I continued rocking into her until the high had passed.

  Pulling her legs up from around her waist, I bent them upwards, pushing them into the mattress as I took her again. I continued to make love to her until I couldn’t do it anymore. It wasn’t a case of stamina it was a case of making up for all the hurt we’d been through to get where we were at, at that point.

  We were spooning, and I had been rocking into her as we lay silently. “Together this time, beautiful.” It was barely audible and just for her, as I suddenly began to rock faster. I flipped her onto her stomach. Stopping I
said, “Ride me, Lily.” She rocked back and forth on her knees, gliding up and down my dick. Undulating her hips, and I encouraged her by saying, “Just like that, just like that, don’t stop.”

  She began to come, and at the first clench of her pussy, I was spurting out, my hot cum lacing deep inside of her trying to keep going, my body jerking, dick pulsating inside of her.

  “Oh, Fuck. You’re incredible, Lily. This is forever.” She was glistening with sweat, the curls next to her face and forehead coiled up with her sweat soaked hair.

  Crawling up next to her, I held her tightly and thanked my lucky stars for sending her back to me. We fell asleep like that.

  Wondering where I was, the sound of my cell vibrating in my jeans pocket woke me up. Lily was soundly asleep. Padding through to the kitchen, I stared at the phone and saw it was Keiron Hughes from Sly Records.

  Basically, Crakt Soundzz was flying to London in four hours to do some promotional work and launch a new single. Elation is what I should have been feeling, but the timing couldn’t have been worse for Lily and me.

  Wandering back through to the bedroom, I leaned in the doorway and looked at my beautiful, fabulous girl, and my heart ached all over again. Why the fuck does this always happen to us? Every single time I think we’re going to be fine, someone sneaks up and sticks their fucking stick in the wheel, making it difficult to keep things going round for Lily and me.

  Watching Lily sleep was amazing. She was stunningly beautiful lying there. Her hair sprawled all over the pillow, running down her back and falling on the white sheet she was lying on. Some curls running down her back, finishing just above those two fucking dimples I like to put my thumbs on when I’m taking her from behind. And the crack of her ass was just visible, teasing me at the spot where the sheet covered her.

  How the fuck do I walk away from that? From Lily? How will she take it when I tell her I have to leave again? One day after that epic night we just shared?

  Shaking my head in a silent argument with myself, I can’t say goodbye. I’ve never said goodbye to her, and I’m not starting now. Maybe it will be easier if I just call her from England and tell her it’s not for long.