“We wouldn’t be parking at the old make out spot even if you didn’t have to watch your siblings.”
“Ah, Mellenda can’t you at least let me pretend that someday I might be lucky enough to kiss you? I promise you that if you let me kiss you once, you won’t regret it. If I could make you feel what I feel for you when I kissed you, you’d cream your panties.”
“You’re disgusting Jude.”
He grinned at her. “Turn up here and take the road all the way down to the end. It’s the second trailer on the right after you pull in.”
“Okay.”
They were silent until she pulled up in front of his house. They got out and she handed him the keys. She was nervous as they walked up the steps, even though they weren’t doing anything besides hanging out and his parents weren’t home.
His brother and sisters were in the kitchen, gathered around a board game. “You’re cheating,” one of the pretty dark haired little girls said.
The teenage boy shook his head. “I am not. You can’t win all the time Marissa.”
“Guys,” Jude said. “If you can’t learn to play fair and not fight you don’t need to play at all. Maybe I should send you all to bed.”
“Huh uh,” the girl said. “Mom said we could stay up since it’s the weekend. You just want to make out with your girlfriend.”
“She’s not my girlfriend.”
“Then why is she here?” The girl looked curiously at Mellenda.
Jude reached down to tickle his sister. “Because she wanted to hang out with our crazy family.”
“Oh.”
“Jacob, Marissa, Joelle, this is my friend Mellenda. Mellenda this is the younger half of my crazy family.”
Mellenda smiled. “Nice to meet you.”
Jacob nodded, and both girls gave her a shy smile.
“How about we watch a movie?” Jude said.
Jacob groaned. “No. The girls never want to watch anything good. I’m gonna go play games on my computer.”
“Don’t chat with that weird chick. Mom swears that she’s some kind of a pervert.”
Jacob sighed. “Fine.” He turned and walked away from the table.
Jude picked up the pieces and put them back in the box. His youngest sister took his hand and led him back to the living room. They stood in front of a large entertainment center. As Marissa pulled several DVD cases off of the shelf, Jude turned to Mellenda. “Any preference on what we watch?”
“No.”
“Okay.”
Marissa held out a case to her brother. “Can we watch this one Jude?”
Jude shook his head. “Not that one Iss. You’ve already watched it ten times this week.”
“C’mon Jude. Please. Joelle wants to watch it too.”
“I do not.”
Marissa sighed. She shoved the DVD back onto the shelf and held out another movie. “What about this one?”
“How about we try to find something that we’ll all like?”
“Mom said we could watch TV out here tonight since our TV is so small.”
“Honey I don’t even have a TV in my room so quit complaining. You don’t want Mellenda to have to sit through some silly kid movie do you? She doesn’t have little brothers and sisters.”
“She doesn’t?”
“Nope.”
“Does she have big ones?” Marissa looked up at Mellenda.
Mellenda cleared her throat, feeling uncomfortable. “I had an older sister, but she died.”
“Oh. So she’s in heaven. Our dog went there and our Aunt Dorothy went there too huh Jude?”
“Yep.” He reached out and pulled a movie off of the shelf. “What about this one Iss?”
Marissa shrugged. Jude turned to Joelle. “What do you think Joelly Bean?”
Joelle rolled her eyes. “I’m not a baby Jude. Stop calling me that. That movie is dumb.” She walked over to the shelf and pulled another movie off. “What about this one?”
Jude sighed. “Fine. You get the movie ready. I have to use the restroom, then I’ll make us some popcorn.”
“Can we have soda?”
“I thought you already had one today.”
Joelle said “Mom said we could share one.”
“Do I need to call her?”
“No. I’m not a liar.”
Jude ruffled his sister’s hair. “I know kiddo. Behave while I’m in the bathroom okay?”
Joelle shook her head. “You’ll be gone two minutes.”
“And you and Iss can get into trouble in two seconds.”
Marissa laughed. “We do not.”
“Uh huh.” Jude walked away.
Mellenda sat down on the couch. Joelle put the movie into the DVD player and then gave Mellenda an inquiring look. “Are you sure you’re not my brother’s girlfriend? You’re really pretty.”
“Thank you. I’m not his girlfriend.”
“I bet he wishes you were. He went to the bathroom so he could smell good for you.”
Mellenda laughed. “I already think he smells good.”
Joelle wrinkled her nose. “Boys stink-especially my brothers. Jacob doesn’t even like to take a shower. Mom has to yell at him. He won’t smell anything but stinky until he gets a girlfriend. Mom says that’s gonna be when he’s twenty because Jude has had enough girlfriends for both of them.”
Mellenda gave the little girl a polite nod. “I see.”
Jude returned. His sisters helped him make popcorn. He carried it back out to the living room. He made another trip back to the kitchen for four cans of soda. Mellenda hid a smile when she saw that his sisters had talked him into letting them have their own soda. The girls curled up at one end of the couch, which left Mellenda sitting somewhat uncomfortably next to Jude.
He pushed the button on the remote to start the movie. Eventually he draped his arm lightly over her shoulder. She gave him a look and he smiled, but didn’t move his arm. She didn’t really want him to move it though. She could smell him and it was driving her crazy.
The movie ended. The girls had to go to bed so Mellenda was left alone with Jude. He gave her a sly grin. “And then there were two.”
“You are not kissing me. I let you get away with putting your arm around me, but there is no way I am going to let you kiss with me your little brother and sisters right down the hall.”
He gave her a pout. “Just one? I’ll make it quick.”
“No. We’re hanging out. Not dating.”
“Until you decide that you’re so hot for my bod that you ask me out.”
“Dream on Jude.”
“I saw you breathing in my scent.”
Mellenda made a face at him. “You saw no such thing.”
“Can I breathe in yours?”
Mellenda cleared her throat. She had been breathing in his scent. She almost wanted to ask him if there was an aphrodisiac in his cologne. It made her want to ask him for a shirt that he had worn so she could smell it over and over again until the scent faded. Not that she was going to admit that to him.
“No.”
“Please? I won’t even touch you. Well, not with my hands anyway.”
“What will you touch me with then?”
“My nose.”
She rolled her eyes. “You are so weird.”
“I’ll let you do it to me too. You know you want to.”
“What exactly is this going to involve?”
“Let me show you. I won’t do anything too weird. I promise.”
“Okay.”
Mellenda sat back on the couch. She gave Jude a look that was full of caution. He smiled and then brought his face to rest in the hollow of her neck. He closed his eyes and breathed in her scent. Mellenda felt a little strange. It felt really good too though, as he gently ran his nose over her neck. His face was a little scratchy because he needed to shave, but she could smell him and she wanted to kiss him so badly.
Jude sat back and sighed. “Holy shit do you smell good. You do me now.”
“No. It looked weird. I don’t want your brother or sisters to come out here and catch me sniffing you.”
Jude frowned. “Spoil sport. Can I kiss you?”
“Just once and don’t even try to put your tongue in my mouth.”
“Okay.”
He kissed her, slowly and softly. When he pulled away, she wanted to pull him right back to her. She could tell that he knew she did because he gave her a huge grin. “You liked it.”
Mellenda shrugged. “Maybe.”
“Maybe? Hanging out with you is like pulling teeth.”
Mellenda rolled her eyes. “Let’s see what’s on TV.”
“Okay.”
Jude handed her the remote and she flipped through the channels. She settled on a romantic comedy which they watched until his parents got home.
She was half asleep with her head on his chest when his parents walked in so the introductions were a little uncomfortable, especially when Jude said that she was not his new girlfriend. His dad looked back and forth between the two of them and then shrugged. His mom gave her a bright smile and said she was glad to meet her, then said that Jude should probably be getting her back to school.
Jude sighed, but when Mellenda saw what time it was she agreed that she had to get back.
He let her drive his truck again. She let him hug her when they parted. It felt way too good to her to be in his arms. He kissed her again and she had to fight herself to not put her tongue in his mouth. He gave her a huge grin and said she could call him anytime.
She shook her head at him and walked away, though she was afraid that she would be calling him again all too soon. She had liked hanging out with him. She was comfortable around Jude except when the tension got thick because of the obvious attraction between them. And she’d felt better that evening than she had in a long time. Thoughts of Ricky were far away when she fell asleep that night.
Chapter 8
After that, she spent almost every weekend with Jude. She really liked his family. His sisters were adorable and his brother was so smart. His parents seemed so different than her parents too. They made her parents seem old, even though she figured her parents were only a few years older than Jude’s parents.
Three weeks after they had started hanging out, they were alone together in Jude’s house for the first time. They were sitting together on the couch. She was tired of watching TV and she was feeling rather turned on. His arm was draped across her shoulders and it kept dropping dangerously close to her breast. She wanted it to go there, because she didn’t want to have to seduce him. But he seemed to be content to forever remind her that she was in control of their would-be relationship. He normally added a perverted comment but she was used to it.
“Jude?”
“Yeah?”
“Can we go in your bedroom?”
“If you want to. There’s not even a TV in there though. Not a lot to do.”
Mellenda hid a smile. For such a pervert, he seemed perfectly oblivious as to other things they could do in his bedroom. “Yes please. I think we can find something to do.”
“Okay.”
She followed Jude down the hall to his bedroom. It smelled like a mixture of cigarettes and his cologne. They stood in the doorway for a minute. She thought that Jude still looked a little puzzled as to what she wanted to do in his bedroom.
“Do you wanna play a game or something? There’s a bunch in my closet. Though it would probably be easier to take it back out to the living room.”
“I don’t want to play a game Jude.”
“What do you want to do?”
She moved out of the doorway and shut the door behind them. “Can we get a little more comfortable?”
Jude shrugged. “Sure. Make yourself at home.”
Mellenda sat down on his bed and removed her socks and shoes. She was tempted to get naked, but she didn’t want to have sex with him. She just wanted to fool around a little, or maybe a lot.
She patted the bed beside her. “Have a seat.”
He sat down next to her. “So what do you wanna do?”
“Will you kiss me Jude?”
He grinned. “That’s why you wanted to come in here. Of course I’ll kiss you.”
He kissed her. She responded enthusiastically, loving the feel of his tongue in her mouth and his hands rubbing her back. He was playing with the back of her bra, but he hadn’t made a move to try to undo it and she was disappointed. She felt her nipples getting hard, and she didn’t think she’d mind his hands on her breasts.
They made out for several minutes. It wasn’t leaving Mellenda with the sense of fulfillment that she had hoped it would. She was tempted to seduce him and have sex with him, but she didn’t want to do that yet since they weren’t technically going out. But she hadn’t been able to talk herself out of some heavy fooling around, so she dropped her hand into Jude’s lap and started to rub him through his jeans.
Jude pulled back from her. “Um Mellenda, you do know where your hand is and what it’s doing to me right?”
She laughed. “Of course I do. Do you want me to stop?”
“No. But you know what eventually happens when you don’t stop doing that to a guy.”
Mellenda rolled her eyes. “I’m not a virgin Jude. I think they call that thing that happens an orgasm. I’ve even had one myself. You’re such a goof.”
“I know that you’re the one that started it, but I wanted to make sure that you were okay with where it’s going to end up. I mean, I know where I’d really like it to end up, but I don’t think you want to go there since we’re not dating. We could be, but you gotta ask me.”
“Yes Jude. If I get naked and let you touch me will you promise me that you won’t try to push it any further than I want it to go?”
“I promise. As long as I can touch you too, and still kiss you, I’m good for now.”
“Okay. Thank you.” She stood up and started to undress.
“Do you want me to get naked too?”
Mellenda gave him another eye roll. “Of course I do. You really are a goof.”
He laughed. “Like I said, you wear the pants in this almost relationship, and may I add that you look damned good without them on.”
Mellenda laughed. “Thank you. You’re too damned skinny, but you look pretty good too.”
“I am not too skinny.”
“Yes you are. You should work out with me sometime.”
“Okay.”
Mellenda lay back on the bed. She closed her eyes and felt Jude’s weight hit the bed beside her. His mouth found hers. She trailed her hand down his chest until she found his member. He moaned into her mouth.
“Oh Mellenda.”
She nudged his hip with hers, but he still didn’t get the hint. Finally, she pulled back from his kiss. “Jude, will you touch me? Please.”
“I’m sorry. It feels so good when you touch me that I guess I got a little distracted.” He moved his hand between her legs and groaned again. “Ohh. You’re so. . . You probably don’t want to hear me say that. But I made you like that. Damn. I knew that you made me like that all the time, but I didn’t know that I really made you feel like that. Oh you feel so good.”
“Hush and go back to kissing me. You feel really good too. Of course you made me like that. You don’t see anyone else around do you?”
Jude laughed. “You could have been thinking about someone else.”
Mellenda stifled a sudden urge to beat him with his pillow. “Shut up and kiss me. And don’t stop doing what you’re doing with your fingers. It feels really good.”
Mellenda let herself get lost in the feel of his mouth on hers and the incredible sensation of what he was doing to her with his fingers. It seemed to have been so long since a guy had touched her like that.
It didn’t take her long to feel the rush of an oncoming orgasm. She removed her mouth from his and pressed her lips to the side of his neck. She had a sudden urge to bite him. She suddenly remembered that Tony had told he
r that Tory liked to bite and fought an urge to giggle. Jude opened his eyes and looked at her.
“You okay?”
“Mmm. Yes. I. . . I um. . . I’m gonna have an orgasm if you don’t stop. It feels so good.”
“I feel like I’m living in a fantasy Mellenda. I want to make you come. Don’t you want to?”
“Yeah. I just didn’t want to do it so soon.”
“I’m a guy so I’m assuming that I touch myself way more often than you touch yourself so it’s gonna take longer for me. I’ll make you come more than once if you want.”
“Uh, can we not talk about this? It’s embarrassing.”
“No it’s not. It’s way hot when girls admit that they masturbate.”
“Jude.”
“What? Do you want to kiss me some more so that I’ll shut up?”
Mellenda smiled. “Can I bite you?”
“I guess. Just not too hard. Wait, where do you want to bite me?”
“Your neck.”
“As long as you’re not a vampire.”
Mellenda rolled her eyes. “You are so weird sometimes.”
“You’re a little weird sometimes too. But that’s okay ‘cause I kinda like it.”
Mellenda shook her head and then moved her mouth back to his neck. She ran her tongue over the spot that she wanted to bite and then bit him gently, then a little harder. He didn’t complain so she continued to suck and nip at his neck. She didn’t want to give him a hickey, but she liked the way it felt. What he was doing with his fingers was threatening to drive her insane with passion.
She closed her eyes and brought her mouth back to his when she felt orgasm coming on. She almost bit his tongue when she came, but she was able to hold back and instead sucked at it lightly while she gave herself over to the rush of orgasm.
He sighed. “Wow Mellenda.”
She gave him a dirty look. “Shut up Jude. Or I’ll stop touching you.”
He kissed her. “You have a temper honey. I meant no offense. You have really intense orgasms. It’s beautiful. I don’t think you could fake an orgasm if you wanted to.”
“That stuff is so weird to talk about.”
“No it’s not. You can say anything to me. Can I ask you something without you beating the crap out of me?”
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