When the weekend had finally arrived, I was antsy waiting for Roni to get home. I had missed her so much and couldn’t wait until we were all back together again. I was grabbing a diet soda out of the refrigerator when Kenneth came in the door with armfuls of luggage, Roni right behind him. I quickly sat my soda on the table.
"Yeah!" I ran and basically tackled Roni. We fell to the floor laughing.
"You girls," Kenneth shook his head as he continued to take the luggage up to our room.
"I’m so excited you're home again." I offered her my hand to help her up.
"Me too," she smiled large.
"Roni!" Mina came bounding up to her through the front door. She jumped into Roni’s arms and hugged her. "We are all together again…yeah!" Roni put Mina down and we all headed upstairs. I grabbed my soda on the way up.
"So, what have you two been up to the past month?" Roni sat on her bed Indian style.
"Same old, same old." Mina said waving her hand back and forth before sitting onto my bed next to me. "What about you?"
"Well, mainly classes, but there were a couple of amazing parties." Roni smiled and crinkled her nose.
"I am so jealous!" Mina shrieked. "Tell me all about them, please?"
"Well, they are typically like the parties here, but they are at frat houses or other houses. You know, no parents, nothing. They can get pretty crazy and sometimes out of control, but I’ve been hanging out with Brianne, who is really cool, we are in the same dorm building." Then Roni got a flash on her face that usually meant she had an idea. "You know, I think we should all just rent a house together when you guys come next year."
"You mean if we come there next year." Mina corrected her.
"Oh, like you both won’t be able to get into Seattle, give me a break." Roni rolled her eyes. "Besides, I think it would be better than those damn dorms. I don’t care what people say about getting the experience, it sucks." She laughed.
We all sat around catching up for about an hour when the conversation took an uncomfortable turn.
"So, Chloe, how’s your friendship with Leo?" Roni giggled.
"Har-Har. We’ve learned more about each other, become better friends." I shrugged and racked my brain to think of a way to change the subject.
"So, how often do you guys talk?" Roni was in full interrogation mode and Mina was just smirking at me.
"Well, we just email and text. We haven’t talked, per say." I shrugged again.
"Whoa…wait!" Roni put her hands up. "He hasn’t called you? You haven’t called him? I don’t understand." I heard Mina laugh, since she had given me this same reaction a few weeks ago.
"We just haven’t and I feel weird calling him, so we just talk other ways." I threw myself back onto my bed knowing that this was not the end of it.
"That’s just ridiculous. Get some balls and call him. Sheesh!" Roni exclaimed.
"And just when I thought I was happy that you were home…" I said sarcastically.
Roni threw a pillow at me. It landed on my face. Mina laughed and I threw it at her.
"Fine, how are you and Max doing, Roni? It was pretty obvious that you were actually becoming a one man kind of girl the last time you were in." I smirked at her and Roni blushed.
"Holy shit! Did Veronica just blush over a guy?" Mina exclaimed. I rolled to my side and held my head up with my hand.
"Oh, shut it!" Roni stuck her tongue out. "I just like him, a lot." She mumbled the end of her comment.
"Oh. My. God." Mina and I seemed to say at exactly the same time.
"You mean to say that Veronica has finally been tied down?" I said overly dramatic. "Has hell frozen over? Do we need to send out notifications to all your little black book contacts?" Before I could say anything else, Roni was on top of me tickling me.
"What was that you were saying smart ass?" Roni laughed.
"Oh God, please stop. Roni! Rohhhhoooon!" I screamed in between fits of laughter. "STOPPP!! PPLLLLEASE!!! Someone HELP!! Helppppp Meeeeeeeeeee!!!"
"Oh, no way are you getting off that easy!" Roni continued her threat to my sides until I felt her disappear quickly from on top of me. I was still trying to catch my breath before I realized who had helped me.
"Now, as hot as that was really starting to make me, watching two girls roll around on a bed together and all, the screaming was just a bit too much for my ears." Max smiled large until Roni smacked him in his arm. He pulled her close and down onto her bed to sit with him. The way he looked at her was priceless. He was completely smitten.
I sat up and shoved Mina in the arm.
"Thanks for the help, skank!" I laughed.
She smiled. "What? I just had my nails done." I shoved her again. She slid off the bed with a thud onto the floor, which made us start laughing again.
When I felt my bed dip on my left, I looked over and saw Leo smirking as he lay back onto my bed. I smiled and turned back to Mina.
Dear God give me the strength not to just jump on top of him and do horribly wonderful things to his body with my friends in this room! Please?
"Where did you guys come from?" Mina asked as she climbed back onto my bed and crawled over to lay her head on Leo’s stomach. "I thought you guys weren’t coming until Sunday?"
"We didn’t have to wait on Oliver, since he went home to his family in Texas, so we left earlier." Max shrugged and pulled Roni down to lay with him on her bed.
"Okay, so why do you two think you can break into my bedroom?" Roni teased.
"Hey, the balcony doors were unlocked. I swear I knocked but you just didn’t hear over Chloe’s screaming." Max pleaded his case.
"Why do I still not believe you?" Roni looked at him with one eyebrow raised. Max kissed that eyebrow before curling up next to her and closing his eyes. It was too cute.
After hanging out for about an hour talking, Mina, Leo and Max headed over to the Mackey’s place and Roni and I went downstairs to see if Judith needed us for anything.
Kenneth was seated at the table waiting for dinner when we got downstairs. We sat with him and he talked with Roni about school. Roni asked him about how things were going at city hall and around town. Dinner was pleasant and it felt nice to have us all there, though Christy and K.C. would have made it complete. Christy was not feeling well and K.C. would not be home for Thanksgiving, instead he was staying near school because of his job.
The day before Thanksgiving I had retreated to my room working on some of my computer projects. Judith and Roni were baking. Everyone knew that cooking and I were not a good idea, so there was no objection when I disappeared.
I heard footsteps coming across the tree house and figured it was Mina. I kept my back turned and continued working on the program script. Typing the final sequence, I felt two arms lift me up from my seat. I squeaked, clutching for something to hold onto.
I snapped my head around.
"Leo? What–" Before I could finish, he sat down in my chair and placed me on his lap. I shook my head. "What are you doing?" I asked still having my head turned in his direction.
"Just visiting." He smiled.
Damn him.
"What are you doing?" He nodded toward my screen.
I readjusted myself and turned back to my computer. While I was trying to explain what I was doing, I felt him brush my hair around and over my left shoulder. Then I felt his lips press to the back of my neck.
"Leo?"
"Hmm?" He hummed into the crook of where my neck and shoulder meet. Instinctually I rolled my head to the left as his hand slid around my waist and up my body between my breasts. He caressed me around my throat, his other arm wrapped around my waist as his lips still worked my skin.
"Ah-are, Mmm…Are you even paying attention to what I am saying?" It was hard to speak at first, and still came out a little breathless, but I got it out.
"Hun-uh," He shook his head and I could feel the smile spread on his lips against my neck. "You are too distracting." He grazed his teeth across my skin and I completely
forgot what I had even asked him.
I leaned my head back onto his left shoulder as his lips moved across my skin in a fiery trail. Once I couldn’t take it any longer, I turned myself around, straddling him in the chair. I attacked his mouth instantly and reached for his hair.
God he tasted and smelled even better than I remembered.
When his hands knotted into my hair, pulling me closer to him, I wanted to devour him. His urgent hands moved around my body gripping and massaging me until he found home on my hips.
When he pulled my hips into him roughly, I moaned into his mouth, my aching center already fully aroused at what his mouth had been doing. I could feel how stiff he was and the sensation from our friction urged me to lock my feet around the chair and rock into him rhythmically.
He tightened his hold on my hips and kept the rhythm that I had begun. When air was necessary, I pulled back to inhale deeply as he moved his mouth across my collarbone. I was breathing heavily and reclaimed his mouth.
The rhythm between us started to intensify and the friction built an inferno inside of me. I moaned Leo’s name as he pulled back from our kiss and placed his forehead against my shoulder groaning.
"Fuck Chloe…I’m gonna…" And then a feral moan ripped up from his chest, as the inferno inside of me combusted throughout my body.
Leo wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me tightly as he rested his head with his face buried into my neck, both of us panting. My hands were still tightly laced into his hair and I slowly released my fingers sliding my hands down his neck to his shoulders, he shivered and I smiled knowing that I made him feel like this.
"Chloe, you are…." he paused and sighed. "I don’t know what you are but I fucking love it!" He kissed my neck again and pulls me even tighter.
"Le-Leo," I gasped. "That’s – huh- a little tight." I breathed unevenly.
His grip loosened.
"Sorry." His hands moved and he cupped my face with both of his hands. "You know I have never…." He paused, looking a little nervous. "I’ll just say that this was a first." His crooked smile appeared right before his lips were against mine. The kiss wasn’t urgent. It was slow and passionately sweet. I could feel the fire moving from my lips into my cheeks, down my neck and through my chest where my heart was trying to leap out. Our tongues felt as if they were dancing together.
"Chloe!"
I jumped up quickly from his lap.
"Shit! It’s Judith." I said in hushed voice.
He stood quickly and pulled his shirt down over himself, quickly kissed my forehead and headed out of my balcony toward his house. I ran my fingers through my hair quickly and straightened out my clothes.
"Chloe!" Judith said loudly as I opened the door to see her face. "Oh…sorry." She smiled. "Can you come help us in the kitchen?"
"Me?" I pointed at myself giving her a questioning look.
"For clean-up duty." She smirked.
"Ah-hah."
I smiled. I followed her down the stairs, still feeling a little flustered from what happened with Leo and almost getting caught by Judith.
"Are you feeling okay, dear?" Judith asked me with concern on her face.
"Yeah, why?" I responded as I scrubbed some mixing bowls.
"You look a little flushed." She continued wiping down the counter tops. "I hope you aren’t coming down with anything.”
I smiled at the dishwater in front of me and felt a nudge to my right side. I looked up and saw Roni eyeing me suspiciously.
"What?" I mouthed almost silently.
"What were you up to?" she whispered.
I shook my head. "Nothing," I whispered back. Her face was all I needed to see to know she wasn’t buying it.
Once the kitchen was clean, I tried to avoid being alone with Roni, so I was hanging around Kenneth in the living room. That was, until Roni came in, grabbed my arm and pulled me up to our room.
"Geez, Roni, did you need to talk about something?" I sprawled out over my bed.
"Okay, spill it, Fisher!" Roni eyed me. "Tell me why you looked so flustered when you came downstairs and what was that smirk about?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about," I answered innocently, though my smile gave me away.
"Damn it, Chloe! Spill!" She sat next to me on my bed and playfully slapped my ass.
"Well…" I sat up, back against headboard and legs crossed over each other straight in front of me. "I had a surprise visitor while you were helping Judith. That’s all." I bit my bottom lip.
"You little slut!" Roni laughed. "Tell me everything and I mean all details."
I laughed at her and then began telling her about Leo’s surprise visit. She asked me a million questions and tried to analyze every angle. I just chuckled at her.
"Chloe, do you know how hot that is?" Roni looked at me with a wide smile.
I shrugged.
"Seriously, Chloe, I would’ve never guessed you had it in you. Well, okay I knew it was in there somewhere, but I would never have thought that it would come out of you so easily. I’ve been such a bad influence…I’m so proud!" Roni giggled and I joined in with her.
After getting a shower and changing into some pajama bottoms and a tank top, I climbed under the blankets of my bed and got comfortable. I heard the bedroom door close and knew it was Roni coming to climb into bed. I felt my mattress shift so I rolled over. Roni was sitting on the edge of my bed.
"What’s up?" I looked up at her.
"Okay, so I closed and locked our door." She smiled mischievously. I knew where this was going.
"Are you coming back tonight or do I have to cover through breakfast too?" I rolled my eyes.
"I’m going to try to be here before breakfast." She smiled and hugged me. "I have my cell. Text me if I’m not here when you wake up. Please?"
"Of course I will. Now get out of here, whore." I laughed and rolled back over.
"Thanks, love!" Roni yelled as she headed out the balcony doors.
I swear that our parents had to be completely stupid if they didn’t realize what goes on around here. I’m betting that they tried to just pretend that they didn’t notice. I was laughing internally when I heard whispers outside the balcony doors. I rolled over to look at the doors.
A figured entered and walked toward me.
"That was a quickie. Are you losing your touch?" I laughed quietly.
"I hope not." His velvety voice responded.
"Leo?" I whispered into the darkness.
My blankets shifted as he climbed into bed with me and wrapped himself around me.
"Who else would it be? Are there other guys I should know about?" He said with mock anger.
"No, of course not, dork." I whispered.
"You know, I don’t think I’ve been called a dork since I was in grade school." He laughed quietly. The feel of his breath across my skin made every cell in my body instantly ignite. I had to hold in the urge to moan.
"Well, now you have." I said right before his lips pressed to mine sweetly but firmly.
"You don’t mind sharing your bed do you?" He paused as he pulled my leg up over his hip and rolled us so I was lying against his chest. "I couldn’t sleep in my bed when you are close enough to be next to me." He kissed the top of my head.
We talked in hushed tones for what felt like the entire night. I don’t even remember when I fell asleep, but I do remember waking up.
First, the knocking started. Then the voice followed.
"Chloe, Roni."
Harder knocking.
"Chloe, Roni!!"
I shot straight up. Fuck! It’s Kenneth! My eyes fell directly to Leo.
"Chloe, Veronica, answer me! Why is the door locked?"
Shit, shit, shit!
Chapter Sixteen
Thanksgiving
Chloe
"Chloe Michele Fisher!" Kenneth pounded harder on the door. "Veronica Ellen Fisher!"
"Just a minute! I’m coming!" I yelled back. Leo jumped out of my bed.
"Where are you going?" I whispered. Grabbing my robe and a towel, I threw the robe on and wrapped the towel around my head.
"Shhh…” Leo whispered as he slipped into my closet and shut the door behind him.
I unlocked the door and opened it halfway, keeping my body behind the door.
"What the hell–" Kenneth saw the towel on my head.
"I was trying to get ready for the day, Dad." I rolled my eyes "I’m still not completely dressed."
"Oh, well…where is Roni?" He nodded to her bed, which was made. Shit!
"She ran over to Mina’s to get her up so she could come get dressed with us." I shrugged, mentally giving myself a high-five for such fast thinking.
"Well, your mother needs help downstairs, so hurry up." He paused, still processing my story obviously. "We need to get over to the Mackeys in a couple of hours." He eyed me for another long moment before turning and heading back downstairs.
I closed the door and leaned against it with my eyes closed, letting out a sigh of relief. My eyes shot open when Leo’s lips pressed against my neck. I pushed him softly.
"Are you crazy? Kenneth almost caught you in here once. You need to get back over to your house." I pulled off the robe and tossed it over the bed and I yanked the towel from my head His arms circle around my waist and he kissed the back of my neck.
"If that’s what you want…" he pouted.
I sighed, "You're killing me."
He smiled and attacked my lips, pushing us down onto my bed.
"I’m afraid it is you who is killing me, dear Chloe. You really need to stop that." He hovered over me and traced my lips with his fingers.
"Stop what?"
He laughed and kissed me. "Being so tempting I'm willing to die for you."
"That is definitely a possibility with Mayor Fisher." I raised my eyebrows at him for emphasis. "He could bribe the judge for the death sentence." I winked.
Kissing my forehead before he got up, he grabbed his sweatshirt from the bed.
"I’ll see you later this afternoon," He said quietly as he snuck out across the balcony and tree house.
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