School, Sex and Secrets (School, Sex and Secrets #1)

by Sheila Michelle

  Suddenly, the doors to the closet opened and the lights came on!

  “What are you doing, man?” Brad said.

  The lights quickly shut off and the doors closed!

  “I thought you said the box of condoms was in your closet,” John said.

  “No, man. I said it’s in my bathroom in the cabinet,” Brad told him.

  “Oh. Sorry, man,” John said.

  The doors opened to the closet once again and the lights popped back on!

  My eyes were squeezed shut as I still stood very stiff in the closet. I managed to open one eye, and saw Brad peek his head in as he looked around — I knew he was looking for me, but he didn’t come in. He turned off the lights and shut the doors.

  “Well, I need to get going, man, I have a test I need to study for. Thanks for the condoms,” John said.

  “No problem, man,” Brad replied.

  I heard them walking out of the room.

  Several minutes later, as I was still hiding in the closet, the doors to it opened and the lights came back on.

  “Vanessa?” Brad said.

  I finally came out of his forest of dress shirts. “Hey,” I said, completely embarrassed.

  He laughed. “That was close, wasn’t it?”

  “Brad! That’s not funny! He almost caught me in here!”

  He held my hand as he led me out of the closet. He sat on his bed as I stood in front of him as we still held hands. “Sorry that he almost caught you in there. I know I told him my box of condoms was in my bathroom, not in my closet.”

  “Brad, do you think he could’ve suspected that I was in there? Because I believe you that you told him where to look for that box. Also, did he have his gun on him?”

  “I don’t know, Vanessa, it’s possible. But without any proof, he doesn’t know anything. And about his gun? If he had it, it was very concealed — I didn’t ask if he had it on him and wasn’t going to.”

  I sighed. “He didn’t go into the garage, did he? Since my car is parked in there?”

  “Not at all. As soon as he got the condoms out of my bathroom, we walked right out of this room, went down the stairs, and straight to the front door. I made sure he left. And as you know, there are no windows on my garage so no one can see what cars are parked in there.”

  I nodded with a smile. “I don’t wanna another close call like that. This is the first time that I’ve been over here and I had a great time until he showed up.”

  He smiled. “I’m glad to hear it. I honestly don’t know what made him decide to come over. Like you, I’m having a hard time believing that it was just for condoms. We just better be careful, okay?”

  I let out another sigh. I already didn’t like this. “Okay,” I replied anyway. Again, I let out a sigh. “I wonder if it’s just me that he was getting those condoms to use on. Now I have a hard time believing that I’m the only one that he’s secretly seeing.”

  He looked at me. “Yeah, so do I, even though he hasn’t told me anything about secretly seeing anyone else besides you — maybe it is just you that he’s secretly seeing, but then again, who knows? If there’s someone else, we’ll find out hopefully.”

  “Yeah, hopefully,” I said. I started to think that there was a possibility that there could’ve been someone else that John was secretly seeing besides me, but him getting condoms from Brad wasn’t proof of anything.

  We walked downstairs and to the garage.

  He opened the door leading out to the garage for me. “You’re not gonna ignore me tomorrow, are you?”

  I looked up at him. “No, I’m not. Like I said before, I have a lot on my mind.”

  “I understand,” he replied with a smile. He pressed the button to let the garage door up.

  “See you tomorrow,” I said.

  “Can’t wait,” he replied while he still smiled at me.

  I smiled as I walked to my car, got in it, and left.

  CHAPTER 3

  As I drove home, I just couldn’t get it off of my mind about what Brad and I had done, as well as the fact that I was in a secret relationship with him because of it, and about the fact that even though he was still with Lisa, he was leaving it up to me about whether or not I wanted to continue to see him in secret instead of seeing John. I also couldn’t get off my mind the possibility that he could very well never leave Lisa, and John would end up finding out that I got out of the relationship that I was in with him just so I could continue to secretly see Brad instead . . . and he almost found out today that something could’ve been going on with Brad and me since he was the one who showed up at Brad’s house today unannounced, just like how Brad showed at his house yesterday. If he would’ve caught me in that closet then there was no way that I would’ve been able to say with a clear conscience that I was studying with Brad for our seventh-period class because if that would’ve been true then there would’ve been no need for me to hide in a closet from him. But now I had to wonder if John’s been telling me the truth about secretly seeing me and only me, and even though him coming over to Brad’s to get some condoms wasn’t any proof that there could be someone else besides me, I couldn’t shake the fact that there very well could be. I didn’t want all of this drama my last year in high school, especially when it came to guys, but it was something that I was caught up in now and I wasn’t so sure if I was ever gonna get out of it. I had a lot of decisions to make and they weren’t gonna be easy ones because when it all came down to it, someone was gonna end up getting hurt and more often than not it was usually the girl that did, and I did not want this to happen to me.

  As I sat at a stoplight waiting for it to change, a text came in to my phone. Had fun screwing Brad? I gasped as I dropped my phone! It fell into the cup holder. I quickly looked out of every one of my windows in my car to see if someone was following me. The light changed and I took off at a high rate of speed in fear that someone was in fact following me. I knew it was the same person that sent me the text earlier when I was over at his house, as well as the one that was sent to me last night, and I was determined to find out the identity of this secret person. But I was now believing more and more that it could be John, especially since he decided to just drop by Brad’s to get some condoms, and even though he didn’t have any proof that I was there, I couldn’t shake the fact that he knew I was.

  Several minutes later, I was sitting at home but couldn’t concentrate on my homework, especially since I got that text from that secret person. I tried not to think about it so much since I hadn’t gotten any from them since I’d been home, but the next time they texted me, I was determined to find out who it was. I thought about what they’d asked me in this latest text. Yes, I had to admit that I had fun with Brad — even though it was wrong — and it was some of the best sex I ever had, and Brad was by far the hottest guy I’d ever had sex with, too, and that he has got it goin’ on! Sex with him was everything I dreamed that it would be and it went way beyond what I fantasized about. I reached for my phone and called Ava since she’d called and texted me a few times while I was at Brad’s.

  “Hey, Vanessa! I’ve been trying to get a hold of you all night! Where have you been?” she asked.

  I paused. Since she was my best friend, I felt that I could tell her and knew that she wouldn’t tell anyone. “Ava, before I tell you, you have to swear that you won’t tell anyone where I was tonight — I mean it.”

  “Whoa, Vanessa! Okay, if you say don’t tell you know I won’t tell. We’re best friends and officially adults, as you say.”

  I laughed. “Yeah, you’re right, we are!” I took a deep breath. “Ava, I was at Brad’s tonight.”

  She gasped! “Vanessa! No fuckin’ way! You are talking about the Brad that I think you’re talking about, right? Because you know there are a lot of Brads, but there’s only one Brad Johnston!”

  I grinned. “Yeah, I was at Brad Johnston’s tonight,” I informed her.

  She shrieked in excitement! “Holy shit, Vanessa! Just when did this get pla
nned? While you were at John’s?!”

  “After I left there. I was on my way home when Brad had called me — he was following me!”

  “GET THE FUCK OUT, VANESSA! Oh, shit! Brad Johnston following you home?! That’s every girl’s dream is to have him follow her home!”

  I laughed. “Well, we pulled over into a parking lot of a fast-food restaurant and talked, and that’s when he invited me to come over to his house after school today.”

  “And you accepted, obviously, so don’t beat around the bush, girl! I’m listening!”

  “We did have sex and it was sooo FUCKIN’ GOOD! He’s got it goin’ on, seriously! He went down on me and gave me a fuckin’ orgasm! That has NEVER happened before!”

  She shrieked! “SHUT UP, VANESSA!!”

  “Seriously, Ava! He is all that! I didn’t even ask him to do it; you know I never ask a guy to. He’s got it goin’ on, Ava, seriously!” I let her know again.

  “Whoa! Well, seriously, you’re a lucky-ass bitch!”

  I laughed. “Well, I don’t know why, but I don’t feel so lucky,” I admitted, because I didn’t, and it had everything to do with him being with Lisa, and me seeing John in secret.

  “Well, you are,” she reassured me. “So, does Brad have a big—”

  “AVA!” I laughed again. I knew she was gonna ask me that!

  “Well, I wanna know like millions of other girls!”

  “Yeah, I just bet you and all of the millions of other girls do! To answer your question, yes, he does!”

  She screamed in delight! “Oh, wow! You didn’t get any pictures of it?!”

  “Absolutely NOT!” I informed her. “But seriously, I really wish he was more honest with Lisa. She’s the real lucky one.”

  “Oh, please! Forget her! And she’s not that lucky in my book! Like I’ve said a million times, he’s not married to her and they probably won’t ever be.”

  “Well, who knows? But I have something else to tell you.”

  “There’s more?! What is it? What?!”

  “He told me that he’s been interested in me since freshman year!”

  “See! I fuckin’ told you, Vanessa!”

  “Yes, Ava, you were right! And it was even before him and Lisa got together!”

  “That doesn’t surprise me at all. Remember, Vanessa, I told you for years that I thought he had a thing for you but you didn’t believe me; you always wrote it off because of him being with Lisa.”

  “I know — you told me — I guess I had to hear it from him. Oh, and there’s more. Since we did have sex, he informed me that we’re in a secret relationship now.”

  “He’s right, Vanessa. I hate to tell you that as well, but you’re in one with two guys that are very good friends . . . but you’re a lucky girl because both of them are so fuckin’ hot!”

  “Ava!” I chuckled. “How did I know you were gonna say that?”

  “Well, it’s the truth! You and Brad now have a secret relationship since it’s the first time that the two of you have gotten down with each other! A sexual secret relationship.”

  “Yeah, you’re right,” I said with a sigh.

  “So, what are you gonna do about John?”

  “That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out since I was at Brad’s. Do you know that he did tell Brad about the two of us seeing each other in secret?”

  She gasped! “He did?!”

  “Yeah! And so it’s like Brad knew when we had sex and he didn’t even care! I asked him this after we had sex when I should’ve asked him before, but I didn’t think that I was gonna be going over his house to have sex so I wasn’t gonna say anything about it.”

  “Makes sense. I agree that if the two of you did not end up doing what you did then he had no reason to know, and you definitely wouldn’t be in a secret relationship with Brad since the two of you are openly friends. You see how having sex with someone can instantly change your status with them? First, the two of you were friends, and now you had sex and are now in a secret, sexual relationship especially since he’s with Lisa?”

  “Yeah, you’re exactly right. Sex does change the status of many things in your life, that’s for sure.”

  “It sure does! But wow, Brad knows that he can get all the girls and doesn’t care who he hurts in the process — not even his own friends.”

  “Well, I wouldn’t say that he doesn’t care about his friends, but he is Brad Johnston so he just has it like that.”

  “Yeah, he does. But John seems to be the one who wanted to rub it in his face that he’s seeing you in secret, it seems. But it also seems to me that Brad knows that he can take you from him if he wants, even if it is in secret.”

  I grinned. “It sounds that way to me, too. But the bottom line is that this is all going on in secret. I have to admit that I’m far more attracted to Brad than I am to John, but Brad is taken; John isn’t. John and I also agreed that we would keep our relationship a secret and that we could openly see other people, but he seems to forget that because he seems to be pressuring me to become his girlfriend — seriously, Ava, I’m just not interested. And now Brad and I are seeing each other in secret? What the fuck?! I’m honestly so confused right now I just don’t know what I wanna do.”

  “I can understand that, Vanessa. But if you’re just not feeling this secret relationship with John anymore then I think you should break it off — that’ll show him that you truly mean it that you have no intentions on ever being his girlfriend.”

  “I don’t. But if I continue this secret relationship with Brad, I’m taking a chance on this because I don’t know if he’ll ever leave Lisa — and I’m not gonna force him to.”

  “Yeah, don’t do that, because chances are he won’t ever leave her if he feels that you’re pressuring him to.”

  “And I don’t wanna do that at all.”

  “Well, Vanessa, it’s seriously up to you about what you wanna do when it comes to Brad and John because I can’t make that decision for you. But nevertheless, whatever you decide you know that it’s all gonna be in secret.”

  I sighed. “I know, Ava. I have to seriously sleep on this. I’m gonna decide what I wanna do tomorrow. I even told Brad that I need some time to clear my head and think about what I wanna do. How the hell did I all of the sudden get so wrapped up in some shit like this?!”

  She laughed. “Hey, it can happen to anyone.”

  “That’s true.”

  I sighed. “Ava.”

  “What?”

  “I also need to tell you something else.”

  “What is it? Your voice changed suddenly.”

  I sighed once again. “Yeah, that’s because I forgot to tell you that before Brad and I went upstairs and had sex, I got another secret text from that person while I was in his rec room.”

  “Are you serious, Vanessa?! What did it say?”

  “It asked me did Lisa know that I was there, so this person knew I was at Brad’s, Ava!”

  She shrieked! “Oh, shit, Vanessa! Who do you think it could be?!”

  “Ava, I honestly don’t know. It always says that it’s an unknown sender when the text comes in. I know everyone who sends me a text because their name obviously shows up on it. It’s obviously someone that goes to our school that’s stalking me that I don’t know about. I know it’s not John—”

  “Are you sure?”

  “Yeah, I’m sure. It can’t be him because like I said, his name, as well as everyone else’s, come in on their text that they send to me,” I said, even though I wasn’t so sure because the fact was, these secret texts started after I left his house yesterday.

  “That’s true. Have you started to respond to these texts since you told me you didn’t respond to the one last night?”

  “No, I haven’t, but the next time they text me, you best believe that I’m going to!”

  “That’s right, Vanessa! Whoever is doing this is obviously just speculating because they have no solid proof of anything that’s going on between you and John,
nor do they have any proof of anything going on between you and Brad now.”

  “Well, whoever it is, they’re right about what I’ve been doing. But you’re right as well, proof is everything, and it’s something that they don’t have and never will have. But speaking about John and having no proof of something, you’re not gonna believe who showed up at Brad’s when I was about to leave?”

  She gasped! “No way, Vanessa! John showed up at Brad’s while you were there?! Oh, fuck!”

  “Oh, fuck is right! When Brad told me that it was him at the door, I flew up those stairs and into Brad’s closet! I practically dove in head first into his dress shirts! I mean, I was flying down the steps at John’s just yesterday from trying to hide while looking at Brad, and then today, I’m flying up the steps at Brad’s and into Brad’s closet trying to hide from John! What the fuck, Ava! I feel so bad about doing this, I really do!”

  She laughed again. “Sorry, Vanessa, it was the way you described it because that’s exactly what happened! Well, I think you’re lucky to have the attention of two of the hottest guys at our school and at any school. Most girls would kill to be in your place so don’t feel that bad!”

  I gasped while I laughed! “Ava! You would say that!”

  “Yeah, you know me! Then what happened?”

  “Then, John came into Brad’s bedroom looking for some condoms and opened the doors to the closet that I was hiding in! I was completely covered in a bunch of Brad’s dress shirts!”

  She laughed! “Holy shit, Vanessa! He obviously didn’t come all the way in!”

  “No, he didn’t, and only because Brad stopped him. And I know that Brad didn’t know where I was hiding until John left and he came back into the closet to get me. Shit, Ava, I was so fuckin’ scared that John was gonna find me in that closet! Thank goodness it’s huge and Brad has a lot of clothes in there that I was able to hide in them! I was jealous once I got a good look at his closet after John was gone!”