Finally, she said something, “You can do that tomorrow night. I want you to stay.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re my Pipe, and I love you, and I love every minute I’m around you, and when you’re away I worry about you to the point that it’s hard to focus on my classes.”
“I’m taking better care of myself now.” I grabbed my jacket and then went for my shoes. My dick had softened a bit, but not much. I put the jacket in front of me.
“We could do Rocky Horror Show,” she offered. “And eat Rocky Road ice cream.”
Like a deranged pervert, I went rock hard. “You’re a wicked siren.”
Jay’s Evie. Get your shoes and get out of here.
“Will you stay?” she asked. “Or do I have to get on my knees and beg?”
“Don’t beg.” I forced a chuckle. “When you do it, your nose twists all weird, and you look like you’re from outer space.”
“Please,” she whined.
“I’m horny.”
“Then just take care of it in the shower or something like a barbarian and then we can—”
I faced her. By this time, my cock had provided a nice dick print for anyone in front of me. Evie looked down at it, because it was the most obvious thing to do when faced with such a big situation. I hadn’t gotten elephant ears tattooed around my cock for nothing.
She swallowed, her little Adam’s apple bobbed. “Yep. You’re horny.”
“A fun rub in the shower won’t take care of this, especially if it’s in your shower.”
“Are you saying that I have an unsexy shower?”
And then I just blurted it out, “No, I’m saying it wouldn’t satisfy me because you wouldn’t be in the shower.”
Silence passed. She didn’t move, but she didn’t look away either.
You just had to say that stupid shit. Why? This is just a feeling in a moment. Tomorrow, I’ll be getting hard for a midget.
“So anyway.” I rubbed my face and did an awkward clap. “I should go. I should stop by Jay’s and say hi. Kush’s driver will take me off to the airport.”
Her voice came out low. “I could take you.”
“No, I want to see Jay and say goodbye. He’s already said that I’ve spent almost all my time with you. Of course, I have. You’re more fun.”
She formed her lips into a smile. “I am more fun.”
“Yes, you are.” I bit my lip to make sure I didn’t say anything else. Neither one of us had mentioned my hard cock pressing between us. Tattoo or not, it had literally become the elephant in the room. Every few seconds, her gaze lingered down at it, and I got turned on more. My head spun around in lust.
I exhaled. “I have to get out of here.”
“Why?”
I stuffed my feet into my shoes. “I already told you why.”
“When are you coming back?”
“Evie...” I stared at her for a minute, almost rethinking the leaving altogether, and then my focus fell on the ring. Jay’s happy, yet stupid face flashed in my head.
They’ve been through enough. I don’t need to add confusion.
“Yes?” She directed her gaze to me. “What’s up?”
“Nothing.” I sighed. “I’m just. I’m not entirely the same.”
“We never are. I think being the exact same person from year to year would mean that you aren’t living. Experiences move us onto other ideas. I bet we’ll be even more different in ten years.”
I hope not. I’m already changed too much.
“Yeah.” I nodded, even though inside ill logic drummed against my rib cage. “Have I told you I loved you already?”
“Not nearly as much as you should.”
“I love you, Evie.”
She rose from the bed and headed to me. “I love you too.”
I held my hand out. “Umm...maybe we should do a distant hug this time.’
“Just shut up.” She charged for me and pulled me into a soft, yet unyielding embrace. I didn’t think she would let me go. I kept my arms to the side, not trusting myself.
“You’re going to be okay, Pipe.”
“Can you guarantee that?” I stiffened.
“Yes.”
“How?”
“The percentage of people that—”
“Oh, never mind. You’re about to talk about math.”
“Just statistics.”
“That’s boring.”
Groaning, she got on her tippy toes and nipped at my chin, her warm body pushing along my cock. Did she want to feel it pressed against her before I left? All I could think about was her frame so close to mine, and all the things I’d learned in my life that I knew would probably please her. Besides the fling with Saka and Kush, I hadn’t had any experience with women, but I’d seen many couples make love in the sex clubs that Malcolm and I would venture into.
I could please Evie.
I wouldn’t stop until she screamed my name.
She continued to hold me, and I damn sure didn’t want her to let go.
But after the sex, then what? Evie isn’t the type of person I could make love to and then walk away from. Get out of here. Let Jay make her happy. That’s the universe’s ending.
“Okay.” I pulled out of her arms. “I’ve got to go.”
Leave. Your dick is hard. She’s warm and wants me to touch her.
“Be careful,” she whispered.
“I will be.” I rushed off to the door.
“Pipe.”
Evie, let me go before I fuck up.
She followed me. “Text me, when you get on the plane.”
I arrived at the door. “I will.”
She got right behind me. Her sweet fragrance swarmed around and made me crazy. “And then text me, when you get to New York—”
“Just stop.” I twisted around, pulled her to me, and lifted her in the air. “You know you’re making me crazy? Stop.”
Wrapping her legs around my waist, she stiffened against me. “W-what? Put me down.”
“You’re making me crazy.” I continued to carry Evie and brushed my mouth against hers. “Let me go.”
“I...”
“You are.” I gave her a peck.
“No.”
“You know I’m hard.”
“You’re always—”
“You know I’m hard over you.”
“But, Pipe, you’re not into women. You’re—”
“Like you said, sometimes people are different.” And then I did what I shouldn’t have. I devoured her lips. I consumed her. Carrying her over to the wall, I pressed her against it and rubbed my cock against her center, hard and like a mad man.
I don’t want to go. I have to stay right here.
She moaned against me, and I knew everything I needed to know. I could pull her pants down and take it if I yearned for it. And if I did, the dark part of me would get a taste. The twisted cells in my body begged to lift her shirt, pull away that bra, and suck on the nipples the way I’d witnessed Jay do it.
Jay. Fuck. Jay. I can’t do this.
My stupid in love friend. The one who’d treat her right because he’d thought he’d lost her forever. I considered the engagement ring and knew that if I crossed this line, then Evie and Jay’s friendship would not be guaranteed in my future.
I couldn’t live without them. That one fact was truer than anything else.
Leave this alone. It’ll fuck up everything.
“Pipe,” she whispered. “We can’t.”
Her body trembled against me.
Like true friends, we’d both been thinking the same thing. Too bad that didn’t calm my hormones down.
“I know.” I sucked on her bottom lip one more time.
She shuddered. “Pipe, no.”
And I let her down, didn’t say anything, opened the door, and walked away. It slammed behind me. Thank God she didn’t stop it.
Jay’s Evie.
Always the smart one of us three, she didn’t run after me. I could on
ly control myself but so much. After a while, I would give in to the demon.
Kush’s dumb song came to me. I pulled my sunglasses from my pocket and put them on my face. The words came out, and I imagined myself walking on the beach barefoot with several Rastas around, passing blunts and welcoming me forward.
“We no love tonight.” I bobbed through the lobby and waved at a few sorority girls that were painting their nails. “We no love tonight.”
I went through the double doors and rushed down the stairs. “Although dinner and candle light, we no love tonight. Girl come eat the dinner. Sip the wine.”
Evie tasted so damn good. No. Don’t think about it.
“Because you know, I want your body on mine. But we no love tonight.”
Once I got outside, I couldn’t help but look up at her window. Like I guessed she would, Evie stood on the other end of the glass, staring down at me.
You better take care of her, Jay. Don’t let the groupies cloud your brain or...
I faced her, raised my hands in the air, and did a dramatic bow.
She blew me a kiss and provided a standing ovation.
Or you just might have some healthy competition, Jay.
Sighing, I turned around and bobbed away before I did anything stupid, whistling the reggae tune the whole time I headed to Kush’s limo.
Evie is with Jay. Now, it’s time to see where the bruised angel was going in my dreams.
- The End-
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