Her Savior

by Sarah J. Brooks

  “Sorry, I had to freshen up a bit.”

  “It’s good to have you joining us,” Drake said.

  A smile flashed across his face and Victoria instantly felt more at ease. The way his dark blue eyes looked at her, she felt like she could have been the only person in the room with him. Obviously, she wasn’t, though. As she looked around and saw all six of the other women sitting around the table.

  Victoria made her way to the opposite end of the table so she was sitting at the head of the table and looked directly toward Drake. It was an oddly comforting place to be opposite him, even though all the other women sat between the two of them.

  “What did I miss?” Victoria teased.

  She knew very well that none of the women missed her at all. She was sure they would all claw her eyes out at the first opportunity when Drake wasn’t around. But for the time being, they were being nice to her and that was perfectly fine with her.

  “We were just talking about our favorite meals,” Drake offered, when no one else decided to fill Victoria in on what was going on.

  “Oh, great. What is your favorite meal, Drake?”

  “I was just telling all these lovely ladies that I couldn’t decide. I really like steak but I currently feel like I’ve played with enough red meat for a while.”

  Victoria and Drake both laughed out loud and everyone in the room knew that the two of them were laughing at an inside joke. Some of the women sat nicely and seemed to enjoy the joke, but a few of them seemed really annoyed.

  “Oh, yes, I will also avoid red meat for a while too.”

  Victoria loved that Drake had been willing to throw in a private joke just for her. It made her feel comfortable almost instantly. She needed anything and everything that Drake could do to make her feel more comfortable. Just sitting at the dining room table with all of the other women had her feeling very out of control.

  “You two look like you had a great day together,” Scarlett said.

  Scarlett was the only one of the women who seemed perfectly comfortable with Drake spending the day with Victoria. There was something about her that seemed comfortable with all of the women.

  “Yes, it was lots of fun,” Victoria said.

  She felt like she had a friend in Scarlett, or at least not an enemy and that was really helpful to her. Victoria made a mental note that she would have to talk with Scarlett the following day when they were at home all day long. Scarlett wasn’t scheduled to have her date with Drake until the last night. Victoria felt bad for her, that was a long time to wait for some private time with Drake.

  “So, ladies, what did you all do around the house all day today?” Drake asked as he looked at Emily sitting next to him.

  Drake did a great job of paying attention to each of the women and Victoria admired that a lot. In a normal situation, it might be weird that he was paying attention to several women at once, but in their circumstances, it was necessary. Each of the women was there for him and they had spent the whole day without him, so it was nice of Drake to take the time to talk to everyone.

  While Emily and Drake talked a little bit some of the other women joined small conversations with each other. Victoria could hear some of the women getting snotty about the others, but she also could hear the women who seemed much more mature and able to handle the whole situation.

  Scarlett and Lauren seemed to be like best friends already and Victoria watched as the two of them laughed and talked together. Lauren looked like she had a crush on Scarlett and Victoria couldn’t help but watch the interaction of the two of them.

  Lauren was bubbly and full of energy; she also seemed pretty ditzy, at least from what Victoria could see so far. Maybe she also liked women? From the way she kept batting her eyes at Scarlett it sure looked like she did.

  Not that Victoria cared at all. She was actually freer sexually than most people thought she was. Just she normally only showed that side of herself when she was in a committed relationship. Victoria didn’t feel like it was necessary to do outlandish things to show people how sexually free she was. She was perfectly happy with regular “normal” sex, and if the man she was with wanted to try other things she would talk about that with him.

  Suddenly Victoria started to worry about what Drake was going to do with each of the other women on his days with them. She realized that those women were going to want to sleep with him too and her stomach turned over. She couldn’t imagine Drake being with each of them and being as comfortable as he had been with her, it made her sick to her stomach.

  Just like that, Victory lost all of her confidence and decided to sneak back off to her bedroom. She didn’t need to be around everyone else while they were eating and talking. She tried to tell herself it was the grown-up move to make. Let Drake have some time with the other women over dinner, but deep down she knew she had left because of her own insecurity.

  About ten minutes after she got up to her room there was a knock at the door.

  Victoria jumped up to answer it, thinking it had to be Drake coming to talk to her. She was disappointed when she saw Samantha standing at the door.

  Victoria hadn’t expected Samantha to come to the house at all during the week. It seemed a little odd that she was so comfortable helping Drake set up his week with all seven women. But then again, Samantha had probably been involved in many different things for Drake over the years. There was a certain level of confidence that Samantha had and Victoria was mesmerized by it. Victoria wished she could present herself with the level of self-assurance that Samantha always seemed to have.

  “Oh, hello Samantha. What are you doing here?”

  “I just wanted to check in with you and see how your day went?” Samantha said as they both sat down on the couch in the corner of Victoria’s room.

  “It was a lot of fun. One of the best days of my life for sure.”

  “Then why aren’t you downstairs with everyone having dinner?”

  Victoria looked down at the ground. She couldn’t help but remember how Samantha had touched her face seductively during the interview. Never, before that moment, had Victoria ever thought she would have found a woman attractive. Now she was certain that she did find Samantha attractive.

  It was a unique feeling and Victoria didn’t really know what she wanted to do with it. She still very much found Drake attractive and all of her sexual fantasies were about men, but when Samantha was around there was a little bit of excitement and Victoria thought it might be fun to try sleeping with a woman some time.

  “I just wanted to give him time with the other women, I guess.”

  Victoria looked down at the ground and Samantha lifted her chin up. She was firm with the movement and forced Victoria to look at her.

  “You need to be down there. If you want him, you’re going to have to fight for him. All those women down there are going to fight for him.”

  It was a good point and Victoria knew it was, but she just couldn’t see herself fighting for Drake’s attention. That just wasn’t the type of woman she was. Victoria would let Drake know she cared about him and wanted to get to know him more, but then it would be up to him to make the next move.

  “I don’t know how to act around all those women.”

  “Just be yourself. There will be some that you’ll get along with and some that you won’t. Spend some time talking to the ladies, I bet you’ll be surprised at what you have in common.”

  “I’ll try. Did you come all the way up here just to give me a pep talk?” Victoria jokingly asked.

  “I came over to help Drake facilitate a little get to know everyone game tonight. I wasn’t about to start the fun without you down there. I think Drake really likes you and you need to step up and stay focused this week so he doesn’t forget that.”

  Victoria felt comforted by Samantha’s pep talk. It was nice to hear from her that she thought Drake liked her, because Victoria certainly felt like he did. At least when they were alone together she felt like they were perfectly mat
ched.

  Samantha stood up and pulled Victoria up with her. The two women made their way down the stairs with Samantha holding Victoria’s hand and leading her all the way.

  “What is the game we are playing?” Victoria asked.

  “Spin the bottle.”

  Victoria’s hands instantly started to sweat as every bad high school memory jetted through her mind. It was impossible to forget all the parties she had gone to and never been picked for the silly high schooler games. Even as a somewhat confident adult, Victory felt herself getting nervous at the idea of playing such games.

  “But there’s only one guy,” Victoria managed to say as they reached the living room.

  “Very true. It’s going to get interesting tonight.”

  “Are you going to play?” Victoria asked.

  She instantly regretted asking the question. Victoria didn’t want Samantha to think she wanted to kiss her or something like that. She genuinely just wanted to know if Samantha was going to join them for the activity.

  Samantha laughed and stopped at the bottom stair. She let her hand come up to Victoria’s face and gently moved it down her cheek like she had done at the interview. Victoria felt a strong urge to kiss Samantha, but not strong enough to force her to move forward with the action.

  “Would you like to play with me, Victoria?” Samantha said quietly.

  Victoria’s eyes got big and she didn’t know how to respond. She had never kissed a woman and in any other situation she would never think it was a good idea, but there was something about Samantha that did excite her. Victoria wouldn’t have minded spending “7 minutes in heaven” with a woman like Samantha. But she also didn’t want to come out and say she wanted to kiss her, Victoria instead just turned her eyes toward the ground again.

  “You need to stop looking at the ground all the time. Drake likes a confident woman. I know you are confident. Don’t let this situation take away the self-confidence you have inside of you. Keep those eyes up and focused on Drake. Got it?”

  “Yes,” Victoria said with a smile.

  Samantha didn’t wait for Victoria to answer the question about if she wanted to play with her. Sam already knew that Victoria would definitely be willing to play a little kissing game with her if that situation came up. As much as Samantha was totally up for playing with any of the women at the party, she didn’t want Drake to know that she was, so she would have to keep that side of her to herself for the time being.

  Chapter 8

  “Let’s gather in the living room everyone, it’s time to play some games,” Samantha said.

  Drake was so grateful that Sam had decided to come back over to his house and help facilitate a little game time. He was exhausted and couldn’t imagine trying to wrangle all the women together for any sort of evening activities. He was going to ask Samantha to come every night so she could give him a little bit of a break from the women. Plus, she was much better with socializing than he was.

  The women made their way into the living room and sat on the couches on either side of Drake’s big chair. It was exciting to have all of the women in the same room, but at the same time, Drake was a little scared of what could happen with so many women. Tensions weren’t very high yet, but Drake suspected as the week wore on some of the women were going to become much more difficult to manage.

  “To get this party started today I think we should play a little game of spin the bottle,” Samantha said as she held up an old-fashioned glass soda bottle.

  The women all erupted with excitement and even Victoria felt herself getting a little excited about the game. She hoped she was matched up with Drake and could spend some more time kissing him. There was only a couple hours left in their day together and Victoria didn’t want to waste it.

  “Who wants to get started?”

  Samantha sat quietly for a moment as the room became total stealth. As much fun as the game seemed to be at first, the women must have realized that with only one man to play; the game was going to be a little different than the games they normally played.

  “I’ll go first,” Scarlett said.

  Scarlett got down onto her knees and leaned over to spin the glass bottle. Everyone in the room stared at her giant breasts. It was impossible to avoid them with the low-cut dress she was wearing.

  The other girls seemed to get a little more excited since they didn’t have to go first. Many of them cheered and got excited for Scarlett as the bottle spun in the middle of the room.

  It started to slow down and Victoria it was sure it was going to land on her, but it kept moving and ended up landing on Lauren.

  The squeal that came out of Lauren was crazy loud and everyone looked at her at first. They weren’t sure if she understood that she was going to have to go in the other room with Scarlett. Maybe she thought she was going to get some private time with Drake or something?

  Victoria knew the truth though, she knew that Lauren liked Scarlett, so when they two women walked into the other room; Victoria couldn’t help but think that they were actually going to make out. They spent their seven minutes in the other room and then both Lauren and Scarlett walked casually back into the living room.

  Everyone just watched them and stared. They wanted to ask what happened, but the rules of the game were that you didn’t ask such things.

  “Does anyone have any chapstick?” Scarlett teased.

  Everyone erupted in applause and the night was off to a fun start.

  Drake started to take notice of Scarlett for sure that night. He watched her as she cheered along the other girls and even humored them when she got picked and had to go in the other room with them. He wasn’t sure if she was really making out with the women or not, but he loved her humor about the situation.

  When it was Drake’s turn he felt the pressure of all the women’s eyes on him. He couldn’t stand the thought of disappointing one of them or making them feel bad when he brought one of the girls to the other room. But he was a good sport about it and continued to play the game with the rest of the group.

  As he spun the bottle Drake looked up at Samantha and saw the humor of the situation. He was literally on his knees spinning a bottle playing a high school game with a bunch of the most eligible women in the country. His life was pretty damn good.

  The bottle started to slow down and ended up stopping on Cynthia. Everyone cheered for her. Cynthia had been very quiet throughout their first full day there. She was the only plus sized woman and also seemed very uninterested in the group activities. Well, she was uninterested until Drake picked her, then suddenly the game seemed much more like a good idea.

  Drake stood up and grabbed Cynthia’s hand to bring her to the other room. He was delighted to get to spend a moment with her and was happy the other women didn’t seem to upset by the bottle’s decision.

  “You look beautiful,” Drake said as they walked to the other room.

  “Thanks,” Cynthia said quietly.

  As they rounded the corner to the other room Cynthia pushed Drake up against the wall and held his arms up in the air over his head.

  Drake instantly got hard as a rock at the forcefulness that Cynthia had over him. Obviously, he could have moved his hands if he wanted to, but he loved the way she tried to control the situation. It was exciting and totally unexpected.

  “I’ve been wanted to kiss you since we first met,” Cynthia said as she planted her lips on Drakes.

  She moved her body up against his and he felt his cock getting harder and harder. Before he could think of what to do next, Cynthia had her hand inside his pants and was rubbing his cock with it. Her lips continued to kiss him and Drake loved every moment of it.

  When the buzzer sounded and their time together was up, Drake felt like he was in a daze as they walked back to the group of women. Cynthia had certainly surprised him and he was excited to see what their time together would be like on her day.

  Victoria had a horrible sinking feeling when Cynthia and Drake walked back in
to the room. She could tell they had been kissing and it made her sick. She took a couple deep breaths and then tried to put on a smile for the rest of the evening.

  As childish as the spin the bottle game was, the longer they played the more fun everyone seemed to have. Samantha stayed off to the side and acted as the announcer for the game and it seemed like the alcohol was continuously flowing. By ten o’clock everyone was pretty tipsy and having so much fun, even Victoria.

  Drake kept his eye on Victoria and could tell she wasn’t really interested in the spin the bottle game. But she also hadn’t had her turn yet. He secretly hoped it would land on him as he watched intently as she spun the bottle.

  Both Drake and Victoria seemed to be the only ones paying attention as the bottle spun and finally landed on Scarlett. Victoria looked over at Drake with sad puppy dog eyes. Drake had to smile though, he didn’t know what Scarlett was going to do but he wanted to be there for it.

  “Scarlett,” Samantha announced.

  Without hesitation Scarlett grabbed Victoria’s hand and led her into the other room. But by the time they got there, Victoria was practically in tears. The anxiety over the whole night was too much for her.

  “Darling, what’s the matter,” Scarlett said as she gave Victoria a hug.

  “I’m sorry. It’s all just too much. I’m just a history teacher. I don’t want to make a scene but I’m barely keeping myself together.”

  “I understand. Let’s sit down for a minute.”

  Scarlett and Victoria sat down on the couch and talked for their entire time in the room. When the buzzer sounded, neither of them got up and instead finished their conversation.

  Victoria was so happy to have someone to talk to and Scarlett seemed like a very put together woman. She was also much friendlier than any of the other women.

  “Can I join you two?” Drake said as he walked into the room.

  He had expected to see some sort of elicit event going on between the two women, but when he saw the serious nature of their conversation he knew he was wrong. Drake sat down on the coffee table in front of both of the women.