“You idiot. All I meant is that it’s been a while for me, so you know, I would’ve probably been sore.” She gives me a small laugh.
“How long is awhile?” I ask cockily.
She shrugs. “Just a while, okay? Leave it at that.”
Hmm. She has me intrigued. I have to figure this out. She rolls her eyes while we are sitting there staring at each other. “You know how I feel about eye rolling.”
She grins wickedly. “I’d like to see you spank my ass.”
I give her a sideways grin. “Let’s go to dinner one night this week.”
She cocks her head, turning me on even more. “You asking me out on a date, Clay?”
I shrug. “Sure, we can call it that.”
She stands up from the table and starts for the door. “I’ll think about it,” she says before closing the door.
This girl…fuck, she has me sideways.
CHAPTER 10
JADE
I was fucking flirting with him…hard. How do I go from being so nervous around him I can’t see straight, to flirting like I did five years ago? Then the whole spanking thing, God, he drenches my panties. Once I’m in Kara’s car, I rest my head on the steering wheel. “AAARGH! Fuck,” I say out loud to no one really. It’s hell to be horny and alone. That’s what this has to be, I’m just sexually frustrated. I just need to spend some alone time with my vibrator and shake off these feelings. But a vibrator can’t smack my ass when it’s driving into me from behind.
Grabbing my phone, I decide to make a decision before I talk myself out of it.
ME: Pick me up at 6 tonight.
CLAY: You do know you’re texting me right?
ME: Yes. So 6?
CLAY: I take it you thought about it? I’ll see you at 6.
ME: ;)
A few hours later, I’m standing in my bathroom looking at my make-up and double checking that my hair isn’t curling wildly to my head. I have scrubbed my body, showed attention to areas that went lacking while I was swamped with school work and now I’m ready to go get my rocks off. Ugh, that sounded horrible. Am I a horrible person for wanting to have raw, passion-filled, uninhibited, mind blowing monkey sex? I give myself a little grin in the mirror. Nah!
My mom taps on the door. “Hey, sweetie. You look nice.” If I were a guy, that would have totally ruined my hard on.
I smile in the mirror at her. “Thanks, Mom.”
“Where are you going?”
Do I lie or tell the truth? “I’m going to dinner with Clay,” I say in my best non-nervous voice.
She smiles. “That’s sweet, you two need to catch up. You’ve been so busy with school, I’m glad for you to take a little break.” Okay, that’s not what I was expecting. She has something else on her mind, I just know it. My gut is telling me something is off.
“Mom, you okay?”
She nods. “Yes, just have some things on my mind.”
I turn and put my hands on her shoulders. “Do we need to check your sugar or anything? You look a little flush.”
“No, it’s fine, I just checked it. I’m a little tired is all. Go and have a good time tonight.” She kisses my cheek.
I nod. “Okay, if you’re sure?”
She gives me a huge smile. “Yes. Now go have fun.”
I give her a smile, even though I’m worried about her. Maybe I’ll get Sly to come by and check on her or something.
A knock at the door pulls me from my thoughts.
I open the door. “Hey.”
He gives me that signature panty-dropping grin. “Hey. You look sexy.”
I feel the heat creeping up my face. “Thanks.”
He pokes his head around me. “Hey, Mrs. Chambers.”
She laughs. “I told you to call me Eve, young man.”
He give her a charming grin. “Yes, ma’am.”
“You two kids go on and have fun.”
“See you later, Mom. I love you.”
“Love you too, sweetie.”
Once we get down to his truck, he turns to me. “Is she okay?”
“She says she is, but I have my doubts. Something is going on. I’m going to call Sly and get him to stop by and check on her.”
“Why not your sister?” he asks.
“Kara is having a really hard time with this pregnancy. It’s a lot harder than when she was pregnant with Krista,” I say, trying to convey my concerns.
“Maybe you should send Lox’s mom by, since she’s a nurse. I bet she would, and she could use some excuse about a baby shower or something.”
That’s actually a great plan. “How did you get so smart?”
He shrugs. “Just lucky, I guess.”
I quickly call Lox’s mom, Elaine, and explain my worries. She and my mom have become friends since Kara and Sly got together. She basically raised Sly and Huck so she’s like their mom. “Thank you so much, Elaine.”
“It’s okay, honey. I need to go by and see her anyway,” she says as we are ending the call.
“It’s just this feeling, something is wrong.”
“It’s all right, sweetie. You’re good to worry about her. I’ll call you if she needs you.”
“Thanks, Elaine. I’ll talk to you later.” I end the call, feeling a little better about leaving my mom.
“She gonna go by there?” Clay asks me after I set my phone down.
I nod. “Yeah. Thanks, I’m glad you mentioned that. Sly doesn’t need to have to leave my sister and Krista. I got there today and she was running around naked. My sister was so tired she’d just given up,” I say with a little laugh.
He shakes his head, never taking his eyes from the road. “So how long before everything is final and you’re a legal drug pusher?”
I laugh and pop him on the arm. “Not funny, asshole. A little over a month.” I sigh. “I’m just really ready for it to be over. I’m tired of school. I’ve been going full-time for over four years. Between the classes I took in high school and never taking summers off, I’m exhausted. I just want to sit on a beach and drink. Take a fucking break, you know? But now I have to go to work. The few student loans I have will start having to be paid back in six months. And I really need to find my own place to live, I’m too old to be living at home with my mother. It’s been great this last year since I was doing my hours in nearby hospitals, but now I need to grow up.” I stop, realizing we are in a restaurant parking lot and I’m out of breath.
He laughs, taking the keys from the ignition. “So you’re still the same. You keep everything so locked up that when that dam breaks, all the water rushes in and you flood the village.”
I flip him a bird. Then I realize we’re at John John’s. It’s kind of like a hometown Dave and Buster’s. We used to love to come here, and I get super competitive when we play games. After we get out of the truck he grabs my hand, leading me to the door. “I figured I’d let you kick my ass a few times in here and clear out that head of yours.”
I laugh and pull back from him a little. “Oh, you’re going to let me win…I don’t think so. I’m gonna beat your ass, Gibbs. It’s fucking on like donkey kong.”
“I doubt that,” he scoffs.
“Oh it is,” I say as we enter the building.
A few hours later, we’ve played a dozen games of skee-ball, ate an entire large pizza and drained two pitchers of beer. As I swallow the last of my beer, I look to Clay. “Thanks for tonight. I needed this.” I motion around. “I needed a night to just relax.” I motion to the pitcher, “To have a beer, eat food that’s bad for me and kick your ass at skee-ball.”
“You didn’t kick my ass, by the way. We tied.”
I open my mouth. “Oh that’s total bullshit. You shouldn’t have won that one game. You grabbed my ass, that’s interference.”
“That’s all fair game. I don’t know what you’re bitching about.”
Since we’ve already paid our bill, I jump up and start for the door like I’m angry. “Hey, why are you running?”
“You called me a bitch.” I try to act all mad.
“I didn’t call you a bitch.” He reaches out for me and spins me around. “Hey.”
I can’t hold it in anymore. I burst out laughing.
He pushes me against the truck. “I’m gonna spank your ass.”
“Mmm. You already did, that’s what caused us to tie.”
“Oh no, I didn’t. I grabbed your ass. If I spanked you, we wouldn’t be having this conversation and we’d have gotten kicked out of John John’s.” He leans in beside my ear. “You know what it’s like when I spank your ass. You enjoy it too much.”
CHAPTER 11
GIBBS
We tumble in my front door, both of us bumping into the facing. “Ouch,” “Shit,” we both mumble out.
In the truck on the way here, the tension was so thick I was barely able to breathe. I need to be with her, I should’ve never given up on her three years ago. I should’ve fought harder to make her mine.
Reaching down, I grab her shirt and pull it over her head, throwing it somewhere while I back her against the foyer wall. She moans as I kiss down the side of her neck, feeling her pulse race. “Fuck,” she groans. “Why did we wait so long to do this?”
I snatch my shirt over my head. “Fuck if I know.”
At some point she’s removed her bra and kicked off the shoes she was wearing. She fumbles with her jeans as I kick off my boots, shoving my jeans down my legs. We stop for a heated moment and stare at each other, her in a skimpy pair of red panties and me in a pair of boxer briefs that are really uncomfortable at the moment. Her hands move before mine as she grabs my hips to shove the constricting underwear down. She starts to kneel down in front of me, but I stop her. “Firecracker, if you put your mouth on my cock right now, I’ll explode and it’ll all be over too soon.”
I slide her panties down her legs and grab her under the ass to lift her. Planting her against the wall, I slide a hand around to feel her soft core. “Baby, you’re already wet.”
She sucks in a breath and nods.
Positioning myself, I thrust my dick inside of her. She cries out so I stop. “Are you okay?”
She nods quickly with a heavy breath, “It’s just been awhile.”
I can’t help but feel some relief. “Good.” Thrusting in and out of her in the hallway is fine, but I want her in my bed.
Pulling away from the wall, I carry her down to my bedroom as she grinds on me. Laying her back on the bed, I flip her on her stomach and put her on all fours. Slamming into her, I slap her ass. “I told you I was gonna spank your ass and I meant it.”
“Oh god, Clay!” she pants out.
“What do you need, Firecracker?”
“You. Just you.” She throws her head back, red hair flying. “Oh harder! I’m almost there. God, Clay!” she cries out as I slam into her harder, finding my own release.
As I pull out, I realize there’s a problem. “Um, Firecracker?”
She collapses on the bed. “Yeah?”
“Ah, I got so worked up…I um, um didn’t use a condom.”
She bolts up. “Fuck, I can’t believe I just did that. She starts doing something with her fingers, like she’s counting.
“Firecracker, what are you doing?”
“We should be okay. I counted my days and my fertile days won’t be for another few days, so we should be good. I mean I’m still on a light dose birth control, but I’ll admit I’m not great about taking it like I’m supposed to. My hours are crazy.”
I grab her arms. “Hey, it’s okay. I’m not mad, I just don’t want you upset.”
“Okay. I mean I’m a little freaked out and part of me wants to run to CVS to grab the Plan B, but like I said, I think we’ll be okay.”
That kinda hits me. “I wouldn’t want you to go get Plan B. You didn’t with Jock Strap, but you would with me?”
She shakes her head. “That’s not what I’m saying. It’s just after going through what I did with Brett, I don’t know if I could handle it again.” I’m getting angry now. Does she think I’d do what he did to her? It’s as if she realizes that. “Wait. No, I don’t mean the relationship stuff, I mean the miscarriage and all.”
I nod, letting my heart rate calm down. “Oh, yeah, sorry. I just-.”
“No, I get it. You thought I was comparing you to him.” She shakes her head. “I would never. You know that, right?”
“Yeah, I know that. It just hit me wrong for a second. I’m sorry.” I touch the side of her face and brush it with my thumb. When I look at her in the eye, I see her vulnerability. It’s not something she shows to many people. “I’d never let you go through that alone like you did with him. I’d be there with you every step of the way.”
She nods. “Yeah, I know. It’s still just hard to think about ever having to go through it again.”
“Let’s just get some sleep,” I say, lying down next to her.
Lying there quietly for a few moments, she finally speaks. “I didn’t think to go get the Plan B with Brett, because I didn’t know the condom broke. He didn’t tell me and I didn’t pay attention. Once I figured it out, it was too late.”
“He didn’t tell you the condom broke? What an asshole.” That makes me want to drive to Tampa Bay and kick his ass.
“He said that he didn’t think it was a big deal because he knew I was on birth control. But he didn’t think about the fact that I’d recently changed pills. It was all fucked up.” She settles against me.
I run my hand down her side as we doze off.
~*~*~
“Oh, how fucking convenient is this?” I’m jolted awake by those words.
Jade and I both bolt up in the bed. “Gia, what the fuck are you doing in here? How the hell did you get in?”
She stands at the foot of my bed with her hands on her hips. “I have a key. How did you think I got in here all those times?”
She had a point. I’d never really thought about it. “Well, I’ll have the locks changed. So you can get the fuck out.”
Jade, still sitting here quiet, grabs a shirt from the end of my bed and slips it on.
“Oh, you don’t need to cover up now, Jade. I’ll be gone in a minute. I just came to tell Gibbs here that I’m pregnant. Congrats, you’re going to be a father, asshole.” She turns and storms out of the room.
I jump up, grabbing a pair of gym shorts. “Just stay here, I’ll be back.”
I follow Gia out into the living room. “Gia, stop. What the fuck are you talking about? You can’t just bust into my damn house and announce shit like that and then run out.”
She spins around. “Oh yes the fuck I can. I came here to tell you and find you fucking her.” She points down the hallway.
I put my hand up. “First off, you never should have just busted in my house. Second off, you didn’t find us fucking, you woke us up. Third, what I do is my fucking business. Also, you could’ve called to let me know we needed to talk. Not just bust in my fucking house and scream at me.”
“Well, please forgive me. I’m just a little hormonal.” She starts crying.
Fuck me.
“I’ll be right back.” I walk down the hall and find Jade already dressed.
She looks up. “Um, I’m gonna go. I called a cab, it should be here soon. You need some time to talk about all of this and I don’t need to be here for it.”
What else can I say? She’s right. I grab a t-shirt and slip it on. “Yeah. I’ll call you later.”
She nods and goes to the front door. Running my fingers through my hair, I walk back to the living room and sit on the couch. “So let’s talk.”
Gia gives me a huge smile and sits down.
CHAPTER 12
JADE
Three weeks have passed since that night with Clay. I haven’t been able to bring myself to return his texts or calls. I need time to process all of this. I’d just decided to try and make some steps to set up my own future.
I’ve already had a couple of job offers for the hospital
s I’m currently working at. The one here has offered me a nice part-time position and the one about forty-five minutes away has also offered me a part-time position. A hospital in Gainesville offered a full-time position but with Kara being pregnant and Mom’s health, I feel like I should be closer to home. I didn’t get to be around much for most of the time she was pregnant with Krista, so I want to be here to help this time.
I’ve decided to take the two part-time positions. I’ve even found an apartment between the two that will work with my budget. Sly is helping me to get it all set up, he didn’t really give me that much of a choice. He said that I needed to be in my place and settled before I start work. When I made the argument that I needed a paycheck first to do that, he made me take the money to get set up, saying that I could pay him back once I started work.
It was useless to argue with him. Plus he was under a lot of stress and Kara said I needed to let him do this. Clay and Gia came forward and told everyone that she’s pregnant with his baby. He moved her in with him. My sister tells me that it’s just so he can help her, that Gia is living in the spare room, and he made it clear to everyone that he’s only doing this for his kid. He admitted to all of the guys that they had a friends with benefits relationship and that he’d decided to end it right before Gia told him she was pregnant. She said the guys took it a lot better than she expected. I have a feeling that Clay told my sister something and that’s the reason she’s been sharing all of this with me, but I can’t find it in my heart to care right now.
My graduation was last weekend, but I could only invite my immediate family. So that meant Mom, Kara, Sly and Krista. Which was great in a way, I don’t really want to see everyone else. I mean I know they’re happy for me and stuff, but I have a feeling everyone knows about the morning Gia came over. I just don’t want to live with the looks.
So I’m scarfing down the damn pizza I got delivered so I can get a good night’s rest for my state board tomorrow. All of this moving and everything with my schedule has me all screwed up. I’m freaking starving and I’ll just be glad when things settle down. Tomorrow has my damn nerves shot. I know the material and I know I should be ready, but part of me is afraid I’m going to wake up in the morning and not remember a damn thing.
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