It's What You Do

by C L Wesley

  “Agreed, but I have to make sure I do what I am supposed to do while I am here. I have to play soccer and play it well to pay for school. I have to get really good grades to stay on the soccer team. I have to do all that to get into med school and if I don’t, the best I get is a job at Dow with my dad in Texas and I want so much more than to be small town and struggle throughout life.” He put my right hand in his. “I didn’t expect you to scoot past me. And you are a distraction, a very welcomed distraction. I have to actively stop my brain from thinking about you. That is what I should have said last night.”

  “Nobody wants to waste their time Noah. You just have to take a leap and hope for the best.”

  “I like you a lot and I want to see where this could go.” He was staring at me when I looked at him. “I have to ask you and then tell you something if we are going to do this.” I feel my heart racing through my NEC hoodie.

  “Okay.” I started to worry.

  “Why did you call me Mr. Big?” He looked at me curiously.

  “It’s from a tv show, Sex in the City. I’ll show you sometime.” I smile nervously curling my right leg underneath me. “Next.”

  “How many partners have you had, Taryn?” Oh, good lord. This is what he wants to know. What the hell did Josh tell him and if anything, I hope Jensen set him straight.

  “Two. Why?” I now want to know what is up his sleeve. Am I going to get smacked with an astronomical number? Does he have an STD?

  “Jensen said you were a good girl when I asked him about you. He thinks highly of you.” He smiles. “Okay, ready?” I nod my head in confusion. “I have had zero.” WHAT! “The look on your face is priceless.” He’s a virgin?

  “You’re a virgin?” I question as he shook his head yes. “But you are hot, and sweet, and gorgeous, and, and built like an Adonis. How have you avoided it?”

  “Well thank you for all those adjectives and it is just not something I take lightly. I’m not waiting for marriage or anything, you just only get to do that for the first-time once and I want to really like the person I am with when it does happen.” I sat there in shock. A virgin? That would explain the snail-like pace with me.

  “Do you do other things?” I had to ask curious as to how our relationship is going to progress.

  “I am a guy in college for Christ Sake.” He shakes his head at me. “Just because I haven’t had intercourse doesn’t mean I am not good at other things Darlin’.” Noah winks at me and I lowered my head into my hoodie like a turtle from embarrassment.

  “I had to ask.” I whisper.

  “Is that a problem for you?” He asks, his thumb rubbing across my knuckles.

  “Not at all. I am just in shock. You are my definition of sexy as fuck and you are completely untarnished. Just wrapping my head around it.”

  “Well, it’s as simple as, it’s my decision. I’ve dated lots of girls in Texas and thought, ‘she’s the one’ and then something happens and I am glad I kept that piece to myself.”

  “You are like a Tim Tebow but on the soccer field.” I smile.

  “Shut up Taryn.” He leaned in pressing his lips to mine sweetly. Well with sex off the table, I may as well get used to making out with Big. No biggie. I giggle to myself before pulling back. “What?” He smiles at me, placing a feather light kiss to my nose.

  “Where did you come from?” I ask wondering.

  “I could ask you the same thing, Darlin’.” I smile. I’m enjoying my new nickname and my shiny new toy.

  7

  Noah and I ended up watching The Green Mile with my mom until after midnight. My mother must have really liked him because she told him he could stay so I wouldn’t have to drive to the campus this late despite my dad’s objections. I think my mother has a cougar crush. I led Noah up to my room, stopping every two steps so he could ask who everyone in the pictures were that my mom had hanging on the wall. When he walked into my room he paused and took in everything from pictures of my friends, to the amount of clothes I have everywhere. I watched as he pawed through my belongings, touching things, and focusing on pictures of me from high school and such. “You had some big curly hair.” He holds one of my senior pictures.

  “Have some big curly hair.” I laugh pulling the hair tie from my hair. “I tame it every day.” Noah walks over and plays with the curls still wet from this morning’s shower.

  “I guess so.” He says while I dig in my dresser grabbing a t-shirt and shorts to change into before excusing myself to the bathroom. I hear Noah talking to my mom before I emerge from the bathroom ready for bed. “She gave me a pair of your dad’s shorts to wear.” He gives a half smile before going to change.

  I had already crawled into bed and turned on the Big Bang Theory when Noah emerged in his NEC Soccer shirt and my dad’s shorts which were hilariously short on him. “Those are pretty sexy BG.” I giggled as he blushed.

  “My boxer briefs are longer than the legs of these shorts. Are you okay with me sleeping in my underwear instead of these?” He pulled at the shorts and I laughed as he threw the shorts at my head.

  “I’m good.” I couldn’t help but laugh as I pulled down the teal and black blankets on the other side of my bed. “Get in.” I tried to breathe.

  “I’m happy you are enjoying my mortification.” Noah climbed in and lifted his right arm so I could snuggle against him. “This is going to be a problem. I like the right side of the bed.” He kissed the top of my head and shortly after I fell asleep to the sound of his heartbeat.

  I woke up a few hours later and turned the tv off, settling back into bed facing away from Noah because my arm was numb. Seconds later, he was aligned behind me, wrapping his arm across my hips and splaying his hand flat on my belly. The warmth of his breath on my neck was driving me nuts but I didn’t want to move either, that is, until I felt him press his lips against the back of my neck. I took a deep breath as the goose bumps spread from my toes to the tips of my hair. Noah’s lips traveled to my shoulder, then to my arm, before he moved his arm and rolled me onto my back. My lips met his and much like previous make-out sessions with him, it was fireworks. Simple kissing had me squirming slightly beneath him. Unlike the last time we were in a bed together Noah did not keep his hands to himself.

  I tilted my head back letting out a caged in breath when I felt his left hand find the hem of my shirt and run up my skin towards my rib cage before finally covering my breast, teasing my already hard nipple by rubbing it between his thumb and pointer finger. I let out a little moan and Noah nibbled my earlobe. “Shhh. Or I have to stop.” I squirmed until I was almost underneath him, his hard-on pressing into my thigh making me wish that he would remove his boxers and slide himself inside.

  Noah shimmied my shirt up until it was sitting on my collarbones and my breasts were bared to him. He gave me a quick kiss on the lips before sealing his mouth over my left nipple, his hand kneading the right. I arched my back and tried not to make any noise as he nibbled and flicked my nipple with his tongue. I moaned out and he covered my mouth with his left hand. “Darlin’ you have to be quiet. We are in your parent’s home.” Don’t fucking remind me! I thought as he went back to teasing my sensitive nipples. I gently bit the palm of his hand and he let out a little growl as his mouth came back up to mine. “Is this how I need to keep you quiet?” He crushed his lips to mine while I went to work pulling his shirt up until he reached behind his neck and pulled the t-shirt off over his head throwing it onto the floor coming back to me, his bare chest to mine. I lightly moved my left leg up and down his length. “Taryn.” He mumbled against my lips, his mouth firmly pressed against mine.

  I continued my leg assault until Noah’s hand slid down my tummy and he ran his fingers just underneath the waistband of my shorts making my breath hitch when his large hand cupped me in one swift move. I wriggled beneath his touch in need of some friction. Noah picked up on my needs and slid a finger into me while his thumb rubbed circles over my clit. I tried my best to stay quiet but when he stopp
ed and removed my shorts my breathing became almost erratic. “Shhhh.” Noah hitched my knees over his shoulders and I felt his tongue flick my bundle of nerves. His hand shot up and over my mouth before I could make a noise. I bit his palm again in every attempt not to scream out his name. It didn’t take long for my tummy to tighten and my legs to start shaking as he lapped at the most intimate part of me. How I was going to stay quiet was somewhere in my mind, but right now he was swirling his tongue and I couldn’t remember my name. Seconds later, my body convulsed, and I found myself biting into Noah’s hand as my orgasm overtook me.

  Noah climbed up my body and laid his weight between my legs before kissing me, which I thought would be weird, tasting myself on him, but it wasn’t. I could still feel the tingling heartbeat thumping in my clit and I wanted so bad to push his boxers down and make him fuck me. “You need another Taryn?” OH! MY! GOD! I didn’t answer because he adjusted himself so that when he moved against me, his hardness, and holy fuck was it hard, rubbed against my clit. “I can almost feel you.” He smiled against my mouth as I tried to steady my breathing that was already rapidly increasing.

  Seconds later I felt the familiar tightening as I clenched my legs tight around Noah’s waist earning myself a sexy little groan. “Now if you can’t keep quiet.” I teased before he crushed his lips to mine, sliding his tongue against my own. I could hear his breathing picking up as he grinded his hips into mine sliding his arms underneath me holding me to him. I started shaking again and that seemed to be his undoing, biting the pillow next to my head with a sexy groan. I followed a second later with an intense moment of my own digging my teeth into his shoulder.

  Noah pulled my shirt back down and rested his head on my chest, the rest of him still nestled between my legs. “Are you okay?” He asked adjusting his arms underneath me.

  “I’m more than okay. If that is your version of making up, I am completely okay with that.” I smile, running my hands through his damp hair.

  “Good, fight with me more often then.” He nuzzled me before reaching down for my shorts. “Let’s get these back on you before I become too curious.”

  “Curious about what?” I had to ask. He seemed to know what he was doing in every other area.

  “What you feel like.” He slipped my feet into my shorts.

  “You’ve never rubbed against someone bareback?” I asked, maybe a little too forward. “I’m sorry I just don’t know how far you ever went.”

  “No, I haven’t. It’s okay. Um, this is about it.” I knew his face was red even though I couldn’t really see the color change.

  I kissed his cheek and pushed my shorts back off my feet. “I trust you to stop if you want to feel what it’s like Noah.”

  “Fuck Taryn, I, I.” Noah stuttered as he nestled himself between my legs again before backing himself up and pushing his boxers down. He crawled back up over me as I widened my legs to support him. Noah tensed the minute he pressed his hardness against me, burying his head into my neck and wrapping his arms under me to hold me, something I noticed he likes to do with me. He started to move and it felt amazing, like smooth velvet sliding against my wetness. I let out a whispered moan as he slid against my fold. “Taryn, I want more.” He whispers in my ear as he massages my shoulders with his fingertips. I tilt my hips back when it hit me that I can’t do this right now.

  “I can’t.” I hated myself for having to say that to him. I felt him still. “It’s not that I don’t want you. I am wound up tighter than I have ever been before. I am just not on anything for prevention.”

  “Will you trust me to just see what it feels like?” The idea of Mr. Big here baring all when he knows I could use this information to shame him all over campus made me trust him even more.

  I take a deep breath and swallow the lump in my throat. “Yes.” A couple of thrusts shouldn’t get me in trouble. I’ll have to call Izzy tomorrow and ask where she gets that next day thing at when she fucks up taking her pills. Noah presses his forehead to mine as he places his hardness at my entrance rubbing it up and down my slit before pushing himself towards my entrance. I was going crazy waiting and I wanted to use my legs to push him in but it was his thing to do, not mine. “Wait.” I scurried up the bed and away from the raging hard-on that sat before me. “I can’t let you do this, Noah. This is important to you and if it is me that experiences it with you later, great, but tonight is not the night.” I leaned forward pressing my forehead to his. “You can slide bare against me all you want and we can have instant replays of the last couple hours, but until we are both ready to jump, let’s play it safe. Is that okay with you?”

  I was waiting for him to leave, feeling rejected, as I watched him slide off my bed and slide his boxers back on but instead he grabbed my shorts and slid them up my legs until they were back in place. I sat patiently as he rounded my bed where his other clothes were laying on my floor. Noah surprised me by sliding under my covers and pulling me against his chest, running his hand through my hair. “That sounds perfect to me but let me tell you, you and your body scream to me like a siren. There is nothing I don’t want right now.” I smiled and nuzzled my face into his chest. “But I thank you, darlin’, for realizing what is good for both of us.”

  “Oh, I want you too. I’m shocked with my angelic behavior just now.” He kissed my forehead.

  “Me too.” He laughed. “I can’t believe you gave me the go ahead.”

  “Me either. Go to sleep Noah.” I closed my eyes.

  “You promised instant replays. Hours of them.” I was flipped underneath him and his mouth on mine within seconds.

  “Taryn?” I hear Noah’s voice. “Taryn, wake up we are late for class.” I sat straight up and looked at the clock 8:20AM.

  “Fuck.” I threw my blankets back and jumped out of bed. “Wait, Noah, it’s Labor Day. We don’t have class today.” I watched as recognition of the day hit him before I crawled back into bed. “Go back to sleep. I’m tired, some guy kept me up until my parents went to work.” I kissed him on the cheek and rolled over. “Oh crap, did you have practice?”

  My back warmed up as he spooned behind me. “Not til tonight at 6.”

  “Good.” I used his arm as a make-shift pillow and allowed myself to close my eyes. I was more than content. “Take a nap, Noah.” He kissed the back of my neck. “NOAH! I need sleep babe!”

  “Awe. You called me babe, darlin’.”

  “Awe. You are being annoying.” I scooch my ass back until it was pressed against him. “Why do you call me darlin’?”

  “It’s a term of endearment and respect.” He tells me and it makes me smile.

  “Okay, that’s sweet, sleep.” I never re-opened my eyes until my stomach was rearing its ugly head around 10:45AM. I tried to move but Noah’s third wind must have deflated because he was lightly snoring snuggled up behind me. I wiggled out of bed and after doing my morning business went into the kitchen and made us hot Italian hoagies because it was no secret I was not a fan of breakfast food. I was adding the lettuce and tomato when Noah walked in the kitchen. “Good morning, sunshine.” I smile.

  He came up to me and pulled me against him, kissing the top of my head. “Those smell amazing. You are in a much better mood.”

  “I got some sleep.” I winked as I finished the sandwiches and grabbed a few plates and a couple cans of Coke. “Come on. I’m starving.” I led him to the living room where we spent the afternoon making out on the couch, eating, and watching movies before I had to take him back to campus after an early dinner.

  The drive to campus felt too short as I pulled up in front of Blexler Hall. “I have practice until 8 and then I really need to catch up on some reading for my classes tomorrow.”

  “Okay.” I smile. “I’ve had you all day. I guess I can share you with your schoolwork.” I winked.

  “You are too adorable, darlin’.” He leaned over and kissed me goodbye which made me sad. “Thanks for dinner. I’ll call you tonight before I go to bed. Tomorrow starts 5
30AM practices again.” He gave me one more quick kiss before getting out of the car. I put the car in reverse when he knocked on my window. Rolling the window down, he dove in and kissed me one last time. “I think I am going to miss you in my bed tonight.” He grabbed my hand before backing up until our contact finally broke.

  8

  The next couple months went by like a whirlwind. School was kicking my ass and I got a second job off campus at Olive Garden waiting tables because all the time I spend away from home and being the only one with a car is putting a dent in my bank account. I went to every home soccer game when I wasn’t working, and I spent every spare minute I had with Noah who I practically live with because finding time to see each other was rough on both of us but we were dedicated to making it work and so far we have been slaying it.

  I was the closing server at OG tonight and tips were amazing. My phone buzzed in my pocket and I immediately smiled knowing who it was.

  Noah: I took a nap after studying. Stay with me tonight?

  Me: Do you even need to ask?

  Noah: ??

  When the last table cashed out, I packed up two bowls of gnocchi soup and an order of chicken fritta and made my way home pit stopping at Jensen’s room with his chicken fettucine alfredo he requested because Izzy passed out before they could go to dinner. I finally made it to Noah who set up the tv trays we found at the Goodwill so we wouldn’t have to eat on his bed anymore. I walked through the door and handed him the bag of food. I was so whooped I went right into his bathroom and into a hot shower. I kept things here now so I didn’t have to drive so much or live out of my car.

  Slipping into one of his t-shirts even though I had some pjs here, I walked out and sat beside him, resting my head on his shoulder, Noah leaning down to kiss the top of my head. “Rough night?”