The next morning, I woke up and felt myself in someone elses arms. After a few mintues I realized that it was Nick's arms wrapped around me. When I opened my eyes I was greeted with his warm face smiling down at me. It took me only a few seconds to remember what happened last night. Nick said he wanted to hold me all night long and I of course couldn't say no.
"Morning Baby," he whispered and kissed my lips lightly.
"Morning," I smiled back and then wiggled out of Nick's arms. He gave me a hurt look but I just pulled him up. "Sky's not going to be home for a few hours. We need to do some quick grocery shopping."
"Good thinking. We're out of Doritos." We both threw on some clothes, neither one of us truly worrying about taking a shower since we were only going to the grocery store. Then before we left, I grabbed the shopping list that AJ made and my keys.
"Come on. Let's go. We don't have a lot of time." Nick and I ran out of the house and shopped as fast as we could. It was so surprising that we've actually gotten away with sneaking in food for 6 or so months already. One of these days Sky is gonna find out and it isn't gonna be pretty. We managed to get everything bought and put away, minutes before Sky came home. Pure luck. Nick grabbed a bag of chips and my hand, then pulled me up to his room.
"You up for some video games?"
"Yeah, as long as you realize that I'm gonna beat you," I laughed and pinched his cheeks.
We played video games for a long time and then once in awhile we stopped to kiss. I'm starting to wonder what my problem is with the whole sex issue. It's not like I don't want to do it because I do and I love him so much. I guess its probably because when my mom was alive she drilled into my head how so many bad things can happen after someone has sex. She gave me lectures about pregnancy and STD's. When she died two years ago, I kinda made a pact with myself that I would listen to her. I don't want to let her down. What if I have sex and then I get pregnant? My life would be ruined and I don't think I could handle it. On the other hand, there's my love for Nick and it seems to be growing by the minute. I wish life wasn't so damn complicated.
Skylar:
A few days later, I sent the guys out on an hour long run. Of course, they griped the whole hour beforehand. But I quickly defended myself and told them that they were lucky to run in the afternoon (left at 3) rather than at 8 in the morning. They agreed, but still felt that it was a little too long to run with me because I run faster than they like to or can go. So, I let them run as a pack without me. As soon as they left, I decided to go for a run by myself. I went in the opposite direction so that the guys wouldn't think that I was trying to spy on them and so tht they'd trust me. Besides, I knew that they'd run on their preferred surface: the beach. Whereas, I'd be running on the sidewalk next to the beach. Anyways, I was running the last two miles of my route when I noticed the guys running from the opposite direction.
"Skylar!" They all shouted.
"Man, we're as fast as you today. The Hush Puppy King here was pushing it, and we couldn't let him out of the group, so..." AJ piped up.
"So they all ran faster with me. We were flying, Sky," Brian noted
"Ooh!" all the guys jeered. "Sky?! We thought only Dakota called you that."
My face blushed a bright red, something which rarely happens, and all the guys laughed.
"Well..." I paused, searching for words.
"Well!" the guys mocked, all except for Brian.
Again, A.J. spoke for the group, "Well... we're going to go jog slowly back to the house. So you two can just finish running together, kay?" Quickly, I bent but did not break the rules.
"Okay, as long as you guys promise to keep your heart rate up; run, jog, walk... fast!" The whole group immediately answered "Yes, drill sergeant, sir...maam!" They'd obviously rehearsed this with Kota. Then they started jogging in the direction of the house.
"Shall we?" Brian motioned to me to come onto the sand and run there.
"Come on."
"I can't, I've got bad knees. Genetics, you know?" Brian gave me the puppy dog look, and I knew I was fading fast.
"Really, Brian, I can't." I said with regret.
He steathily approached me with a funny gleam in his eyes.
"Come on!" he yelled. With one swift movement I was in his arms.
"What are you doing?" I muttered.
He looked at me with that charm of his and said, "If you won't run with me on the beach, then we're just going to stop running. It's so boring on pavement. Let's be fun! How about..." We started approaching the shore line
"Brian, what are we doing?" I asked, knowing full well what we were doing.
He walked closer and closer to where the water began.
"We're going for a little swim!" he said with a beautiful smile.
"You can't be serious... we're in our clothes! If you want to go swimming, why don't we just go to the beach by the house?" I questioned.
"Because we're being spontaneous! We're being fun! We're just being..." I looked at him strangely and put my hand to his forehead.
"Are you sick or something? You sound like a Calvin Klein ad on crack!" With that, Brian took the first steps into the beautifully clear water, shoes on and all! He walked out until the water reached his waste (I wasn't wet because he was holding me above the water.)
"Look around, Sky. This beach area is completely deserted, it's just us here. Just...us." he whispered softly and leaned down to kiss me.
As his lips touched mine, he purposely fell back into the water, taking me under with him. But I really didn't mind. Our kiss continued, although it got a little bit complicated when water went up our noses. We emerged from the water laughing, and I knew that I'd never forget or regret what he and I had together. I wanted to say I love you to him, but was afraid to jump the gun.
"I love you." he stated calmly and genuinely. "I don't know how you do it, but just thinking of you makes me happy. I want to be with you, Sky. I want to hold you at night and wake up with you in the morning. I want to look across the room and know that... that..."
"I love you." I replied.
"Yeah, that's what I want to know." he said.
"No, Brian. I'm telling you now that I love you. I want everything that you want, and I want us to show our feelings without worrying about others' opinions."
"Sky, I love you, and I don't care if the whole world knows. In fact," he said, and then yelled out at the sea, "I love Skylar Jeffries with all my heart and," I abruptly stopped his speech with a sensual kiss which evoked all kinds of pleasures for both of us.
"How's that for spontaneous?" I asked. He smiled and continued walking deeper and deeper until he came upon a sand bar. He set me down into the water which was so shallow that the water only came up to our knees. We looked at each other for a moment and then slowly stepped closer to one another. I reached my hand towards him and placed it on his chest. With that, he put his hands over mine and moved it to the area of his heart.
"This is all yours, Sky. Every beat of it is yours." A single tear rolled down my cheek. I stepped into his arms and put them around me. "Every inch of this is or you: body to soul." We looked at eachother and came together for a passionate kiss. Slowly, we began walking towards the shore, hand in hand, we stayed that way, wet squishy sneakers and all, the whole way home.
When we reached the beach house, we started walking slower, both of us worried about how the group would react. Together, we mozeyed through the yard and paused by the back door.
"This is silly," Brian said. "Who cares what hey think. Nick and Dakota are an item and the guys don't really care about that." He gave me a reassuring smile that sent shockwaves through my system.
I moved into his arms, "Yeah, but Kota isn't your trainer. She's not getting paid to be with you guys. I am. How would that look? I mean, what do we tell people? It looks a little, I don't know, fake. People will think I'm just after your money or...or... that you want a buff body without paying for it or something." Brian's face instantly scrunched up in laughter.
"Who in this entire world thinks like that?! Sure people might think that you're after my money, but me trying to get a better body for free? Are you nuts? No one thinks like that!"
Dakota:
"So you really think something's up with Sky and Brian?" I asked.
"Oh totally! B-ROK is always talking about her....Sky this....Sky that... It's enough to make someone sick," Howie laughed.
"He just wants to get her in bed," AJ joked and I quickly elbowed him.
"That's horrible. Is that all you think about?"
"Yeah. That's all any guy thinks about," he said defending himself. I looked across the room at Nick who seemed to be daydreaming. I wanted desperately to believe that maybe Nick was different, but I knew he was a normal guy. Getting a girl into bed is some sort of power trip for them. There's no use trying to fight it anymore.....Nick just wants me for sex. The sad thing is.....I love him too much to care. I must have went into a trance because the next thing I knew, Kevin was snapping his fingers in front of my face.
"Where was your mind?"
"Sorry, I was just thinking about some things..." I stated softly. Nick walked over to me and kissed my palm while touching my cheek with his free hand.
"Anything you want to talk about?" he asked me and I shook my head.
"No...no. I'm fine." I lied and stood up. "I think I hear someone outside."
"Oh goodie. Maybe the love birds are home....." AJ smiled wickedly. We all ran to the door and spied out the window. Hey we're immature, so what?
Skylar:
I gave him a playful hook punch to the ribs, "You're not making me feel better." He pretended to be in extreme pain.
"What was that for? I'm just playing with you." He again flashed the puppy dog smile, trying to make me feel bad for punching him.
"I'm sorry, sweetie. Let me make it better." I said with a seductive smile. I lifted his shirt up a little bit, exposing his stomach and rib cage area. Then I crouched down and kissed the site of my landed punch, causing a huge smile across Brian's face. He gently helped me back up and looked deep into my green eyes. Instantaneously, we were in eachother's arms, madly and passionately kissing. Just then, the back door opened and who should appear? A.J. , our tormentor.
He quickly said to the rest of the gang who were standing by the door, "Hey guys, looks like we've got another one!" Instead of getting mad, I couldn't help but let a smile spread across my face. I was just so excited that Brian and I were finally together. I mean, we'd already been "together," but now we were committing ourselves to eachother, unafraid to show others our feelings towards one another. Rather than offer explanations to everyone standing there in astonishment, Brian and I just continued holding hands, leading eachother upstairs.
"Well I'm awfully tired. I'm going to head to bed now," Brian said.
I answered back with a forced yawn, "Yeah, it's been a long day and I'm so tired that I'm about ready to fall down." ('into your arms' I thought.) I continued following Brian, through the kitchen where everyone was just staring, and up the stairs.
But we were still within hearing distance when after a few seconds, AJ shot back, "But guys, it's only seven o'clock!" From the kitchen, Kevin, Howie, Nick and Kota just laughed. hope so.