“That’s bullshit and you know it.” I seethe. “You know Dad would continue to be strict, especially on you because if you tell him whatever you think you heard, he will think you’ll do the same, so he’d hold on to you tighter. Just so you don’t get tainted like me.”
“I know what I heard. You guys are pretending. I mean, you’re both very good actors, because all that shit coming from your room this morning was quite believable and then all the PDA, yeah. Good job, sis.” Maddie slow claps.
“We are together. We’re just discussing the past.” I try to explain. It’s part truth.
“Such a lie.” She shakes her head, looking at her lap.
“I don’t know what you want me to say.”
“I want to talk to him. Alone. But not right now, I want to talk to him tomorrow. You go out with mom and dad while I stay here with him.” She says.
“But—” I start when she raises her hand to silence me.
“I want to go to sleep, you can leave now.”
I stand, defeated and unsure what my sister’s plan is as I retreat out of the room.
Apparently, I was in the bedroom with Maddie and that staring contest longer than I thought, as the living room is dark. There’s a faint light on in the bedroom and I slip inside.
Dean is sitting at the head of the bed, his back against my bed frame, shirtless with the laptop on top of the pillow on his lap. He looks up as the door latches closed.
“Everything okay?” He asks concerned as he closes the laptop.
“I’m not sure.”
“You were in there for a while, what happened?”
“She wants to talk to you.” I sit facing him on the bed.
He moves the laptop and pillow off his lap, but I reach over and stop him.
“Not tonight. She wants to do it tomorrow, alone.”
“She doesn’t want to talk tonight?”
“No, she probably wants to plan something.”
“Not like trying to make a move on me. I mean sure, I’m hot on her sister, but she’s not you and also a kid.”
“I wouldn’t put it past her. She’ll try to manipulate the situation, maybe even try to make up some lies or try to convince you that I told her the opposite of whatever is the truth. But I’m honestly not sure what she’s going to do.”
“I’m sorry, Kale. I’m really sorry. We should have been smart and talked in here or something.” He shakes his head.
“Hey. No. We live here, we shouldn’t feel like we need to hide to have a serious conversations.”
“True, but we should have been more careful.” I whisper.
We’re silent for a moment.
“You didn’t answer my question,” He says.
“It would be really stupid of me to not want this with you. After all, I don’t think that we could go back to just being friends.” I say smiling while I crawl over to him, I push the pillow and laptop completely out of my way as I sit astride him. I lower myself completely on him and feel his dick stiffening under me. His hands go to my hips and he leans in to kiss me lightly.
“You had me scared there for a minute.” He says as he kisses my collarbone. My fingers flirt with the hair at the back of his head as I relish in his touch.
“How so?” I ask.
“You hesitated. When Maddie asked if we were together, you hesitated.”
“I was surprised. I didn’t think. My brain hadn’t caught up to Maddie being in the room yet.”
“I’ll let it pass just that once.” He playfully says.
I relax into him, kissing him and loving the friction that our bodies create together.
I need to feel Dean, since I don’t know whether my sister will tell my dad and then I’ll—No, I’m refusing to go down that path and think my life will be turned around so much.
I press myself into him and start removing my shirt.
I need to lose myself in this man right now.
Chapter Six
Dean
The quarterback fakes to the right, but goes up the line, dodging huge wide-receivers and cornerbacks. The safety tracks the player and tackles him off sides, and the announcers go wild.
“That guy came out of thin air!” One guy exclaimed.
“He really paid close attention to Tanner and went around the other players when all eyes were on the path Tanner was taking. That’s a smart player right there.”
I rewind the recording and observe the same play, but by watching my teammates instead. I note where our cornerbacks look to go when Tanner darts through the line and then I see where Trevor, the other safety went when I made my play. I shake my head, Trevor dove right into the middle.
Again, I rewind and observe our opponents. The guards didn’t know what their QB was going to do. They scattered leaving him wide open. You can see the moment they notice that the ball wasn’t thrown, which was right when I tackled him.
I rewind again.
“You really need to watch that part over and over again? I mean, you should know how it turned out, after all, weren’t you playing?” Maddie flops down on the couch beside me.
“It’s like studying. I study what we did, what we could have done better, and the reactions of the other team.”
“Don’t you usually do that in the locker room or something? Or is that all whipping towels at each other and walking around naked?”
“We will, but I don’t go in until tomorrow. So tomorrow during our team meeting, I’ll be able to speak effectively about our win.”
“You won. That should be what you all meet about.”
“Believe me, we do. But we also know that we could have lost. We’re athletes, we’re competitors. Something could have gone wrong and we could have lost, that’s not something that we ignore. So we discuss the other players, the other team, and everything that we see on the field.”
“Do you guys ever get to just relish in the win?” She asks.
“All the time.” I say with a smile.
I lean forward, my elbows on my knees as I watch the next several plays. Maddie sits beside me and quietly watches. She played the ‘I want to get to know Dean’ ploy and kept telling their parents that they needed alone time with Kaley, to get me alone. She hasn’t yet breached the subject that I’ve been anxiously waiting for, so I have just gone on with what I would do if she wasn’t here.
I’m fixing my second sandwich of the day when she clears her throat. I turn and she’s standing by the counter separating the kitchen from the living space.
“So, I wanted to talk to you today,” she begins.
“Yeah, I heard.”
“Kaley told you?”
“Of course she did.” I say with a little more bite than deserving.
“Then I want the truth.” She huffs.
“The truth? We told you the truth last night.” I repeat.
“So, what were you guys talking about? I mean, it sounded to me like you guys have been lying to my parents and me since we first got here.”
“Listen, your sister and I, we started out as friends and now, we’re more than friends. We live together, we’re in a committed relationship, and that’s that.”