She was laughing again when Byron brought his arm around her neck and started to squeeze with a groan. “That was the worst part. You had to say his name right when I did that?”
“I was afraid things were about to get hot and then I’d have to start a whole new video. I was already so nervous as it was. So, I just went for it.” She turned to look at him over her shoulder. “I almost lost it when you questioned me saying his name right when you were rubbing against me. It’s why I turned around, so you wouldn’t see me laugh. My dad cannot see that part. I mean he knows we’re adults now and all—”
“Wait a minute. You can’t post this!” He’d been so riled up, then overwhelmingly relieved, he hadn’t even thought of that. “I cussed at you, babe. I’ll look like a douche. Your dad and his army of Moreno’s will come after me one by one.”
“No, they won’t.” She laughed. “Given the circumstances I think you reacted like most would. Especially my dad and uncles. Trust me.” Her laugh went higher pitched again as she shook her head. “I was with him a week ago.”
This time he bear-hugged her squeezing her much tighter than he had earlier. “Ugh. If I were a real douche, I might’ve put my hands on you when you said that. That was such a slap in the face.”
When she finally caught her breath again, she turned to face him and explained she didn’t think she’d be keeping it going for that long, so she’d begun to scramble for things to say. “When I blurted out that I could explain, I had no idea how I possibly could. I hadn’t thought that far ahead, and it was already getting so intense. So, my saying I’d been with him just a week ago came out of nowhere. I couldn’t even think straight at that point anymore. I grasped and spat out the first thing that came to me.” She pouted touching his face despite her still playful eyes “Oh my God, the look on your face when I said it. It was all I could take and had to call it.”
Savannah kissed him even as he tried to dodge her lips. But she continued giggling then went back to her phone. She began to cue it up but explained something else first.
“After the weekend of the anniversary and watching Manny’s hilarious video’s, Nena called me all excited saying we had to do some challenges. Seeing your reaction to Richard being there, and how you didn’t even attempt to mask the annoyance despite Nena standing right there, she thought you’d be a perfect candidate for something like this.”
She went back to cuing the video and Byron watched it. It was of her setting up the whole thing. Explaining how her boyfriend could be very intense, but Nena had begged her to do this and she was so nervous about it.
They watched together as she explained what was about to go down. The video then moved on to her Taz and Xochitl sitting in her dorm. “I’m waiting for him to call me back and then we’re gonna do the Richard thing. “Seeing her clutch her heart made Byron smile. “Oh, my God my heart is beating so hard.”
Byron squeezed her tight. “Damn right you better be nervous about something like this ever happening for real.”
Just watching it, had her squirming even more in his arms still. They watched as she talked to him on speaker and then loudly moved the latches on her already opened dorm door. Her brother leaned into the phone and suddenly Byron knew why the “Vannah, I’m glad I caught you.” Line from Richard had sounded like he was talking right into the phone.
She very obviously muffled the phone making silly faces, and now Byron was laughing with her. “I can’t believe I fell for this shit.”
Savannah laughed again turning to him. “You have no idea how freaking nervous I was about this.”
They continued watching the footage of her talking to Byron on the phone. When she told him, Richard had broken up with his girlfriend and mentioned him still having feelings for her, she covered her face and leaned her elbow against her steering wheel.
Good.
Apparently, she was completely aware of what just saying that would mean. While hearing it again was annoying, seeing her reaction to it was the satisfaction he needed. She literally squeezed her eyes shut when she referred to the whole fucking hanging out shit.
“That was all Nena. She knew that would piss you off. So was the Richie thing,” she added then laughed. “Just so you know. This is what I meant about her being evil for fun.”
The segment explained the build up to the big blowout. It wasn’t video it was just audio of the conversation between her and Nena as she drove to the market.
“I can tell he’s already annoyed by the whole Richard thing.”
A very similar snigger to Savannah’s was heard then Sienna started speaking. “This is perfect but call him Richie. Oh, my God!” Sienna went on with more damn squealing so like her sister’s earlier. “Just imagine Vannah if he had an ex, say her name was Samantha and you knew this, then one day you two are being all cutesy and he calls you Sammy? How pissed would you be?”
Savannah gasped but laughed. “I’d cry!”
“I know! It’s why it’s so perfect. You calling him Richard at that most inopportune moment will piss him off, but you calling him Richie will nauseate him.”
“She is fucking evil!”
Savannah laughed loudly doing the dancing in place thing, even as he pulled her tightly against his hardening erection again. “Seriously. I was fucking nauseated!”
The next part was of her setting up the phone in the kitchen, and it suddenly made sense why she’d acted so weirdly when he’d walked in.
“Who were you on the phone with just before I walked in?”
“Nena!” Savannah turned to him wide eyed. “After that hot but sweetest reception I got from you, I called to tell her I couldn’t go through with it. But of course, she begged me to just do it.”
They watched the rest of the video, with her fast forwarding most of their talking. Though there were a few parts she slowed so she could turn to him and kiss him. Byron knew why too. The parts she slowed were the parts where he wasn’t just all over her, but he gazed at her like a lovesick sap. If he had a prayer of trying to deny it before, there was no chance of it now. This was absolute proof of how bad he had it for her. “Geez, can I look any more sprung?”
It was one of the first moments since she pranked him that he’d felt like kissing her deep. She’d apparently paused it because the kiss went on forever. “Don’t play with me,” she whispered when they finally pulled away.
Byron couldn’t help scoff. “Are you kidding me? Watch the video. You had me losing my shit—”
Her lips were on his before he could finish. She stopped for a moment just to look into his eyes, touching his face as she tilted her head. Like so many times since he’d met her, Byron felt the air sucked out of him. Without saying another word, she went back to the video. It wasn’t until she fast forwarded it to the intense part of their video that it even registered. At that moment in the video, he was too damn fired up and feeling completely blindsided to catch it then, but now he did. She referred to him as baby when shit got real and he’d been ready to throw her the fuck out. Just like hearing her refer to him as her boyfriend, for all the world to hear no less, she’d never even called him babe before.