Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 73774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 369(@200wpm)___ 295(@250wpm)___ 246(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 369(@200wpm)___ 295(@250wpm)___ 246(@300wpm)
“The kiss or sharing your gum?” Because let’s be real… I’m okay with both.
“The gum,” she says, her cheeks turning an adorable shade of pink. “The kiss was planned… well, as planned as it could be during our three-second conversation.”
I glance over at my friends and notice Kaylee and Braxton are making out, and Layla and Declan are standing nearby laughing at whatever they’re talking about.
“And to what do we owe the pleasure of getting kissed by the most beautiful cheerleaders on the squad?”
Tori snorts out a laugh. “The football players were totally trying to get in our pants.” She scrunches her nose up in disgust. “We told them we had plans, and then you guys walked up, so when they asked with who, we said you guys. Perfect timing.” She glances back and sees the guys have moved on to another group of women. “Seems like they bought it.” She reaches up and kisses my cheek. “Thanks.”
Just as she’s about to turn and walk back to where Declan and Layla are now sitting, I grab her hip and pull her back toward me.
“You know what would be the perfect way to show your thanks?”
She quirks a single brow in response.
“Go out with me.”
Thanksgiving
Senior Year
“Holy shit! Yes, just like that.” Tori throws her head back as I fuck her from the bottom, hard and deep. The day after I asked her out, I took her to dinner and a movie with the only fifty bucks I had to my name. By the end of the movie, we were dry fucking in the corner of the theater. The next night, she snuck me into her pool house, where we actually fucked, and shortly after, I was calling her my girl.
She’s my first girlfriend, and I was worried I would suck at it, but she makes it easy. I don’t know if it’s because she knows I’m broke, but she never asks for shit. Always wants to hang out at her pool house, and simply being with me seems to be enough.
“Oh, God,” she breathes as she comes down from her orgasm and slides off me so she can get cleaned up. “How soon until we can do that again?”
“Aren’t we supposed to join your parents for dinner?” Unlike me, who comes from a home without a dad and a mom who sold herself on the street corner to make ends meet until she was found dead in a motel room when I was twelve, where I was then placed in the state’s care and thrust into several foster homes, Tori’s family is somewhat normal.
Her parents were in love until her dad passed away from a heart attack. Her mom remarried Tori’s stepdad earlier this year, and they all live in a nice house in the Upper East Side. Tori only goes to the same school as us because she already attended our high school when her mom married her stepdad. She begged to stay with her friends, and her mom gave in.
“I told them I’m not feeling well,” Tori says with a clipped tone I don’t understand. Every time I’m around her parents, they seem nice, but Tori, for whatever reason, hates being around them. When I ask her about it, she says they’re annoying, but it feels like there’s more to it than that. I would give anything to have two parents who actually want to be around me… Hell, I would give anything to have a living parent, period.
“Tor…” I meet her in the bathroom and wrap my arms around her from behind. “It’s Thanksgiving. Isn’t it a day to be with your family?” Until I was invited to Camden’s house for Thanksgiving last year, I never experienced an actual Thanksgiving dinner filled with family and friends and delicious food, but now that I have, I can’t imagine not wanting it. Yet Tori would rather stay here, just the two of us, and miss out on the family and food.
I’m watching her in the mirror, so I catch her flinch, but before I can ask what’s going on, she turns around and hops onto the counter, wrapping her arms and legs around me. “I’d rather spend today with you,” she murmurs against my lips, “inside me.”
And because I’d do anything she wants, instead of questioning her, I give in and spend the rest of the day inside her, just as she wants.
January
Senior Year
“I don’t feel good. Please just leave me alone.”
I’ve just returned from spending a week at Big Bear Mountain with Camden’s family. I wanted her to go with us, but her parents said no. I offered to stay, but she insisted I go, not wanting to ruin my trip. I’ve never been there before or stayed in some crazy-expensive mansion/cabin. The trip was unreal. The guys and I spent the week skiing and snowboarding. It was the first real trip I’ve ever been on, and I hope when the band takes off, I can come back with Tori one day.