I looked her directly in the eye. “Yes. Especially when it’s this important.”
“It’s a spring break trip. What’s so important about it?”
“It’s not the damn trip.” Walking forward, until our bodies nearly touched, I moved the hand that had been holding her arm up her body to cup the left side of her cheek. And without so much as a final thought, I lowered my lips to hers, completing what we’d started before Jack interrupted.
Our lips melded together and Deborah’s lips opened up, welcoming me as I knew they would. The connection sucked me in completely. The more we kissed the more I wanted to kiss, something that’d never happened to me before. With every other woman I’d been with, this part had been just a prelude to the next step. With Deborah, I could keep kissing her until both of our lips were swollen, mouths dry, and lungs bursting from deprivation of oxygen. And even then I didn’t believe it would be enough. Especially, if she was going to keep moaning the way she was.
Just when it began to feel like the earth shifted beneath my feet, Deborah pulled back.
“I have to go.” Her voice was just above a whisper and it sounded like the very last thing she wanted to do was leave. “To work … I have to go to work.”
Nodding, I stepped back, releasing her. I watched as she turned, and with a shaky hand reached for the doorknob. I quickly reached around her, pulled the door, and held it open for her. She gave me a small smile over her shoulder before exiting.
I watched her walk away, the tightness in my chest growing with each step she took.
****
Deborah
What am I doing here?I questioned as I exited one of the buses that carried more than fifty of us seniors from Palo Alto to Yosemite National Park.
As I stepped down from the bus, I began looking around at the snow-capped mountains.
“Oh shi—”
“Careful,” a deep voice rang out from beside me.
A strong hand caught my arm, preventing me from falling on the icy snow. I didn’t need to look up to know who the voice belonged to. Even if my ears hadn’t given it away, the shiver that ran through my body when he made contact already told me who it was beside me.
“I knew you’d come.” He was so damn cocksure I almost wanted to turn right around, get back on the bus, and return to Palo Alto just to prove him wrong.
“That bus isn’t leaving until we do, princess,” he stated as if reading my mind.
I finally looked up into Robert’s smirking eyes. “You don’t know what I’m thinking.”
“Oh, I’m sure you don’t have a problem letting me know what you’re thinking. How was the drive over?”
Robert hadn’t been on the same bus as me. He and a few of his friends, including Jackass, orJack,as was his real name, had come over a day earlier.
“It was fine. I mostly read.”
He nodded. “Good. So you got all your studying out of the way. The next week you won’t be thinking about anything school related.”
I frowned. “You can’t tell me what to do.” I knew I sounded ridiculous but I felt like I needed to prove he wasn’t the one in charge here.
Robert just laughed.
“Hey, Rick,” he called to someone behind me. “Make sure you get all of the stuff and bring it up to the rooms. Let’s get inside. Are you hungry?”
I glanced over my shoulder to see a couple of guys unloading the equipment we’d brought.
“Are they your servants? They just do whatever you tell them to?”
Robert didn’t even seem perturbed by the question. He shrugged. “Not quite, but they’re freshman. Only allowed on this trip with us because they’ll be doing the grunt work while he have fun.”
“That’s not right,” I stated, still looking back at the guys while being led into the large registration cabin by Robert.
“Life’s not fair, princess.”
