“And how many girls’ cherries had you popped before then?”
“Oh, hell no. I didn’t do any of that. I knew I was gay in elementary school. That was never an option for me. I had a girl who people thought I was secretly dating because we hung out together, but that was the closest thing I ever came to a relationship.”
“You must have broken all the girls’ hearts.”
“Shut up. I just turned them down for dates. It probably is a lot harder to turn them down after you’ve had sex with them.”
“Not really. When I was younger, I think it was trickier because I had to figure out how to approach it, but now I’m pretty clear, and the girls I typically hook up with know exactly what we’re doing. And I don’t typically do repeats.”
“Like exactly what we’re doing?”
“Yeah. This would be a big no-no. I wouldn’t want to give anyone the wrong idea. I’m not giving you the wrong idea, am I?”
“Oh, fuck no. I’m just having fun, too.”
His gaze shifts up and down my body. “Don’t get me wrong. You’re hot as sin and I think you’re great, but I don’t do the whole relationship thing.”
“I do it, but I’m kind of enjoying that there’s not that stress here. You know? Even the getting-to-know you period is exhausting. Does he like me? Do I like him? All that bullshit we kind of sidestepped, and we get to the best part. I always hated the game, anyway.”
“Me too. But tell me when you start getting icky feelings for me, because I’m kind of amazing.”
He rolls back onto the pillows and lounges so that his beefy body is on full display for me.
“I hate you so much,” I say, incapable of concealing my amusement with his conceited attitude.
“Come on. It’s okay. This is a safe place. You can tell me that I’m adorable and that you want to date the shit out of me. I don’t mind.”
“Right now, that’s the last thing in the world I’d want to do, especially when you’re fucking jerking your ego off like this.”
“It is weird though. Having someone I can fuck around with on the reg like this. Definitely not a position I’ve ever been in before.”
“Speaking of positions you’ve never been in before, wouldn’t kill you to bottom, would it?”
“Really? You aren’t going to be my perma-bottom?”
“Fuck you.”
“How about I fuck you, and we’ll call it even?”
“Deal.”
He beams and moves quickly, pushing me back down against the mattress. And as he presses his lips against mine, there’s that feeling again. He pulls away. “You can have this virgin ass whenever you want it, but you’d better go slow, because if you go fast, I’m liable to punch you.”
As I let out a laugh, he kisses me. He slides his hand along my side, and now I really can’t stop laughing.
“Ooh,” he says. “How am I just now figuring out how ticklish you are? This is going to be fun.”
“No, no, no!” I cry out, but it’s too late for me as he assaults me with light strokes, sliding them down to my belly where I’m most ticklish. “Fuck!”
But as much as it’s driving me crazy, it’s so much fun too.
26
I hand Scott and Kate zip tools.
“This is how we’ll remove the vinyl siding,” I tell them. “Once we get the siding off, we’ll need to remove the laths and insulation. We’re going to go ahead and strip these all down so we can see the studs and figure out what we have to work on. We’ll tear out all that’s covering this side of the house on the first floor because we’re gonna have to redo it anyway.”
“Easy enough,” Scott says.
