Later that night, after dinner, I pull over on a secluded road, hike her dress up around her hips, and fuck her while leaning against the side of my car.
She comes twice.
And the beaming smile on her face when I walk her to her front door and kiss her good-night there, because I have to work early the next morning, fills my heart with joy.
We live a dual life aroundCasey, because I don’t want to piss her off. And as the weeks pass, we three settle into a sort of easy routine. Casey does come around and start to like me. Maybe because she realizes I’m not going anywhere.
I take the time to learn about her, too. Her likes, her soft spots. For Casey’s birthday we take her out to her favorite restaurant, and I pull my weight around their apartment with choreswhen I visit.
I get up in the middle of the night to go change Casey’s tire for her when Ellen calls me, because Casey refused to call me herself and her AAA had expired, because she couldn’t afford to renew it. She’d asked Ellen to come pick her up.
I would’ve spanked Ellen’s ass if she hadn’t called me and had gone and picked her up herself.
It was farther for me to drive than Ellen, butI did it without complaint. If Casey was shocked when I showed up, she did a damn good job hiding it. The next day, Ellen snuck Casey’s old AAA card out of her wallet for me and I renewed it for her without telling her.
When she got the renewal packet in the mail the next Friday, she hugged me the next time she saw me, and as a thank-you she brought lunch to me at work the next day.
I also showedup that Sunday to do a tune-up on her car for her, because it was starting to run like shit and she didn’t have the money to pay for it.
At some point over the next six months, Casey’s teasing that I was stealing her bestie faded as we quietly made the transition from antagonists to best friends, to partners in crime. And no matter how many times I tried to fix her up on double dates with us,I still secretly felt a little guilty whenever I spotted the wistful look in her eyes when she watched us leave to go do something together.
Like there was a pain in her soul far deeper than I knew.
I just wished I could convince her I’d never come between them.
