It was the week before our midterm exams as seniors, and Dex suggested we free up this weekend to sneak in some study time at their place in Beaufort.
“Yeah. Surprisingly, she was a little suspicious when I said I’m going with two other guys, but was more than happy to allow me when I mentioned you were coming,” he said, eyes still on the road as he was driving us to school.
“Well, your mom knows me. She knows I’m not the kind to say we’re going somewhere to study but really we’ll be… doing, uh— something else.”
Smooth. Real smooth, Cosette.
As if things between us weren’t already awkward the past few weeks.
Since that first date when we almost had sex if not for my forgetful self that I no longer have the house to myself, we haven’t tried anything yet.
It doesn’t help that we’ve practically had phone sex, masturbating while looking at each other through our windows.
I mean, it’s pretty clear that I’m no longer the innocent virgin I once was, but Nero and I haven’t seen each other naked yet. Things were easier with Siege and Dex the first time because I didn’t know them since I was in my early teens, unlike how I’ve known Nero for years.
It’s not that I didn’t want to try, but it’s different when the heat was naturally there, and not having a parentless home was a surefire way to kill the mood.
Have I mentioned how my dad has been working from home since the night I told him that I had three boyfriends?
Yeah. Just because he’s accepting doesn’t mean he’s supportive in all aspects of this relationship.
Still, I respect my dad too much to complain. After all, his house, his rules.
“Are you riding me?” He suddenly asked, trying to fill the silence that grew in the car, but it seemed he was having the same line of thinking as I had been before he realized his mistake. “I mean, are you ridingwithme? To, uh— their place. After school. On Friday.”
If I were a third person in this whole debacle, I probably would’ve laughed at how tense we both are. After choking on my own spit.
“Yeah. I’d love to ride…withyou.”
I was practically flying out of Nero’s pickup once we were parked, pushing the door even though Dex was already on the other side pulling it open for me.
“Woah, easy there, sweetheart,” he said at the force of my push, a hand on the door to stop it from hitting the car parked next to us.
It didn’t take long for him once he looked me and Nero over, seeing the aversion of our eyes and the faint redness on our cheeks.
Dex sent a subtle smirk my way, making me heat up even more as he said, “Still no action, huh?”
I narrowed my eyes at him, wanting to pinch his side, but I didn’t want to turn violent when it’s not a life or death situation. “Want to get booted from the group chat again?”
The threat was effective enough that the smirk vanished from his lips, only rolling his eyes as he greeted me a good morning with a kiss on the lips.
Siege came for me right after, giving me the same peck without a care in the world that we were out in the open at school.
To be fair, I couldn’t find it in me to care, too. Until I was pulling away, seeing Nero and the jealousy flashing in his eyes.
“Dad,we’restudying. Dex and Siege are asking me and Nero to help them review for the exams. It’s not like we’re going to be out and about, committing crimes around town,” I said, groaning as I sat on the couch, arms crossed as he towered over me.
I practiced what to say the whole day so that it would sound as innocent as possible, but he was already saying ‘no’ before I could even get out the whole spiel I prepared.
“So, you’re going to be inside the whole time?”
“Yes!”
“You’re going to be inside a house, for forty-eight hours straight with three men who are your boyfriends. That correct?”
I walked straight into that one, didn’t I?
“Yes, studying.”
