Chapter 9

Chapter Nine

Marley

By the time I get up the next morning, my mom is already gone. Off to make more plans to embarrass the fuck out of me with her crony, Kate. They won’t be happy until they’ve mortified me to death.

I go straight to the shower and start thinking of ways to cure world hunger and every song I have ever heard in my whole life. My mind drifts back to the night before and all that I learned. Can I really believe Tannen didn’t go through the entire cheerleading team in every school he was at?

He mentioned not wanting to be the next in line where that sort of thing is concerned, and I can’t help but wonder what he would think if he ever found out I’ve never…had any flagpoles planted before. Would he find that sexy or be totally turned off because I didn’t have a fucking clue what I was doing? Would I make a fool of myself with a man like him? Would he laugh at me? God, I couldn’t survive it if he laughed at me. I would have to move and never come back home again. Maybe even change my name and sign up for witness protection.

I rinse the shampoo from my hair and close my eyes. I didn’t sleep very well last night. Or the night before. When I first hear the sound of something thumping against the downstairs floor, I think I’m just imagining things. Then I put it off to Mom being back home even if she’s not supposed to be home for another couple of hours.

Then I think I hear my name being called but not in my mom’s voice. I finally turn the shower off and listen to make sure I’m not just making shit up. I don’t hear anything else. I’m reaching for a towel and silently open the bathroom door just a little before good sense takes over. Whenever I hear footsteps on the stairs, I realize I have to make a run for my room.

Mom would have called out to me already, announcing she was here. I take off for my bedroom and crash right into a big, thick body. I cry out as I start to fall, but all I can think about is my towel. I’m being pulled into a warm embrace as my towel slithers to the floor.

“Oh my God!” “Holy Shit!”

We say the words at the same time and seem just as shocked.

I wasn’t hallucinating or making shit up. It was Tannen calling my name and now it’s Tannen holding me against himself as my naked body slowly slides down the front of him.

“Tannen!” All I can do is wiggle and squirm so he’ll put me down and I can make a dive for my towel -and my dignity.

“Jesus, Marley, be still for fuck’s sake! You’re going to fall!”

I start sliding and try to put my feet on the ground but there’s so much water on the floor all I do is slip.

“Shit! Marley!” He lifts me up, using my ass to hoist me higher.

“Tannen! What do you think you are doing? Unhand me! Oh!”

He’s manhandling me so that I am pressed against him so tight. I need to take a step back, find some space. He smells way too good and feels even better. If I don’t find a way for him to let me go I’m going to make a fool of myself.”

“Fucking A, Marley, work with me here will you! Wrap those fucking legs around me!”

What is he asking me to do? I stare at him with big, round eyes. He snaps at me causing me to jump in his arms.

“Do it, damn it!”

“O…okay, just…put your hands…God! I can’t believe this is happening, that I am naked and wrapped around you and…”

I end the comment on a whimper as I hide my face in the only place I have left to hide -his shoulder. He takes me by both ass cheeks and lifts me so he has a good grip on me, his touch doesn’t leave my ass though.

“Fuck, the floor is soaked, I’m soaked, you’re fucking dripping. Everything is so god damned wet!”

Kill me now! Not only is it poor word choice but horribly true. I bury my face deeper in his neck, so I don’t have to even acknowledge what he is saying or the fact I’m wetter than he realizes. Or at least I hope he doesn’t realize.

“Please just get me to my room. Please.”

“Yeah. I’m trying, baby, I’m trying.”

Oh shit! He called me…he does mean me when he says baby right? I think Tannen called me baby.

He slips a little bit causing him to jolt a little before he regains his balance and me to slide and yelp. And then…is that…? I wiggle again and again I feel the thick, hard length of what I think is Tannen’s…dick. Oh my God! Oh my God! If that is what I think it is, Tannen is fucking huge and I have him right between my legs!