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  “Hey, Alex you came!” She throws herself at him and wraps her arms around his neck. She finally lets go and she uses her body to push me away from him, she’s such a bitch.

  “Yeah, we decided to stop by for a bit.” He replies nonchalant. He looks at me as he takes a sip from his cup.

  “We?” Then she turns to me and acts like she didn’t know I was even there.

  “Oh, hey there girl. How’s it going?” She turns towards Alex without waiting for a response. She skims her fingers down his arms, “I thought we would go upstairs for a while and talk?” She asks him.

  Alex gives her a hard glare, “Listen Libby, I know what your trying to do. I told you we were done and I mean it.”

  She just stares at him in shock, like no one ever said no to her before. Then her face turns into anger, “You are going to throw away some amazing sex for this cow?”

  Geez, could I feel any more humiliated? I look around to see the others looking in our direction. Embarrassed, I put my cup down on the side table, “Alex, I should go.” I turn to leave but Alex grabs me.

  “Tori…”

  “Let the fatty go, Alex. She isn’t one of us.” Libby laughs her high pitched annoying laugh.

  Alex still has me in his grip. He turns around and gives Libby a stare so intense that she shrinks back. I see her swallowing hard, she backs away scared without even having him say anything to her.

  I can feel my eyes starting to water up, I’ve never been so humiliated in my entire life. Unsure of what to do, I run up the stairs. My vision is watery and blurry so I’m in search of an empty room before everyone sees me crying. I find a bedroom that looks like it might belong to the parents of the party host. I enter the dark red room and close the door immediately and sit on the bed. Tears are streaming down my face, I knew this was a bad idea. These people don’t know me, they already think I’m some loser always hanging around Alex. What made is feel even worse is the look I saw on Alex’s face of pure pity. I don’t want anyone to feel sorry for me. I don’t usually care what people think about me, but I do care what Alex thinks and right now I think that he feels sorry for pathetic me.

  My back is facing the door so he can’t see my face as he walks in. “Tori?”

  I don’t say anything, I grab a tissue from the side table and dry my eyes. “Tori?” He calls again. “Say something to me.”

  He sits beside me on the bed, my head is lowered so he doesn’t see my tear stained face.

  “What do you want me to say?” I whisper.

  He lifts my chin up with a single finger, so I would look at him. “I’m sorry, baby. I hate that she made you cry. She’s just jealous of you and what we have.”

  I scoff at that statement. “She’s jealous? Please Alex, I know you’re trying to make me feel better but don’t start making things up.”

  He kisses my forehead, then leans his forehead against mine. “You are incredibly beautiful Victoria Ann Jones.” He says, I look up at him and he is smiling one of his famous smiles.

  “I think you may need glasses.” I joke. I look into his eyes then I feel shy suddenly and I try to look away but he doesn’t let me.

  “It’s a pity you don’t realize it. You are easily the most beautiful woman I have ever met. I think about you all the time; do you know that?”

  I look at him, unable to think of something to say.

  “I’m going to be honest, Tori. I fucked a lot of girls, I wanted to try to fuck you off my mind. I think about you in more than a friendly way, I don’t want to ruin our friendship because you mean so much to me. It just seems that I can’t get you off my mind.”

  I remain silent. My eyes never leave his.

  “Then I think to myself, why am I fighting my feelings for you? I know you’re too good and pure for me but I want to at least try to prove my love and at least try to be worthy, you know?”

  “You’re my best friend Alex.” I manage to get out.

  He nods, “I know, I tried to think about you as a kid sister but you make it hard. You’re incredibly sexy, Tori. You’re sexy without even trying. Girls like Libby have to try very hard to look sexy and you don’t even think about it.”

  I suddenly feel shy and embarrassed. He whispers to me, “You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You are the smartest, funniest and sexiest woman I have ever met.”

  I look at him, I feel so much love for this man. He continues, “I have waited years for this moment, I thought these feelings would go away but they only stronger.”

  He studies my face for a second before bending down and taking my lips in a kiss. I can taste the beer that he had earlier. His lips are soft and wet, he starts to suck my bottom lip a little. I can feel his tongue touch my lips, seeking entry into my mouth. I finally open my mouth and am rewarded with gentle stroking of my tongue with his. I hear moaning as we continue to kiss then I realize the moaning is coming from me. I have no clue to what I’m doing but I’m letting him take the lead. I moan as he cups my breast and gives it a hard squeeze. I gasp at the intimate contact. I break the kiss so I could stare into his beautiful eyes. I

  I place my hands on his wide chest, feeling the mountain of muscle that hides beneath his shirt. Trying to steady myself, I connect our mouths once more and we continue in the mating of our mouths.

  The room is quiet, except for our panting. I can still hear the music and chattering outside the door. I hope that no one comes in because we haven’t locked the door.

  I break the kiss, trying to control my breathing, “Are you sure we should be doing this Alex?” I’m kicking myself as I say these words because I want this real bad, but I don’t want to ruin our friendship.

  “If you want to stop, we can stop.” He tells me. I look at him. I contemplate the consequences of sleeping with him and how it would change things. Oh, fuck it. I smash my lips against his again pushing him down onto the bed with me without breaking contact. My hands are behind his neck pushing him closer to me. It feels like I can’t close enough to this man. His talented hands are roaming my body over my dress and disappearing underneath. He starts rubbing me over my panties that were completely soaked.

  He stops, “I love you.” He whispers. “Do you trust me?”

  I nod, “You know I do.”

  He kisses my collarbone, then makes his way to the middle of my chest. He pushes the top of my dress down revealing my bra. He lowers the cups of my bra and my breasts pop out. He takes a nipple into his mouth. He starts sucking while kneading the other one. After a few minutes of him doing this, he lets go with a pop and starts doing the same to the other. I’m moaning, it’s feeling incredibly good. He starts making his way down my body, leaving a trail of kisses behind. When he reaches my sensitive panty covered area, I try to close my legs in embarrassment. He looks up at me, “You don’t have to be shy around me, Tori. You know me better than anyone, don’t hide yourself from me.”

  I give me a smile, as I relax my legs. He smiles down at me as he removes my dress along with my panties and throws them onto the floor.

  I am completely naked and nervous at what is coming next. I lean back against the pillows as he starts kissing my pubic bone and works his way further down, the way his tongue is moving in circles is starting to make something inside me come alive. The pleasure is intense because I’m starting to feel a weird sensation build up. “Oh, oh. That feels good Alex, please don’t stop.” I whisper to him.

  He stops for a brief second, “Never baby, you taste too fucking good.” He continues.

  Before I knew what was happening, my heart started racing, it was like my insides were going to explode. My hands were stroking his hair as he continued his gratifying torture. I start riding his face when the high starts to build up. When I get to that peak, my body explodes in the most intense pleasure I have ever experienced in my life. After a few seconds, I come down from my high. He looks up and kisses my lips, I can taste myself on him, it’s completely erotic. He inserts two fingers inside me, stroking m
y inner walls. He begins to kiss me again, but this time the kisses are more burning and urgent.

  “Let go, baby. I’m right here.” He whispers against my lips.

  My mind is far away as the pleasure increases and I’m riding his hands. I’m exhausted from the first orgasm but I can feel my body get ready for the next one. I’m not thinking about anything but reaching the peak of my pleasure and I’m so close. My moaning gets louder and I don’t care if anyone can hear me scream. All I care is that I feel like my insides are on fire. After he rubs up against my G spot, I let go. I come just as hard as the first time. I can’t believe I had two orgasms in less than ten minutes.

  “Alex!” I yell. We are in each other’s arms as I come down to reality. Our breathing slows down and I’m able to think again.

  “That was amazing, Alex. That’s never happened to me before” I say to him as I stroke his hair.

  “You never made yourself come before?” He asks me.

  I shake my head in embarrassment, “Once in a while, but this was different.”

  He smiles down at me, he lowers his head to take my mouth again. We continue to kiss for a few minutes as he lays me on my back. He positions himself over me and looks down, “Are you sure your ready for this?” He asks me once again.

  “Yes, Alex. I’m sure.”

  He smiles, “Okay.” He gets off the bed and removes his shirt and his jeans along with his boxers. He reaches into his pants pocket and grabs a condom from his wallet and puts in on in record time. He lays back down over me.

  As he’s looking into my eyes, “Keep your eyes on me.” He slowly enters me. I can feel my virgin barrier stopping him from going further. There is a slight pinch of pain and I gasp. He slowly pushes forward, as he does I feel such an intense pain. He pushes in all the way and is fully seated inside me but he doesn’t move. I can feel his breathing on the crook of my neck. We’re both breathing heavily as I get used to this unfamiliar intrusion. I don’t have a lot of experience with penises, but I know that Alex is bigger than average.

  “You’re so tight Tori. I don’t think that I’m going to last long. You just feel so good.”

  I start moving my hips signifying for him to move as well. “You can move now, it doesn’t hurt as much.”

  I feel his head nodding and he slowly moves in and out. Our breathing is heavy as a thin layer of sweat covered our bodies. My body is starting to feel that familiar build up again. His thrusts become harder and more intense. I can hear the headboard banging against the wall, I don’t care though. Right now, my mind is focused on the release of pleasure coming. I feel completely connected with this man, both physically and emotionally. I don’t want this moment to end.

  He lifts his head from the crook of my neck and looks at me, “I’m close, baby. Come with me.” I nod.

  He doesn’t break eye contact with me as he moves faster, he bends a little to continue to kiss me and I’m lost in the pleasure.

  After a few more thrusts, my craving for release is rising and after a few more seconds we both come. I’m holding on to him tight like I’m afraid he might disappear.

  After a few minutes, our breathing becomes normal. Our bodies are sticky with sweat. He rolls onto his back and gets off the bed to dispose of the condom. He comes back and kneels on the bed. He stares at me with love in his eyes. “That was amazing baby.” His hand rubs my thighs as he’s looking at me.

  He leans over to me and kisses me tenderly, less imperative than how he was a few minutes ago.

  “I wanted to be your first and your only.”

  I smile at him, but my mind is racing with all these different emotions. I’m not sure of what I’m supposed to be feeling right now. I’m just extremely happy and on cloud nine. I think this is what people call, afterglow.

  “Your overthinking everything again, Tori.” I look to the side where he’s standing. He’s putting on his jeans and I search for my dress as we speak. “You don’t regret what happened, do you?”

  “Of course not. It’s just feels like a dream.” He sits on the bed beside me. He’s leaning down about to kiss me when suddenly the door bursts open and the queen bitch, Libby walks in. I cover myself with my dress and Alex looks furious.

  She has a beer bottle in her hand and the way her body was swaying I could tell that she’s drunk, “Well, well, well. What do we have here?”

  CHAPTER FOUR

  Present day…

  Victoria

  I’m on the back of a cab on my way home. I’m thinking about everything that has happened today. Alex was successful and seemed to have a great life. He has done extremely well for himself. Even if I am angry at him, I do have to admit that he has accomplished a lot.

  How would our lives be different if we kept in touch, would we be together? I like to think that he would still want to be with me. But he made that decision long ago when he left, he didn’t just leave Bradshire, he left me and broke my heart. It was like all our years of friendship hadn’t meant shit to him.

  “Miss, here we are.” The cab driver says. I’m interrupted from my thoughts when I reach outside my apartment building, I search my wallet and fish out a twenty.

  “Keep the change.” I exit the cab and walk into my building, opting to use the stairs instead of the elevator. It gives me time to think of an excuse the interview not going well. I’m not sure if I should tell my mother that Alex was the CEO of that company.

  I walk into my apartment and kick off my heels. New York City is huge, why can’t I find something decent with my degree, I don’t get it. I worked my ass off even given my circumstance and yet I can’t find anything.

  I insert the key in the lock and open the door, I’m immediately greeted.

  “Hey mom! Did you get the job?” My nine year old son, Adam asks me as I make my way to lay on my couch. My beautiful son, he was the reason I had it hard during my college years. I was studying and raising him as a single parent. I was lucky that I had my parents’ help and they were always there for me when I needed it. I graduated and worked waitressing and bartending jobs to help pay the bills. Nothing was enough though, I always needed to come up with more to pay the bills. Six months ago, I decided to quit my job in the medical office in Bradshire and move to the city with my son in hopes of getting a well-paying career. I have applied at many of the major companies here in hopes of getting a good benefits package with medical and dental for myself and my son.

  “It went well.” I lie. He doesn’t need to worry about these things. “Where’s Nana?” I ask. My mom was supposed to be watching Adam. Her and my dad still live in Bradshire, it’s about thirty minutes from here. We usually visit them on Sundays for dinner.

  “She’s taking a nap in your bed, she said she felt dizzy.” He says as he grabs a can of soda from the fridge.

  “Do you want pizza for dinner? I’m not in the mood to cook tonight.” I ask.

  “Yes! I didn’t want to tell you but there’s no food in the fridge.” He says as he mindlessly flips through the T.V. channels. Damn, I forgot about grocery shopping. I don’t think I will have enough to cover the rent and groceries this month. I’m going to have to ask my parents for money again, I hate asking them because I’m an adult and I’m supposed to be able to provide for my child, but it’s extremely hard doing it as a single parent with no assistance or child support.

  Since seeing Alex this morning, I realize that my son looks so much like his father. Both have the dark hair and brown eyes. His eyes are also big and round like Alex’s. I wonder to myself if should tell Alex about Adam now that I know where he works. The only problem is that if I tell Alex and he gets angry and decides to sue me for custody then I could lose him. Alex has money and could afford all these fancy lawyers, I can’t even afford to go grocery shopping every week.

  Adam catches me sitting there staring at him, “Is everything ok?”

  I then realize what I was doing and shake my head a little, “Sorry sweetheart, my mind was elsewhere. I’m going to
call pizza than I’m taking a long hot bath.”

  After I place the call for delivery, I walk to the bathroom when I run into my mom “Hi, honey. How did it go?” She asks.

  “Not as well as I hoped. I’m going to start making calls to some of my old classmates to see if they know of anything.”

  My mom doesn’t say anything, just nods.

  I needed to ask her for rent money, “Mom, I was wondering. Would I be able to borrow the rent money? I don’t have groceries and rent is already due. Once I get a job I will pay you back, I promise.”

  “Of course sweetheart, don’t worry about it. I’ll send a check to Cole when I get home. Listen, I better get going, you know how Sandra gets if I’m even ten minutes late for bingo.”

  “Thank you mom, love you.” I say and I give her a hug. I hear the front door open then close.

  *****

  I’m in the bath with some of the fancy oils I had gotten for Christmas last year. I haven’t taken a bath in a long time but sometimes it helps with my anxiety. I close my eyes and try to clear the thoughts in my head. My mind goes to Alex and how he looked. I still felt attracted to him even though he looks a little different, more older and dignified now. How had I not known that he was the CEO? I have heard about S & J but I hadn’t heard about him being the CEO.

  When the water turns cold, I finally decide to get out and dress in my comfortable cotton pyjamas.

  *****

  We finished our pizza and are watching T.V. Well Adam is, I’m just staring at the screen not paying it any attention. He’s watching some sort of Geographic show about the lion kingdom. Alex loves watching these types of shows. I used to when I was growing up but I hardly watch television anymore.

  There’s a knock at the door, I look at the clock on the mantel and it says 8:46. Who could that be at this hour? I look through the peephole to see who it is. It can’t be, shit! I open the door slowly to Alex Santos.