now that was gone and she really resented her mom for that.
Ally got the message and stayed clear keeping herself busy
with a jigsaw puzzle on the kitchen table, even though the
kitchen and the living room were more the same room. Kim tried
to set her mind off the fight with her mom and flow back to Jake
but it had been hard. Finally she thought about meeting him on
Friday. That helped but was also frustrating as she would have
to wait another 6 days, but she had his card again and she could
call him if she really couldn"t wait. Or could she? She still
didn"t want to seem too eager and turn him off. But he hadn"t
seemed put off by anything about her. Kids at school never seem
to have a problem to find something to harass her about but Jake
had been all smiles and she even had gotten the impression that
he liked her. Hell, if anything he had seemed as coming on
pretty strong. She hadn"t minded though, it had made things easy
for her. He had made her feel more comfortable and less afraid
to say the wrong thing. She couldn"t wait and her mood got
better and better and she had all but forgotten about the fight
half an hour later.
She walked into her room and her mom had put her clean
clothes on the bed. Quickly she grabbed the new outfit and stuck it in her dresser. She was initially going to wear it
immediately on Monday again but now though better of that.
“I"ll leave this for Friday” she thought.
After putting the rest of her clothes away she moved back
into the main room and opened the fridge. Ally was still working
on the jigsaw and with five hundred pieces she was not making
much progress. Kim grabbed the dish her mom had left for them
from the fridge and stuck it in the oven. Then she sat down and
helped Ally with the jigsaw. Ally looked up as Kim sat down and
smiled. She had feared a long evening but Kim seemed in a much
better mood now.
They worked on the jigsaw until the oven timer went off and
Kim got the dish out and dished up two plates. They worked on
the jigsaw while playing and neither said much but it felt close
and they both seemed in a good mood. When they were done with
dinner the jigsaw was almost done as well. They finished it and
left it on the table; not because they didn"t feel like cleaning
it up but more like a trophy. At least until their mom saw it.
They did the dishes and played another game of monopoly. This
time Kim was on it. With the next meeting with Jake setup she
didn"t have to dream about him. Six long days and she would see
him again, no more wondering. Ally unfortunately was the victim of this as Kim was
relentless in the game and Ally soon had lost. After the game
they watched the TV for a bit. When Kim noticed it was nine
thirty she realized her mom would be back soon. She didn"t feel
like going on where they had left off and told Ally that they
should get in bed. Ally protested that it was a Saturday and
they didn"t have to get up early in the morning.
“I"ll read to you for a bit” she offered as a bribe.
Ally agreed. They went to bed and she started reading. Ally
started dozing off in no time. She loved being read to and it
relaxed her but at night it put her right to sleep. Kim had
counted on this. After she was sure Ally was asleep Kim put the
book away and turned the light off. Not ten seconds later she
heard the door to the apartment open and her mom calling out for
Kim and Ally. Then she saw the bedroom door open and she
pretended to be asleep. Her mom frowned in surprise and some
disappointment that they were asleep already and closed the
door. She had wanted to apologize to Kim for flying off the
handle like that earlier.
The next few days things seemed to be back to normal.
Neither she nor her mom had mentioned the fight again and both
considered it done with. Kim seemed to drift off in her day
dreams more and more and her mom had asked her if she was ok several times. She just responded that she was fine and tried to
shake it off. Sometimes successful and sometimes she would drift
right off again. Her mom had started joking around about it.
“You better not go out alone anymore, you"ll get hit by a
bus” she had joked.
Kim just ignored it. Most of the time she didn"t even have
to ignore it since she didn"t register it anyway. At school she
had told everything to Annie who had listened with great
enthusiasm and she was very excited for her. Kim confessed that
she had used Annie as her alibi to which Annie had frowned but
finally said “Anything for love.” Time went way too slow. It
couldn"t be Friday fast enough.
Friday finally arrived and she had gotten in a better mood
every day leading up to it. She was almost high now even though
she had not reference to how that would feel, or at least she
didn"t ever remember feeling this good. She got up an hour
before her alarm went off and when she walked into the living
room, her mom had just gotten out of the shower. She had a
surprised look on her face to see Kim up and awake this early.
Kim wasn"t an early riser and when she had to get up early it
took her a long time to transform from a zombie on autopilot to
a conscious human being, but today Kim was very much awake and
pleasant. They had breakfast together and her mom asked her what was
up with her. She was off in lala-land all the time and now
getting up this early.
“Is it a boy?” Her mom had asked.
Kim nodded carefully with a sheepish smile on her face
which felt as if it was red hot. Her mom"s face lit up. She was
actually excited for her.
“Someone at school?” she inquired further.
Kim nodded again. That wasn"t true but if she would admit
that it wasn"t someone from school it would trigger a lot of
questions that would make her mom suspicious and she surely was
not likely to approve of Jake, he was too old for her. It was
not right. If it were someone from school it would be a lot
easier to keep her mom from prying.
“What"s his name?” was the next question.
Kim almost blurted out “Jake” but at the last moment she
changed it to “Josh.”
Her mom didn"t need to know too much, she sensed that she
was embarrassed and let it be. Kim just stared at her cereal and
slowly shoveled it in while her mom watched her smiling. She was glad that her daughter seemed so happy. Her mom got up and got
dressed. She kissed Kim goodbye and left.
“Don"t forget. I have a shift tonight, can you be home by
five thirty so Mrs. Simons doesn"t have to watch Ally too long”
she said.
Kim nodded but was annoyed about being on a time constraint
on her date. Was it really a date? He had asked her to meet him
so it was a date she decided. It really would be her first date.
She had kissed a boy before but that was it, it had been at
summer camp and it was just something everyone did. Nate had
been his name and he had been a year younger t
han her but he had
been available and she seemed younger than him. She never heard
from him since then and she had made no attempt to contact him
again. Their “fling” had just been a way to pass the time at
camp but there had been no really feelings with it. She had not
longed to see him when they were apart. The exciting part had
been the sneaking around and not him. He had been a tool in the
adventure and she was pretty sure that he had felt the same way.
She had never longed for anyone like she did now. She got
up and took her shower. Then she woke Ally up and Ally got
herself a bowl of cereal while Kim got dressed. She had saved
the outfit he had bought her for today. “Would he notice?” she had wondered.
Then she went into her mom"s room and put on some of her
mom"s make up. Just a little, she didn"t want to look like a
slut. Ally got dressed and looked at her curiously.
“Why are you wearing make up?” she asked.
Kim just shrugged not wanting to try and explain it and end
up telling more lies. Her quota of lies had been filled for the
rest of the year and it was only February. They left for the bus
and got on, Ally got off the bus at the middle school and Kim
continued on. At the high school she got off and she went
through the motions of school on autopilot. When the final bell
rang and she was finally done, she shot out of the school en
route to the mall. If anyone asked her what she had learned at
school that day she couldn"t have told them a single thing. The
whole day had seemed like a blur which had been one big
daydream.
When she got to the mall it was almost four. She spotted
the Porsche in the parking lot and was instantly in a great
mood. He was really here and she hurried to the food court to
find him sitting there at an empty table. He noticed her
immediately and jumped up almost knocking the chair down. He clumsily caught it and prevented it from hitting the tile floor
with a loud bang. She laughed and he kissed her on the cheek.
“Are you hungry?” he asked.
“Just a little” she said.
“Mind if we go somewhere else?” he asked.
She shrugged and said “Sure.”
She didn"t mind. This place would be crawling with kids
from her school soon just like every Friday afternoon and she
had spent enough time with them already. He grabbed her hand and
led her to the exit. On the way out they passed a few girls from
her class and they immediately started whispering. That was the
perfect amount of exposure. They saw her with this handsome man
and it would go around the school like wildfire. But she didn"t
need to spend any more time with them. They got to the car and
he opened the door for her. She slid in, he got in on the other
side.
“I have to be home by five thirty” she said apologetically.
He smiled and pulled out. They headed south, then west on
Bluemound. Soon they pulled into the lot of Kopp"s, which had
the best custard ever. The weather was freezing and he took her
to get ice cream. Weird she thought but somehow it was perfect. They both had a vanilla cone and he told her how beautiful she
looked. She blushed.
“Like my outfit?” she asked.
He nodded and said “I should take you shopping more often.”
They sat there for a while eating their ice cream
pretending that was preventing them from talking so the silences
weren"t that awkward. When they were done it was five.
“I should take you home” he said.
She nodded and they left. He opened every door they passed
for her and helped her into the car and she loved every minute
of it. Nobody had ever been so attentive to her. People normally
just took her for granted but not Jake. She just couldn"t
believe her luck. They sped off to her apartment frequently
staring at each other. He stopped around the corner again and
leaned over.
“I really like you” he said, “and would like to see you
again.”
“I"d like that” she admitted, her face must have been as
red as a ripe tomato she thought.
He leaned in closer and kissed her gently on the lips. It
was a quick kiss and no touch she had ever felt had been this good. She quickly kissed him back before he could pull back. He
didn"t seem to mind and the kiss extended. Mouths opened and in
seconds tongues were dueling. Nate"s kisses had never felt like
this. This was not just exciting to not get caught. This was
like a fire that erupted inside her and she couldn"t get enough
of it. Finally the kiss broke off and they stared at each other.
She opened the door and got out. She had to process what just
happened.
He looked a little surprised at her quick exit and asked
“Next Friday? Same time, same place?” wondering if she was still going to go for it. She nodded and walked away.
Chapter 6:
She walked into the apartment closed the door and leaned
back against the door. Her head was spinning and she couldn"t
comprehend what was happening to her. When she saw the clock and
noticed it was five thirty she remembered she had to pick Ally
up at Mrs. Simons. She went to the bathroom and washed the make
up from her face wanting to avoid any questions she didn"t want
to answer and then she headed out and knocked on the door of
apartment four. Ally opened the door and said hi.
“You ready kiddo” she said and Ally grabbed her bag and
coat and waved to Mrs. Simons.
Then they went back to their own apartment.
“You look red” Ally said, the statement being more a
question than a comment.
“I ran home” Kim lied.
I might as well spend next year"s quota in lies while I"m
on a roll she thought. She couldn"t explain what she couldn"t make sense of herself. She had this raging fire still going
strong in her gut. In the apartment she pulled a pack of
microwaveable lasagna out and shoved it in the microwave. Four
minutes later it beeped and she dished it up and put it on the
table.
“Dinner” she yelled and Ally came into the kitchen to grab
her plate to take it back to the living room so she could watch
another iCarly that she had already seen more times then she
could remember.
“Aren"t you eating?” she asked seeing only one plate.
“No, not hungry” Kim said, “I need a shower.”
“Didn"t you shower this morning?” Ally quizzed.
“Yes, but I"m sweaty from running” she said and thought
“and another one.”
This lying thing is getting to be a habit. She walked into
the bathroom and turned on the shower. She dropped her clothes
on the floor and got in. The fire just wouldn"t go away. She
turned the shower colder but she was still sweating. Then she
took the showerhead of its holder and guided it over her
shoulder, across her breast and past her stomach to her vagina.
She maneuvered it so the spray was on the right spot and with
her other hand she caressed her breast as she would picture him d
oing. She was so turned on that it took but a few moments
before she erupted into the most intense orgasm she had ever
had. She put the showerhead back in its holder and sat down in
the shower. Warm water still running over her she tried to catch
her breath. She sat there for an undetermined period of time.
Finally as the warm water was running out she turned off
the water and dried herself. She put on her bathrobe and threw
the clothes in the hamper. The fire was gone. She felt weird,
weird because here was this guy that she had only spent less
than two and a half hours with and he had made her feel like
that. Sure the showerhead had helped and it had never worked
that well before. She had never felt like that and hungered for
more. She wanted him to take over from the showerhead though.
The weekend and rest of the week went by way too slow. She
wanted it to be Friday again. At school the rumors were flying
around but she didn"t respond to them. She only told Annie and
Annie just ate it up. She thought it was the most romantic thing
ever and confessed that she wished that Matt would kiss her like
that.
“Matt who?” Kim responded.
“Matt Pierce” Annie shot back irritated “you know the guy
in our class that I"ve told you I like?” “Yeah, I remember. Sorry” Kim said not meaning the apology.
Matt was not worth talking about when Jake had to be
discussed. They couldn"t be in the same context. Matt was a nerd
and Jake was a god. Annie dropped it disappointed in her
friend"s reaction and got up and left. Kim said bye and didn"t
even notice her friend"s disappointment.
After Annie had left, the cheerleading squad stopped by
asking “Where"s your loverboy?” in a childish and obnoxious
tone.
She didn"t even warrant it worthy of a response and grabbed
her backpack and raced after Annie. “Annie, hold up!” she
yelled.
Annie stopped and turned to see her.
“Sorry” Kim told her, “my brain isn"t working, there is too
much bouncing around in it and I didn"t mean to be so self
absorbed.”
Annie smiled and nodded “Yeah, sometimes you can be a real
bitch” she said jokingly and they laughed.
Friday came around again. She woke up early again but
stayed in bed until she heard her mom close the door behind her
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