The Loverboy

by Miel Vermeulen

  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