by Emma Vikes
“You’re amazing,” Amber announced the moment we reached Audrey’s car and I opened the door for her. She leaned over to me and kissed me on the cheek, “and I’m really glad I got to witness this.”
“I am too, and I actually have you to thank for this,” I said softly, reaching out a hand and touching her face gently. When I told Amber about this dream, albeit I did so forcibly, she had genuinely supported and encouraged me to do it. She actually was a very supportive girlfriend when we were dating, sometimes overbearingly so. “You believed that I had the kindness in me to do this even if it meant you were the only one.”
Amber placed a hand over mine. “Stop doing that, Jules, you’re making me fall for you all over again.”
I knew she was teasing but behind her, we both heard Audrey take a sharp breath and Amber and I looked at each other, chuckling quietly as I closed her door and then got into the backseat. The ride back home was silent until Amber’s phone started ringing and she talked to someone in a low voice.
“Auds,” she began and looked at her friend sheepishly. I watched their exchange quietly in the back. “That was Luca. He found out I was back in LA and wanted to meet up.”
Audrey pursed her lips. “We didn’t have time to catch up all day.”
I could hear the disappointment in Audrey’s voice but I watched as Amber leaned to her and kissed her on the cheek. “Tomorrow. I promise, we’ll catch up tomorrow when I get back. Luca wants me to stay the night with him and Tammy. You can drop me off at the café outside your neighbourhood and they’ll pick me up.”
Audrey pouted. “Fine. Don’t drink too much, okay?”
Amber laughed and I couldn’t help but do so quietly. They were best friends but it seemed like they had a mother-daughter relationship too. “Yes, Mom. Oh and Julian, make sure she’s tucked in bed before you leave with your car.”
Audrey slowed the car at the café after Amber said all of those things and she looked at Amber pointedly. “You. Don’t have too much fun.”
Amber smirked and she glanced at me subtly before turning her attention back to Audrey. “And you two don’t have too much fun without me.”
She winked at me subtly. I couldn’t help but laugh. “You know I can’t have fun without you, Am. You’re always the life of my party.”
Amber giggled and then reached to touch my face. “Stop being flirty or you’ll have my heart all over again, Jules.”
“Hasn’t it always been with me?” I teased and Amber batted her eyelash at me, smiling and giggling like crazy. It was as if we were both nineteen again, drunk and flirty but we were both aware that we were merely teasing each other. That role was played a chapter ago and neither of us had any intention of reviving it.
The sudden honk ruined the moment and Amber jumped in her seat. We both turned to Audrey whose eyes were wide with surprise. “Sorry, my hand slipped.”
Amber smirked and kissed her cheek. “Ciao, buttercup. I’ll see you at home.”
After leaving Amber at that café, the rest of the ride home was in silence. I thought it was simply because Audrey was tired but after we arrived at her house and she parked her car, she completely ignored me. I got out of the car and rushed to her as she keyed in the passcode of the house and went inside. I quickly followed before the door closed and I got locked out.
“Audrey?”
Audrey didn’t turn to look at me. She was in the kitchen and facing the refrigerator. “You didn’t have to take what Amber said literally. You can leave now, Julian.”
I stayed where I was standing as I observed her. Despite the distance, I could see the tension in her body. “Would you mind if I have coffee here for a while?”
“You have coffee at your own house. I restocked your pantry and bought capsules for your machine,” Audrey answered bluntly. The last time I asked the favour when I was here, she let me stay and I didn’t leave until past midnight.
I pursed my lips. “Is there something wrong, Audrey?”
She spun around to face me, her brown eyes blazing with the same familiar fury. “I told you to leave.”
My eyebrows furrowed in confusion. “Did I do something wrong?”
Audrey pursed her lips and let out a loud exhale. “You play a very dangerous game with Amber, don’t you think so? Or maybe you’re just that cruel and I should’ve seen that coming. You were always cruel.”
I stared at her dumbfounded, unsure of what she was even saying. I blinked and then took a step back, rubbing a hand on my face. “Are you jealous?”
That was the only thing that came to my mind because it literally did not make sense for her to just go off on me the way she did, to ignore me like that just when we were okay with each other. Audrey stared at me with wide eyes and she scoffed. “Are you fucking kidding me right now?”
I let out a short exhale and shook my head. “If you’re not then how can you even begin to explain what you just said to me? Playing a dangerous game with Amber? God, Audrey, we’re all adults here. We were teasing each other!”
“Well, it didn’t seem like innocent teasing to me!” Audrey argued, glaring at me. “She was all over you today. You don’t know my best friend the way I do, Julian. She was hitting on you and flirting with you and you were so damn receptive as if you forgot that you broke her heart five years ago and she tried to kill herself because of that!”
Here we were again with the same old story. “Oh my god, Audrey. That again? Amber had issues that had nothing to do with our breakup. She was depressed! And if you know your best friend well enough, you would be aware that she is flirty by nature! That’s just how she is!”
“So you’re really going to call my best friend a flirt?”
My mouth opened at the sudden turn of the argument. “You know what? This is a fucking impossible conversation.”
“Well, you started it! You were flirting with Amber all day and you were allowing her advances on you like you didn’t fucking care. You didn’t care what the ‘innocent teasing’ might lead to. Maybe because you never did, Julian! You were always all about breaking women’s heart and having one night stands.”
Audrey was on fire at the moment and her eyes were livid with unprecedented anger that I couldn’t understand the reason for. “You’re a coward when it comes to love, Julian Hudson, and you will never have the balls to be in an actual relationship.”
That was it. That was all it took for me to cross the short distance between us. I pushed her against the refrigerator and then crashed my mouth against hers in an angry kiss. She struggled beneath me, trying to push me away as my mouth worked for hers to respond and my body withstood her fists that continued to pound against me.
With one hand, I held a fist and then held it back, my mouth still latched on hers until I could feel her slowly give in to the kiss, give in to me as she began to respond with the same passion as I gave. She stopped pounding her other fist against me and then pulled me by the shirt closer to her and I did, pressing my body against hers as I pushed her even further on the fridge, her back pressed tightly against the machine.
I pulled my lips away from hers and began kissing her neck, her collarbone, and one hand snaked into the inside of her shirt, thumb caressing the silky skin until I reached her breasts. I could feel her erect nipples beneath her bra and I allowed my fingers to graze the upper flesh of her boobs as Audrey moaned into my lips.
“Julian…” she whispered my name slowly and I waited for a moment. I wanted Audrey. I wanted to take her right in her kitchen like I’d never wanted anyone before. But if she asked me to stop, if she found the courage to push me away again, I would understand. “Fuck me.”
Fuck me.
It was then that I lost it after the two words left her lips and I hoisted her up and she strapped her legs on my waist. I placed her on the counter, clearing it before I did so and then tore her shirt apart with my bare hands without even asking for permission. I removed my clothes quickly and I could feel Audrey’s hands on the waistband
of my jeans as she tried to unbutton my pants.
“Jesus Christ,” I whispered as I felt her hot skin brush against my naked upper body as she clumsily tried to unbutton my pants, “take a little longer and I’ll combust right here, Audrey.”
“I thought you were good in bed,” she whispered hoarsely, looking up at me with her doe brown eyes that I would never mind getting lost in.
I smirked. “I’ll make sure I’ll live up to your expectations.”
With one hand, I ripped her bra off of her and then swiftly removed her pants, her underwear coming along and I inhaled sharply as I took in the sweet smell of her pussy. “God, Audrey.”
Audrey gave up trying to unbutton my pants and then roughly dipped her hand into the waistband of my jeans and I hissed when I felt her rub her palms against my hard dick. “Fuck, Audrey.”
She smirked, her eyes shining bright with anticipation as I removed her hand and then removed my pants, my cock springing up. Audrey’s eyes widened and it was my turn to smirk as I spread her legs wide and positioned my head on her vagina and then licked between her folds, tasting her sweet essence as she moaned above me.
“Oh dear, you’re dripping, let me take care of that,” I whispered to her and then grabbed a towel and covered my fingers with it. Audrey’s eyes widened as I pushed the covered fingers inside of her, knowing that the texture of the towel will graze her sensitive flesh.
“Julian!” She hissed my name, her mouth forming an ‘o’ as I continued to fuck her with my hand. My dick continued to grow harder at the sight of Audrey writhing in pleasure beneath me.
I could feel her pulsate in my hand and knew she was nearing her climax, so I stopped moving my hand and Audrey groaned in annoyance. “Julian, why the fuck would you….oh!”
I slammed my dick inside of her, full length and all as Audrey screamed my name. Her hands grabbed hold at the end of the countertop and I gripped her ass, squeezing it as I rammed my cock inside of her without remorse and without any intention of being gentle. “Oh fuck, Julian! Yes!”
She repositioned herself by sitting up, I moved her to the edge of the countertop as her breasts filled my line of view. I opened my mouth to suck while I continued to thrust myself inside of her and Audrey pressed herself on me even more. I could feel her squeezing her walls tighter and I hissed at the way it affected my dick.
She threw her head back when she reached her climax and I pulled out of her when I felt my own, positioning my dick so I could cum all over her stomach and she allowed me to do so without any protest. She even spread my cum further and then pressed it on her lips, coating her mouth and then kissing me, forcing me to taste myself on her.
“Fuck,” I cussed as I tried to regain my breathing. My hands were still on Audrey and I was panting, as was she. When I looked up, Audrey was staring at me with her fiery brown eyes again.
It was then that I realized I just fucked Audrey Finch.
Audrey Finch, the girl that I was meant to hate.
She placed a hand on my cheek and I expected her to slap me even if the sex was a mutual agreement on both parties. But I felt her thumb gently caress my face. “Bed, now.”
It was going to be a long night.
18
Audrey
The moment I woke up, Julian was fast asleep beside me in all of his naked glory. He didn’t even bother to cover himself with a blanket and though his dick was no longer erect, my pussy still throbbed to have him inside of me even if we had fucked each other thrice last night. So maybe now I understood why girls were willing to have one night stands with him and have him screw them over, he lived up to what I heard about how he was in bed.
My body was tired and felt stiff and as much as I tried to think of a lame excuse to give Julian when he woke up tomorrow that it was just sex, but even my brain was too tired to function. My eyes felt droopy and just then Julian suddenly turned, pulling me closer to him and I couldn’t help but inhale his masculine scent.
I rested my head against him, closing my eyes and allowing myself to cuddle with him before all hell broke loose tomorrow when we have to face the consequence of what we’d done.
The second time I woke up, Julian wasn’t sleeping beside me anymore. I was alone in my big bed and Amber’s pink luggage stood out against the monochromatic and white and black theme of my room. I got up quickly, my heart racing. The last thing I needed was for Amber to walk in the house and find Julian somewhere and find me naked in bed. She could easily piece together what happened between Julian and I last night and accuse me of going against the girl code.
God, what the hell was I even thinking?
Neither of us even had alcohol in our system and I could’ve pushed him away when he started kissing me the way I did the first time, not pull him closer and ask him to fuck me. God, I was even the one who instigated it in the first place because…
Because I wanted him even when I knew I shouldn’t. Julian Hudson was my best friend’s ex who screwed up my best friend, broke her heart and she had to leave for Paris to mend it. Okay, so maybe he wasn’t entirely the whole reason why Amber had to leave but it didn’t change the fact that last night, I slept with my best friend’s ex.
Jesus, Audrey, how could you have been so stupid?
I sat up and sighed, the sheets falling off of my upper body and I pulled it up tightly to cover myself as I reached for my phone to call Amber. I could call Theo and ask him to stall her wherever she was or something until I get Julian out of the house. I wasn’t even sure if he was still here because he could’ve left when he woke up and treated me as another one of his night conquests.
As much as that stung my pride, that served as a better explanation than any I could think of. If Julian saw me as just another girl he fucked, then we could simply leave it at that.
No matter how much that idea hurt me.
Surprisingly, Amber left me a text saying that her parents found out she was in town and had asked her to come home. It was all so rushed that she didn’t get a chance to get her things from my place but she would be back after lunch and that I should text her where I was so we could have lunch together. Relief flooded my system.
The knock on the door surprised me and when the door opened, I dropped the blanket in surprise. There was a slow whistle. “After three rounds, I didn’t think you would have the energy to go for a fourth one as soon as you wake up.”
Quickly snatching up the fallen sheet, I wrapped my body with the blanket and covered myself as I stood up. “Why are you still here?”
When I looked up to see him, amusement danced in his blue and gray eyes. “Did you expect me to leave?”
I smoothened my features and acted calm and collected even when my heart was beating erratically beneath my rib cage as he continued to stare at me. I wasn’t sure if this was the after-effect of sex or maybe I’d always felt this way but have chosen to ignore it.
Still, I needed to do some damage control.
“Isn’t that what a one night stand is supposed to be like or did I miss the memo that the instructions have changed?”
Julian’s eyes narrowed as he took a deliberate step closer to me. I was standing near the bed and if Julian took another step closer, he could push me and we would fall onto the soft mattress and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to hold on to whatever will I had to strongly address this matter.
He cocked his head to the side. His hair was sticking out everywhere and his eyes both looked bluer today, even the gray one. “If you’re thinking that I’m going to treat you the same way as I did to all of the girls I have slept with, believe me when I say that it’s different with you.”
I swallowed. The last thing I wanted was to hear him say something like that but I held on to my reserve. “If you want us to keep the work relationship we have, Mr. Hudson, believe me when I say that lying to me like that will only ruin it.”
Julian’s eyes blazed with annoyance. “Why are you acting so nonchalant about it? You were like this when I ki
ssed you too.”
“How do you want me to react? Do you want me to ask you to sign my body with a marker that you fucked me or do you want me to post on every social media platform that we had sex?” I asked him, raising the tone of my voice.
“Are you embarrassed with what happened?” he whispered.
I closed my eyes in irritation. “I asked you to fuck me, Julian. I wanted it to happen and it did and can we just leave it at that?”
Julian blinked, unable to process what I was trying to say and what I even wanted. He ran his tongue on his bottom lip as he turned away for a second. “Are you seriously going to ignore the fact that…that there were…”
He couldn’t even finish his own sentence and he was stammering as he looked at me. Confusion kept on flashing in his eyes and I used it to my advantage. “That what?”
Julian looked defeated for a moment as he stared at me. “Didn’t you feel anything?”
I did. I felt so overwhelmed with emotion when he kissed me that I lost all rationality even when I knew that what we were doing was wrong and I even took it to the next level. I thought people were only making an excuse for themselves when they say that sometimes you lose your common sense when the feelings take over but that was what happened to me last night when Julian kissed me.
But now my rationality was back and I needed to diffuse this before it blew up.
“I wanted you to fuck so I won’t deny that in that moment, I wanted you so that we could finally move past all the sexual tension we had to endure after you kissed me that time.” Even I was surprised at how steady my voice was and the fact that I was technically naked in front of Julian as I said all of this. I would actually die of shame normally, but I felt a little bit of pride.