Chapter 12
Bonnie and I were sitting outside in the warm sun eating lunch at college. I was telling her all about my sister and what my parents had said.
“How can they not see it?” I asked Bonnie, looking at her from across the table.
“I don’t know… What are you going to do?”
“I don’t have a choice but to go home… I can’t avoid them forever. Amelia won’t stop calling me.”
“Speaking of…” Bonnie said as she nodded her head to something over my shoulder. I turned around to look and saw Amelia hanging off of some guy in the distance.
“Ugh, see if they saw that…”
“If who saw what?” Jacob asked as he sat next to me and kissed me on the lips.
“Amelia… Being a slut.” I told him.
“Do you mean like sleeping with someone and then never wanting to speak to them again? That sort of slut?” Matt asked as he sat next to Bonnie. Her head spun around to look at him; she knew he was talking about her.
“How dare you… We agreed to one night of fun.” She snapped at him, standing up.
“Well, I want more.” He stated.
“Well, I don’t!” She stormed away and we all sat there in silence.
“What’s her problem?” Matt asked me.
“Matt, I really don’t want to get involved… She is my best friend.” I took a sip of my water and saw Matt give Jacob a look.
“Come on, babe, help him out.” Jacob said as he pulled me closer to him. He was straddled over the bench so he was facing me; my side was now pressed up against his chest.
I sighed, “Just give her some time… She had a bad break up; it’s not my story to tell… She will distance herself even more if you pressure her.” He nodded at me. We fell into an easy conversation when we heard someone shout;
“RO!” I knew as soon as I heard the voice that it was my sister. I looked up and saw her towering down over me. “Where the hell have you been?”
“What’s it to you?”
“I care about you… Mum and Dad have been worried.”
“Care about me?” I stood up to face her. “If you cared about me you wouldn’t be trying to sleep with my boyfriend… You wouldn’t make me out to be the slut, when we all know that it’s you.” I poked my finger into her chest, making her take a step back. “If you cared about me you would let Mum and Dad know that you are not a perfect little princess.” I was almost nose to nose with her by the time I’d finished shouting at her. We had attracted quite an audience around us and she leaned into me and whispered;
“You and I both know that he will be mine. He’ll get bored of you… Fat, ugly you.” I lost it and slapped her around the face. Before she could fight back I felt myself being lifted off of my feet and swung in the air. Jacob had hold of me, he was whispering to me to calm down and to not let her get to me.
“Did you hear what she said to me?” I snapped at him.
“No, babe… What was it?” He placed me on my feet and I looked over his shoulder to see people crowded around her. They were all fussing over her and looking at where I’d slapped her. She was making me look like the bad one, when it was her all along.
“She said she will have you and that you will get bored of me as I’m ugly and fat…” He didn’t say anything straight away. “Is she right? I’m not sticking around to get my heart broken.” I went to walk away when he pulled me back and crashed his lips onto mine, I didn’t kiss him back straight away until he tilted my head and nibbled on my bottom lip. I opened my mouth for him and once our tongues collided I melted and kissed him back with urgency, wrapping my arms around his neck, trying to get as close to him as possible.
***
I took a deep breath as I stood outside of my front door; I didn’t know what to expect when I walked inside. Would my parents be mad and angry with me? Had Amelia already told them that I slapped her again? I had to get it over with. I pushed the door open and stepped inside. Normally Mum was around to greet us when we walked through the door but she wasn’t today. I dropped my bag on the floor and headed for the kitchen. I walked in to see Amelia crying and Mum was holding on tight to her.
“What has gotten into you? Hitting your sister? We did not raise you to be like this.” Mum shouted at me as soon as I walked in.
“Mum, what did she tell you?” I hated that Mum thought she’d raised me poorly; I had only hit her because of what she had said to me.
“She told me that you hit her, in front of everyone at school.”
“College.” Amelia and I both said at the same time. “She said that Jacob would be hers and that he would get bored of me because I’m fat and ugly.”
“Hmm, Amelia said you would make up some excuse to make her look bad.”
“Mum!” I was upset that she wouldn’t listen to me.
“What’s all the shouting about?” Dad asked as he walked into the kitchen. “Hi, honey. Are you ok?” He asked me, pulling me in for a hug. I always felt safe in his arms and I didn’t want him to let me go.
“No, Pete. Rose hit Amelia in school today… Look at her eye.” Amelia turned around and I gasped when I saw she had a swollen eye.
“That wasn’t me… I only slapped her on the face.” I told them both, hoping that they would believe me.
“So, you did hit her then?” Mum asked.
“Yes, but…”
“ENOUGH!” Dad bellowed. We all went quiet; he turned to me and asked why I had hit her. I explained everything to him and he stood in front of me shaking his head in disappointment.
“Pete, what are we going to do with her?” Mum asked, wrapping her arms around his stomach. I saw Amelia move, I looked at her and she was smiling at me. Bitch, she’d done this on purpose.
“I don’t know Sandra…”
“I think she should stop seeing that boy… This has only happened since he and her have been… Been… You know.” Mum said, waving her hands in the air.
“Sleeping together.” Amelia added.
“Amelia!” I scolded.
“Oh my God… Are you going to come home pregnant? You are going to have to stop seeing him.” Mum said. She was pacing around the kitchen.
“Daddy, please…” I pleaded. He looked at me and shook his head.
“I think your Mother is right. You shouldn’t be doing that… Not at your age.” He said, awkwardly.
“What? And how old were you when you lost your virginity?”
“This is not up for discussion, go to your room and stay there.” Dad shouted at me.
“I’m not a child, you can’t ground me.”
“While you are living under this roof you will do as you are told… GO!” He pointed towards the stairs. I felt my tears begin to surface and I couldn’t stop them falling. I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand and ran up the stairs to my room. I wasn’t going to give Jacob up. If I had to sneak around to be with him then so be it. I knew that I could go back to Jacob’s place but I didn’t want to fall out with my parents, what if I left? Would they really not let me back? I needed to find a way to show them what Amelia is really like, but she had managed to pull the wool over their eyes for so long now that they would never believe me unless I had hard evidence.
***
A few hours later there was a knock on my bedroom door and Mum walked in. I looked at her over my shoulder. “You hungry, honey?” She asked, showing me a tray with some bread and a bowl of soup on it. She placed it down on my dressing table.
“I’m not ill.” I told her, turning back around so my back was facing her. She sat on my bed and placed her hand on my back.
“Rose, honey, what’s happened? You were never like this before.”
“You only listened to her… I’m your daughter too and you wouldn’t listen to me… You both think the sun shines out of her ass.”
“Rose, I don’t want to hear you talk like that… We treat you both the same.” I scoffed at what she said. “If you are going to be a child about it, we
will treat you like one.” She said as she left my room. I pulled out my phone to text Jacob.
You can’t come here anymore x
Why not? x
Mum and Dad said I can’t see you anymore x
Within seconds my phone was ringing and Jacob’s name was lighting up my phone. I turned on my music so no-one could hear that I was on the phone.
“Hi.” I answered.
“So that’s it? We’re over?” He sounded worried.
“No, not at all. We just have to be careful when and where we see each other. I’m not giving you up for anyone.” I told him, being really serious.
“Glad to hear it, babe… Now get your ass over here.”
“I can’t… But I will see you in college tomorrow, yeah?”
“Yeah, I’ll be busy in the morning… Meet you for lunch?”
“Ok. Goodnight, Jacob.”
“Night, babe.”
I hung up the phone and sighed. I was not giving him up and Amelia was definitely not getting her hands on him. I hadn’t known him for long but I felt something special when I was with him; we had a connection and I wanted to explore that as much as possible. I was not going to let my sister get in the way, but I didn’t know what was wrong with her recently. She wasn’t normally so poisonous.
Chapter 13
It had been a tough month; I had been trying to see Jacob at any available opportunity and lucky for me, when I’d wanted to stay with him, Bonnie had let me tell my parents that I was sleeping at her place. Amelia had still been winding me up about wanting Jacob, but I just tried to ignore her as Jacob assured me on many occasions that he only wanted me and wouldn’t go anywhere near Amelia.
“Wow, that was a long class.” Bonnie said, stretching as we walked outside.
“Oh, there’s Jacob. Be right back.” I called out as I ran up to him.
“Hey, baby.” I said as I jumped on him and wrapped my arms around his neck and legs around his waist. He caught me by holding my bum. I crashed my lips onto his and kissed him with the hunger and desire I had for him. He didn’t disappoint me by kissing me back with the same urgency, though the kiss felt different, my pulse wasn’t racing like it normally would. When I was struggling for breath I pulled away and he placed me back onto the floor.
“Hey, J.” Someone called out as they walked by.
“Uh, I gotta get going.” Jacob said stepping away from me.
“Ok, see you later?” I asked.
“Sure thing sweetness.” He walked away. I felt confused as I walked back to wear Bonnie was sitting.
“You ok?” Bonnie asked. I was in a daze.
“Yeah… I think so…” I looked over my shoulder to see where Jacob had gone. “That just felt weird… Um, different.”
“Connection lost?” Bonnie asked.
“What? No… He called me sweetness.”
“And?”
“He’s never called me that before...” I placed my fingers on my lips and wondered why the kiss felt so different. “And he was in a hurry to get away, like he didn’t want to speak to me.” I felt a little worried, what if things were changing between us? My mind was racing and Bonnie snapped me out of it.
“Are we going out this weekend? Please say yes.” She asked, looking at me with a pleading look.
“Yeah, I guess.” I was still distracted and my mind was still in overdrive.
“Cool… Oh, I wanna go the ‘The Dome’; Flix are playing… Please can we?” She looked at me pleadingly.
“Sure, I will see if Jacob and Matt wanna go.” I reached into my bag for my phone and I heard Bonnie groan. “What?” I asked her.
“Really? Matt?”
“Yeah, he is Jacob’s best friend… Come on, give him a chance. You would like him if you got to know him… As friends.” I added, as I saw that Bonnie was about to argue with me.
“Ok, fine.” She huffed. I opened my phone to text Jacob and I had a text waiting from him;
Miss you x x x
“Ah how sweet, Jacob sent me a text saying he missed me… He sent it ten minutes ago… That’s strange.”
“Maybe he is missing you because you wound him up with that kiss?” I blushed when I thought about the kiss and then remembered how it had felt different. I was worried that my feelings for him were changing.
“Oh shit… I’m gonna be late.” Bonnie said, gathering her bag and running towards the science building. “See you later.” She waved and I casually made my way to the media building to work on my photography project.
***
“Hey you.” I heard behind me. I was leaning against the door frame outside the media department. Jacob walked up behind me and swept my hair off of my shoulder so he could kiss my neck. It felt good and I let my head drop back onto his shoulder and he chuckled at me. “You ready to leave?” He asked. I nodded my head, he took my hand and we began walking together when I froze. “Babe?” He asked.
“Shit… Quick, hide.” I said, pushing him away from me. He looked confused and I nodded my head to behind him. Amelia was stood across from us with her friends. I knew that if she saw us together the first thing she would do would be to tell our parents. Jacob huffed at me as he walked away and stood with Matt. I was sure he was getting fed up of us not being able to be together all of the time in public. I watched as Amelia looked at me and then she started walking towards Jacob. As she reached him I saw her trail her hand up his arm. She then stood on her tiptoes to whisper something in his ear. I wanted to go over there and pull her away from him but I couldn’t. He stepped back from her shaking his head. I saw Matt look over to me and then I saw him grab Amelia and drag her away. All I could hear was her giggling. Once they were out of sight Jacob made his way over to me. He stood in front of me and placed his hands on my hips.
“Let’s get out of here while Matt is distracting her.” I nodded my head and we walked towards his bike.
“What did she whisper to you?” I asked as he straddled the bike.
“It was nothing… Jump on, babe.” He held out his hand so he could help me. I didn’t take it.
“I wanna know what she said to you.” I crossed my arms over my chest and waited for his reply. I didn’t miss his gaze landing on my chest. I smiled happily inside that I could create desire in his eyes within seconds.
“She said… Take me back to your place and I will show you some fun.”
“That bitch… Why is she doing this to me? I bet she knows we are still together… You should have seen the look she was giving me when she walked up to you.”
“Babe, let’s forget about her… Come on let’s go home.” I climbed onto his bike thinking about how I loved that he’d said ‘let’s go home.’ Like it was our home. One day maybe. We had been together for over a month now and things were moving forward rapidly; I spent a lot of time at his place, we cooked together, slept together and went to and from college together. I was happy and falling in love, I just hoped Jacob was feeling the same. I did find it strange that I had been at his place so many times and I still hadn’t met his brother though. And he seemed in no hurry for us to meet, it was as if he was purposely keeping us apart.
Once we got inside I decided to ask Jacob about lunch time, I had been worrying about the fact that the kiss had felt different.
“Why were you in such a rush at lunch time?” I asked him, placing my bag by the sofa and walking into the kitchen.
“Lunch time?” He asked, looking confused.
“Yeah… We kissed and you left in a hurry.” I was digging around in the fridge for something to cook for tea. I noticed he didn’t say anything so I looked at him and noticed he looked shocked. “What?” I asked him.
“Sorry, yeah…Um… At lunch time… Sorry babe, I was just so busy… It’s been like it all day.” I nodded at him and smiled, letting him know that I was ok with what he’d told me. I looked at him holding some chicken and he stalked towards me, grabbing the chicken out of my hand and putting it back in the fridge. I looked at
him confused as I didn’t know what he was doing.
“I need that… To make some tea…” Jacob cut me off with a hot tantalising kiss. I felt my body melt into his and my knees go weak. He held my waist and lifted me up so I was sitting on the kitchen worktop in front of him. I didn’t know what I was worried about, nothing felt different. In fact he was sending fire through my body; I was getting hot and wanted to strip both his and my clothes off. I pulled and tugged at his t-shirt. He chuckled and stepped back from me and pulled his t-shirt off over his head. I smiled as my eyes wandered over his muscles; I must have been biting my lip as he pulled it out from between my teeth with his thumb. I ran my hands over his body and I felt him quiver underneath my touch. I wound my legs around his waist and pulled him close so that I could feel him against my now very wet panties.
“Baby, I need you inside me.” I panted. He pulled my top off over my head and undid my bra; he wasted no time in pulling one of my nipples into his mouth. I arched my back and groaned. He placed his hands underneath my bum and lifted me up. His cock pressed into my panties and I let out a gasp. I must have spurred Jacob on as he slammed me into the nearest wall; he placed my feet onto the floor as he ripped my jeans from my body, followed by my panties. I was now standing completely naked in front of him. He pulled my face towards him to give me another kiss and I held my hand against his chest and shook my head.
“Lose the clothes.” I winked at him. He quickly stripped out of his jeans and boxers and as he pressed his body close to mine I took him in my hand and pumped his length a couple of times. He groaned and dropped his head back. “I need you inside of me…Now.” He dropped to his knees and flung my leg over his shoulder and I was soon screaming from my first orgasm. He stood up, picked me up and slipped inside of me.
“Yes!” I screamed out, as Jacob groaned. He was lighting a fire in my body, I could feel it from my face all the way to my toes. I was burning and I could feel my second release approaching.
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