by Ivy Smoak
“So…what’s this?”
He hit a button and part of the counter flipped up to reveal some sort of built-in computer screen. “See for yourself.” He plugged the flash drive into a USB port on the side of the screen. Windows Media Player popped up and video footage of a hotel room started rolling.
Sierra was straddling Joe on the bed, her long (and very fake) red hair falling over some tight workout clothes.
“Okay, two questions,” I said. “One, why do you have a creepy surveillance video of Joe and Sierra? And two, why would you think that I’d want to see this?”
“Just keep watching. And make sure the sound is on.”
I turned the volume up.
“Are you sure we should be doing this?” asked Sierra. “Didn’t you just get engaged?”
Wait, what? I squinted and looked harder at the girl. It looked like Sierra. Long red hair. Impossibly small waist. Huge boobs. But it wasn’t her. This girl must have just gone to the same plastic surgeon as her.
“Maybe,” replied Joe as he squeezed her ass. “But what my fiancée doesn’t know won’t hurt her. And anyway…we’re not married yet. So it’s not technically cheating.” He unbuttoned his shirt and threw it on the ground.
“Damn,” said the girl, running her hand along his mediocre abs. “Your future wife is one lucky girl.”
“Not as lucky as me.”
“Because of your engagement? Or because you get to touch these?” She pulled her sports bra over her head.
Joe laughed and squeezed her breasts. “What do you think?”
God, he was disgusting.
The girl slithered down until she was kneeling in front of him. “Ever been blown by a Cali girl before?”
“Nope.”
I turned to Tanner. “I really don’t want to see this.”
“Trust me. You do.” He pointed back to the screen.
I reluctantly looked back.
“Then get ready for the best blowjob of your life,” the girl said.
“Only a blowjob?” Joe sounded so disappointed.
“Well you just told me you’re engaged,” said the girl as she put her hair up into a messy bun.
“All the more reason to fuck you. Fucking only one person for the rest of my life is going to be so boring.”
I spit out a sip of my Kool-Aid. “Ha! Like he’s actually gonna stay faithful to Sierra after the wedding.”
“Yeah,” agreed Tanner. “That seems unlikely. But keep watching. It gets better.”
“You’re so bad,” said the girl, pushing his thigh playfully. Then she yanked his pants down and laughed.
“What?” asked Joe.
“It’s so…cute,” said the girl. The camera didn’t have a good view of his member, but I’d seen it plenty of times. Cute was a generous description. Disappointing would have been more appropriate.
“It’s normal-sized,” snapped Joe. “Big cocks are overrated. It’s all about what I can do with it.”
“I hope that’s true,” said the girl. And then she got to sucking.
I was about to turn it off. I didn’t need to see Joe bang some random girl. Hearing her insult his penis and then seeing him start to cheat on Sierra was enough. I didn’t need to see them get down and dirty.
“Well that was amazing,” I said as I put down my Kool-Aid and reached for the mouse. “How’d you get…”
I was interrupted by the girl choking and pulling back, cum dripping from her mouth. “What the fuck?” she said, but it was all garbled. And then she did the most amazing thing ever: she stood up and coughed, spitting his load right in his face. For a second she looked embarrassed. But then she just rolled with it. “Thanks for the warning, asshole,” she said sarcastically. She wiped the side of her mouth. “I don’t care how many Lakers tickets you can get me, it’s not worth dealing with your tiny, overeager dick.”
I was speechless. I just sat there, staring at Joe with a face full of his own cum. I couldn’t help but laugh. Joe was such a freaking loser. I couldn’t believe that I’d let his happiness with Sierra drive me crazy. They weren’t happy. They may have looked happy in their Instagram pictures, but their whole relationship was a joke. Kind of like Joe’s sexual prowess. Total. Joke.
I couldn’t stop laughing. Which made Tanner start laughing too. I clutched my stomach where a cramp was starting to form.
“Has Sierra seen this yet?” I somehow managed to ask through my laughter.
“Nope. This is the only copy. What you do with it is entirely up to you.” Tanner popped the flash drive out of the computer and handed it to me.
“How’d you get this footage?”
Tanner smiled. “I have my ways.”
I should have asked for more details, but all I could think about was how priceless it would be to see the look on Sierra’s face when she saw this. I just needed to figure out the best way to present it to her. Invite her out for a drink? Oh! Or maybe show it to her with Joe in the room too. That way I’d get to see both their faces. Two for the price of one. I started giggling again just thinking about it.
I just wanted to sing and dance and scream. And lie down. My body so badly wanted to plank. Maybe it was because my arms were so heavy. Would Tanner mind if I planked right now on this counter? Probably not… More importantly, why had I never thought to spit Joe’s cum in his face? I kind of wanted to watch it again.
“This is so amazing,” I said as I looked down at the flash drive. “I can’t believe you got this footage for me. I freaking love you.” The second I said it, I clapped my hand over my mouth. Shit! Why did I say that to him? Yes, it was the truth. But we’d only been dating for 24 hours. I couldn’t drop the L-bomb that fast! Only psychos did that! “I mean…I don’t love you love you. I love you as in…love ya’, bro. Buddy old pal.” I lightly punched his arm.
He gave me a funny look.
Oh God. What had I just done? Before he could say anything, I jumped off my chair and ran out of the room. But my brain was so foggy that I forgot we were on a boat. As I flipped over the railing and fell three stories into the Hudson River, I realized that the Kool-Aid had been spiked.
Chapter 66 - The L Word
Friday
Falling three stories into the river sobered me up fast. My initial belly flop probably would have been enough, but then the water was freaking freezing. Worst of all though was the panic of watching the yacht float away.
Was I going to die here? It seemed like a fitting end for me - embarrassing myself beyond belief and then drunkenly throwing myself overboard. Drowning in my awkwardness.
It was official. I’d tried so hard not to do it. But here it was. Incident #6. Damn it! That’s way too many incidents!
“Help!” I screamed. But no one heard me. Yup….this is how I’m going to die. “Help!!!” I screamed again. A guy looked over the side of the yacht and pointed at me. A second later Tanner dove over the railing. Oh, thank God.
He wrapped his strong arms around me and pulled me back to the yacht. Nigel lowered a little ladder for us to climb. Tanner let me go up first. A whole crowd had gathered to see the dumb girl who’d fallen overboard. Great. My face flushed. Everyone was staring at me. No…not just me. They were staring at my breasts.
Fuck. My. Life. My coverup and bikini top must have caught on the railing as I flipped overboard. Because the only things left on my body were my bikini bottom and boots. Which meant I was flashing everyone. I threw my hands over my breasts. Incident #6 was worse than I’d ever imagined. It just kept piling on. I was still drowning in awkwardness even though I was standing on two shaking legs. I considered jumping overboard again to hide, but the water was too damned cold for that.
Tanner wrapped a towel around me and glared at the crowd. “Show’s over,” he said, waving everyone away.
“Thank you,” I said, my teeth chattering from the cold.
“What the hell were you thinking?” asked Tanner. “And why’d you get naked in the river? That water is freezing. A
re you trying to catch a cold?"
I slapped his arm. “I didn’t mean to do either! This is all your fault. What did you put in that Kool-Aid? Did you roofie me?!”
A smile tugged on the corner of his mouth. “Ooohhh. It all makes sense now.” He laughed. “Sorry about that. I didn’t realize it was spiked.”
“I’m glad you think my humiliation is so funny.” My wet hair dripped onto my shoulders. I pulled the towel tighter around myself.
“I mean…have you ever seen someone run straight into a railing and flop off the side of a yacht?”
I tried to picture it. He was right - it was pretty hilarious. “I think I might need you to reenact it for me,” I said.
“Maybe some other time.” He wrapped another towel around my shoulders and I finally stopped shivering.
“Well at least be a gentleman and immediately sell all your shares of Wineflix and Chill.”
“Why? You worked so hard to make this all possible.”
“Um…maybe because everyone in the company just saw my boobs?” And heard me yell on the dancefloor about making you cream your shorts.
“They’re probably all too drunk to remember. And you shouldn’t be too embarrassed. You have lovely boobs.” His eyes went to the knot in my towel.
“Oh yeah?” I opened my towel and flashed him. What am I doing? Oh, right. I’m still kinda drunk. Not drunk enough to tell him I loved him again, though. God, what had I been thinking? I needed to sober up and fast. I tapped the side of my face like I was trying to slap myself sobber. Yeah, I’m so drunk.
“So about what I said earlier…” Well, this conversation will definitely sober me up.
An awkward silence filled the air.
Kill me now. “I wasn’t trying to say that I loved you. I was just so happy that Joe and Sierra’s relationship is a total joke. Combine that with the spiked Kool-Aid, and I chose my words poorly.”
“I really didn’t think anything of it,” said Tanner.
“Oh.” Great! So why was he staring at me like he was thinking about it? His eyebrows lowered as he continued to stare at me. I swallowed hard.
“At least, I didn’t until you totally freaked out and jumped overboard. That was my first hint that maybe you had actually meant that you love me.”
“What?” I laughed awkwardly. “Ha, no. I wasn’t freaking out about saying I loved you. I just wanted to go for a swim.”
“You’re a terrible liar. And that’s just one of the many things that I love about you.”
“Don’t mock me.”
Tanner shook his head. Then he grabbed either side of my face and looked into my eyes. “Ash. From the moment you started stalking me, I knew that you were special. But I didn’t know how special you were until you hit me with a door and laughed in my face. Seriously…who does that?”
“I didn’t mean to.”
“I know.” He brushed a strand of wet hair off my face. “And that’s another thing I love about you. You never mean to do any of the crazy stuff that you do. It just comes naturally. I’m so sorry I’ve been pushing you away all this time. I’m just…I’m not used to something like this. Something real. My whole life has just been lies. Running from one city to the next. Waiting for DODO to catch up to me.”
I couldn’t speak. Or maybe I just didn’t want to speak. Or move. I just wanted this very moment to last forever.
“I’ve had close calls with DODO before. But this time, when you bugged my phone…it was different. Because instead of grabbing my go-bag and running, I grabbed a pen and wrote you a letter. And in that moment, I realized that I cared more about spending one more night with you than I did about DODO bagging me. And I can’t run away from something like that. For once in my life I want to have something real, even if it’s the last thing I do. You’re it for me, Ash. I love you.”
I wiped a tear from my cheek. That was the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to me. “Is this real life?” I asked. “Please tell me I’m not having another crazy vampire sex dream?”
He smiled and kissed me. And kissed me. And kissed me some more. Just as I reached for the button on his tuxedo shorts, a horrible whooping sound filled the air. Then people started screaming as glass shattered.
“What the hell is that?” I asked.
One of the Spaceboy drones dropped out of the sky and smashed on the deck a few feet in front of us. It was followed by a lederhosen-clad monkey. He did a little roll and then sprung to his feet. I couldn’t see his eyes under his space helmet, but I was pretty sure the little pervert was staring right at my towel.
“The monkeys got free!” yelled a woman running towards us. One monkey jumped on her shoulders while another tore her bikini top off. “Ahhh!”
Another woman befell a similar fate a second later. And someone else jumped into the river to avoid the monkeys.
More crashing and screaming. Everyone started running around. More people jumped into the water. I watched as another monkey lifted up some girl’s skirt and slapped her butt. God, those handsy little monkeys were ruining the launch party!
“Do something!” I screamed to Tanner as more people hurled themselves into the freezing water. Fuck! This was being live-streamed to people all over the world!
Tanner lowered his eyebrows and just watched the scene unfold.
How was he so calm right now? I watched as one of the monkeys stole some man’s toupee and started sashaying around like they were channeling Homeless Rutherford. I wanted to laugh. Or cry. What the hell was happening?
“Tanner!” I screamed as one of the monkeys swung a sword around that he must have stolen from the armory. The little guy started running toward us.
“Enough,” said Tanner. Then he snapped his fingers and all the monkeys stopped. It was like they were frozen. They looked so docile and cute after almost destroying the whole boat and sexually assaulting all the guests. The one running toward us dropped his sword and sat down.
“How did you…?”
Tanner smiled at me. His voice must have been so commanding that all the monkeys just obeyed him. He was such a boss. A hot, sexy, total boss.
But then his smile disappeared behind a thick black bag. Someone dressed in all black commando gear pulled him backwards off the side of the boat and into a little dinghy. It was already speeding away by the time I could process what had just happened.
Oh fuck. “Tanner!” I screamed and ran to the railing. Oh God. No. “Tanner!” But the boat had disappeared into the darkness faster than I thought possible.
I couldn’t care less about the disaster of a party behind me. Tanner had just been taken. By…DODO. I think. Or maybe it was Club Onyx? Damn it! I had no idea. But those assholes had just stolen my boyfriend!
Not on my watch. Whoever they were. Whatever they were. They’d messed with the wrong girl. Because I was a great freaking stalker. And they were about to get stalked so good. Tanner had nothing to fear.
I picked up the sword that the pervert monkey had dropped. I got this.
* * *
So I meant for this to be a standalone, but I couldn’t quite fit Ash and Tanner’s whole story into this beef book. The Society #StalkerProblems is 168,000 words. That’s twice the girth of a normal book! Maybe epic-romcoms will be a new genre now. So…
Ash and Tanner will be back next year in The Society Book 2! Or at least Ash will be back. Who knows if she’ll find Tanner…
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A month ago, I locked eyes with the most beautiful girl in the world.
Now she’s stalking me.
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Bee - When I came to New York City I was engaged to the man of my dreams and I was ready to take the marketing industry by storm. But now? I'm single and working at a dead-end job with a pervy boss. It's official - this city kicked my ass. It's time to pack my bags. A blind date that my friend set up to convince me to stay is most definitely not going to change my mind. Zero chance. Goodbye NYC.
Mason - I know I have a reputation as a playboy. And I like my reputation. Relationships are for schmucks. The only reason I agreed to the blind date was because I was promised two Knicks tickets for my time. But I never expected for her to pass on me. Me? Are you kidding? I'm going to prove to her that she made a mistake. I give it a week until she begs me to make good on my promises. Then I'll say goodbye to her long legs and sassy tongue and perfect... What the hell? Why don't I want to say goodbye?
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