Commitment

by Heather Dahlgren

  “So what do you do now? I just drop my car off for an oil change; I’ve never seen how it is done.” I walk over and drop my keys on the bench.

  “I’ll show you how it’s done. I’ll even let you help.” She gets this excited look on her face and jumps off the workbench.

  “Hell yes. What do I need to do?” I laugh and bring her over to show her how to work the lift. After we get it up, I show her how to empty the old oil, replace it with new, and change the air filter. She is taking it all in as if there is going to be a test afterwards. She looks so fucking sexy concentrating like that. She watches me empty the old dirty oil into the oil pan. “Is it supposed to be dark like that?” I look up at her to tell her no, when I realize I stuck my hand in the oil pan.

  “Fuck.” I lift it out, which is pointless because it is still draining and getting on my hand. “Maddie, go over to my bench and in the bottom left draw grab a few of those white rags please.” She rushes over and comes back quicker than any of the guys I work with would have. I grab them from her and wipe my hand the best I can. “Thanks.”

  “Sorry, I didn’t mean to distract you.” I continue to wipe my hand and get out from under Candy.

  “Maddie, you think that was the first time I’ve had my hand covered in oil? Shit, that happens pretty much every day. Working as a mechanic is a messy job, I am always dirty.” We both laugh at that, because we both have the same perverted mind.

  I finish up the oil change and go to the sink to wash my hands. “Well what do you think? You ready to quit that magazine and come work here?” She throws a towel at me.

  “Not a chance. I’ll stick to what I know, but I will admit it was sexy as hell watching you work. That is something I could get used to.” She jumps back up on my bench while I dry my hands. I walk over and stand between her legs, resting my hands on her thighs.

  “Oh yea, you think its sexy watching me work?” I lean forward and kiss a path up her neck to her ear. “You have no idea how badly I want to fuck you on the hood of my car right now.” She wraps her legs around me and tilts her head to give me better access of her neck.

  “Young, how much longer until we can have sex. I’m fucking dying.” I rub her thighs and move back to her ear.

  “Soon, babe. I promise you.” She lets out a moan at my promise and my dick that was already hard twitches. I need to back away before I make good on that promise now. She gives me that pouty lip, so I bite it and pull her off my bench. “What do you say to some lunch at your favorite deli?”

  “I say let’s get the hell out of here.” She goes around to the passenger side door and gets in the car. I get in and back out into the parking lot.

  “I’ll be right back. I need to close up.” I rush to get it all done and head back to the car. She is texting when I get back in and looks up at me when I close the door.

  “Becca just texted me.” She lets out a laugh and I give her a puzzled look. “Sorry. Seems that your boy Dick has been following her to work on the weekends making sure Brad isn’t giving her a hard time.” I just smile because I knew he was doing it. He actually confronted Brad right after the fight and told him if he even looked at Becca he would fucking regret it. That boy is fiercely protective.

  “Doesn’t surprise me. That’s how Dick is.” I give her a wink and pull out of the parking lot heading toward the deli. The drive is fairly quiet since she is texting with Becca, but it’s not an uncomfortable quite. I park down the street from the deli because it is really busy today. Once we are out of the car I look at her and smirk. “Let’s race.” She gives me a smile, but her face is puzzled.

  “You want to race to the deli? Why?” I bend down to make sure my shoes are tied and look up at her.

  “Why not? You scared I’m going to beat you?” Is this childish, hell yes. Do I give a fuck, hell no. I think it will be fun. She starts stretching and looks at me with raised eyebrows.

  “Bring it on big guy. Let me know how fine my ass looks when I’m beating yours.” I smirk and give her a nod.

  “Alright, big talker let’s go. From this white line to the door of the deli. You good with that?” We both stand at the white line and look at each other.

  “Yep, I’ll see you there. You count it down.” She stretches her arms and I need to look away because her tits are poking out under her arms and it is distracting. I look forward and take a breath.

  “When I get to three, we go alright?” She shakes her head looking forward. “One, two, three.” We both take off and I have to admit, she is a hell of a lot faster then I gave her credit for. I start to pick up the pace, and before I know it, I am in front of her. I don’t turn around to see how far back she is, I just keep going. Next thing I know, she jumps on my back, wrapping her arms and legs around me so I am giving her a piggyback ride. It shocks me and I stop in my tracks. “What the hell?” She is laughing and out of breath.

  “I wasn’t going to let you win, I figured this way it was a tie.” I laugh at her logic but hitch her up and hold onto her under her legs.

  “Alright, I’ll piggyback you there. But let it be known, I would have kicked your ass.” I start walking and she pinches my ass.

  “If my ass has to be beaten, I’m glad it’s by you.” We both laugh and she rides my back the rest of the way. I can’t help but think about how perfect we are together. I thought we would be, but I know we are now. She makes me laugh, we have fun, the sex is mind blowing, and she knows more about me than any girl ever has.

  When we get to the door of the deli, I don’t put her down. I reach out and open the door. “What are you doing? Put me down.” I know she really doesn’t care because she is laughing. I ignore the stares we are getting because as long as we are having fun I don’t give a shit what other people think. Once we get to the counter, I squat and let her jump off. She is still laughing and I smile because how can you not when the girl you love is happy.

  We order lunch and grab a table in the back. “This has been a great day, Young. I love when we do something different.”

  “It has been a good day. I’m glad you wanted to come with me. Let me ask you something?” She takes a bite of her sandwich waiting for me to continue. I haven’t come out and asked her any questions this whole time we’ve been together; I let her tell me on her own time. I know a lot about her now, her favorite foods, drinks, clothes, movies. I even know what her life plans are and her damn dream house. I don’t know anything about her family. She told me she grew up in Philadelphia and aside from the comment she made about her mom giving her high self-esteem, she has never talked about her. She knows everything about my family, right down to my dead great grandparents. I don’t know if this is going to make her shut down or not, but I just need to know. I take a sip of my water before I look up at her extremely happy face. “You never talk about your family, Maddie. Can’t you tell me about them?” I don’t take my eyes off her for a second and I see her go from happy to pissed in the blink of an eye.

  “Young, let’s not ruin this day. I’ll be honest because I know that’s what we are doing here. I don’t speak to my mom and I have no idea who my father is, never met him. That’s it, I have no family. Kenz and Becca are my sisters and I love them.” She picks up her sandwich and starts eating again. She is looking down avoiding eye contact and I’m getting fucking pissed because I know there is more to the story. She is only being partly honest. I clear my throat and she looks up while chewing.

  “Look, Maddie, I don’t want to argue about this but the whole idea of being honest. It’s about being completely honest, not partly.” I know I’m pushing her, but we are never going to move forward with this relationship if she is only partly honest. I want to know everything about her and I want sex again God damn it. She looks up at me her face looks angry, but her eyes look sad. I now know whatever she is not telling me, is something that hurt her and I immediately want to protect her. I reach across and put my hand on hers to stop her from tapping it. I can feel the table shaking from her leg bou
ncing too.

  “Look, Young, the past is in the past. Just leave it there alright.” Fuck no, I won’t just leave it. I will for now, but she will tell me and sooner rather than later.

  “Fine, for now.” She just pulls her hand out from under mine to pick up her drink. “Maddie, I know there is shit you obviously don’t want to talk about. You are making that very clear. This whole relationship thing is new to me too; I do know however that in order for it to actually work we need to be honest. Completely honest. Until you, I never told a woman shit about me, I could have cared less. With you, I want you to know it all and I know that when I do tell you stuff, there is no judgment. I just want you to feel the same way.” She looks down at her half eaten sandwich and back up at me. Just than my phone rings. I pull it out of my pocket and see it’s my mom. “Shit. I need to get this it’s my mom.” She doesn’t say anything but she does keep looking at me.

  “Hey, Mom, what’s up?” She sighs on the other end and I roll my eyes knowing what’s coming.

  “Tyler, I am very upset with you. I have been asking you to come home for weeks now and I have to find out from your father that you haven’t because you are dating someone.”

  “Mom.” I try to interrupt her but she talks right over me.

  “Do you know how hurtful that is? Why would you tell him and not me? Why the hell haven’t we met her yet?” I laugh because that’s my mom. When she is annoyed, she just rambles. Maddie is looking at me with curiosity on her face. Her head is tilted and she is taking it all in.

  “Mom, I’m sorry alright. I didn’t tell you because I knew you would get overly excited and I wasn’t sure what to make of it.” I’m trying to explain it without Maddie realizing I’m talking about her. “I promise I will come home for dinner soon.”

  “Not good enough anymore, Tyler. You are my only child and I miss you. Now, I want you to bring your girlfriend with you. When will that be tonight, tomorrow or next weekend?” Shit, she wants me to bring Maddie. I would love for them all to meet, but I’m not sure how she would feel about it. She obviously has issues with her own family; I don’t know how she would feel about hanging out with mine. “Tyler!”

  “Sorry, Mom. Hey, can I call you back in a few minutes? I’ll let you know then.”

  “Why would you need to call me back, oh wait, are you with her right now? Oh my God, she’s beautiful isn’t she? What’s her name? What does she do for a living? Oh my goodness, get off the phone that is so rude. Call me back.” She hangs up without even waiting for me to say anything. I laugh and hang up the phone.

  “So, you really are close to your parents aren’t you?” I gather up our trash and look up at her.

  “I told you I was.” I throw away the garbage and walk back over to her. She is standing waiting for me. We walk out of the deli and head toward Candy.

  “I know you told me, but I just saw it and it was pretty cool.” I look over at her and grin.

  “Pretty cool, huh? Well, I’ll be honest with you. That phone call was about you.” She stops short and whips her head toward me.

  “What? Why would she call about me?” I grab her hand and pull her to start walking again.

  “My dad has a big fucking mouth and told her I had a girlfriend. She’s pissed now because I haven’t been home and I didn’t tell her about you.”

  “So what she doesn’t like the idea of you dating?” The laugh just bursts out of me.

  “Maddie, my mom has been trying to get me to date for years. She is pissed because she had to hear it from my dad.” We make it to Candy, I unlock her, and we get it. I don’t start her right away and turn to continue talking to her. “Thing is, Maddie, they want me to go home for dinner this weekend.”

  “Well go home for dinner you should see your parents, Young.” Here goes nothing.

  “They want me to bring you.” She slowly turns her head and has wide eyes.

  “What?”

  “They want to meet you, so my mom invited you to dinner. Would you like to go with me tomorrow for dinner?” Her leg starts bouncing and I place my hand on it.

  “I don’t know, Young. I’ve never met anyone’s parents before. I don’t know how to act.”

  “What the hell do you mean you don’t know how to act? You act like yourself. You don’t need to pretend to be anyone else.” It is strange to me that she would say something like that. Why the fuck would someone act like someone they aren’t? “I want you to come, Maddie. I want you to meet them and I sure as fuck want them to meet you.” She looks over at me, takes a deep breath, and grins.

  “Alright, Young. I’ll go I want to meet them too. I swear to God, it had better not end up like Meet the Parents or I will kick your fucking ass.” I laugh as I start Candy, but Maddie is looking at me completely serious.

  We get home and everyone decides we should go to the bar tonight. I’m totally down for it. I called my mom and told her we would be there tomorrow. She actually squealed in my ear. The girls are eating at their place tonight, so we ordered pizza. We are standing in the kitchen eating.

  “Young, what’s going on with you and Maddie? You guys have sex yet?” I take another bite of pizza and look over at Campbell. I decide to answer him even though my mouth is full.

  “Nope. We are still working on other shit.”

  “I can’t believe you guys have gone so long. I mean good for you but I’m just surprised.” No one is as surprised as I am. My dick is so fucking sick of my hand.

  “Believe me we are not far away from having sex, you guys might want to rinse that shower again before you get in by the way.” I take another bite of pizza and lift my shoulders when they both look at me. “What? We aren’t having sex, doesn’t mean my dick doesn’t want attention.”

  “Too much information, Young. Fuck.” Campbell throws his plate in the sink and goes off to his room.

  “Should I tell him I jerked off on the couch yesterday or no?” Dick laughs as he makes his way to his room. I guess not.

  We’ve been at the bar for a while. I definitely needed to come out tonight and drink. I’m nervous to meet Young’s parents tomorrow. There was just something about the way he was talking to his mom that made me want to meet them. I want to see what they look like, where they live and how they interact as a real family. I never had that. I told the girls I was meeting them and of course, they got all excited. I told them that I’m nervous and they said that is normal, so I have to believe that it is.

  “Right, Maddie?” I look up at Young and realize I haven’t been listening.

  “What did you say?” Everyone is feeling good at this point so everyone laughs.

  “I said you had a good time in the garage today didn’t you?” I think back to how turned on I was watching him. He was in his element and it was fucking hot.

  “Yes, it was fucking awesome.” I take a sip of my drink and wink at him. He puts his hand on my thigh and rubs it. He needs to stop doing shit like this because it turns me on.

  “I think we should call it a night early tonight.” Kenz says looking at Campbell. What a bitch, she’s going to get some tonight and I’m going to ride yet another vibrator.

  “Fine, one round of truth or dare first.” I’m not letting them off that easy. I smirk at her and she flips me off.

  “Fuck yes!” Young yells slamming his hand down on the table. He just takes over. “Truth or dare?” he asks Kenz.

  “Truth.”

  “Pussy.” She flips me off again. I look over at Young and he is drumming his thumbs on the table, thinking. He looks at them and smiles.

  “Alright, Red, have you ever had anal sex?” I spit my drink out of my mouth and watch Kenz’s mouth drop open.

  “Young, fuck off. She’s not answering that shit.” Campbell; ever the protective boyfriend.

  “Fine, but now that she hasn’t answered I assume she has and she likes it.” We all laugh, well Kenz doesn’t she buries her head in Campbell’s chest. Makes me wonder if she has.

  “Maddie,
truth or dare.” This should be good, Campbell is going to come right back at me.

  “Dare.” He looks around the bar and then looks at Young and me. He gives a smirk that I’m sure means no good.

  “I dare you to straddle Young and kiss him.” I give him a ‘are you fucking serious’ look. What the fuck kind of dare is that?

  “Oookay.” I get up and sit on Young’s lap, he winks at me, and I can’t wait to kiss him. I lean forward and press my lips to his. He wraps his arms around me and deepens the kiss. I can feel him getting hard and it is making my pussy ache with need. I run my hands up into his hair and he squeezes my ass. It all feels so amazing, damn I miss sex. I need it and soon. Then it hits me. I pull away from Young and turn my head to look at Campbell. He raises his eyebrows. He knew how turned on we would get and couldn’t do shit about it. “You’re an asshole.” Everyone laughs and I climb off Young’s lap. I’m happy to call it an early night now.

  The next morning comes all too quickly. I didn’t sleep well, between being nervous to meet his parents and being so turned on. Fucking Campbell. I got up early and showered, did my hair and makeup, and found the perfect ‘meet the parents’ outfit. I chose my favorite jeans, my black sweater and I paired it with my black boots. I feel good about how I look; now I just need to calm my nerves. I am sitting on the couch drinking my second cup of coffee, when Becca comes out of her room.

  “Morning, Maddie. You’re ready early.” I look over at her and shrug my shoulders.

  “I just wanted to make sure I was ready to leave when he is. Why are you just getting up, it’s almost noon?” After she gets her coffee, she sits down next to me.