It must feel good because she begins moving her hips to meet my thrusts and I feel a little proud of myself when she grabs my butt to push me deeper inside of her.
“Oh my God, Allan. Please don’t stop.”
I continue moving in and out of her, my hands caressing her tits, my eyes locked onto hers.
We move, breathe and feel as one, completely fused together and lost in each other until her inner walls begin tightening around me in rhythmic spasms that make it impossible to hold back any longer.
My orgasm hits me with unexpected intensity, wave after wave of pleasure washing over me as I flood her with my release, holding her tight against me until the feeling slowly ebbs away.
A loud growl startles both of us and I realize that it’s Onyx’s stomach only when she blushes and giggles against my shoulder.
“I believe I was promised dinner?”
I can’t resist and I tease her, biting softly on her bottom lip:
“Only if you promise that you’ll be my dessert.”
16.
‘Twas The Day Before Christmas
Onyx
“SCROOGE, YOU’RE ON in five!”
I look at my reflection in the mirror and I smile nervously, wiping a non-existent lipstick smudge from the corner of my mouth.
In the opening scene of the play I’m at a Winter Formal dance and I bump into my three exes who all have different dates.
This is when my character ignores them and is really mean to Tiny Kim, thus causing the visit of the ghost of recently deceased principal Marley who announces the visit of three more ghosts who will show Scrooge how her behavior will cause her to die alone.
So for the first scene I’m in a long black dress that shimmers whenever I move under the bright stage lights.
Robyn joked that the black, shimmery dress is perfectly suited to my name: black and shiny like an onyx.
The first two shows of our play have been so well received by the whole town, that there’s talk of having a further show on New Years Day in Silver Springs town hall theater.
After our debut there was a glowing article in the Silver Springs Gazette praising Miss Devlin’s clever re-writing of the timeless Dickensian classic and my acting as a perfect modern Scrooge.
So things have been going well with the Drama Club and Miss Devlin is already planning a new show for the end of the year: I believe she’s rewriting a Shakespeare classic this time.
I’m excited about it and I’m really enjoying being a part of the Drama Club, I just wish that my parents could be here at the show but with Mom on bed rest and the baby coming any day now, Dad hasn’t felt confident enough to leave Mom by herself, not even for a few hours.
Another thing that has been going well is my relationship with each of the guys: we’ve been spending all our spare time together one on one and we’ve been going on a couple of dates as a quad.
I’ve had a couple more heated encounters with Robyn and Allan while surprisingly Dylan wanted to talk to me about going a little slower.
He explained that since we haven’t known each other as long as I have his friends, he wants to ‘woo me’.
So after that incredibly hot moment behind Vee, he’s taken me out on a date and he’s been the perfect gentleman waiting until he drove me back home to kiss me good night on my doorstep.
I like that he cares enough to be romantic and he’s not trying to immediately get in my pants and I admit that I’m a little surprised because he has that bad boy aura about him.
So my life right now is looking pretty damn good but I’m nervous about Christmas: I can’t wait for it to be over, possibly without creating any havoc in my life like it often does.
The other blemish in an otherwise great picture is Valentina, with her constant put-downs and snide remarks when the guys are out of earshot.
Even now she’s touching up her own makeup at the vanity next to mine but she keeps shooting side glances at me when she thinks that I’m not looking.
I’m distracted from my musings when the door opens and Robyn comes into our changing room, looking dashing in a dark grey tuxedo.
He comes to stand behind me and when our eyes meet in the mirror and his hands land on my shoulders, warmth immediately seeps into my body, making my heart beat faster.
His lips brush the side of my head, right on the top of my ear and I cover one of his hands with mine, needing more contact.
“Hey sweets are you ready? I came to tell you that the guys and I will take you home after the show. I know you wanna spend Christmas Eve with your parents and to be honest we don’t care much about the after party if you aren’t there. It’s snowing heavily anyway and I don’t wanna get stuck on the other side of town with a bunch of drunk actors. Also, the guys and I have a little gift that we want to give you tonight. We all bought you individual presents that we can exchange tomorrow but we have something from all of us that we want you to have tonight.”
Valentina snarls.
“What is it, an STD?”
Robyn shakes his head and scolds her.
“Tina, what the fuck?”
She turns to look at him, her knuckles turning white as she grips the arms of her chair.
“What? The whole school is talking about the four of you. There are bets on which of you she’s fucking. And I put my money on all three of you. Fucking skunk!”
The last expletive is directed to me and I’m about to tell her that who I’m ‘fucking’ is none of her business when Miss Devlin pops her head into the changing room and yells:
“One minute!”
So I sigh and grab the black high heeled shoes that match my dress, securing the straps around my ankles.
Robyn follows me out putting a hand on the small of my back and it’s good because my step falters and he avoids me having an embarrassing fall in front of Valentina.
“You ok, sweet girl?”
“I don’t know what you find in that tramp. She can’t even walk properly in heels, she has the grace and the size of a walrus. I wouldn’t be surprised if she made the stilettos snap under her fat ass!”
I nod, trying to walk properly on these sky-high heels and ignoring the cackle that comes from my nemesis who follows us out of the changing room with Tiny Kim’s bejeweled crutches under her arms.
As soon as I step onto the stage, I notice the mayor sitting in the front row next to the principal and the town sheriff.
Stone Hill High’s small theater is completely full and I force myself not to think that all these people’s eyes are on me.
Somehow being in the Debate Club wasn’t as unnerving because the only audience during debate competitions were teachers and parents who were involved in the club, not literally everyone I know.
Miss Devlin suggested to calm my nerves by imagining that the whole audience is naked but to be honest that’s rather distracting as I discovered on our first show when I almost forgot my lines as I was staring at Julian, Amber, Wes and Chase in the third row.
In the first scene, all of Scrooge’s exes ask her to dance but she refuses, shoving Tiny Kim on her way out of the ballroom when the injured cheerleader captain tries to convince her to sign up for her senior class Secret Santa project.
“I have no time for your stupid Christmas nonsense! I have to study if I want to be Valedictorian. Christmas is just an excuse for lazy people to gorge on too much food and for sleazy boyfriends to hookup at drunken parties. This dance is lame anyway, I’m going home! Bah Humbug, now move!”
I mimic a shoving gesture but when I take a step forward it’s as if the ground was sliding under my feet and I fall forward.
I instinctively try to grab one of Valentina’s crutches to slow down my fall but she actually moves the crutch in front of me tripping me even more.
I see the stage’s floorboards approaching fast as I’m about to fall face first and when the impact happens, I feel a sharp pain before everything goes black.
Onyx
I OPEN MY EYES AN
D there’s a hot guy staring at me: he has blond hair in a man bun and his shoulders are huge.
“Thor ...”
I whisper as he shines a light in one of my eyes but the Norse god doesn’t greet me back, shining the annoying penlight in my other eye and telling me not to move my head.
When he gets off of me, I realize that he was straddling me and before I can ask him why he isn’t wearing a skirt he straps a collar on my neck.
I don’t understand what’s going on until I see Miss Devlin leaning over me and telling me that my dad has been notified of the accident and he’ll meet me at the hospital.
And then I remember: I fell during the opening scene of the show.
So the hot guy is a paramedic, not a Norse god.
My head is throbbing and so is one of my legs, and I have to close my eyes because the stage lights are so bright that it hurts.
I can’t focus on anything, just the throbbing pain and it gets worse as I’m moved onto a stretcher and strapped in to be taken into an ambulance.
“Can she take her dress off? I’ll need it since now I’m playing Scrooge. The show must go on!”
It’s Valentina’s shrill voice that makes me open my eyes again and that’s when it hits me: where are the guys?
I don’t see them anywhere but I’m distracted again by Miss Devlin’s voice as she tells Valentina to go find a spare gown among the old costumes.
“Onyx, Mrs Hamilton is riding with you in the ambulance, your father will be there when you arrive. I’d come with you but there’s all these people here—”
I get lifted and carried off the stage and outside the theater and I instantly shiver at the frigid temperature: the sky is white and big and fat snowflakes fall in a furious flurry.
When I’m lifted and secured into the ambulance, my thoughts start to become clearer and I ask Mrs Hamilton:
“Where are my shoes? They were—”
The student counselor shakes her head.
“One of the heels of your shoes broke, Onyx. That’s why you fell, darling. Valentina said that she tried to help with her crutch but you ended up tripping over it.”
I close my eyes and take a deep breath: I remember trying to grab Valentina’s crutch to stop my fall but she used it to trip me, so I ask Mrs Hamilton to take my shoes off and give them to me.
The student counselor does what I ask but I can see from the quizzical look on her face that she thinks I’m delirious because of the concussion. And maybe I am, I mean I thought that Thor had come to my rescue after all.
When I look at my left shoe, I know that despite the concussion, I haven’t gone completely crazy: the heel snapped clear off the shoe, it looks as if someone had sawed it off just enough that it wouldn’t be completely obvious but my weight finished the job.
I have confirmation of it when I examine the other shoe: the heel is still attached but it’s half sawed off.
I show it to Mrs Hamilton and she asks aloud a question I think I have the answer to:
“It looks like your shoes have been tampered with. Who could have done something so mean and dangerous? You could have broken your neck!”
But I don’t say anything because I can’t prove my suspicions.
Valentina was the only person who had something to gain from me being out of commission and she’s made no mystery of the fact that she thought that the lead role in the play should’ve been rightfully hers.
The role in the play and the guys ...
The voice in my head sounds annoyingly like Valentina’s and I close my eyes with a pained whimper.
The guys.
They stayed behind to finish the play. And while part of me doesn’t blame them because they had a duty to the Drama Club and to Miss Devlin, it hurts that none of them was even around to check on me while I was lying on that stage.
They said they loved me ... Or at least Robyn and Allan did, but was it love or did they just wanna get laid?
Maybe their ‘feelings’ for me weren’t caused by magic but by mere opportunity as with us having the lead roles in the play, we ended up spending a lot of time together.
Plus I’m not nearly as annoying as Valentina.
A tear slides out of my eye, burning a hot track all the way down to my neck: it doesn’t matter why they were with me.
What matters is that they didn’t care enough to show any concern and that again when the situation got even remotely inconvenient, they walked away.
I’m drowning in self-pity when another thought makes its way into my concussed mind: Christmas!
Of course, fucking Christmas!
That wretched holiday won again and played a long game this time around.
This is why I was cast as Scrooge to begin with, so I’d get close to the boys and get my heart broken once and for all.
Christmas just finished the job it started four years ago at that party, when Allan didn’t even talk to me and Robyn walked away after kissing me.
It hurt being ignored for four years by my two crushes but it hurts even more now after I let myself fall in love with them.
And with Dylan, because for as much as the relationship with him was just beginning to blossom, he didn’t stick around either when I needed him.
So I shed more tears in the back of the ambulance because while Scrooge had three ghosts to show him the error of his ways, I don’t know how to fix this and I doubt that my broken heart can ever be fixed.
17.
Let It Snow
Dylan
“DUDE, CAN YOU DRIVE faster?”
I lean between the front seats of the car, urging Allan to stop driving like an old lady.
Actually in all fairness, he drives way worse than any old ladies I know: my great grandma is eighty-five and drives like a nascar driver.
She might use a cane when she walks but when she’s behind the wheel, she thinks she’s Danica Patrick.
“It’s snowing heavily, Dylan. I can’t see more than a few yards in front of me, I’d rather get there twenty minutes later than crash the car and not get to the hospital at all.”
Yeah, whatever! At least if we crashed the car, we could get to the hospital by ambulance and it’d certainly be faster than the way Allan’s driving.
“I’d just like to get there before Christmas!”
I chide and Allan snaps back without hiding his irritation.
“If you keep this up, you can race me to the hospital on foot and we’ll see who gets there first!”
“Guys, can you shut the fuck up? I know we’re all worried sick about our girl but arguing among us won’t get us there any quicker.”
Robyn’s right, he’s always been the calmest out of us three.
I’m just beside myself because after 911 had been called, and the paramedics were checking Onyx while she was still unconscious, we were told that we couldn’t ride in the ambulance with her.
And despite Onyx being eighteen, the principal insisted that someone from the school staff go with her, since the injury happened on school premises and during a school sanctioned activity.
So we decided to meet the ambulance at the hospital but it had snowed so heavily that we had to de-ice the car first, wasting even more time.
“Yeah, bro. Sorry. I just need to know that she’s all right. That was a bad fall.”
My cousin nods and voices a thought that has been bothering me too, since I was the closest to Onyx when it all happened.
“The way that she fell was weird. She’d been complaining that her shoes felt funny and it was a split second but I’d swear that I saw Valentina use her crutch to trip Onyx.”
I slap my fist against the palm of my hand.
“Yeah! Me too. I saw that too! But why—”
Allan intervenes:
“She’s jealous of Onyx. She’s bitter about not playing the lead role and that we’re not into her. She’s been quite clear that she wanted to hookup with me and Robyn since freshman year.”
I roll my eyes: the psycho bitc
h has tried several times to get into my pants too when she kept inviting herself to hang out with us.
“Yeah, well we all dodged a bullet there, thankfully none of us took her up on her no-strings attached offers. Nothing good ever comes from sticking your dick in crazy.”
Onyx
I’M MOVED FROM THE stretcher on the ambulance to a gurney and wheeled into the hospital building at such speed that the gurney wobbles sideways and I feel nauseous.
How embarrassing would it be if I puked all over the hot paramedic with the blond man bun?
I close my eyes to try and keep the nausea at bay but reopen them immediately when two familiar voices call my name.
“Onyx!”
“Mom? Dad?”
My mom is on a similar gurney being wheeled in the opposite direction I’m going and I notice her labored breathing and Dad’s troubled expression.
“Mom, what are you doing here? Are you all right?”
Dad leaves Mom’s side for a second and comes to check on me, holding my hand in his.
“We got a phone call from your drama teacher, telling us what happened and that 911 had been called. I was getting ready to come here but your mom’s waters broke and she started hyperventilating and feeling faint, so I call 911 too and we just got here by ambulance. She’s having contractions and I think your baby sister will be with us soon. I ... I don’t know where to go. I need to be there for your mom and Sister but I’m worried about you.”
“Go with her!”
Mom and I say it in unison and Dad looks ready to pass out with worry.
This is when Thor intervenes to get Dad out of the pickle he seems stuck with.
“Go with your wife, sir. Your daughter has a concussion and might have a broken leg but it’s nothing life threatening and I promise I’ll make sure that she’s looked after before I leave. I’ll tell her doctor what’s going on and where to find you.”
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