Repair Me

by Melissa Phillips

  Scott's eyes nearly popped from his head. “Four shots it is.” He said cautiously

  “Make it five and a vodka lemonade... you know how I like those” I mentioned with strong sarcasm. My voice loud enough, making sure our entire table could hear. Scott slowly stepped backwards from the table. His looks killed my heart while he begged to stay out of the middle. He saw the tension between Davien and I, but never asked.

  Natalia had no clue to what was going on, but she made it very clear that she was caught off guard from my attitude. When I left the house I was angry, but when I arrived at the bar and saw the man I wished could be mine, and he was stuck to a sickening woman, made me furious. I had no words to explain the thoughts that raced through my mind. I was sure that Natalia had watched my eyes as I stared at Davien.

  The blonde heard my answer and chuckled in response. Davien looked at her face and dropped his hand from the busty blonde's lap but continued talking to her innocently which still didn't please me. I shook my head as I examined the woman. She had thick blonde hair that reached just below her shoulders. Her body was a medium build, slim, but her breasts caused her to look much more curvy. She was dressed in extremely obscene clothing, well my dress was too, but Davien seemed to like it. I guess he seemed to like hers as well.

  Scott arrived with the drinks and he slowly lowered each of my shots next to my drink. Continuously watching my eyes, he made sure he was doing the right thing. As if he had heard me incorrectly, but I just kept nodding and smiled at each glass. He stood straight as his nerves showed fire. I felt bad that I was doing this to him. He placed a drink in front of Natalia and poked Davien on the shoulder, causing him to turn to the table for his beer. “Thanks man. I could really use that...you know with the show about to start.”

  My nostrils flared with heat pouring out and Davien watched my every move. Very politely he asked the other woman to sit at another table, but he still never attempted to speak to me. Without thinking, I took my first shot. I sat straight up as I felt the burn travel down my chest. I looked at the line of shots placed in front of me. I had four more and I had no intentions of making them last. I picked each one up after another and downed each one like a pro. Picking up my vodka drink I washed everything down and exhaled as I felt the burn fade from my chest. After I placed my drink back to the table, I noticed the bright blue eyes attached to me. I couldn't make out his facial expression or thoughts. But I knew he was just as out of place as I was feeling. It was more than odd.

  “The Pits will be on stage in the next few minutes, so grab your drink and let's get the show started.” The familiar voice sounded over the speakers. Justin and Vince were already sitting on the steps to the stage. Each had a few women at their sides. One girl was lifting the back of Justin's shirt and obviously looking at a large tattoo on his back that I could barely make out. Dropping Justin's shirt down she wrapped her arms around his waist as she stood behind him. His hands went over his head and he lift his head until his arms wrapped to the girl's shoulders.

  I had to say, pretty boy Justin also came across as a heart-breaker. I wasn't sure if he was a slut like Davien, but the girls at CJ's were always goggling over him. He spent a lot of his time with Vince and I realized they were just as close as Scott and Davien were to each other. When Justin and Vince would sit at the table, all of the girls just pointed at Justin and giggled like young girls pointing out their first crush. Vince preferred the more mature ladies. The ones that didn't look as trampy as the ones that followed Davien around the bar.

  The crowd was growing and the sounds we getting louder as Scott and Davien grabbed their things “Ready, Bro?” Scott pulled Davien's eyes from me. As they walked to the stage, Davien looked over his shoulder and took one last glance at me and shook his head.

  The blue lights shined over the guys as they grabbed their things from the stage. Vince pulling his hair back tighter as he walked behind the drums, Justin managed to break free from his adoring fan and grabbed his bass guitar from its stand and Scott did the same with his guitar. The center man approached the mic. “How's everyone doin' tonight?” Davien screamed over the eager crowd and everyone gave a loud applause “Let's have some fun.” His whole demeanor changed where he left my side.

  The music started immediately and Scott winked at Natalia causing her to jump to her feet and scream like the other girls. “C'mon girl, lets dance a little.” The place was packed, everyone was crammed in their own corners. I stepped to the floor at Natalia's wishes and immediately felt the shots take over my body. “You okay girl?”

  I nodded my head. “Yep, I'm cool.” I lied. My stomach was queasy and my head was blocked from reality. Natalia pulled at my hand,trying to steady me until we reached the same dance area that Davien and I had shared together only weeks ago. She rocked to the music alone and I followed her moves. I felt like a carefree woman for once. I was beyond mad at Davien, I was pissed, but I was having a blast between Natalia and I.

  I let loose as I felt the drinks getting stronger. She moved alongside me and the song was upbeat. It was a new song that I had been playing on my iPod and I knew every word. Davien's voice made those words better, much better. But I tried to block his raspy voice from the song. He was driving me wild, mixing my emotions until I was sick.

  I was so caught up in the song and the state of my alert, I started dancing more and more with my eyes closed slightly. Holding Natalia's hand for dear life. She held me tight, knowing that my body was in no condition to steady itself. I trusted her moves and she lowered her hands to my waist.

  We were grinding together to the beat of Vince's drums when a loud noise came over the speaker. My eyes opened instantly and I watched as Davien jumped from the stage. He had dropped the mic to the floor and was running my way but Natalia made no attempt to move from my waist. My eyes darted from Davien, then across the way to Natalia's. Wait Natalia? I turned around and noticed a lanky light haired man standing behind me. I pulled from his arms forcefully. The room was instantly quiet as if there was not a single person in the building. “Take her to the fucking bathroom Natalia.” Davien screamed at the top of his lungs. I squint my eyes as I watched Natalia running towards me. Everything was a big blur when she grabbed my hand and started pulling me towards the back hallway. I tried to pull back, wanting to watch the scene. I wanted to know what was going on. I could hear Davien's yelling loudly over the crowd “Justin...” On one last peak, I saw Davien on his knees squatting as he straddled the lanky man. I could see from my view that he was screaming at the man and his fist was in the air...... and then the bathroom door closed.

  Natalia stood in the middle of the bathroom staring at me and I just squint my eyes at the blurry vision. I couldn't make out what was going on. “What is happening Natalia?”

  “What do you mean?” She yelled back with an angry voice.

  “What is going on? Why is Davien acting like this?” I cried out .

  “Are you fucking serious, Avery? The man had his arms around your waist and he had your dress pulled up high enough to show the world your underwear. Glad to see you wore some at least. His hand was half way down your panties when I noticed him. Before I could make my way through the crowd, Davien was already jumping off the stage.”

  “Who? Justin's hand? Justin was dancing? What are you talking about?” I was confused.

  “Justin? No some guy in the audience. Justin and Davien are probably beating the shit out of him though.”

  “What the hell does Justin have to do with this?”

  “Let's say Justin does some dirty underground fighting and the man won't be walking out tonight with you on his side.” Her brows were flaming high on her face.

  Davien ran into the bathroom and grabbed me, pulling me to his chest. He was out of breath and his chest was pounding. “What the fuck?” He pushed away to look at my face. His bloodied hands gripped at my cheeks as he looked into my eyes. “What the hell were you thinking, Avery?”

  “I... I don't know.
I don't know what the hell is going on. I was caught up in the song and I was dancing with Natalia and next thing I knew you were running through the crowd.”

  “Take her outside, Natalia, Justin is waiting for her.” Davien demanded. He threw a pair of sweat pants in my direction. “Put these on, Avery.” His breathing was heavy and fast and his words followed even faster.

  When we stepped from the bathroom, the crowd had thinned out to barely anything. Justin instantly grabbed my hand tightly and quickly leading me through the bar. Exiting the bar's door, Justin brushed the loose hairs from my face with his shaky hand. “You okay, Baby girl?” He always called me 'Baby girl'... in the beginning Davien would give him devilish looks when he called me that, but eventually over the last couple weeks, he just took it in. It was completely harmless, something like a big brother nick-naming his little sister. I nodded my head. Holding my cheek in place, he ran his thumb under my eye to catch a single tear. He walked me to Davien's bike where he was already seated. I took one glance at Justin and he had a long cut under his right eye. It was still bleeding and I forced myself to look the other direction.

  Davien started the loud noise from his bike and I had no choice but to step behind him. I slowly placed my arms around his waist and as always he pulled them tighter. I rest my face on his back and immediately began crying. He could hear my pants and he lowered one of his hands every so often to my hands, trying to rub my pain away. It was the longest ride home as I held onto Davien's waist. “Where's Natalia?” I managed to speak. “Is she okay?”

  “She's fine. Scott is following her to her place to make sure she's okay.”

  Chapter 7

  As soon as we made it home, I walked to the basement and threw pajamas on. I heard the shower turn on and I sat crying. I was completely sober after the 'excitement'. I stepped from the bed and walked to the bathroom. “Can we talk?” I asked over the noise from the shower.

  Davien pulled the shower curtain to the side slightly with surprise on his face. “What's wrong, Avery?” He actually asked sympathetically.

  “I'm sorry about tonight. I didn't know what was going on. I was stupid for drinking the shots too fast, for drinking so many.” I sat at the toilet with my head in my hands. “Sorry for disturbing your shower, but I needed to tell you.” I stood from the toilet and walked to the door.

  “Stop, Avery.” He pulled the curtain slightly to the side again .“It's my fault. I should have never treated you the way I did tonight. I was a total ass and it killed me the entire time.”

  “No, I was a bitch before we even left tonight. You had the right to treat me the way you did.”

  “Come here.” My head backed away as I thought about his command but I slowly walked towards the shower. He pulled the curtain to the side again and held his hand out. “Join me, Avery, please.” He didn't ask, he literally begged. “Please.”

  I took a long deep breath as he watched me. I stepped from my pajamas until I was wearing only my bra and panties. “I've seen it all, Avery.” He pulled the curtain all of the way until I saw his entire naked body. I blushed at the sight, but I bent down to pull my panties to my ankles. I turned and Davien unfastened my bra. “Turn.” I turned to face him and his eyes took in my entire body as his tongue swept between his lips in slow motion.

  I slowly stepped into the shower and the hot water hit my body. My eyes were frozen as I stood watching Davien's incredible body. His face was turned up as the water fell over him. Fingers rushing through his hair and the water dripped from his chin. He looked amazing, mouth-watering and I had been sharing a bed with him.

  When he lowered his face from the water, he pulled me tight at his chest. My bare breasts sat against him and I could feel the panting between us. He lowered his face until his lips barely touched my lips and I was just as lost as when we danced on the floor.

  He began singing to me with his amazing, slightly scratchy voice. The words not only chocked me up, but he barely let the words left his lips when he started singing David Archuleta's song “Crush”. When he started singing about running from the truth he held me close. And he pulled my face to look at him when the words spoke about whether he was crazy or maybe he really was falling in love. Then his breathing slowed as he fought the words. He reached for my hands and pulled my face to meet his eyes and spoke the last few words as whispers, his lips silently speaking about his crush wasn't going away from him. He had no desire to give up on me.

  I stared at him as his eyes filled with tears, but the bad boy in him held the tears from falling. My hands touched his jaw line and pulled his face until his lips were on mine. He felt incredible and he was all mine. My hands dropped to his neck and I laced my fingers tightly around him. He let his fingers explore my lower back. “Davien, I want you so badly.”

  “I can't hurt you though, Avery. I won't.” I nodded my head. “I can't hold my feelings back anymore, the feelings I have for you. I never let you go.”

  “I know, Davien. I feel the same way. I can't do this anymore.” I agreed. “Why though, why did you look at me like you did tonight? You looked like you wanted to kill me, all evening I got nothing but dirty looks from you.”

  “When I asked you to wear that dress, I thought we'd be a couple by then. But we weren't and it killed me to watch you wearing it. When I came from the shower this afternoon, you looked gorgeous, but you weren't mine... it was torture. I had thought for sure you wouldn't wear that dress. I reassured myself that I wouldn't see you in that dress when I returned from the bathroom. My hopes fell and I was more hurt than I ever thought possible.” His head dropped as he told me the rest of his words. “I promised not to ever break your heart. But in the mean time, mine had shattered. I wanted you to feel the same way I did. I wanted you to hurt, to be jealous, to want me. I wanted to see it with my own two eyes. I wanted to make sure it was the truth, that you really did care.... And you did. You tried not to, but I saw it.” His breathing grew strong as his eyes locked on mine. “Then I saw another man's hands on you and I exploded.” I remembered the way he looked at me when he had entered the bedroom. I was busy looking at his edible body, watching his every move as he applied lotion to his body, gelled his hair, but in reality I was also making sure I looked just as desirable. And it killed him. It killed us both.

  “We weren't a couple but I still forced myself to stay away from another man. I didn't want to hurt you. But you didn't. Do you know how bad that hurt me to see you with another woman? And not just any woman but the same woman you were with the night you spent the evening with. She was the girl that kept you from coming home before 3 o'clock. That killed me knowing you were a couple or at least 'fuck buddies'.” I held my hands as quotes.

  “We are not a couple, never have been, never will be. I haven't slept with her or had sex with her if that's what you want to know. I'm not trying to say that she's never tried. She's tried more than any other woman I've ever known. But I couldn't do it.” Davien cupped my chin as his thumbs traced my jaw line. “I met her at CJ's about 5 months ago and that was around the time that I had promised myself to wait for the right girl. I was tired of being the guy who slept with a different girl every night. I've been there, I've done that... way more than I want to admit to. But I needed something new in my life... I needed you.” Davien pinned me again the shower wall and his lips seduced my entire body.

  His desire to be with me was proof with his actions. We wanted each other. It was obvious. I couldn't stand the thought of watching him with another woman. His tongue trailed from my lips to my ear. He stopped at my ear and nibbled as he whispered sweet comforting words. He moaned with hard pants and his erection grew against me. His tongue traveled to my neck where he slowly dipped up and down as shivers grew on my spine. I pressed my breasts against his body as I begged for more. That only caused him to move his mouth to my bare breasts. His lips attached to my pointed nipples and he watched my faces as his eyes grew wild with seduction.

  The man was a God... a temptation
God that caused every nerve in my body to burn with desire. My head fell back as I moaned when he lowered his tongue to the deepest dip of my body.

  ☼

  With the smell of fresh coffee brewing, I woke the next morning. I looked around the room for my pajamas. I was completely bare. Gathering my clothes from the drawers, I made my way to the top of the stairs. I caught Davien sitting with Scott at the kitchen table. “Hey beautiful.” Davien pulled his arms out for me to sit on his lap.

  With Scott's eyes glued on ours, I lowered myself to kiss Davien's lips. “I warned you once ass wipe. Don't hurt her.” Scott laughed.

  “Back off, Bro.” I joked back. “It's gonna take time, but I think we're okay.”

  “So when are guys telling Natalia?” Scott asked.

  Davien looked at each other. “So is that your way of giving us permission?” Davien questioned as his brows jiggled.

  “I think she needs to know. Shit I can't be held responsible for all this crap.” I pushed his arm across the table. “Seriously do you know how many hours of sleep I've lost over someone else's relationship?” It actually was a relief that I could finally tell her. She was my best friend and I needed 'love advice'. I had been holding so much back from her.

  “Is she coming over today?” I asked with my hand over my mouth as I yawned and stretched my arms.

  Scott looked at the clock over the sink. “She should be here in the next few minutes.”

  “So what do we tell her?” I felt like I was leaking a secret to a stranger.

  “Good Morning.” Natalia's obnoxious voice squealed through the apartment.

  When she entered the kitchen where we sat at the table, Scott announced. “Guess the cat's out the bag. Secret's out of the closet.”

  Natalia looked around the room for answers. “What secret? What cat in a fucking bag?” Scott looked at her then nodded his direction towards me as I sat on Davien's lap. “Are you serious? I've known you guys have been fucking for days.”