Easy to Love You

by Megan Smith

  Brittany knows what? What am I missing here? I settled Ryder into his seat and went to find out what was going on.

  When I walked in, Hailey was on Mason’s lap and Hunter was pacing the floor. Both Hailey and Mason froze when they saw me and stopped to look in my direction.

  “What does Brittany know?” I asked them.

  Hunter looked over at Hailey and Mason who were both looking down at their phones.

  Hunter’s phone rang, “Hey Mom.” He looked up at me then walked towards the kitchen.

  “What’s going on?” I asked the other two while I had them alone.

  Both shook their heads, Hailey shrugged her one shoulder. Something’s going down again, I can feel it. “Fine, I’m going to Mom’s to drop Ryder off, I’ll be back.”

  I didn’t know what was going on with the three of them, but someone had better start speaking up soon. I was getting really sick and tired of always being in the dark. I’m sure Brittany knew that I was fine, I’m sure she was still stalking the shit out of Dominic. After this weekend, I was going to give them all one more chance to come clean before I demanded that they tell me what’s going on.

  As soon as CC left I walked back into the living room, “Thanks for the call. That was fucking close.” I sighed in relief.

  Mason and Hailey both gave me dirty looks.

  “Look, I know alright. I’m telling her when we get back. I can’t wait anymore.” I confessed.

  Hailey climbed off Mason’s lap, “What are you waiting for anyway?”

  I sat on the couch, elbows on my knees, hands folded in front of me. “I didn’t want to tell her that Jason was back. I don’t want her involved with him at all after the shit he put me, Mom and Jay through.” I shivered thinking of the bad dreams I used to have. “And now that I know Brittany’s my half-sister, CC’s going to freak the fuck out.”

  Hailey sighed, “I think you need to give her more credit, Hunter. Yeah, she’s going to be pissed about the Brittany thing, but it’s not like you can help it. She loves you more than she should,” she gloated. “Kidding. She loves you, just tell her the truth. Everything will work out. The longer you wait, the worse this is going to get.”

  Mason spoke up, “She’s right dude, and it’s time. Kenz is stronger than we all give her credit for.”

  He’s right, I knew this. Fuck! “Alright once we get back I’ll tell her everything.”

  We arrived at Bentley’s around eight that night. I was exhausted and couldn’t wait to get out and stretch my legs. I loved being down here, everything felt so calm and not as rushed as Jersey. CC had sent Bentley a text and told him we’d be there in a few minutes. Why was I not surprised that there was a party in full swing when we arrived?

  “Huh. Did Bentley tell you he was throwing a party?” CC asked me, taking in all the cars in the driveway.

  “No, but you shouldn’t be surprised.” I parked the car and turned it off.

  “Oh, I’m not surprised. I figured this would happen, but I thought he’d at least wait until tomorrow.” She turned to look at Hailey, who had her head resting on Mason’s shoulder. I’m glad those two were actually getting along for once. I’d been a little worried when CC had asked to invite them.

  “I’m not partying in this.” Hailey stated.

  “Yeah, I don’t look so hot either.” CC looked over at me, “Can you sneak us up to the room before we go say hi to everyone?”

  I scowled, “Who the hell do you have to look hot for?”

  “Yeah, what the fuck’s up with that?” Mason said to Hailey.

  Hailey leaned over and whispered something in Mason’s ear and CC did the same. “You, and for what I’m going to be doing to you later.”

  I groaned and let my head fall back on the headrest. Damn, why didn’t I get that hotel room? “Fine, let’s go, and hurry the hell up.” I got out of the truck, as did Mason behind me. We met the girls around the front and I led them up to my old room. Mason and I went in search of Bentley.

  In our quest to find him we ran into Logan who was in the kitchen sucking face with some girl I recognized, but couldn’t put a name to.

  When he noticed me he stopped kissing the girl, “Hey man, what brought you back?” Logan asked, as he threw his arm around the girl’s shoulder, staking his claim. Why? I have no idea, but he felt the need to.

  “Tattoos,” I answered as I stepped to the side of them and grabbed Mason and me a beer from the fridge.

  “Ahh. Have you seen Dominic lately?”

  “Dude, you really want to go there?” Mason piped up.

  He chuckled, “No, not really. What about Brittany? My mom said she moved up there with her dad.”

  Damn this guy couldn’t get the fucking picture. Wait, his mom? Why the hell would she know Brittany unless they were together now?

  “Your mom?” I questioned.

  The girl kissed Logan’s cheek and whispered something in his ear before walking away. “Yeah my mom, Brittany’s aunt.” He chuckled again, “I guess you didn’t know that?”

  “No asshole, why would we?” Mason said from behind me.

  “My mom was Britt’s mom’s sister. My mom said that she reconnected with her dad and they were moving to Jersey with her dad’s new girl, a nurse or some shit.”

  What the fuck?

  Mason stepped up beside me, took a swig of his beer then wiped his mouth, “Are you fucking with us right now?”

  “No. I thought Dom was still talking to you all.” Logan responded.

  “Excuse us.” I turned and walked out the back sliding glass doors, Mason close behind me.

  When we were a safe distance from the house I spun around to Mason, “He’s fucking kidding me, right? Please, for the love of fucking God, say he’s joking.”

  “I don’t think he was. So that explains why they were in Jersey.”

  “And they aren’t planning on leaving. Fuck!” This wasn’t good.

  Bentley spotted us and came over, “Hey dudes,” he was already two sheets to the wind, “when did you get here?” He was swaying back and forth.

  “Damn Benny, lay off the beers.” Mason said.

  “I’m fine.” Bentley slurred. I could tell he was trashed. He hated anyone calling him Benny apart from CC and Hailey.

  “Benny!” The girls both said at the same time. I hadn’t even realized they’d found us ‘til I heard them.

  They ran over to him and threw their arms around his neck. Thankfully, there was a table right behind Bentley and he leaned back on it when the girls launched at him. Mason was glaring at Bentley, nothing new there. He was like that with anyone who touched Hailey, including myself. Then I noticed why Mason was glaring, the girls had clothes on that were barely covering either of them.

  CC was wearing a white dress; it clung tight on her tits, but cascaded the rest of the way to mid-thigh. Her hair was pulled back and revealed her neck, which I wanted suck. Shit, I was going to have to walk behind her all night, not only to cover her ass if she bent over, but to cover my hard on too. Hailey was dressed in some tight ass dress that hugged every inch of her; Mason was going to be fending off the leeches tonight.

  I pulled CC off Bentley and stood her in front of me, she took a step back but I stopped her with my hands on her hips. “Don’t even think about it babe.”

  “But babe,” she whined.

  “Not gonna happen.” I deadpanned. I knew I was going to lose this battle, but I had to at least put up a fight.

  A bunch of guys I knew from different college classes and parties we used to have, all came over to greet us. We all stood around talking and catching up. Then out of nowhere Hailey yelled, “Shots!”

  I shook my head, “No way, not for me.” I wanted to take CC upstairs now, there was no way I could take shots; I’d never make it with her dressed like this.

  I was mid sip when Hailey said, “Come on Hunter, Kenz wants to do a blow job.”

  I spit my beer out, wiped my mouth and gave her a look, “Excuse me?”r />
  “You heard me.” She grabbed CC’s hand and they started for the kitchen.

  Zeke snuck up behind me, “You heard the girl; she wants a blow job. You better go get yours.” He said snickering.

  I turned and punched him in the arm. “Shut up asshole.”

  He rubbed his arm, “Nice to see you too.”

  “Hey man,” Mason shook Zeke’s hand, “I’m going to see what those two are up to.”

  “Be right there.” I told Mason, I turned back to Zeke. “So you’re good for tomorrow?” I wanted to make sure — Zeke wasn’t always reliable.

  “Yeah, come up around noon. I’ll do you and Kenz first.”

  “Good deal. Come on; let’s go see what the hell’s happening in there.” Zeke and I excused ourselves.

  When we’d made it up the stairs and into the kitchen, Hailey and CC were standing in front of two shot glasses on bar stools, hands behind their back.

  Bentley stood in front of them, “Remember, you can’t touch the glasses.”

  Both girls nodded.

  “Ready. Set. Go!” Bentley said.

  The girls bent down, lips over the rim on the shot glass. CC had hers secure and started standing up, Hailey right behind her. Both girls tipped the heads back. My eyes locked on CC’s throat. I heard her suck in a quick breath then I saw her throat bob as she swallowed the shot. Fuck that was hot. She leaned down again, dropped the shot glass on the bar stood and quickly glanced at Hailey who was two seconds behind her.

  “Sucker, I beat you.” CC cheered.

  Hailey wiped her mouth, “Yeah, well I’m sure you have more practice than I do.” Then Hailey looked over at Mason and smiled.

  Mason, in turn, glared at her and then at me, I threw my hands up in defense. “Hey, I didn’t say anything, and I assure you Kenz needs more practice.” I laughed my ass off then ran, practically tackled CC and carried her to our room before Mason could punch me or even say anything for that comment.

  I heard Mason yell out “Asshole” when I’d reached the steps.

  I shut and locked the door, then pulled CC into my arms. I kissed her long and slow.

  She gave me one last kiss on the lips before she took a step back and reached for the bottom of her dress. She pulled it over her head, fell back onto the bed, and leaned on one elbow. “Hunter, make love to me.”

  I did just that. I made love to her until the sun came up, and then, completely spent, we fell asleep tangled up in each other’s arms. We were tucked away in our own little world, blocking out all the sounds from the party below, forgetting about Brittany, my dad, and all the shitty things going on outside of this room.

  Hunter and I were woken by a scream from Hailey. I sat straight up, as did Hunter.

  “What the hell was that?” He asked.

  I pulled the sheet up to my chest and turned towards him, “I think it was Hailey. I wonder if she fell in.” I said while giggling.

  Hunter laughed and fell back on the bed. I pushed the covers down and straddled him; I leaned back and pulled the covers over my shoulders.

  Hunter moaned, grabbed my hips and slowly started grinding my hips against him. “Good morning baby.”

  “Morning,” I placed both hands on either side of his head and kissed him.

  He shifted and just started teasing my entrance when someone started banging on the door. “Shit!” Hunter said, but didn’t pull out.

  “Shh,” Whoever’s on the other side of the door was going to have to wait.

  “Kenz open the door damn it!” Hailey said, pounding on the wood.

  I laughed and Hunter cursed under his breath, “Seriously? Will we ever get rid of her?”

  I shook my head, “What Hails? I’m busy.”

  “MacKenzie open this damn door!” Mason roared.

  I sat up and Hunter put an arm over his eyes, “Let me throw shorts on real quick, then I’m acting like I’m sleeping. Hurry up and come back to bed.”

  I slid off of him and glanced around for my clothes, I couldn’t find anything so I threw on Hunter’s T-shirt, it came down to mid-thigh on me, while he threw on his shorts and dove back into bed.

  I yanked open the door, “What the hell’s going on?”

  Mason looked over my shoulder, trying to see what the hell was going on. Thankfully Hunter was face down, I pushed Mason’s stomach and stepped out of the room and shut the door behind me.

  “What’s going on?” I asked again.

  “I pissed myself.” Hailey said, completely serious.

  That’s all it took and I completely lost it, I was doubled over laughing my ass off. Mason was no better once I started.

  “I’m glad this amuses you guys. I seriously don’t know what happened. I was sitting on the toilet and next thing I know it was running down my legs.” Hailey whined.

  “How much did you drink last night?” I said, holding my stomach and laughing.

  “No more than you. Mason hauled me off to bed after you left. So what the hell happened, because this only happens when I still feel drunk the next morning?” Hailey said with this puppy dog face.

  Mason wrapped her in his arm, still laughing. Bentley stuck his head out of his bedroom door, “Welcome home, Hailey,” then quickly slammed the door.

  I fell to the floor laughing; I’d never laughed this hard in my entire life, I had cramps in my stomach and couldn’t breathe.

  Hailey punched Mason in the stomach, “You’re supposed to protect me from that, not stand here laughing at me.” Mason couldn’t even answer her because he was still laughing.

  After a few minutes I calmed down a bit and stood up. I walked down to the bathroom at the end of the hall and sure enough there was a puddle of piss on the floor. I had to lean on the door frame to keep myself standing.

  “Um, Hails.” I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. “He got you with the Saran Wrap prank.”

  “Son of a bitch! Benny, you’re dead!” She yelled at Benny’s door.

  Benny was known for the Saran Wrap prank, he’d gotten Hailey with it once before and almost got me a couple of times. He was always up to something, trying to get us to fall for one of his pranks. He’d once gotten Hunter with toothpaste and Oreo cookies; to this day Hunter refuses to eat them.

  I left Mason to help Hailey clean up the mess and kiss her ego all better. I climbed back into bed with Hunter, still giggling.

  “Saran Wrap again?” Hunter asked, snaking his arms around me.

  “Yup, she looked like she was about to cry.” I said, still snickering.

  Hunter climbed on top of me; I instantly stopped laughing and lost myself in him.

  A few hours later we were showered and ready to go see Zeke. According to Bentley, Mason and Hailey still hadn’t emerged from their room, so we left without them.

  Zeke was ready for us when we arrived, “Alright, you going first Kenz?”

  I looked over at Hunter, now I was nervous. I was fine the whole time; that is until it was really time to get it done.

  I nodded and lay my stomach on the chair Zeke had in his booth. Hunter sat on a stool near my head and grabbed a hold of my hand. “Relax, at first it will hurt but then you’ll be fine.”

  I nodded my head again. I’d already talked to Zeke on the phone and by email a few times before coming here, so he already knew what I wanted and where I wanted it.

  I mouthed to Hunter that I loved him. He mouthed it back and gave me that sexy smile of his.

  Zeke set the tattoo design up on my lower right back, and then asked if I was ready. Again I nodded my head. He turned on the tattoo gun and the buzzing started.

  I sucked in a deep breath, it was painful at first. It felt like a million tiny bee stings, but after a few minutes the pain died down a little. Just like Hunter had said.

  “Don’t look until it’s done.” I told him. I wanted to see his expression when he read it. If he didn’t like it I wasn’t going to make him get it but I needed to gauge his expression first.

 
Twenty minutes later Zeke was wiping my back down and sitting me up, Hunter’s eyes still on mine. I hopped off the chair, went to the mirror and looked at the tattoo. I was in love with it. It was perfect and just how I’d pictured it to be.

  Hunter came over to me. My back was facing the mirror when he turned me around so I was looking at myself. “Can I see it now?”

  “I’m going to go grab a quick drink, you guys want anything?” Zeke asked. I knew he was giving us a minute. Neither one of us answered, Zeke just walked out, I don’t think he expected an answer.

  “Yeah,” I watched him in the mirror.

  “I could conquer the world with one hand as long as you are holding the other.” He read it aloud, then looked up at me and gave me a small smile.

  He turned me in his arms and kissed me until I was out of breath. “I take it you like it?”

  He smirked, “Yeah.”

  Zeke walked back in, “You ready?” He asked Hunter.

  “Let’s do this.” Hunter sat in the chair the same way I just had.

  Hunter got the same tattoo that I had but on his lower left back, he was also getting Ryder’s name and portrait on his forearm too.

  While Zeke was working on Hunter’s tattoos, they were bullshitting about all the stuff that was going on around here. How the bar was doing, all Zeke’s latest conquests that Hunter knew, then he started on Brittany.

  “So did you hear that Brittany is Logan’s cousin?” Zeke asked Hunter.

  What the hell? Poor Logan’s related to the bat shit crazy bitch, poor guy.

  Hunter’s head shot up to me, he cleared his throat before answering, “Um…”

  “Shit!” Zeke interrupted Hunter. “I forgot you went out with that douchebag, Dominic. Forget I mentioned it.”

  I was all about forgetting that bitch and from the look on Hunter’s face so was he. Hunter changed the subject and started talking about Ryder. When Zeke was just about done with Hunter, he asked that I text Hailey and Mason and ask them if they still were coming up. Half an hour later there was still no response from them.