One Chance (Part One)

by T. Renee Fike

  “I wasn’t loud,” I state as I walk into my bedroom.

  “That’s because I took your mouth over,” he says as he throws his clothes back on.

  “Nonsense. I can be quiet when I need to.”

  “Do you want to bet?” he asks with a serious look.

  “Yes,” I say holding my ground.

  “Remember that pretty girl, that’s a bet you’re going to lose. Now get dressed and I’ll be back in 30 minutes,” he says as he smacks my butt causing me to yelp and him to laugh. “Thirty minutes babe.”

  “Yes, yes I hear you, now go,” I say as I head into my closet to get dressed and grab my bag to pack.

  Twenty-five minutes later and I’m packed and ready to go. I grab my things and head downstairs to say goodbye to Mom and Dad.

  I don’t even make it to the stairs when Kenzie says, “We need to talk.”

  “Not right now we don’t,” I say as I continue down the stairs.

  “You can’t just ignore me.”

  “Sure I can.”

  “What’s going on?” mom asks.

  “Nothing, Liam and I are heading back to school,” I tell her.

  “I love you sweetie, call us when you get there,” she says as she gives me a hug.

  “Yes, call us,” Dad says as he gives me a hug after Mom.

  “I will. Love you both,” I say as I make my way towards the front door.

  Liam has the trunk open and is loading it when I walk across the street. “I’m ready and I’m early,” I say with a smile.

  “I see that,” he says as he takes my bag and puts it in the trunk.

  “I need to talk to you,” Brody says out of nowhere.

  “No you don’t,” I say as I walk towards the passenger side door.

  “Please Haley, listen to me,” he pleads.

  “Not right now. I don’t want to hear anything you or Kenzie have to say,” I state as I open the door and slide in shutting the door in his face. I hear Liam say something to him, but I can’t make out their conversation. I look across the street and see Kenzie on the porch looking distraught, but that’s her problem. She did this, not me.

  “Ready to go?” Liam asks as he slides into the driver’s seat.

  “God, yes.”

  “She say anything to you?” he asks as he nods his head in Kenzie’s direction as we pass my house.

  “Tried to talk to me.”

  “You didn’t talk to her?” he asks not sounding surprised.

  “Nope. I don’t want to deal with those two right now.”

  “That’s fine with me,” he says as he takes my hand, threading his fingers with mine.

  The long drive back is the best it’s ever been for Liam and me. We talk throughout the trip, laughing, joking, talking about his future on the Viking’s football team and what this means for us.

  “Do you want to stay at my house tonight or yours?” he asks sweetly.

  “I need to catch up with Quinn, so mine tonight.”

  “Fine,” he says looking a little upset, though he doesn’t say anything.

  “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing, but tomorrow you’re mine. I don’t care where either,” he says with an “I’m not kidding look.”

  “Sounds great to me,” I say, as he pulls into my driveway. I hop out of the car and see him do the same as I go back to the trunk. He opens it but before pulling my bag out, he pulls me towards him.

  “Soon, woman.”

  “Soon what?” I ask confused.

  “Soon we are going to be married, I don’t want to wait years, unless for some reason you want to,” he says with an unsure look.

  “Soon sounds wonderful to me,” I say as I wrap my arms around his neck.

  “Good. Then talk to Quinn and see if she can help you start planning it. I’d like to be able to sleep with my wife every night for a little while,” he says before bringing his lips down to meet mine.

  “Mmmm, that sounds like a great idea. Let’s get married tomorrow,” I say excitedly.

  “Done,” he says looking serious

  “Baby, I’m joking. I can’t plan a wedding that fast. A few months,” I say being realistic.

  “That’s about all we have babe, then I have to be in Minnesota for training.”

  “We will figure it out. I promise,” I say as I pull him in for another kiss.

  “I love you babe.”

  “I love you too. Now go celebrate with your friends while I go tell Quinn the amazing news,” I say as I grab my bag out of the trunk. Liam waits until I’m inside before pulling out of the driveway. I enter the house and the girls are all around laughing, joking, having a good time.

  “What’s going on?” I ask confused.

  “We were just talking about how awesome it is that Liam got signed. That’s amazing and a huge deal. We were thinking of throwing him a congratulations party, considering you’re his girlfriend, he would definitely come,” Annie says excitedly.

  “That sounds like a great idea.”

  “Hey you. What the fuck is that?” Quinn yells as she walks towards me.

  “What?” I ask, playing dumb.

  “You’re engaged?” she shrieks, causing all the girls to come rushing towards us.

  “Yes, Liam proposed yesterday before the draft started,” I say excitedly.

  “Oh my gosh,” she says as she gives me a big bear hug, “we need to plan. Did you set a date?” she asks quickly.

  “Not yet, but that’s what I need to talk to you about,” I try to whisper.

  “Are you pregnant?” Nikki a girl in the house asks.

  “No, I’m not pregnant,” I snap back.

  “Why would you ask that?” Quinn asks, looking pissed.

  “Because they haven’t been together that long, yet they are engaged already,” Nikki says bitterly.

  “They’ve known each other practically their entire lives,” she quips.

  “Oh, well I just think it’s weird,” she says before walking away.

  “Congratulations,” Rebecca says as she pushes some of the girls out of her way, “Holy shit, he did great, that’s beautiful,” she says as she admires my ring. The rest of the girls congratulate me and ask all about the proposal, wanting details.

  The rest of the evening is spent talking to the girls and going over the details of the proposal, also with how Liam got selected a lot earlier in the draft than expected.

  “Ugh, finally,” Quinn says as she falls on her bed.

  “Finally what?” I laugh.

  “What happened at home?”

  “What do you mean?” I ask playing dumb.

  “Well Brody and Kenzie, what happened? Your text said something happened, now fill me in,” she says, as she sits up giving me her complete attention.

  “Ugh, well after everything with the draft and all, Brody was nowhere to be found. So I went outside to talk to him. Quinn, he wants me to give him a chance, us a chance.”

  “What?” she practically howls.

  “Sure did, he wants us to be together.”

  “I can’t even imagine how your sister would feel,” she says shocked.

  “Oh, she heard it. Apparently, she’s been trying to sleep with Liam for the past year,” I say annoyed.

  “Seriously? What the fuck? Why?”

  “She wants him and Brody wants me, so they worked together, I guess on trying to get each of us. I’m not completely sure.”

  “That doesn’t make sense, because she hated when Brody would talk to you. Maybe she wanted them both for herself.”

  “I wouldn’t be surprised.”

  “How did you find out she’s been trying to sleep with Liam?”

  “He came outside and heard what Brody was saying to me and called Kenzie out on it.”

  “Why didn’t he tell you?” she asks confused.

  “I don’t know, something about he didn’t think it would matter. Either way, I ended up leaving because I was so pissed off at all of them.”

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sp; “But then, how are you engaged?”

  “When I finally went home, Liam was waiting up for me. He didn’t sleep with Kenzie, heck he didn’t do anything with her but avoid her, so I couldn’t stay mad at him.”

  “Aww young love,” she jokes.

  “I do love him. It’s just going to make it awkward for our wedding because of Brody and Kenzie now.”

  “God, that’s going to be so weird. What are you going to do?”

  “I have no idea.”

  “Well, when do you think you guys want to get married?”

  “Soon.”

  “How soon?”

  “Hell, Liam wanted to get married tomorrow,” I state laughing.

  “Really? Wow, well I guess it makes sense, he leaves shortly after school is over.”

  “Yep, so this way we can live together as husband and wife before he has to go to Minnesota.”

  “Do you think we can pull this off in a month’s time?”

  “A month?” I ask shocked.

  “Yeah, sweetie he leaves really soon. Let’s get this show on the road,” she says as she grabs her laptop. “What colors do you want?”

  “Blue, definitely blue.”

  “And what other color?”

  “I don’t care.”

  “How about blue and silver?”

  “That works,” I say, as I move over to her bed to see what she’s looking at.

  “Where do you want to get married?”

  “I don’t know.”

  “Haven’t you ever thought about your wedding day before?”

  “No, not really,” I answer honestly.

  “Oh my goodness. Well that’s about to change,” she says as she pulls up site after site with wedding ideas and suggestions. For the next two hours we go over venues, color schemes, types of wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses, you name it, and we cover it.

  The next morning can’t come soon enough, and before I know it, I’m out the door and heading to class. Liam and I missed two days of class to go home for the draft, so now it’s back to reality.

  “Don’t get too comfortable with that ring on your finger. He’ll never marry you,” Meg says in a venomous tone as she approaches me on campus.

  “What Liam and I do is our business, no one else’s,” I say as I walk away.

  “You’ll see, just you wait,” she yells, as I continue on my way. I head to my next class trying to block Meg out of my mind. She’s just jealous; I keep trying to tell myself.

  After my final class of the day, I rush out wanting to get home and relax for a little while. I get home and the house is quieter than usual, but it’s Thursday and that seems to be pretty common for this day of the week. I grab a bottle of water and head up to my room.

  I no sooner lie down on my bed and my phone beeps alerting a message, “Hey babe, I’ll be over around 5:00 p.m.,” it states. I look at the clock and it’s already going on 4:00 p.m. I type back, “Great, see you then,” and hit send.

  “Sup bitch,” Quinn says as she drops her bag and flops onto her bed.

  “Not much, just relaxing.”

  “Has Kenzie or Brody called or texted you?”

  “Nope.”

  “What are you going to do about your wedding?”

  “I don’t know. Oh, I ran into Meg today, she told me my wedding will never happen.”

  “No she didn’t,” she says with a concerned look.

  “Yep, sure did.”

  “Well, forget about her. Did you decide where you want to get married?”

  “Yeah, I think I want to get married at home.”

  “Okay, that’s a good start.”

  “Yeah, I called my mom and told her, so her and Denise are going to start working on some planning now too,” I say, feeling thankful my mom’s there to help.

  “Good. Are you going to ask Kenzie to be in your wedding?”

  “How can I?”

  “I don’t know. Do you think she would cause a scene?”

  “Hell with her, I don’t know anything anymore.”

  “I’ll kick her ass,” she says a little too excitedly.

  “I bet you would. You’ll be up beside me, so I know she won’t get too close.”

  “Damn straight. Who knows, maybe it would be better to have her up there, then you know she can’t do something stupid.”

  “I don’t know yet. I know my mom and dad are going to flip when they find out what she’s done, but I don’t have the heart to tell them.”

  “You are too kind for your own good Hails.”

  “I know, I wish I was a bitch, life would be so much simpler.”

  “It’s not, trust me,” she says with a coy smile.

  Quinn and I continue our conversation, losing track of the time, until Liam pops in the door.

  “Hey, what are you ladies up to?” he asks as he walks over to me to give me a kiss.

  “Wedding stuff,” Quinn answers.

  “Good, so what are your thoughts?” he asks as he sits beside me.

  “Colors are blue and silver, getting married at home, our moms are planning some of that stuff. Quinn’s my maid of honor.”

  “Sounds good to me, anything I can help with?”

  “You want to help?” Quinn asks shocked.

  “It is my wedding too, so yeah, I’d like to be a part of it,” he says in all seriousness.

  “Great. I need you to tell me who your groomsmen are going to be,” I state.

  “How many do we want to have?”

  “I’ll leave that up to you.”

  “I thought we wanted a small wedding,” he asks with a look.

  “We do.”

  “So why not either two or three then?”

  “That sounds perfect. Who will your two or three be?”

  “Max, Spence, and maybe Isaac. Who were you thinking?”

  “Quinn, Ashley, and either Rebecca or Kenzie.”

  “Really?” he asks surprised.

  “I figure if she’s beside me, she can’t cause too much trouble.”

  “Good point. Maybe I should have Brody beside me then.”

  “What do you think?” I ask honestly.

  “I think they are going to cause problems no matter what, but we can’t worry about them. This isn’t about them, this is about us.”

  “He’s right,” Quinn pipes up, “No matter what they do, you have to ignore them.”

  “That’s fine with me,” I state.

  “So when do you want the date to be?” Quinn asks Liam.

  “I said I’d marry her today,” he says without missing a beat.

  “Stop, we have to have a wedding.”

  “I know, but I graduate in three weeks, so we need to figure some things out quickly.”

  “I know,” I say nervously.

  “I think there’s some things we need to discuss too,” he says looking serious.

  “That’s my cue to leave,” Quinn says as she stands up, “I’m heading over to Mark’s, so I’ll see you tomorrow,” she says as she leaves.

  “Bye, have fun,” I say to her before turning to look at Liam, “What do you want to discuss?”

  “Are you planning on staying in this house next year?” he asks with beautiful blue eyes.

  “Yeah, probably, I haven’t really thought about it.”

  “Then think about it, because I think we should have a place together.”

  “I agree, but how soon do you have to leave to go to Minnesota?”

  “Near the end of July.”

  “Okay, so we get married in June and then you leave in July. Where do you want to get a place together at?” I ask.

  “I think we should still plan on May for the wedding and then either here or home.”

  “Not Minnesota?”

  “Shit, no, I’ll rent a place, but during the summer we can either be here, at home or when I’m off, I can come here to see you since you’ll still be in school.”

  “That sounds smart. I think a place here would be smart.”<
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  “Okay, so how about we start looking this weekend then?”

  “Are we rushing this?” I ask feeling suddenly nervous.

  “I guess a little bit. Do you want to wait?”

  “No,” I say truthfully, “I love you; I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

  “Then it doesn’t matter how soon we do all of this,” he says as he leans down to kiss me.

  “You’re right. Let’s do this by the end of May, and then we can live together before you have to leave.”

  “Good,” he says as he kisses me, “Now, that we have that out of the way, I think it’s time we practice for our honeymoon,” he says as he pulls my shirt over my head.

  “I like the way you think,” I say as I grab his shirt and do the same. I can’t help but admire the sexy view of his body.

  “You drive me crazy woman,” he says as he pulls my jeans off my body, discarding them like they’re nothing, along with my thong.

  “Do you have a condom with you?” I ask as I try to get his pants off.

  “Yep, though anytime you want to go bare, let me know.”

  “What?” I ask surprised.

  “Baby, you’re about to be my wife.”

  “Yeah, but that doesn’t mean we want kids yet,” I say shocked by his comment.

  “If it were to happen it happens, it will happen one day anyway baby,” he says as he leans down and takes a taut nipple into his mouth, sucking hard.

  “Oh yeah,” I moan as I run my hands through his sexy blonde hair. He continues to lick and suck as he twists and pulls at my other nipple arousing all parts of me. He continues his way south until he hits my core, “Shit, God Liam, oh yeah, please don’t stop,” I moan as he continues to lavish my sacred spot.

  He continues to drive me crazy, drawing me closer and closer to the end, before I finally call out in pure ecstasy. He reaches down to his jeans and pulls out a condom, sheathing himself quickly and lining himself at my entrance. “Hard or soft baby?”

  “Hard, definitely hard,” I say as he thrusts hard into me. “Ahhh shit, yes,” I moan as he moves in and out, I move meeting him thrust for thrust, building me up quickly again, when Liam suddenly stops and pulls out of me, “What are you doing?”

  “Turn over baby,” he says as he waits for me to get on my hands and knees. I do as I’m told and he thrusts into me again, causing a new round of yearning in me. I move allowing him to drive deeper into me, wanting to take every blessed inch of him. He continues his assault on my body until he has us both screaming out in utter satisfaction. “Holy shit,” he says as he collapses on my back.