United

by A. Aubry

  Me: I wish you would have told me you weren’t feeling well, I could have taken you back to my place. Do you want me to stop by after dinner? I could bring you your favorite soup.

  She loved Panera Bread and their soup. I could for sure take mom then home and double back to take care of her. My poor girl probably would like to cuddle on the couch or in bed and watch a movie. Netflix and not so much chill, if I recalled the name correctly. It took a little while before she answered.

  Julianna: I’m sorry, it came on suddenly and didn’t want to ruin your mother’s visit. Spend the weekend with your mom, I don’t want to get you sick.

  Well that ship definitely sailed with how much spit we swapped as we were kissing during sex.

  Me: Okay, but let me know if you need anything, Julianna.

  She didn’t respond and my mom finally noticed the sad look on my face.

  “Is everything alright, Finn?” She reached across the table and touched my hand.

  “Yeah, Julianna had a friend pick her up. She isn’t feeling very well I guess.”

  The waitress returned and I gave her cash to pay for our meal and told her to keep the change.

  “Do you need to go to her, Finn?” My mother asked as I picked up Julianna’s leftovers from the table and we walked back to the car.

  I replied as we waited for the car to warm up, “No, she told me to spend this time with you. I’ll stop by her place after I take you to the airport on Sunday.”

  I could feel my mother watching me as I drove us back to my apartment, “Julianna is a great girl, honey. You two seem very close for two people who just met.”

  “She is a great girl, mom. She listens when I talk, we have more in common than I realized, and she cares about things going on with me. We spent all of Wednesday talking about our families and she actually retained everything that I told her.”

  Mom quietly laughed, “Something Natalie never did happen to do, even after two years of being together.”

  This was true, she still continued to screw up Amelia and Violet’s names up until we broke up. It wasn’t that hard, each had totally different looks and personalities.

  “Exactly. This one is different, ma. I just know it,” I sighed, pulling into the garage of my complex.

  When we got back into the apartment, the spare keys for the apartment were sitting on the kitchen island where Julianna had set them when she came in. A part of me thought that maybe it would be a good idea if I drove her stuff back over to her, but she seemed really adamant about not wanting to get me sick. So rather, I spent the evening talking to my mother about all things me and Julianna but leaving out the sex. By the end of the night, I could tell that she loved Julianna almost as much as I did.

  Chapter Five

  “Thanks for coming to visit, mom. It was a great surprise and I’m happy that you got to meet Julianna,” I said honestly as I hugged my mom outside of ticketing at the Minneapolis/Saint Paul airport.

  “I had a great time, sweetheart. Now go to your sick girlfriend, I know you’ve been just itching to go check up on her,” she smiled as she picked up her bag from the curb and headed inside.

  I quickly got in my car to avoid getting yelled at by the security that were walking up and down the lanes and took off for Julianna’s apartment. My mom was right when she said that I had been wanting to get to Julianna. I had barely heard from her all weekend, and she had been sleeping an awful lot. All I could do was hope that it wasn’t anything too terrible, if it was, I would have to encourage her to go to a doctor.

  Making a quick pit stop at Panera Bread, I picked up cheddar broccoli soup for both of us and a grilled cheese cut in half. While we were shopping for some essentials for my apartment, Julianna had made it clear that she loved their cheddar broccoli soup when she saw the containers in the refrigerated section to take home. She also pointed out that their grilled cheese was the best. She was sick, she deserved to be spoiled.

  I hummed along to the radio as I pulled into a spot in front of Julianna’s apartment building. I hoped that she liked surprises, this was something I didn’t know about her yet. Climbing out of the car, I grabbed our bag of food and let myself into the first of two doors into her building. As I searched for Julianna’s last name, McCall, in the call box, the locked door in front of me opened and there stood my beautiful Julianna. Her hair was up in her usual messy bun, a baggy U2 concert tee hiding her torso, bright red pajama pants with some sort of print hiding her body from the waist down. Charcoal and light gray boots sat on her feet, looking almost like slippers.

  “Finn, what are you doing here?” Her voice was soft as her eyes got wide at the sight of the bag in my hands.

  “My mom left this afternoon and I haven’t heard from you…I was getting worried,” I lifted the bag up for her to see, “I brought your favorite. Cheddar broccoli soup and a half of a grilled cheese.”

  I gave her an encouraging smile and she opened the door for me. The look on her face was a mix between surprised that I was there and something else that I couldn’t exactly pinpoint. She’s just getting over being sick man, cut her some slack.

  Once I was inside, I took her hand in mine, relishing in the feeling of our fingers lacing together. I never thought I’d miss that feeling until I hadn’t seen Julianna for days. She led the way back to her apartment and after a short elevator ride, we were taking a seat at her black wood dining room table. I divided up our sandwiches and put her bowl of soup in front of her before setting my food in front of my space and taking my seat. We ate in what felt like a comfortable silence until we were done.

  “Finn, we need to talk,” Julianna started saying as she cleaned up her containers.

  This could either go really good or really bad.

  “What’s up?” I grabbed her hands gently and rubbed my thumbs over the backs.

  She bit her lip, “I haven’t really been sick the last few days…”

  Wait, what? “You haven’t?”

  “No, I left Red Robin on Friday because I was upset.” She looked down at our hands and sighed.

  Upset? What was there to be upset about?

  “What was wrong, Julianna?” I asked quietly.

  “The shit that happened with Natalie, you aren’t over it…are you?”

  What the fuck? I was well past Natalie by now.

  “Why do you ask that?”

  Her teeth chewed on her bottom lip before she answered, “Because I could see it in the way that you looked at her on Friday night. The way you reacted to her when she touched your hand and was whispering to you.”

  I didn’t react in any specific way. Hell, I felt nothing towards the girl because I was in love with Julianna. Something that I had yet to admit to her. I guess I could see how she thought I still had feelings for her, we had been together for a long time but there was nothing there anymore.

  “I was with her for almost two years, Julianna. She broke my heart when I caught her cheating on me because I thought she was the one. Seeing her Friday night, I realized she wasn’t. That everything I had with her was like a practice round for when I found the real thing.”

  And you, Julianna, are the one. Can’t you see that?

  Her gazed stayed on our hands, why did she have to be so stubborn?

  “You watched her like you missed her. I saw you swallow hard after she put her hand on yours, your cheeks flushed when she talked to you. That doesn’t tell me that you realized she wasn’t the one.”

  I took a calming breath, her stubbornness was actually starting to make me a little angry for once, “I swallowed hard because I didn’t want anybody to say anything embarrassing or stupid that might affect you. I was so thankful when she didn’t say anything to you because Natalie was, and still is, a very judgmental person. She loved to put people down, I didn’t want you to be her next victim.”

  When she didn’t look up at me, I kept going, “I don’t know why my cheeks flushed but she wasn’t saying anything to me that would make me blush. She w
as telling me that she missed me and wanted to work things out and I told her I wasn’t interested. Sure, I miss the way that Natalie used to be, but I know she will never be that way and I don’t like the person she is today.”

  Julianna chewed on her lip as she processed what I had said. Or at least, I hope she was processing it and not deciding that we were over.

  “I’m sorry I left without saying anything,” she said softly, “Your mom just seemed so happy to see her and the way she watched you two it was like she was watching a romantic movie. You guys ignored me while she was there then acted like nothing happened after she left. That’s what hurt me.”

  That’s it, she needed to look at me. I couldn’t take not seeing her face directly. Especially after I just had to go two days without seeing it when I woke up.

  I lifted her chin so that I could see those beautiful blue eyes that made my heart stop, “I’m sorry we ignored you. I know my mother didn’t do it on purpose. She was worried about you just as much as I was the last couple of days. I didn’t want to drag you into Natalie and her warzone, that’s why I didn’t introduce you two.”

  Her eyes watched me as she thought about whatever it was that Julianna always thought about. What I would give to get inside of her head.

  “I love you.”

  Really?

  “I mean…uh…I love that you’re so protective over me.”

  She—she said that she loved me. She fucking loves me. Say it back, asshole.

  “I love you, too,” I grinned.

  She pursed her lips as she blushed, “You also love that you are protective over me?”

  Oh, now someone was just trying to be coy.

  “No, I love you. As in you, Julianna McCall.”

  She stared at me in disbelief, “But you just broke up with Natalie two weeks ago, how can you love me?”

  How couldn’t I love you, sweetheart?

  “Because I didn’t actually love her. Somehow, I knew that I loved you on our first date, you were so different. You are sarcastic but smart and have amazing comebacks to nearly everything I say. You are strong but also like to be protected. I want to show you what it’s like to have someone who truly loves and cares about you, someone who doesn’t put you down like your ex did.”

  Her eyes widened a fraction as she took in what I said. I had never been that straight forward about my feelings with a girl, ever. But it was so easy to say those things to her, to tell her how I felt. Julianna let out a soft groan and got up to stand next to me. Her hands moved from mine to my cheeks and her lips crashed into mine. I shifted in my chair, putting my hands on her thighs and bringing her towards me. God dammit, did I miss her kisses or what?

  “My room,” she stated softly into our kiss.

  Her lips left mine and I almost protested the end of our kiss. But then it registered what she said, she wanted me to take her to her room. As much as I wanted to fucking jump at that chance, I just watched her closely. We were on the brink of losing one another because of this Natalie shit less than ten minutes ago and now we were proclaiming our love for one another and she wanted me to go with her to her bedroom. Was she thinking clearly?

  I watched her walk around to my other side and lifted her hand out for me to take. If that wasn’t a form of consent that she really wanted to do this, I didn’t know what was. I took her hand and got up from my seat, Julianna instantly walking me through her apartment to her bedroom. I had never been in her room before, and to say that it fit Julianna’s personality was an understatement.

  The decorations that she picked fit her likings to a tee and she wasn’t wrong when she said that I had more closet space than her. Even though her closet was a walk-in closet, it wasn’t as big as mine. Julianna led me to the end of her bed, pushing me back to it just enough that I could feel the frame of her bed right behind me. She practically ripped off my Minnesota United t-shirt that I had chosen to wear today, and she kissed me with more passion than ever before. My breath caught in my throat as her hands ran up and down my torso, I almost forgot what it was like to have her touch me after two days apart. Dramatic, but true.

  I grabbed the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head, forcing us to stop our kiss. Instantly, I made it resume after her shirt was on the floor with mine. Julianna took hold of the button of my jeans, undoing them faster than ever, and I aided in taking them off along with my boxers. Once I was completely naked, I hooked my fingers into the waistband of her pajama pants and panties and tore them off so fast that I thought they would rip.

  Julianna suddenly got on her knees in front of me, catching me off guard, before she gently grabbed onto my cock and slowly started to jack me off. Holy fuck. She had never done this for me before, but I could see the lust in her eyes as she watched me, her fingers running over every inch of me. My cock responded easily to her touch as it hardened with every slow up and down movement that she made. God, just watching my sweet and innocent girl do this for me was enough to make me want to come right away.

  I gasped as Julianna slipped the tip of my cock into her mouth, her hand pumping away just a little faster. My hand went to her head instinctively as I tangled my fingers in her soft hair. Yeah, her bun was definitely going to be messy after this. The feeling of her tongue running over the tip of my cock nearly caused me to convulse on the spot. I let her have full control over what she was doing, this was her first time doing it to me after all. But if Michael kept on coming back for her even after he tore her down, she must give good head. She sucked a little harder and my eyes shut tight as a moan escaped my lips. Shit, how many times have I gotten head and moaned within the first few minutes? Never, that’s how many times.

  My release was growing steadily but it was when Julianna took as much of my cock into her mouth as her gag reflex would allow, it shot right to the top. I had to hold back from coming right then and there. Her tongue ran over the tip after she bobbed her head a few times and she groaned right afterwards. What the hell turned her on so much that she did that? Fuck, I couldn’t even think about that right now as her moan vibrated through my cock. I groaned loudly and opened my eyes to see Julianna looking up at me, watching me. After a few moments, I could practically hear my heart pounding in my chest as Julianna ended our gaze and sucked harder and faster.

  I felt like I was going to burst. There was not a time that I could recall that my cock ever felt this hard as it throbbed. I tugged on Julianna’s hair, trying to tell her not to stop. Holy shit, how the fuck could one girl be so good at this that I was about to come faster than I ever have in my entire life. I didn’t even feel the need to come this quickly the first time I jacked off or had sex.

  “Ju…Juli…” I attempted to spit out her name, knowing how much she loved when I said her full name. There was no way that I could get it all out.

  Julianna made a small humming sound and I felt it reverberate within me as I moaned so loud I heard a small echo in her room. She increased intensity in both how hard she sucked and how fast and I couldn’t help but lean my hips forward for her. I could feel her take just a little more of my cock into her mouth and that was when I couldn’t hold on any longer.

  “Oh shit,” I grunted loudly, my hands pulling softly on her hair as I could feel my cum shoot into her mouth.

  I didn’t even get a chance to see if that was what she wanted me to do. Natalie fucking hated when I came in her mouth. So, I would opt to release on her face or her large fake tits. It wasn’t in my mindset to force a girl to take cum in their mouth if they didn’t want it there.

  All I could see were stars as Julianna continued to suck until the last of my release had shot out. It took everything in me not to collapse back on the bed, my legs were already feeling weak. Note to self: Julianna could make me come harder than I’ve ever come in my life in both sex and in blowjobs. I lifted her up to me, bringing her back into a kiss. The light salty taste of my release was still on her tongue but fuck, I couldn’t give a damn. When I felt like I couldn’t breathe o
nce again, I pulled back, a large smile still on my lips from the best orgasm I had ever experienced.

  “That was probably the best head I have ever gotten,” I admitted.

  Julianna rolled her eyes at me, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good.”

  Oh, there was no way I would fucking lie about that.

  “No, I’m definitely not.” I grabbed her ass in one hand. Damn did she have a nice ass, “Not even Natalie could make me come that hard.”

  Way to go, idiot.

  Julianna shivered, and I felt like a major asshole, “Sorry, I shouldn’t have brought her up.”

  Her hand covered my cheek and I instinctively leaned into her soft touch, “It’s okay. I just don’t like the thought of her mouth on what’s mine.”

  “It’s definitely yours,” I smiled at her.

  Especially if all head from you is like that. Really, brain?

  Just then, inspiration hit. She was in control during that whole amazing blowjob, it was time to see just how naughty my girl could be for me. I let go of my hold on her ass and climbed onto the bed, moving backwards until I could rest against the pillows at the top of the bed. I needed pillows like hers, these things were really fucking comfortable. When Julianna didn’t instantly join me, I looked down at the foot of her bed. She stood there, her fingers wringing in front of her as she bit her lip. I guess I would just have to tell her what I had in mind then.

  “Why don’t you come up here and get on top? You did a great job being in control before. I want you to take charge again.”

  I reclined back a little more, laced my fingers together, and put them behind my head as I waited.

  “I…I…um…” Julianna stammered, her cheeks turning red, and even from where I laid, I could see her eyes get glossy with tears. Something was definitely wrong.

  “Julianna, what’s the matter?” I sat back up, my heart racing. Was I rushing this?

  “I’ve never…been on top…” Her voice was just above a whisper as she tore her gaze away from mine and looked at the floor.