time to respond. “You’re this megastar, and I am this unemployed graphic artist living with my parents again.” She stepped away, and the few seconds of silence that filled the air had a plethora of emotion covering her face. “You’ll be leaving to go back on tour, Jacks. A long distance relationship—if that is even what we are talking about—wouldn’t work.”
He didn’t need to hear the worry about the hundred other things that were moving through that pretty little head of hers: cheating, parties, and being forgotten. But Jacks would never betray her in any way, and he hoped she would have known that after growing up with him. Then again, he also reminded himself that they weren’t kids anymore, and that the lifestyle he now lived was not something everyone could get used to.
He heard her swallow, but when she stepped away he didn’t try to keep her close. She didn’t say anything else, but he noticed she was searching the ground. When she spotted her clothes she quickly put them on. Watching her dress, seeing her bend over to pull on her panties and pants should have had his cock at full attention, but the air around them was strange now, and any kind of arousal had vanished as soon as she had turned from him.
“Look at me, Tanner.” She had her pants and bra on now, and when she turned and faced him he could tell she was guarding her expression. “We were all good just a second ago when I was deep inside of you.” He loved that her cheeks turned pink once more, but he hadn’t said that to embarrass her. He had known that being with her sexually again wouldn’t have made everything all better, but he had hoped it would be the start to patching things up between them, and then, he hoped, moving onto something more.
He wanted her, had wanted her for a long time. Jacks could forget about the past five years and just start over with her here. Yes, his lifestyle was vastly different than it had been, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t try.
“Really look at me.” Obviously he didn’t mean in the literal sense, but she looked up and down his body, and it took a lot for him not to push everything else aside and show her with his cock, hands, and mouth that they needed to be together.
“You should put some clothes on. It’s distracting having you stand there naked.” For a second they just stared at each other, and then a smile spread across her face. “Yeah, you really should, because I can’t think, let alone try and answer your question.”
Okay, this was good, because at least she was smiling and joking with him, and his being naked was obviously affecting her. He grabbed his jeans, which were on the floor, and once they were on he looked back at her. Of course he wanted to ask her again where she saw this going, and in fact wanted to tell her where he saw them after this, but she was edgy, for whatever reason, and so he knew when to back off.
“It isn’t that I don’t want to be with you.” She looked down, must have realized she only had her bra on, and grabbed her shirt off the floor. Once it was on and they were staring at each other she continued speaking. “It’s just that the way I left…” She shook her head, but at least kept her eyes on him. “I feel really shitty about it, and then we jumped right into bed, well, the wall and floor, too.” She chuckled, and Jacks couldn’t help himself from doing the same. “I just don’t want either of us to get hurt, Jacks.”
He couldn’t help himself. He walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her. Fortunately, she rested her head on his chest, and right now wasn’t about the explosive sexual chemistry they had. Right now was about a friendship that spanned their entire lives, and that had never been broken. “So what if I’m a musician now? Who gives a fuck if our lives are not the same?” She didn’t say anything, but he kept talking anyway. “We are still the same where it counts.” He leaned down, closed his eyes, and inhaled the floral scent of her hair.
It wasn’t just the aroma of flowers now, but smelled like him and the sex they had just had, too. Jacks loved it,