“Let’s go to bed,” Landon says, nipping on my ear lobe.
I nod because I can never say no to Landon. My body craves him in ways I can’t even comprehend. I’m convinced that he put a spell over my heart all those years ago.
Landon stands and I wrap my legs and arms around him. He walks over to the stairs and out of the pool. We stop briefly to dry off enough so we aren’t dripping through the house. Landon picks me back up and we go into the house wrapped around each other. Madison and Cash are in one of the spare bedrooms and we’re in the one next to them.
He lays me down on the bed and then peels the bottom of my bathing suit off. I’m completely naked and Landon rakes his eyes up and down my body, drinking in every inch, slowly. “You’re so fucking beautiful.”
I blush, “I’m not.”
Landon moans as he covers my body with his. His erection lying heavy against my core, “Shut up.” He pauses briefly to put a condom on.
I moan as he grinds against me, he pulls back slightly and does it again before positioning himself at my opening. Landon pushes forward enough so his head goes inside and then stops. “You’re so fucking beautiful.” He repeats.
I want to tell him to shut up this time but I don’t, I can’t. Landon pulls out and then enters me again. “You get this look on your face that I can’t describe when I’m inside you…it cripples me.”
I try turning my head away from him not wanting to be under his gaze but Landon puts both of his large hands on either side of my face. “Look at me. When are you going to start seeing what I see?”
“One day.”
“Today.”
Landon pushes all the way in and I cry out from the pleasure. We make love so slow that I’m convinced my body has become boneless when he’s done with me. He’s completely worked my entire body from head to toe. Never would I have thought that Landon Hayes, the bad boy himself, would ever fall for me.
He may have taken my virginity but he didn’t give me his. I know that Landon has been with other girls but he doesn’t flaunt it in my face. He makes me feel like I’m the only one there has ever been. He tells me I’m the only one who matters when I try to talk to him about his past. I both love and hate him for it.
“You’re mine, baby,” Landon says when he comes back from using the bathroom.
“Forever,” I answer and place a kiss on his chest before falling asleep.
December 4, 2010
Game Day
Steven, Cash, and Landon are quiet all morning and remain stoic even through breakfast. This is the normal for them on game days, especially today. They are in their own heads thinking about the game, getting pumped up.
I get up early and cook everyone, eggs, ham, sausage, bacon, and hash browns for breakfast. The guys need a big breakfast before a huge game like this. Landon already started drinking his Gatorade the second his eyes opened to make sure he is fully hydrated. I couldn’t believe he drank last night but I guess he needed something to relax him.
“See you after the game, babe,” Landon says, kissing me on the way out with Cash and Steven doing the same with Alexa and Madison.
“Okay, good luck today, not that you really need it,” I say winking at him. He knows I think he’s a beast on the field. “I love you.”
“Love you too.”
The guys take off for school so they can catch the bus to the field with the team. When they leave, the three of us get ready to head to Portland later that morning.
***
At times, the game had me biting my nails but now that we’re in the fourth quarter, the score forty-one to thirty-four with two minutes left on the play clock, and I feel like I can breathe again.
Madison, Alexa, and I are up on our feet cheering our guys on, our team on, these state champions on. We’re soaked from head to toe because of the constant rain. I can feel my toes surrounded by water every time I jump up to cheer. Raindrops are running down my face and the tip of my nose and my shirt and pants probably weigh another ten pounds from the amount of water they are holding.