Beautiful Burn (9 page)

When I reached the
one mile mark my muscles screamed and my body swayed with weakness. I
reluctantly slowed my jog to a walk, disappointed that I couldn’t
run the three miles that I'd been running each day this spring. I
stopped at one of the boulders dotting the path and stretched my
legs, keeping my muscles loose as I gazed out at the west bay where
Auburn and I had rowed our first night together. I stretched my arms
behind my back, pulling at my sore shoulders in the hopes of staying
flexible for the way home. After a few minutes of stretching and
realizing that my body would not take any more of a beating today, I
turned for home, taking it slow and getting lost in my thoughts the
entire way.

I
wanted to give Auburn everything, but I could close my eyes and see
the headlines.
High
School Teacher Seduces Student.
The local news would have a field day. The media attention in our
small state alone would prevent me from getting a job. I kicked at a
rock on the pathway as I tried to figure out some way to have it all.
I'd been working on my doctorate in the hopes of one day working as a
professor at the local college, maybe if I buckled down I could
breeze through the remaining classes in a few years and start as an
adjunct professor, leaving me free to date Auburn, free from scandal
and gossip.

A few weeks ago I
would have said I didn't know what my future held and that fact shook
me to my bones and left me paralyzed with anxiety, but with time,
that feeling had dissipated. Auburn had said it was our time, but I
still couldn't shake the memory of the look of quiet disappointment
on her face. There'd been more she was saying, something that left me
with the sense that I didn't have the time with her I thought I had.

I sent her
an email the following morning.

Meet me tonight
at the entrance to the resort off of highway 31.

I reclined back in
my deck chair basking in the warm morning sun with a cup of coffee
and a baseball hat pulled low over my eyes. The chime indicating a
new email sounded a minute later.

Uh…ok. What’s
there?
w
as her reply.

It’s a
surprise. 8pm.
I briefly wished I could just
text her, but I wasn't ready to take that risk yet.

Yes, Sir.
s
he
answered.

The blood pumped a
little slower through my veins, thick with the insinuation of her
reply.

I sat outside the
entrance of the Pines Resort off of highway 31 later that evening.
Auburn pulled up a few minutes after me and stepped out, tucked her
phone in the back pocket of her black shorts and stepped up to me.
“I'm all yours,” Her hand dusted down the front of my jeans. The
short shorts she ran around in always left me clutching at control,
but her hands on my cock had me on the edge of exploding.

“
Get in.” I
growled, gesturing to the other side of my old Blazer. I hopped
behind the wheel, adjusting the painful ache between my legs, and
drove a few yards along the shoulder before pulling into our
destination.

“
We're going to
the drive-in?” She grinned and looked at me, then back to the
drive-in theater sign that dominated the roadway. “So what’s the
main attraction tonight?”

“
It’s a
surprise.” I paid for two tickets before giving her a playful wink.

“
Necker’s
Lane?” Auburn laughed when I chose a spot in the last row.

“
I swear, it’s
not what you think, well, not until you showed up in those shorts
anyway.” I grinned, my plans for a sweet evening now happily
replaced with something altogether dirtier. “Come on.” I opened
my door to meet her at the back of the Blazer. With the tailgate open
and the back seats removed, there was plenty of room for us to lie
down and watch the movie. I started making a bed of the half dozen
blankets I'd brought. I tossed a few pillows around and then held a
hand out.

A smile split her
face, the hugest I’d ever seen, and with that one look I knew it
was all worth it. Whatever the future held, that smile made
everything worth it. She giggled as she crawled across the bed on her
knees before snuggling down into the nest I'd made. “This is
amazing!” She spread her hands over the soft fabric of my white
comforter, pulled straight from my bed. I loved the thought that I
would go home with her scent on it.

That idea was
shaken from my head when a flying pillow walloped me. I grinned and
tossed it back. She caught it as the momentum of the pillow sent her
dark hair flying in a pretty puff around her face. Satisfied, I
dropped back with a laugh on the stack of pillows and blankets. “See?
Best view, right here.” I gestured to the oversized screen.

“
I should know
by now not to doubt you,” she said as she burrowed into the comfort
the blankets offered. “You are the teacher, after all.”

“
Watch it,” I
growled with a half smile. The sunset finally dipped below the
horizon and before long, the opening credits were rolling.

““
Lolita”?
This is amazing! How did you --”

“
They have
special request night. I put in Lolita a few weeks ago.” I answered
her unfinished question. Her excitement was palpable, and the
happiness that settled within me that I'd brought that smile to her
face left me feeling a sense of content that'd been missing from my
life of late.

“
Wow. I'm sort
of blown away.” Her voice softened. “No one's every done
something like this for me before.”

“
I'm glad I'm
the lucky one.” I grinned.

“
Thank you.”
She stretched an arm across the soft cotton and gave my hand a
thoughtful squeeze.

“
Drink?”
I pulled a bottle from each of the six packs I'd brought. A beer for
me, girly shit for her.

“
Mike’s Hard
Lemonade?” She frowned as she held the sweaty bottle in her hand.

“
You want a
beer?” I passed her the bottle I’d just uncapped.

“
Yes, please.”
She smiled sweetly before taking a long drink. Her throat contracted
and my eyes followed the line of it down to her collarbone and the
shadowy cleavage revealed by her shirt. But tonight wasn't about
taking, it was about sharing.

I grabbed another
beer for myself as the opening scenes of the movie played. Auburn
watched riveted, soaking up the old classic. I watched the movie too,
but I also snuck glances at Auburn. She made small comments
throughout the movie and I soaked up her words. I drank in the way
her eyes conveyed every thought she had. I reveled in these moments
because I was afraid we would only have these moments. Simple though
they were, I found myself realizing that the simple moments in life
were the most profound.

Auburn nestled
closer to me. Close enough that I could feel our bodies humming in
the empty space that separated us.

Her leg brushed
against mine as she shifted again. “Is everything okay?” I
leaned into her, fully aware what was on her mind. Those chocolate
brown eyes shot to mine, before glossing over with something that
made my dick pound. The look of a woman wet.

I brushed a hand
up the inside of her thigh as I took her lips with mine. Softly at
first, tentatively, but when she placed her hand on my chest and
pushed her hips to me, all systems were go.

We were frantic,
desperate, rushed. Like we were starving for each other.

Auburn did that to
me. She lit me on fire and made me burn and ache in ways I didn’t
even know were possible. My beautiful burn. I needed her.

“
Get out of your
shorts,” I grunted as I pulled the zip on my jeans. She pushed the
fabric down her legs and I smiled when I found her without a scrap of
underwear. “Naughty girl, you wanted me to fuck you tonight?” I
whispered in the filtered moonlight as I watched her.

“
Yes.” The
answer was short and quick, astoundingly frank, as she laid back on
the nest of blankets. I was going to fuck her – a student – in
the back of my truck. My dick throbbed and my brain fogged as I fell
down over her, my cock finding the place it'd been craving between
her legs.

“
Oh God, Reed,”
she moaned when I dragged my cock up her heated center, teasing at
her entrance and hitting every bundle of nerves on the way. She ran
her fingernails across the skin of my back and I arched and
shuddered, grinding my hips while my hands grasped at her sides to
hold her against me.

“
Ride me. I want
to watch you fuck me.” She nodded in hasty response when I backed
away, my cock twitching at the stark contrast between the heat
between her thighs and the cool night air. I laid back on the
blankets and pulled up my shirt, wanting to feel her skin on skin
everywhere.

Auburn placed her
hands on my muscled stomach, ran circles with her fingertips along
the etched lines of my abs, and teased her lips at the tip of my
cock. Passing by, but never going home. “Auburn,” I growled in
warning before handcuffing her wrists with my hands.

“
Mmm...yes?”
She oozed innocent sex appeal. She was my Lolita.

“
Fuck me.” I
stilled her wandering hand. Her eyes met mine and we both stilled
before a slow grin split her face. Her eyes, hooded and dark with
lust, fell down my body, appreciating what she saw. Her fingertips
trailed across the sharp angle of my hipbones and then to my cock,
sitting erect and throbbing, reaching past my navel.

She grasped it in
her hand and in a move that surprised the hell out of me, sank her
mouth down on my cock. She sucked and grasped with her hand, riding
the high and taking me higher, before moving back down and hitting
the end of her throat. My hands threaded through her hair and held
her head in my palms tightly. “Take my cock all the way, baby,” I
grunted as I pressured her to swallow the tip of my dick. A gasp
escaped my throat when she did it and the mounting pressure built
further. My hands loosened and Auburn pushed off, wiped her lips, and
with eyes that burned with captivating lust, she stretched across the
bed of the Blazer and fished a condom out of her purse. She tore it
open with her teeth and with that devilish glint in her eye, rolled
it with agonizing slowness down my shaft. When she finished, she
wrapped her small fist around my pulsing cock and teased it at her
entrance. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, she sat down on
my cock with a force I hadn't expected. Sheathed between her legs,
buried in her scorching hot body, I fucked her until I lost my mind.

She rode my
wildly, one hand in her hair, back arched, the other hand holding on
to the roll bar above her head. I bit my bottom lip as I watched her
move, and somehow, smile as she rode me. Auburn fucked
competitively, there was no other way to explain it. A challenge lit
her eyes when I was inside her like we were racing to see who could
push the other over the edge first. It was wild and unexpected and
left me begging to touch the flame.

Auburn lit my
mind, my heart, my soul. She'd become the counterweight, the thing I
needed to feel balanced and safe. I'd known her since she was in high
school, but that wasn't what mattered. What mattered was that I came
alive when I was with her. She made me feel, and for so long I'd
forgotten what feeling felt like.

My hands gripped
her hips before wrapping around her narrow waist and yanking her down
on top of me. I held her to my body, as much skin as I could get,
with one hand wrapped around her back and another all fucked up in
her hair. I held her to me while I thrust, conscious of her clit
abrading my pelvis. I ground deeper still and her reply came in the
form of a string of breathless moans. I smoothed one palm down her
body, past the dip in her waist, to land at the curve of her ass
cheek. I squeezed hard enough to make her yelp, and with my muscles
strung tight and bunched, I thrust and whispered in her ear dirty
words that spurred her on. With one more pelvic grind she came,
pulsing in small waves around my cock and sending me into another
world with her.

We whimpered and
moaned and sucked in rasping breaths of air thick with the scent of
sex as we clutched at each other in the back of my truck. The movie
played and people watched in cars less than fifty yards away from us,
as we lay sapped and sated.

“
Mmm,” she
hummed before her fingernails dug into my chest as she pushed off me.
My hands dropped from her waist and when she was settled beside me
again I tucked a blanket around the both of us. With her head tucked
into my shoulder, I stroked her hair, my smile widening the longer
the movie played until my cheeks hurt and I couldn't contain it any
longer. I chuckled softly with a shake of my head.