Escaping Me (5 page)

Chapter Five

X-rated Board Games and Outrageous Wagers.

For days I have done nothing but hang with Cam in the bedroom or hang with the guys while Tad keeps Landon busy with work for the tour.  If I don’t get the hell off of this bus I’m going to lose my shit and kill off an entire city block!  You’ve seen those people on the news snappin’ out and just goin’ ape shit?  Well, I am realizing it was probably because they are stuck with a bunch of loud, obnoxious men who couldn’t wipe their own asses with both hands.  Even if they have a fuckin’ You Tube instructional video!

Cam and I
are becoming great friends already.  We like a lot of the same things, and spend most of our days watching shows on Netflix or laughing at stupid shit online.  After having done our nails, our hair, and organizing this ridiculous room we are both starting to go nuts.  I have no doubt that this plan was concocted by Landon and Tad to keep us stuck where they can hide us.

“If I have to spend one more day on this bus I’
m gonna cut Aiden off!” Cam screams as she bangs on the wall. “We haven’t stopped but to fill the gas tank!  I need to breathe air that doesn’t smell like man ass and stale beer!”

“Damn right!” I shout as I fling the door open. “Let’s go make our demands.” I yank her h
and, tugging her up the aisle behind me.

“
Looks like the pussy’s gettin’ restless.” Hunter says as I lean against the wall crossing my arms over my chest.  Cam matches my stance against the other side of the door way.  We probably look like gangster hookers; all made up and in nothing but tanks and boy shorts.  Hunter laughs his eyes drifting between us. “If they go rabid we’d have to put the kitties down.” He teases.  Standing to his feet, Hunter wraps an arm around each of us pulling us in tight. “That’s a sin against all that Shaft stands for.  Shaft never neglects the pussy!”

Aiden, Gray and Landon look up at him and I hear a growl tear out of Aiden’s throat.
“Henry!” Aiden yells, his eyes not leaving his brother. “We need to stop for a bit.   Before Cunter whips it out and tries to fuck all of us in the ass.” I can’t mask my look of disgust as I shove out of Hunter’s hold and flop on the couch next to Gray. “Come here Cam.” Aiden commands, making her nearly leap into his lap.

“We’ll stop in an hour.” Henry calls from the driver seat. “Try and get at my ass Hunter
.   I’ll be rippin’ that cock off and makin’ you eat it.” He adds with a laugh.

“You
’re what nine foot six Henry?” Hunter asks sarcastically as he moves around Tad and Landon to get to the fridge for a beer.

“Without my heels
or a hard-on motherfucker.” Henry says with a snort making Hunter spit his beer. All of us laugh.  Even Henry, is amused as Hunter sputters and chokes trying to catch his breath.  Henry may look intimidating. I know he could and would kill if necessary.  Once you get to know him though, he is really nothing but an enormous teddy bear.   Henry is like that though, he smiles real huge in private, but when we are all in public it’s scary silence. “You best quit offerin’ if you can’t even swallow a beer without chokin’ chump.” Henry shouts. “You could never handle me.”

“Fuck Henry, my door doesn’t swing both ways.” Hunter says gasping for breath.
 

“An hour?”
Aiden interrupts looking around. “What can we do to pass the time?”

Landon
jumps up, all but running toward our room. I half expect him not to come back.  He hasn’t spent much time with me over the past two days.  He says that Tad needs him to work out details for Vegas. They spend a lot of time in the living area sorting shit, as the guys say, while the rest of us sleep.  I have inherited the weird ass hours of a rock groupie.  We stay up late only to sleep the day away mostly, all except Tad and Landon who are up at the ass crack of dawn every morning.  Landon has been avoiding my questions about his job.   Changing the subject every time I ask about what he feels he can’t explain or talk to me about.  I gave up on pushing for now.  We sleep together maybe two hours a night then he is up and out of the bedroom.  Late nights are spent goofing around with Cam and the guys, along with talking with Gray.  Our conversations aren’t deep earth shattering conversations but he listens to me when I talk.  He doesn’t seem to have a problem talking about things with me, it’s a welcome distraction from the distance Landon is putting between us.  The attraction to Gray is still there growing stronger everyday but he doesn’t push or bring up the elephant in the room.  He is just there for whatever, whether it is watching movies or talking about songs and why we love them.  The flashes about sex with Grayson Cole though, are still running rampant in my brain with no sign of stopping.  

With no room in the bunks, Gra
y sleeps on the floor of the bedroom which in no way helps the fantasies I have been having about him.  I lie awake until the sun comes up staring at his bare chest.  Of course Grayson Cole with his almighty sexiness kicks the sheet off the moment he falls asleep.  I lie there after Landon kisses my cheek and I watch the rise and fall of Gray’s breathing as I study his tattoos.

He has barbed wire running around his left arm. 
It starts on his wrist and circles up around his arm, which spreads around his shoulder and his chest.  His chest though… that’s what is amazing.  The barbed wire spans and spreads around a shield on his pectoral, right over his heart.  A worn, battered looking shield, the shield of a warrior, a protector and it rules my dreams. 

My dreams are even more vivid than my day dream the night he sang
.  I can’t stop even if I really wanted to.  I think the problem is my sexual frustration.  I can’t get Landon interested in me at all.  He just smiles, kisses me and says soon.  I mean hell we weren’t rabbits by any means.   We didn’t even live together.  I stayed over occasionally when school didn’t get in the way, but we had a very healthy sex life.  Now it’s like he has put his cock on ice.  I’m going to fucking explode with all the testosterone around here and no way to release my urge.  I am really, really glad that I don’t have a penis because I would be walking around with a constant hard-on.  I seriously have these thoughts that make me want to rut up against something like a crazy fuckin’ cat in heat.  Oh my God!  Hunter is right!  I’m a rabid pussy!  They’ll call animal control to have me put down if I don’t get laid soon!

Landon walks back into the room ending my thoughts about animal control
and vaginally administered tranquilizers. Hunter takes one look at the box in Landon’s hand and doubles over in laughter. “I’m not playing Scrabble with you dumbass!  Don’t we have Twister?” He asks winking at me.

“Idiot!
  You can’t play that on a bus, we’d fall for sure.” I say with a giggle.

Spreading his legs wide he rubs his crotch through his jeans. “I’ll catch you. 
Won’t even need to use my hands.”

“Hey, how about we pl
ay but we attach a little wager?” Cam says pulling her mouth off of Aiden long enough to get into the conversation. Looking around she wrinkles her nose in disgust. “The bus is a fuckin’ mess you know?   We can’t keep goin’ with it like this.  If Daisy and I win you guys have to clean the entire bus, do the laundry and restock the pantry.  If we lose then you guys pick…” She says making Hunter’s brow raise, “No sexual favors for you Cunter.  I’m a one shaft only, Shaft groupie.”

Hunter frowns.  Taking a drink of his beer he contemplates the situation then a sm
ile spreads across his face reminding me a lot of the big bad wolf.   I have gotten to know Hunter and even his alter ego a bit the past few days, the big bad wolf fits.  He is truly looking to corrupt and devour everything he touches. “Fine. We go head to head in an X-rated words only Scrabble match.  Two on two and when Gray and I win you two lovely ladies will clean the bus in g-string bikinis inside and out while we sit and watch.”

Aiden glares at his brother, “No
fuckin’ way asshole.” He says wrapping his arms around Cam. “I didn’t even share my toys with you when we were kids.”

“No
huffin’ or puffin’ big bad wolf or I’ll kick your teeth in.  Strip club rules apply here.  You know no touchin’ the merchandise?” I blurt, making Landon’s eyes dart to mine in shock. “If you keep your hands off, I’m in.” I say looking at Gray with a grin. “If we win, which we will, all of you men will clean the bus in nothing but teeny tiny little thongs yourself.  Sure you wanna do this?” I say turning my grin to Hunter.

“Gray?” Hunter asks
, smiling wickedly.

Gray arches a brow as they bump fists
. “Set the board up fucker, let’s do this.”

Tad sprawls out on the couch
typing away on his phone.  Hunter and Gray set up the board at the small kitchenette table as Cam and I sit across from them ready to kick ass and take names. “So typical point system applies, you’re only allowed to use words deemed X-rated by the judges.” Aiden says hopping up on the counter.  Looking over he rolls his eyes at Landon who just sinks further into the chair getting lost in his laptop. “Yo!  Big Man you in on this shit?” Aiden calls up to Henry who is manning the wheel.

“Yell out the words, I’ll say yay or nay but
I’m not wearin’ a fuckin’ ass-floss pasty.  You don’t want that close of a look at the monster if you aren’t gonna feed ‘em.”

“Fair enough.”
Aiden relents, shaking his head.

All four of us have our seven tiles each
.  After a draw to see who goes first the guys win.  Hunter slams down A-N-A-L on the board, then sits back smugly crossing his arms over his chest. “Anal counts.  That’s four points.” Aiden says writing down the score on the pad.

“Anal? 
Figures you sick bastard.” Henry says with a chuckle. “Whatcha got ladies?”

Cam and I scan our little racks of letters
. I grin at her as I place my tiles on the board. “B-L-O-W” Aiden reads off.  Henry gives his approval as well earning us eight points.

“A good blow will always beat out anal.” Cam says with a giggle. 

Aiden shakes his head with a groan. “Alright Gray, your turn.” He says gesturing to the board.  Gray’s eyes meet mine. I watch as his fingers brush along the tiles, making me curl my toes under the table.  His brow knits in concentration as he moves tiles around and smiles wickedly.

“C-L-I-T-O-R-I-S” Aiden shouts at Henry, making Landon’s head dart up to us. “Great job Gray, you finally found one!”

“Fuck you shit-brick.” Gray growls. “I get a fifty point bonus on top of,” He yanks the paper from Aiden, counting up his letters. “…ten more for the word.  That gives us sixty four points.  I see bikinis in our future.  I think the kitchen floor needs to be scrubbed with toothbrushes.” He says winking at me making me blush.

“What the fuck does he mean a fifty point bonus?” Cam says looking at Aiden
her eyes full of panic.

“He cleared his rack
babe.  Used all seven of his tiles… fifty point bonus.” Aiden says as Cam yanks the rules away from Gray and reads.

“Damn it!” She shouts t
ossing the paper back at Aiden. “This is bullshit!”

“We
’ve got this.” I tell her as I nudge her shoulder trying to help her relax.  Shit she is wound tight as hell over just one round.  Pulling my eyes from Gray, I start looking through our tiles as he draws new ones.

By the time Henry parks
the bus we’re all laughing hysterically. There’s only about thirty points keeping the guys in the lead right now.  I had to fight Hunter on using the word blue-ball, since it’s hyphenated.  Aiden quickly came to our defense making Hunter and Gray tell him how pussy whipped he is.

“I’m not pussy whipped.” He says
winking at Cam, “I whip pussy!”

Cam blushes but laughs along with us.  Landon and Tad have given input over word arguments but nothing more than that.  They have opted out of the bet earning them the ‘Pussies of the Tour’ award from Aiden.

“You are what you eat.” Landon says smugly.

All eyes fall on me and I nearly explode with rage.  Turning around in the bench seat I glare at Landon.  This man has never talked about me like that.  He hasn’t said anything r
emotely sexual to me in days now here he is acting like he just ate at the ‘Y’?  Oh hell no!  I’ve been rejected at every turn and everyone on the bus knows it. “Really Landon?” I snap.  His eyes meet mine as he winces.  “Maybe you should be over here watching for the educational value at least.”

Tad chokes
on his water as the chorus of ‘oh burn’ and ‘damn’ rolls out around me.  Hunter reaches out to bump my fist. “Girl you’re a fuckin’ legend.”

“You’ve
never complained before.” Landon spits.  Standing up, he throws his computer angrily to the couch.

“I’ve never applauded either asshole.”

“I don’t see you getting a standing fucking ovation either Daisy.  Why are you being such a bitch?” Landon snarls angrily.  Uh oh did I strike a nerve?

“You have no idea what I’m like in bitch mode yet Landon. My advice is not to
fuckin’ push me.” I bite out.  The silence is madness.  The tension so thick it’s making me squirm.  Everyone is watching us, their eyes darting between Landon and me.  Just waiting for the first punch to be thrown or someone to get naked and prove a point.