Misty Reigenborn Romance Boxed Set (174 page)

“Shut up Eduardo.  Just leave me alone.”

“C’mon Molli.  What do I have to say to you to convince you that I really do love you?  Ricky ain’t never gonna tell you he loves you.  With all his fancy words, he’s never gonna tell you the ones that you really want to hear.”

“It’s not like you ever meant them.  They’re just words.  Actions speak louder than words.  Ricky’s actions tell me that he cares about me.”

“He cares about what you have between your legs.  He likes the fact that you’re willing to get down and dirty with him.  You know Mellenda’s not.  I bet she’s never blown the poor guy.”

Molli rolled her eyes.  “There is more to life than blow jobs.”

“Are you trying to tell me that you haven’t had your pretty mouth on his dick?  You used to drive me crazy when you went down on me with your tongue ring in.”

“I don’t plan on putting my mouth anywhere near your penis ever again thank you very much.”

“Has Ricky gone down on you?  You remember that I licked you before you ever sucked me off don’t you?”

“Stop with your lewd comments.  It doesn’t matter if he’s done that to me or I’ve done that to him.”

“So I guess that means yes you have and no he hasn’t huh?”  Eduardo laughed.

“I’m hanging up on you now Eddie.  If I hear that a little birdie told Mellenda that I’ve been with Ricky, I’ll make Ricky drive me to my parents’ house and get those videos.  We’ll go straight to Brentwood PD with them.”

“Thanks for tellin’ me where they are sweetheart.  What makes you think I won’t break into your big old house in Cheston and take them and destroy them?  You do know that I know exactly where the Archers live right?”

“What makes you think that my parents don’t have an alarm system?”

“Because you always complain about how cheap they are.”

“Yeah, so?  Seneca has copies.  Are you gonna break into her house too?”

“Hell yeah I will.  Take a couple of my boys with me.  We’ll have a ton of fun with your hot friend and her mama when big daddy cop ain’t home.  Might even take Peggy with me and let her break in Rain.  I was only twelve when I got mine for the first time.”

“Even you’re not that stupid.  Seneca’s dad would kill you.  He’d get away with it too.  Don’t you think that cops have ways to make almost anything look justified?”

“Course they do.  I can’t believe you’re okay with it when you’re all politically correct on a bunch of other bullshit.”

“I didn’t say that I was okay with police brutality.  But I can’t say my heart would be broken if Seneca’s dad beat the shit out of you for raping his whole family.”

“You can’t rape the willing darlin’.  I seen your little friend and her MILFy mom both givin’ me the eye in town.”

“You only wish.  I really am hanging up on you now Eduardo.  Remember what I said.  Even if you try to make it look like someone else told Mellenda, I’ll know it was you.”

“If you think that I’m the only one that knows you’re doing it with Ricky, you really are stupid girl.  It’s gonna be all over Crestview before you know it.”

“And if it is, the cops will have a nice present in their mailbox, whether you were the one that told or not.  So you should probably keep your mouth shut about me and Ricky.”

“Bitch.  I knew I should have chased after that blonde instead of you.  Redheads are evil.”

Molli laughed.  “My hair is more brown than red you dummy.  Except in the summer when it gets lighter from being out in the sun.”

“Curly haired girls are evil then.  You can’t tell me that you don’t have curly hair.”

“Yeah, yeah.  Goodbye Eduardo.”

“Bye Molli, you dirty little bitch.”

Molli rolled her eyes and hung up her phone.  She sent a text to Ricky. ‘I don’t think we’ll have to worry about Eduardo telling Mellenda.’

‘Okay.  Do I want to know how you managed that Molli?’

‘Probably not.  I miss you already.’

‘I miss you too.  Can we get together next weekend?’

‘Of course.’

‘I have to let you go now darling.  I’ll see you soon okay?’

‘Yes.  Goodbye Ricky.’

‘Bye Molli.  No wait.  I apologize.  I can’t see you next weekend; it will have to be the following weekend.’

‘You’re breaking my heart Ricky.  I haven’t thought about anything besides you since the first time we were together.’

‘I know honey.  Believe me I want to see you as much as you want to see me.  I have a very hard time keeping my mind off of you.  I have obligations.’

‘Uh huh.  Well, call me or text me if you can and I’ll see you in a couple weeks okay?  No wait, that’s the week of Thanksgiving.  Can we get together earlier in the week?  Or do you have to go home to your family right away?’

‘I am spending the holiday at home but we should be able to get together earlier in the week yes.  I have to go.  My boss is coming.’

‘Bye Ricky.’

‘Goodbye Molli.’

The rest of the weekend went quickly.  Molli was able to catch up on her homework.  She felt a little less behind than usual.  She was able to avoid Eduardo and there were no rumors around Crestview or Brentwood that she was sleeping with Ricky.  She spent the next weekend in her room by herself.  She felt very tired and wondered if she was getting sick.

Chapter 7

The next week, Molli was sitting at the desk in her room one night, trying to do her homework when Mellenda said “Molli?”

She didn’t look up from her math book.  “Yeah?”

“Have you ever thought about having an abortion?”

She looked at Mellenda then.  “No.  Why?”

“Can I tell you something?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

Mellenda laughed.  “Don’t sound so enthused Molli.  I can talk to someone else if you’d rather not hear it.”

“It’s just that we’ve never been friends Mellenda.  We’re roommates that barely seem to tolerate each other.”

“I never wanted it to be like that.  We’re so different.  So, what I was saying was I had an abortion.”

“You had an abortion?”

“Yes.  Earlier this year.”

“Why?”

Mellenda sighed.  “I had only been with Ricky a couple of months and our relationship was still so new.  I kind of lied to him about getting birth control.  I wanted to know what it felt like to have sex without a condom.  So, I feel like it was my fault that I got pregnant.”

“I guess.”  Molli couldn’t imagine Ricky being okay with Mellenda having an abortion, even if the relationship had still been new.  She also couldn’t imagine him still dating her, even if he had somehow been okay with the abortion.

“Ricky doesn’t know about it.”

“What?  You didn’t tell him?  Did you lie to him and tell him you lost the baby?”

“He never knew there was a baby.”

Molli kept her mouth shut.  She had no idea how she’d respond to such a comment. 

“Well, thanks for letting me talk to you Molli.  You can go back to your homework now.”  Mellenda turned back to the fashion magazine she’d been reading before and dismissed Molli once again.

Molli’s head was spinning.  She wanted to call Ricky and tell him what Mellenda had said, but she couldn’t exactly call him while Mellenda was right there.  She thought about texting him, but knew that if she did that she’d end up chatting with him half the night instead of doing her homework.  She tried to clear her mind, but it was really hard.  What Mellenda had told her was all she thought about until she realized that she’d missed her period.

She was always regular.  She waited three days until she texted Seneca.  ‘Sen, if I meet you in town can you help me get a pregnancy test?’

‘You mean like steal one?  Grant just got his check if you need to borrow some money Mol.’

‘I have the money.  I don’t want anybody to see me buying one.’

‘Oh, I guess that makes sense.  Yeah, I can lift one for you.  I went through a real big shoplifting phase a couple years ago.  I think I’m the reason they started locking the condoms up.  Of course I wasn’t doing it back then, I thought it was cool to have condoms for some reason.’

‘You are such a dork Sen.  Do they still keep the pregnancy tests out?’

‘Well, the cheap ones at least, but they all work the same.  You want to do it tonight?’

‘Yeah.  I might not take it right away, but I want to have it just in case.  I want to take it before I see Ricky again.’

‘Okay.  Let me call Grant.  We’ll meet you on the road in front of the school.’

‘Thank you Sen.’

‘No problem Mol.  You know that I’m going to end up asking you to do something really crazy for me sometime.’

‘I’ll see you in a bit.’

‘I’ll text you when Grant and I are on the way so you don’t have to wait out there in the dark.’

‘Thanks.  See you soon.’

‘Okay Mol.  See ya.’

Molli grabbed her coat and slipped out of school and onto the dark path that led to the road.  She got a text message from Seneca telling her that she and Grant were on their way.  By the time she got to the road, Grant’s car was already parked.  She could see Seneca and Grant making out in the front seat.  She knocked on the passenger side window, and Seneca jumped and then smiled at her and flipped her off.

Molli got into the back seat of the car and laughed.  “Sorry Sen.  I had to.”

“I thought you were one of those stupid guards.  I thought they were going to drag me back into Crestview like I belong there.”  Seneca let out a fake shiver.

“Hey.”

“You don’t belong there Mol and you know it.  Not because you’re not good enough, but because you’re too good for those stuck up little bitches.”

Molli laughed.  “Thanks Sen.”

“No problem Mol.”

“So where are we going girls?” Grant said.

“Um, the discount store.  No, the grocery store.”

“Okay.”

When they got to the store, Seneca wouldn’t let Grant go in with them.  He whined because he said he wanted a candy bar and something to drink but she told him they could stop at the gas station on the way back to Crestview.  He made a face at her, but shut up when she kissed him and whispered and something into his ear.  Molli didn’t want to know what it was that Seneca had said to him.  He got an almost dopey looking grin on his face soon after.

Molli followed Seneca to the aisle where the tests were displayed.  She wanted to look at the selection, but Seneca glanced around for an employee of the store or a camera and not seeing either, pulled one off the shelf at random and stuffed it inside her jacket.  Molli wanted to run out of the store after that, but made herself follow Seneca casually out of the store.

Seneca broke out in giggles when they got back to the car and Grant said “What?”

“Nothing baby.  Just drive.”

“Girls are weird when they’re together.”

That only made Seneca laugh harder.  Molli soon joined in.  They were still laughing when he pulled into the gas station.  Grant made a face at Seneca when she told him she’d go in the store again but she winked at him and said “I know what you like baby.”

Molli could almost swear Grant was blushing when she followed Seneca into the store.  She bought a soda and a candy bar and then followed Seneca to the cash register.  Seneca handed the pregnancy test to her when they were on the way back to the car.  Molli slipped it into her purse.

Grant saw.  When they were back in the car he said “What did you give Molli?  What if I want one?”

Seneca handed him his candy bar and put his soda in the cup holder.  “I don’t think you want to see one of those for at least a couple more years’ babe.”

“Um, okay.  I told you girls were weird.”

“Trust me Grant.  You don’t want what I gave Molli and neither do I.  No offense Mol.”

“None taken Sen.”

Grant still looked puzzled as he pulled out of the parking lot.  Molli had a feeling that it wouldn’t be too long before her friend told him what she had given her.  But she could trust both Seneca and Grant not to spread it around town if she were pregnant.

Molli hurried back to her room after lunch on the day that school let out for Thanksgiving vacation and pulled out the pregnancy test that was hidden in her drawer.   She felt bad about stealing it especially since she’d had more than enough money to pay for it, but she figured she was far from the first teenage girl or boy that had stolen a pregnancy test and would be far from the last.

She just looked at it for a minute, wondering if she wanted to know the results.  Finally she sighed and opened the box and took it into the bathroom with her, sitting down on the toilet and reading the directions.  She didn’t think that she’d be upset about being pregnant if she knew for sure who the father was and that that father was Ricky.  But she thought to herself as she held the plastic stick in her urine stream, chances were better that it was Ricky’s baby.  She’d certainly never had unprotected sex with Jude and would never have dreamed of it doing it with Eduardo without protection, even when she’d convinced herself that he would eventually leave Crisha.

She flushed the toilet and laid the test on the edge of the sink.  She washed her hands three times and then left the test in the bathroom while she went to the bedroom and packed her overnight bag for the trip home.  The test claimed to have almost instant results, but she couldn’t bring herself to look at it yet. 

Finally, when her bag was packed and she could think of no other ways to stall since she knew Ricky was already on his way to pick her up, she walked back into the bathroom and looked at the test.  It was positive.

Molli felt tears prick her eyes.  How would Ricky feel about this she wondered?  Should she tell him tonight?  She discarded the test in the trashcan in the bedroom since there wasn’t one in the bathroom and headed out the door, excited and nervous to see Ricky, not thinking that Mellenda might see the test in the trash when she returned after class.

Ricky called her forty-five minutes later.  She met him on the road in front of the school.  He leaned over and kissed her.  She felt very warm inside.  They didn’t talk much during the trip to his apartment and only made one stop on the way for Ricky to buy a pack of his expensive cigarettes.  She had missed him so much that she dragged him into the bedroom as soon as they were inside, quickly undressing both herself and him.

Molli and Ricky were lying naked in his bed together, kissing and touching when Ricky suddenly pulled back and said “Molli?”

“Yes Ricky?” 

She hoped that he was going to tell her that he had broken up with Mellenda and that he wanted her to be his girlfriend.  Of course, she’d wanted that since the first time they’d had sex.  She didn’t think she’d feel nearly as bad about stealing Rick away from Mellenda as she had about stealing Jude from Tory.  She knew that Mellenda talked shit about her behind her back.  At least Tory was up front about it she thought.  She thought that Tory did it because she was self-conscious too, not like Mellenda who she thought was just stuck up deep down.

“May I kiss you between your legs?”

Molli wanted to laugh.  Ricky was so, well he was almost proper sometimes, and seemed much older than nineteen.  “Do you mean like kiss my thighs and stuff or do you mean go down on me?”

Ricky made a face.  “I don’t like to put it like that.  It sounds so cheap that way.  I like to think of it as giving you the most intimate of kisses.”

“I guess.”

“You don’t have to let me if you don’t want me to.  Mellenda will never let me do it to her.  She thinks that it’s disgusting.  Many women enjoy it very much though, and I think you would.”

“Jude did it once but he wasn’t very good at it.  And he only did it because I got tired of blowing him and not getting anything back.  Eduardo used to do it, but he hasn’t since he hooked up with Peggy.  I think he did it to her once and was so disgusted that he never wanted to do it again.  I don’t know why he’s still with her.  I’m not sure how he can stand to have sex with her, let alone do that to her.  But yes, I think I’d like it very much if you did it Ricky.”  She smiled.  “You can give me your most intimate of kisses.  Thank you.”

He kissed her.  “You make me feel free to be myself Molli.  I feel like I could say anything to you and you wouldn’t jump to conclusions and judge me the way Mellenda does.”

“Yeah.  Do you want me to um, give you an intimate kiss at the same time?”

“I’d like to concentrate on pleasing you tonight.  Maybe next time.  You have such a beautiful mouth Molli.  But then, every part of you is beautiful.”

“Thank you.  You’re pretty damn hot yourself.”

Ricky chuckled.  “You’re most welcome, and thank you.”

Ricky took his time.  After a few minutes, it felt so good that Molli wanted to scream.  She grabbed a fistful of the bed sheet on both sides and could feel herself tensing up.  It couldn’t be right to feel this good she thought.  Of course, it always felt incredible being with Ricky.  Sex with Ricky was like doing drugs she felt like she was flying so high, but this was even better if possible.  He paused and looked up at her.

“Do you not like what I’m doing Molli?”

“Oh, I like what you’re doing.  I think I like it a bit too much.”

He smiled up at her.  He had such lust in his dark eyes that she could almost fool herself into thinking that he loved her the way she loved him. 

“I don’t think that there’s anything sexual that you can like too much, unless of course you’re hurting someone else by doing it.  Sex is beautiful.  The joining together of two bodies in such a way can express so much without words.  Passion, lust, comfort, contentment, love.  I’ve always thought that the body of a beautiful woman was the most precious gift on Earth.  I am so glad that you have chosen to share yours with me.  Please relax Molli.  I want to please you.  You’ve made me so happy just being around you that I want so badly for you to feel a fraction of what I feel for you.”

There he went again, Molli thought, almost telling her that he loved but not quite.  But Jude had never said anything like that to her and Eduardo certainly hadn’t, not even on his best day early in their relationship, and both of them HAD told her that they loved her.  So maybe he was right, sometimes it wasn’t necessary to put it exactly into words. 

“You are so sweet Ricky.  I’ll try to relax.”

Molli lay back and let herself get lost in the sensation of what Ricky was doing to her.  She cried out his name so loudly when she had an orgasm that she thought she was going to go hoarse.  Ricky didn’t seem to mind though.  When he looked up at her, his eyes were so dark they were almost black.  She thought that she could quite easily get lost in them.