Karen
I walked to the kitchen and laid my elbow on the counter as I was looking at Josh washing his plate. This guy was so clean at everything. I was sure he aware of my presence yet he chose to ignore me. “Are you pissed?” I asked, trying to capture his attention.
He turned to me, looking so passively. At least, he was trying to. “What do you mean?” I rolled my eyes, he thought I was a fool. For many years we were friends, Josh always acted like I didn’t know him at all.
“You know what I’m talking about,” I countered.
“You know the answer,” he countered back. “Jesus, Karen. You only want to hear it but you know what? I’ll say it. A little bit,” he confessed. He immediately looking away from me, refused to let me see the pain from his eyes. “Javier just barely know her yet he made it so easy to enter her heart while I tried for a few years but I couldn’t break through her heart. I only wanted the best for her. If she could be happier with Javier, I have to accept it because the only thing I wanted for the girl I loved is for her to be happy.”
I had to admit that I underestimated Josh a little bit. I knew Josh was not a bad guy and he was too nice for his own good, just like Olivia. Maybe that was the result of him losing his father too soon before he barely knew him. He wanted the best for Paula-his mother and he didn’t want to make her sad and somehow that led him to not want to hurt Olivia.
To be honest, I was quite surprised when I learned Josh had confessed. I never expected he would do it so soon and he got rejected. Not like that would surprise me because I know who Olivia loved. That hot stepfather of her who I was cheering on.
“Enough about me. You should focus on yourself more,” Josh said.
“What do you mean?”
This time, he scoffed and turned fully to me. “You could fool Olivia, Karen. But not me. You’re hiding something.” That’s true. I was hiding something. For two years I managed to keep it as a secret from Olivia, my very own best friend.
“I’m not ready yet.”
“Karen, I don’t know what are you trying to hide but you should remember your best friend is Olivia and she will not judge you for anything.” I fucking knew that. I wanted to tell her myself at the right time.
My secret was rather complicated.
I couldn’t exactly tell her that the man who I slept with was so close to us. By the time I felt someone beside me and when I turned, I found John laying his elbow on top of the counter, the same position as mine. I looked at Josh and he was looking at me and then at John. My mind instantly suspected if John said something to Josh where I hoped…he didn’t. I forgot these two were close.
“I’ll be in the garden,” Josh said and leaving us. Fuck you, John. Did you say something to him?
Once Josh was out of sight, I slightly looked at the older man. “What do you want?”
He smirked. “You can’t stand having me this close to you?”
“Not exactly when I’m in my friend’s house and with a lot of audiences.”
“Well, there are none now.” He shifted with him fully turn to me. I kept ignoring him by not looking at him. “Are you busy tonight?” Oh, hell no!
“I’ll go to sleep right after I arrived home.”
“Don’t, then. Wait for me, girl,” he demanded.
“How many times do we have to do this?” I began getting tired of his stupid games. And stupid me for still following it.
I felt him moving closer to me. “Until you said fuck me, John.” I immediately fully turned to him and landed my palm right on his handsome face. How fucking dare he!
“If that’s the case, I will not do it anymore. You only wanted my body, never my heart.”
His piercing blue eyes were back on me. Looking at me so angrily. “I do not do such a thing. If I only wanted your body, I will fuck you anytime and anywhere I wanted to. I’m waiting by doing all of this phone sex just because you’re scared to admit that you love me.” I was shocked. I never expected him to say that. More importantly, how the hell did he know that? “You think I don’t know, little girl? You think I’m that stupid? I know how you feel about me but you’re too fucking stubborn to say it to me.” Okay, now I was pissed. He thought he could corner me and made me the bad guy? I didn’t think so.
“You never say it too,” I challenged and he moved even closer, trapping me between the kitchen counter.
“Do you want to know?” he asked seductively. I could feel his hardness on my lower part. He was too close even by pressing his bottom part on me. He did that on purpose. I was pissed even more with this.
“Are you trying to bargain me with sex?” I didn’t know where that came from but when John let out a long sigh and pulled himself away from me, I regretted that in an instant.
He looked at me and I could see the pain and anger from his blue eyes. “You might have dirty minds but I never thought you will be this stupid. I don’t need to bargain with you, you will come to me willingly, and that’s what I’m going to do from now on.” I was confused but before I could say anything, he continued, “you can go to sleep at ease tonight. But mark my words, Karen. You will eventually come to me.” He made it sound like a promise. A hidden vow. And he left.
I watched his departing figure and went back to the garden. I wanted to scream at him but not here so I chose to scream inside my heart.
Fuck you, John for doing this shit to me.
***
Olivia
We went to the living room with my mind fixed on one thing.
I didn’t want to talk to him. I already explained everything that we couldn’t be together. I thought Blake had understood that but maybe he didn’t.
Once we arrived, I turned to Blake. I didn’t want to waste anymore time. “What would you like to talk about?”
“You want to get this over so soon?” he smirked. “You already did that two times to me.” I didn’t care.
“So? Let’s talk.”
“Are you not going to sit down?” Look, he was stalling time.
“I prefer standing but you can sit if you like.” He shook his head.
“Not with you standing.” Maybe he knew what I was thinking. With him sitting while I was standing, it would make it hard for him to catch me if I dared running away from him. “You’re wearing my dress.”
I looked down and yes, I was wearing the dress he gave to me. So, he still remembered, huh? I was hoping he would not. “You can have it back and give it to the new woman if you like.” Okay, I sounded like a jerk. I saw Blake inhaled like he was trying to surpass his anger.
“Olive, please do not push my buttons even more. I will never ask you to return the dress I gave to you.” I knew he wouldn’t do that. It was just me being a jerk.
“What do you want from me, Blake?”
“What was Javier doing in your room?” he asked, ignoring my question. Why did he want to know anyway? That was my business. “You’re hiding something, Olivia.”
“That’s none of your business. We didn’t do anything. We were just talking.”
“I want to know.”
“I said that’s none of your—”Before I could say that again, he moved closer, grabbing my elbow tightly before I could even adjust the situation.
“You better fucking spill it out.”
“What’s your problem?! It doesn’t matter what we were talking about!”
“It does to me!”
“You’re not my father anymore, Blake! You have no place to meddling with my business! But since you are so fucking curious, Javier asked me to be his girlfriend,” I told him, and even though he looked passive, his eyes shown something else. He could fool me with his expression, but not with his eyes. He was surprised.
“And what did you say?”
I smirked. “If I said yes, what are you going to do?” That was a wrong move. I didn’t expect it with him suddenly landed his lips on me. He put his hand on the nape of my neck with his other hand on my waist, pulling me closer as he pushed his tongue inside my mouth. I put my hands on his shoulders, trying to push him away but I couldn’t. The more I rejected him, the more his kiss became more demanding.
My head became dizzy. I even let out a moan as his tongue was exploring inside my mouth. My senses were ripped away. Please, Blake. Stop. If he continued doing this, I didn’t know what I would do. Blake broke the kiss. “You’ve made me angry tonight. I fucking hate it seeing you with someone else. I might not be your father anymore, but you are mine. You are fucking mine!” Before I could protest, he connected our lips again.
I shouldn’t be doing this with Blake. We were at my house now and we had guests at the back and I had no idea when one of them would appear anytime soon, looking for us. Yet, my body had its own mind as my hands squeezed his shoulders and I could feel him smiling. “You still want me, little girl.” He lowered both of us to the couch with our lips were still attached to one another.
My common senses were definitely being taken away from me. My mind was only focused on Blake. My body only wanted one thing; him.
His hungry mouth parted with my shaking lips. “Come with me,” he demanded.
“Where?”
“I want you in my house tonight. I want to show you how much I missed you.”
“Blake, I—”The answer almost slipped away from the tip of my tongue when I heard voices approaching where we currently were as I immediately panicked. I pushed him away and stood up. Blake let me and I tidied myself so I wouldn’t look like I was just attacked.
I saw Josh, Karen, and Cindy together as my stepmother looked at us. “Oh, there you are, you two. These three are about to go home now.” Three? I found my answer when I saw Javier appeared behind Cindy. The moment I looked at him, I knew I couldn’t do this.
I couldn’t be with Blake. Not with the family.
I left Blake behind and led my friends out. I parted with Josh and Karen. Thanking them for coming and I would see them again on Monday.
“Hey, thank you for inviting me to your birthday party. I really enjoyed it,” Javier said.
“I’m glad you did.”
“Thank you for inviting me, Mrs. Graham,” he parted with Cindy.
“And thank you for coming as well, Javier. I’m sorry Taylor couldn’t see you out. He was too drunk with John had to help him out to his room.” I chuckled with her information. That was one of my father’s bad habits; weak with alcohol. He told me before that ever since he rarely drinks since his college life, he became weak and this always happened if he got too drunk.
“It’s okay. Well then, I’ll see you soon.” When he was about to go to his car, I grabbed his elbow and he turned to me.
“I’ll walk you out.” He smiled and allowed me. I could feel two different reactions from my back. One, the excitement, clearly coming from Cindy. The other one, the look of murder, obviously coming from Blake. I ignored it and led Javier to his Acura.
“I’ll call you,” he said after we arrived in his car. “I will wait for you tomorrow. It’s your training day.”
“I can’t wait.” Javier bent down and kissed my forehead.
“See you tomorrow,” he parted until I could hear someone closed the door roughly as we turned to where it came from. I found my answer when I saw the black Aston Martin with John just about to walked inside and he looked at me. Shaking his head and entered the car and it immediately drove away from us. “I think Mr. Morgan wasn’t really pleased to have me around tonight.”
“He’s probably had a bad day at the office.”
“Probably. Well then, see you tomorrow, Liv.” Javier entered his car. Igniting the engine and accelerated away from me.