Make It Last (17 page)

Chapter Seven
teen

             
Briana received
a text from Colin, asking her to come over after work, so she cleaned the kitchen as quickly as she could
and
texted Colin that she was on her way.

             
She
decided to walk, since it was
just down the street, and left
her car parked behind the restaurant.
When she got about half
way down the street, she noticed Colin waiti
ng in front of the store. He spotted her and
started down the street at a jog in her direction.

             
“Hey,” h
e said when he got close enough
.
“I would have come to get you if I’d known you were walking.”

             
She ran into his arms and laughed when he swung her around. The streets were dark and still, and
she
hear
d
the strained sounds of her coworkers closing up and leaving for the night.

             
“It’
s such
a nice night, I thought I’d enjoy the walk,” she
replied. “I appreciate you waiting for me.”

             
She snuggled her nose into the crook of his neck, then gave him a little nibble.

             
“Careful,” he joked
, “Don’t start something you can’t finish.”

             
She
pulled back and looked
at him.
“Oh, I plan to finish it
.
”

             
He grinned. “Big talk.
”

             
She
ran her hands over him, pausing at the denim tha
t strained
against her hand. She felt brave in the cover of darkness and stroked him seductively.

             
His breath caught and he closed his eyes,
seeming to enjoy
the contrast of the cool wind against his enflamed skin.
He groaned softly. Her breathing grew
s
hallow and her body went
plian
t in his arms. She was
getting turned on by giving him pleasure
and sensed that he knew it.

             
“We should go inside,” h
e whispered in her ear, as he tried to move his body away from her eager hands.

             
She stepped forward, not willing to let him go that easily.
Placing
her hands on his
hips to hold him in place, she
rubbed her body against his as she kissed his bare chest.

             
“I don’t wa
nt to go inside,” she murmured,
moving her hands up to stoke his hard nipples.

             
He shook his head, as though tr
ying to clear
it
. He grabbed
her
hands by the wrists and kept them still.

             
“We can’t have sex on the street,”
he said.

             
“Let’s go behind the store then, Colin.”
She
said, b
ringing their hands to her lips and
kissing his fingers. “I want you outside.”

             
Colin looked as though
he’d b
een knocked upside the head. He threw her over his shoulder, then carried her around
the corner to where his truck was
parked
and lowered the tailgate.

             
He placed her down on the
edge, unbuttoning her pants,
pulling them swiftly down her legs and throwing them
to the ground. Her panties went
next.

             
She
grabbed him by the waistband and unzipped his jeans, pushing them down roughly, signaling for him to take them off. Colin needed no such urging and pushed them down his legs.

             
Briana wanted him so badly that she was losing patience. She scooted up to meet him and put her hand through the flap of his boxer briefs. She pulled his penis out
and
pressed the tip against her, eager to have him fill her.

             
“Wait,”
he
said roughly, coming to his senses long enough to bend down to his jeans and pull out a condom.

             
She grinned
, “You’re optimistic.”

             
He
chuckled as he put on the protection. Once he was ready, he pulled he
r to him in a passionate kiss. He stroked
her l
ips with his tongue, then bit
her gently, before
claim
ing
her mouth.

             
He placed his hands under
her bottom as he entered her, and held her in place as he th
rusted
. She
held onto
his shoulders
,
kissing, licking, and sucking
any part of him that she could reach.

             
When the pressure began to build, she leaned her upper body back, causing her lower body to
press even deeper against him.
He thrust faster and she
came apart, moaning softly and driving him
over the edge
with her
.

             
Briana lay
back in the bed of the truck, panting, and started to laugh.
Colin looked up from whe
re his head rested
on her stomach.

             
“What’s so funny?” h
e asked with a smile.

             
“I
can’t believe we just did that.
”

             
“I know.
W
ho knew you were such a deviant?
”

             
She
slapped him playfully on the back.
“Shut up
.
”

             
He
scooted off of her and pulled his pants up, handing her her clothes.
Then t
hey raced up the stairs to his house, laughing at their brazen behavior all the way.

             
It didn’t take long for them to fall asleep once they made their way to his bed. Briana snuggled into his side and didn’t move all night.

             
She woke to Colin kissing the tip of her nose, and she smiled up at him, thinking how happy she was in that moment.

             
“You’re off today, right?”
he
asked.

             
“Yes, off today, back on schedule tomorrow,”

             
“Do you wanna spend the day together?”

             
“Absolutely
.
”

             
He kissed her nose again.
“Let me go grab a quick shower, then I’m taking you to breakfast.”

             
“Sounds good,”
she said, stretching languidly and
looking up at him with a smile as he watched the sheet slip from her body. “I’ll go make some coffee.”

             
He
growled and lifted the sheet to cover her back up.
“It’ll be the quickest shower ever
.
”

             
She
laughed as he raced out of the room.

Throwing
on her clothes from the night before and wandered out in search of coffee.

             
She’d just hit the brew button when someone started pounding on the door.
She
heard the water running in the shower, so she went and opened the door.

             
Standing on the other side was a very tan,
very pretty,
very annoyed looking girl.

             
“Is Colin here?”
s
he asked, seeming
irritated that Briana answered the door and not Colin.

             
Briana crossed her arms over her chest and frowned.

             
“Who are you?” s
he asked
. Not
liking the feeling of jealousy that
boiled
in her gut.

             
“I’m Shawn. W
ho’re you?”

             
“Briana.”

             
“Oh…
figures. I’ve heard about you,”
she
said with a smirk.

             
“Funny,” Briana spat back,
“I’ve never heard of you.”

             
“Was that fast enough?” Colin asked as he came out of his room
wearing only a pair of unbuttoned shorts.

             
He stopped in his tracks when he saw
who stood
at the door.
“Sh
awn, what are you doing here?” h
e asked, coming up behind Briana and putting his arms around her.

             
Briana wrapped her arms around his, grateful for his thoughtfulness. He probably knew that she’d be upset, and was showing her and the tanning bed victim at the door, that he was one hundred percent with her.

             
“I tried emailing you and texting you, but you ignored me. I figured if I showed up in your little town, you’d be forced to deal with me.” Shawn explained.

             
“We ended it back at school. I ignored you because we have nothing left to say to each other.”.

             
“Maybe you were just busy hooking up with an old flame.” She replied, not hiding her derision as she looked Briana up and down.

             
“What do you want, Shawn?” Colin asked,
his tone conveying his impatience
.

             
Shawn brushed past them and walked into the living room, forcing them to move aside and follow her in. She walked into the kitchen and came back out a few seconds later with a cup of coffee in her hand.

             
“Make yourself at home,” Briana said sarcastically.

             
“Thanks, I will.
”

             
“What is this, Shawn?” Colin asked again, running his hands through his still damp hair. “You need to just leave.”

             
Shawn smiled over the rim of her cup, obviously
enjoying the tension she was causing.

             
“I’m pregnant.”

             
It was like a bomb had been dropped in the center of the living room. Colin exhaled
and
crumpled down onto the couch. He looked at Shawn in disbelief.

             
Briana couldn’t think, couldn’t process. She went
with her first instinct, turning on her heel, and walking
out the door.

             
When she reached the other side, she sto
pped and leaned back against
it.
It was silent. T
hen she heard the faint sounds of Colin and Shawn talking inside.

             
Shawn was pregnant.

             
Briana closed her eyes and thought about what this meant.
She knew Colin, so she knew that he would do the right thing, which meant he would help Shawn with this baby.

             
She knew that he had feeling
s for her, and didn’
t have feelings for Shawn, so she didn’t think that he would offer to marry Shawn, but she supposed there was always that chance.

             
Could she handle it if he chose to marry Shawn?

             
Yes, but she really hoped that didn’t happen.