Ava laughed. “Good luck with that, Ray-Ray.”
I need all the luck I can get.
Raven groaned and fell back onto her own bed.
*****
“Let’s go find Kerry and Leila,” Ava said, standing up. “I want to hear about their vacation.”
Kerry and Leila had gone to Hawaii for their summer break.
They walked the two room distance down their hall and knocked on their door.
“Hi!” Kerry squealed when she opened the door. “Come on in!”
“Aloha girls,” Leila said happily from her side of the room.
The girls’ beds were opposite each other, a desk at either end, and a huge window separating the two that overlooked the grassy area outside.
“How was your vacation?” Ava asked as she sat on Kerry’s sea blue covers.
“Oh my God it was
so
good,” Kerry gushed. “I didn’t want it to end.
"“Yeah, only because the guy you met was packing,” Leila laughed when Kerry’s eyes snapped to hers.
“Spill,” Raven said, and sat on Leila’s matching covers. “I want to hear everything.”
“Well,” Kerry began, “I met this guy, Akomi…”
“Which means ‘worthy of admiration or praise,” Leila added quickly.
“Oh he was so true to his name,” Kerry sighed, biting her lip. “He was the hottest guy there, and he approached me the day we arrived.”
The girls looked at other and grinned. Raven could see that there was a
lot
more to the story so she didn’t say anything, and just listened.
“He just happened to have a brother…” Kerry winked at Leila. “Who was his identical twin!” she put her hands over her mouth in a silent scream.
“No way!” Ava squealed, bouncing up and down.
Leila nodded, a huge grin on her face. “He was mine for a while,” she giggled. “Apparently they were identical in every way.”
The two girls giggled again.
“Please don’t tell me it was the same guy and he tricked you,” Raven said. She wouldn’t put it past a gut to try that to get to two girls. She knew Beck wouldn’t, though. He was too pig headed to think he would need to.
“God no,” Kerry said. “They were both together at the time. Akomi came up to me, with his brother Iokua. That means ‘God delivers’.”
“And he delivered alright,” Leila wiggled her eyebrows.
The four girls screamed in laughter as they discussed the sex filled vacation.
“I’m so Jealous,” Ava pouted. “The only time I got close to seeing stars was when we had a blackout for an hour.” Raven and the girls stared at her. “It’s true. I hooked up with Billy a few times, but it was so devastatingly boring I almost fell asleep while he was still going.”
They all laughed again.
Poor Ava. She’d had a crush on a guy who lived not far from her, and he’d finally asked her out the first week back. The problem was that while he was ‘as hot as honey that you wanted to pour all over you’ -Ava’s words not Ravens- he wasn’t so hot under the covers.
“I’m being serious!” she cried. “I swear he was attempting to bang my head through the wall he was trying so hard. I just couldn’t do it anymore. Needless to say, my crush has been crushed.”
Ava made the sign of the cross on her chest before putting her palms together as if in prayer.
“So, Ray, how was your vacation? Any action?”
Raven groaned. “Apart from being happy to see my family, the rest was as bad as Ay’s.”
The girls got comfortable, getting ready to hear Raven’s story.
She took a deep breath before telling them about her dating disasters.
Her mother’s neighbor had a nephew, Cole, that was visiting and he was nice. Good looking, blonde hair, blue eyes, broad… the kind of guy you’d imagine in a band. Raven agreed to go on a date with him and after the fourth date they ended up in his room.
He’d been so nervous that he lasted all of two minutes. Not that he’d left her wanting. She hadn’t gotten anywhere near close to the good tingles. Cole had apologized many times and Raven just shrugged it off as though she was ok with it.
However, the next time they tried, it wasn’t any better. It was as if Cole was trying to touch every part of her body. His hands were everywhere. So much that she held them just for him to stop because he was tickling instead of turning her on. Then when he eventually got round to pushing inside her, she felt nothing.
Oh, Raven could definitely feel what he was doing alright, but she never enjoyed it. The poor guy was grunting away and throwing in some serious moves that she cut him some slack and faked an orgasm.
He was so pleased with himself, but she felt so bad she couldn’t bring herself to go there again. Instead, she made the excuse that she was too busy at the vet surgery. She was relieved when he’d left to go home.
“That’s awful. I feel bad now,” Kerry said, with a frown.
“Never apologize for having mind-blowing sex every night,” Raven replied. “You got lucky.”
“In more ways than one,” Ava winked, and the girls laughed again.
“Anyway, enough with the sex talk, I’m starving,” Leila announced getting up of her bed. “Let’s go grab lunch.”
The girls had gotten as far as the water bridge that ran over the brook, when Raven heard her name being called out.
Beck.
They turned in the direction of his voice to see him walking with a couple of his friends.
Raven’s jaw dropped.
The asshole had somehow managed to get even better looking over the summer. It wasn’t fair.
His hair was freshly cut, a little longer on the top, his jaw had become even more defined and by some sweet miracle he’d developed even more muscle lumps than she thought was possible.
His jeans hugged his hips, and the sleeves on his blue tee hugged his biceps as the rest fell just right on his obvious perfectly shaped pecs.
Her brain momentarily scrambled until he opened his mouth.
“Hello, Raven. I hear you’ve been playing with pussies over the summer?”
“What?!” she yelled, the other girls gasped whilst his friends chuckled under their breath.
“You know, the kind that purr,” he said with too much emphasis on the ‘purr’ as a slimy grin stretched across his face.
“Beck, I’m not going to even dignify that with an answer,” she growled.
“Aww. I was hoping you could fill me in on how you helped the banged up pussies? Or did you have your own to stroke?”
He was being disgusting and he knew she hated when he spoke like that to her. Especially with an audience.
She was tired of his filthy talk.
“You know what, Beck? Yes I did. I stroked all of the pussies and when they were purring like crazy, I went and did the same to the bitches.”
Silence; from both sides.
There was a split second where he looked surprised, but he recovered quickly. His smile only got wider, and he licked his lips.
Oh shit.
“Well, well Raven. Talking like that makes me wanna put that dirty mouth some good use.”
“
Go away, Beck. You’re boring me already.”
Raven turned away from him, and the girls walked with her.
“Come on Raven!” he called out. “I meant you could help me with my
oral
exam!”
“Don’t retaliate, Ray. He’ll only come back worse,” Ava murmured to her, her arm around her shoulders.
“The first day!” Raven groaned. “He had to do that on the first fucking day back.”
“Did you guys not notice that Beck has somehow gotten even hotter?” Kerry asked, all eyes snapping to her. “What? I’m just saying he looks fucking gorgeous.”
“Sorry, Ray, but it’s true. He’s matured well since the break,” Ava apologized.
“I swear, Ray,” Leila added, shaking her head. “I think you’re going to have a tough time resisting him this year.”
“Girls, Beck is
the
biggest man-tramp around here. He might be insanely attractive, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to drop my panties for him. He’s been talking that way to me since day one, and it hasn’t gotten me anywhere near fired up yet, so I think I’m pretty safe from his advances.”
The girls passed a look to each other.
“What?”
“Ray, you could’ve just said ‘no way’. What the hell was that speech?” Kerry asked.
“I didn’t mean to snap. I’m just angry that he couldn’t even give me the first fucking day back in peace. Just this one!”
Raven could feel herself tearing up and the girls dropped the subject and went into the food hall for lunch.
*****
It didn’t matter that the girls had sat in a quiet area of the food hall. Beck and his friends managed to get a table right in Raven’s line of sight. It was as though Beck had done that on purpose. It wouldn’t surprise her. She’d had four weeks without him. Why would she think he’d wait until making the first sexual suggestion to her?
Raven took a deep breath and looked down at the table at her food. She couldn’t even remember asking for the banana for after her sandwich.
There was no way she could eat that within his view and
not
get a response from him. No matter how she did it, he could easily turn it on its head, so to speak.
Raven looked to Kerry as she sat in front of her and risked a side glance to Beck.
Just to see what he was up to; of course.
He was smiling and joking with the other guys.
He had a great smile.
A smile that lit up his whole face, with a set of teeth a dentist would be proud of. He looked boyish and actually sweet. She knew better. Lurking behind that facade was a filthy mind with an even dirtier mouth.
He noticed her looking, and she quickly dropped her head down.
A low chuckle got her attention.
Looking back up, she saw him hold a doughnut up to his face, and he was sticking his tongue through the center, swirling it around.
“Oh my God, what is he
doing?”
Ava whispered from next to her, after snorting a laugh. “I’m sorry, Ray but that is kinda funny.”
“Let’s see how funny he thinks this is,” Raven replied, with all the girls waiting to see what she was about to do. It was the second time that day that he’d done something like that, and she wasn’t going to let him get away with it that time.
Keeping eye contact with Beck, Raven picked up her banana, and rested her elbows on the table. Holding it up in front of her, she slowly peeled the skin back.
Beck lowered the donut, his eyes watching her every move. Especially when Raven licked her lips before bringing the banana to her mouth.
She watched as Beck’s jaw slackened as she parted her lips, ready to take the banana into her mouth.
The guys turned to see what he was staring at, and the girls were stifling their giggles.
“Do it,” Ava whispered next to her, and Raven opened her mouth wider.
Instead of taking the banana seductively into her mouth, Raven bared her teeth and clamped down.
The girls burst out laughing as the guys hissed and cringed.
Beck narrowed his eyes, his lips turning up in the corners; a slow smile spreading.
“Uh oh,” Leila said, turning back round from watching the guys’ faces twisting in imagined pain. “I think he’s planning on a comeback.”
“He can plan all he wants,” Raven replied. “I’m tired of his crap.”
“What are you going to do?” Kerry asked, glancing back at Beck who was still smiling at her.
Raven had no idea.
She wasn’t good at preplanning her responses, because she never knew what Beck was going to say, or do, next.
“Are you finally going to go to the Dean?” Ava’s question brought Raven out of her thoughts.
“And say what?”
“That he’s been sexually harassing you,” Ava whispered.
“No. For everything that he’s done, and will probably do, I don’t want him to get into trouble,” Raven said, dropping her head in resignation. “If anything goes on his record, it could jeopardize his career opportunities.”
It was no secret that Beck’s family owned a few businesses. That was the whole point of him taking his major in Economics; so he could fit right in with his dad and take over someday. Having that over him might ruin it.
If Raven complained -the only person to have a problem with him- would not only get him in trouble with the college and his family, but she would also be pointed out for it.
Her college days would be made hell by many more than just the one person.
She could deal with Beck on her own. The rest of campus? Not so much.
Beck was well aware of that too.
“You’ve got great legs, Raven,” Beck said as she walked by in her shorts.
It was a hot day at the start of Sophomore year, and the students were lounging about on the grassy areas with their lunches.
Raven turned to look in his direction and saw that he was looking at her bare legs appreciatively. The way he smiled as he was letting his eyes roam over her told her that he wasn’t done with his statement.
“They’d look even better wrapped around my waist.”
“Oh my God, don’t you get tired of hearing yourself?” Raven snapped. “It’s getting old now, Beck. I don’t know how many times you can say the same thing and
still
think it’s funny.”
“How about if they were wrapped around my head? Is that better?” he smiled. “That would be first anyway, then I could slip them down to my waist, and then…”
“You’re unbelievable!” she shrieked.
“You’re supposed to say that after,” he grinned.
“You know what? I’m not going to stand for this anymore. If you’re not going to stop, then I’m going to have somebody
make
you stop.”
That got Beck’s attention.
He stood up from the chair he was lounging on, and walked right up to her, his size overwhelming as he looked down on her.
Her pulse increased, and her breath hitched when got into her space.
“Are you going to tattle on me, Raven?” he asked with a smirk.
“If it gets you to leave me alone, then I will,” she replied as confidently as she could without showing just how nervous she was with him so close to her.
“And what do you think will happen?”
His eyes were laughing at her as his smirk turned into a full blown grin.