The Full Experience (4 page)

“Are you dating?”

“
God
no!” Raven was angry that Beck had said that to Courtney.

Many students later, and quite a few ‘you’re Raven?’ remarks, Raven was furious.

“Don’t let it get to you, Ray,” Ava comforted her, rubbing her shoulder. “He’s just fooling around.”

Raven gritted her teeth and made her way to the front of the crowd with Ava. Too furious to talk, she had Ava take the lead.

“This game is called telephone,” Ava called out. “We’ll all sit in a circle, and I’ll say something to the person on my right. That person whispers to the next, and so on. The person at the end calls out what they’ve been told.”

Ava sat down, Raven opposite. Kerry and Leila took opposite points too so the girls were sitting in a cross; to make sure that the message stayed clean. With Beck and Donnie about, it could easily take a nosedive into x-rated territory.

Donnie sat a few students away from Leila, Beck…

Bobby sat next to Raven, a big smile on his face and a look in his eye that said ‘hello again’. Raven resisted the temptation to roll her eyes at him. There wasn’t a chance to because all of a sudden, Bobby was pushed to the side and Beck sat down…right between them!

“Hello, Raven,” he said in a low voice that had Raven curling her toes inside her tennis flats.

“Beck,” she bit out, still angry with him.

“Are you having fun?”

“Not with you here,” she replied, not looking at him.

“You could have fun with me…here,” he added on before she could retaliate. “Why won’t you look at me, Raven?”

“I don’t want to.”

“You had no problem looking at me before. In fact…” he lowered his voice, leaning towards her, the scent of his shower gel and manliness hitting her nose. “…I’d say you were staring.”

“Go away, Beck.”

“So you don’t deny it?”

Raven could hear the smile in his tone. The smug bastard knew he looked hot.

“I was plotting your death,” she snarled.

“How?”

“I was planning on smothering you in your sleep.”

“You sitting on my face is a great way to go.”

Raven turned, then, disgusted that he would say something like that in front of other people.

The satisfied smirk on his face, and the pump of his eyebrows only infuriated her further.

“Man, I should write that down,” Bobby said from beside Beck.

Raven closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She wasn’t going to blow up with a huge audience of new kids.

The message that was being whispered was getting closer, and Raven was nervous. Beck would be whispering into her ear.
 
She shifted where she sat and looked to Beck when Bobby was being whispered to. He winked then turned to Bobby. Her stomach flipped upside down then thousands of butterflies burst as Beck leant into her ear.

She froze on the spot when his fingers ran into her hair, pushing it away from her ear, cupping her head. His hot breath blew over her skin before he took another breath to deliver the message. The feeling of him touching her like that sent a surge of heat down south, and she couldn’t hide the fact that his doing that affected her. The goosebumps on her arms stood out proudly.

“I want Beck’s body,” he whispered, a small chuckle escaping at the end.

Raven gasped. “I’m not saying I want your body,” she hissed, the others students turning to her.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know you wanted to keep it a secret,” he grinned.

“Oh my God, dude you’re awesome!” Bobby laughed. Raven looked at him with venom, making him look away instantly.

Beck lay back on his elbows, pleased with himself.

“Bobby,” she snapped. “Tell me what the real message was.”

“I have to whisper,” he said.

“Then just whisper!” She was losing her cool; she could feel it.

Raven knew Beck wouldn’t make any move to get out of the way, and not giving him the satisfaction of her having to move, she leaned to the side, across him, so Bobby could whisper in her ear.
 

“Don’t try any of his shit, either,” she added.

As Raven leant further over so Bobby could reach her, she felt a finger stroke across her shoulder blade, making her flinch, at the same time Bobby said, “Cable cars eat vests.”

Losing her balance, Raven automatically put her hand out to stop herself, landing on Beck’s thigh.

Raven released her hand from Beck’s hard muscle as if she’d been burned.

Some of the heat from that burn traveled to other places too. Just feeling his muscle tense under her hand had her warming all over.

Raven expected some kind of sexual comment from Beck, but he surprised her by saying nothing. She side glanced at him, and he was just staring at her. The look in his eyes said there was definitely something going through his mind, but the rest of his expression was blank.

No smile.

No scowl.

Nothing.

“What?” Ava laughed loudly as the message got back to her. “Cable cars meat sweats!”

The whole circle burst out laughing.

“The message was Gable College is the best, but I can see how that would change.”

As Ava looked around the students, she passed a sympathetic smile to Raven, and narrowed her eyes at Beck.

“Oops, I guess I’m in trouble,” he chuckled as he got to his feet.

Raven was about to stand when a hand appeared in front of her.

Beck was offering to help her up. She could feel eyes on her and didn’t like to be the center of attention once more, so she took it. The electricity from his touch shooting up her arm.

“We’ve been here before,” he muttered, looking into her eyes as she stood.
 

Raven’s breath caught in her throat, and she found she couldn’t form any words. Beck still held her hand and he wasn’t making a move to let it go.

“Your turn,” she managed to croak out when she’d gathered her wits.

“What?”

“Your turn for the games.”

Raven pulled her hand back just as Ava reached her, took her arm, and led her away from the guy that was increasingly getting under her skin.

Donnie shouted to get the student’s attention, and Raven told the girls, when they came over, what had happened between her and Beck. Her hands were shaking so much that the girls held them as they comforted her.

“He’s not getting away with that,” Raven growled. “If he wants to behave like that with an audience, let’s see how he likes it when it’s turned around.”

“What are you going to do?” Ava asked, the other girls getting closer to listen.

“The next time he does something, I’m going to give it right back, and then some.”

They laughed conspiratorially between them and then broke apart for the game.

“So, it’s Wild Animal Hunters!” Donnie shouted, glaring at the girls for not paying attention. “Getting into pairs, they choose a wild animal. The other person has to close their eyes, whilst the other makes the noise of that animal. They then have to find them by sound.”

“So get into pairs!” Beck called out, signaling to pair with Donnie.

The other girls took their usual partners and chose their animals.

“Tiger,” Kerry chose, and Leila agreed.

“Bear,” Ava nodded to Raven.

“Raven,” Beck said, and she rolled her eyes.

“Raven’s are birds,” she sighed.

“They’re still wild. Just like another one I know,” he winked.

“Oh I can be,” she smiled, biting her lip into her mouth.

Beck’s jaw slackened for a second before he composed himself. The girls turned away, their shoulders shaking from their silent giggles.

“Hey Donnie! What sound does a Raven make?” he asked, knowing the others could hear him.

“I don’t know,” Donnie shrugged trying to hide a smile.

“Well, I imagine it to be something like this,” Beck closed his eyes and parted his lips. “Oh, oh, Beck. Beck, harder!” he said in a breathy tone as if he were being pleasured.

He opened his eyes and grinned.

It was so on.

“Actually Beck,” she took a step towards him, slowly blinking and trying to look seductive. “It’s more like…”

Raven closed her eyes and took a deep breath, slowly letting the air out of her lungs. She licked her lips and sucked the bottom one into her mouth before releasing it.

She opened her mouth to speak. “Like that…Oh…yes…touch me there…more…oh God…” she said, increasing the speed as she went.

“Oh...oh!” She stopped suddenly, opening her eyes to look straight into Beck’s, a huge grin on her face.

His eyes were wide, his mouth open and his cheeks were flushed.
 

“Yeah. That’s the sound, but I guess you’ll never know for sure,” she purred, turning and walking away with the girls.

“Oh dear God, she’s good,” she heard Donnie’s voice, in awe, from behind them.

“Shut the fuck up!” Beck snapped, and Raven knew she’d gotten the upper hand that time.

The girls praised Raven for her performance, but she knew it would be short lived. Beck would only make it his mission to get her riled once more.

She just didn’t know whether she was worried about what he was going to do, or nervous because she might like it.

*****

Beck hadn’t done anything more. Raven hadn’t even seen him since the orienteering, he didn’t show for the meet in the main hall, and she was growing more wary of coming face to face with him.

The rest of the week had gone by, and the seniors were putting together the final plans for the end of orienteering week. All they needed was the theme. They’d come up with a plan to pick it out. All ideas would be read out, then put into a bowl and somebody was to pick one. They’d have to go with that theme, whether they liked it or not.

They had that evening to come up with new features, such as decor of the theme and music selections.

Raven, and the girls, had a few ideas of their own and had put them forward already. They were hoping to end up with something they could do together. It was so much easier that way.

“If we get another disney themed party, I’m gonna vomit,” Ava put her finger in her mouth and gagged.

“I know. There’s only so many prince and princess costumes I can handle,” Raven laughed.

The previous year, she’d been Snow White. Although her hair was too long for the character, she’d had a lot of attention in her costume.
 

Especially from Beck.

He’d stared at her all through the night, but he never said a word. She’d expected something along the lines of ‘would you like something hard to choke on?’ but he never opened his mouth.

“So, anyway, I was thinking we could all dress up as a group from whichever theme gets chosen,” Ava continued to say as they walked through the halls.

“That’s a good idea. Should we go off campus to shop tomorrow morning? We don’t have any classes until after lunch.” Kerry suggested, with Leila agreeing.

“Sounds good,” Raven replied.

Kerry and Leila said goodbye as they went to their class, and Raven and Ava continued on their way.

They’d gotten round the last corner before the doors when they heard a group of girls talking. It was obvious whom they were talking about too.

“He’s got the nicest lips. I wonder what he kisses like?” One girl said.

“I heard a rumor that he doesn’t do making out. One of the juniors said he won’t let anybody kiss him.”

“So what happens then?”

“I don’t kiss on the mouth,” Raven overheard Beck saying to a girl who was flirting with him.

She wanted the ‘full experience’ and was complaining about not getting to make out with him first.

“Not even for a little bit?” she whined. “If you’re that close to somebody, why wouldn’t you kiss them?”

“I’m
never
close enough,” he said, but Raven didn’t know what he meant by that.

“What do you mean?”
 

“Those are the rules. Take it or leave it.” He shrugged a shoulder as though he didn’t care either way.

“Oh I want to, it’s just, I wanted to kiss your lips.”

“No.”

The girl huffed until finally saying, “Ok. Let’s go.”

Beck led her off somewhere, and Raven walked in the other direction. She felt sick knowing he was going off to have sex with the girl, and she understood completely why he always spoke the way he did. It was just to get in her pants. Nothing more.

She’d actually started to believe Ava, Kerry, and Leila, when they said he never did those things to anybody else because he liked her. Now she knew differently. That girl didn’t need any convincing, whereas she refused his advances.

He didn’t like it.

When Ava had gone to her class, leaving Raven alone, she found herself walking in the direction of the library. It wasn’t until she got through the doors that she felt somebody behind her.

“Raven,” Beck’s voice rumbled through her, automatically turning her knees to jelly. She hated that that happened.

“What do you want, Vivien?” she asked, not turning around.

“Vivien? Who the fuck is Vivien?” He snapped, making her stop in her tracks.

“You, Vivien,” she smiled. “You know, the character from Pretty Woman?”

“I don’t get why you would call me that,” he looked confused.

“She doesn’t kiss on the mouth, either,” she watched as Beck’s jaw tensed, but she continued anyway. “She was a prostitute, and she had a no kissing rule; just like you.”

Raven could see Beck’s anger rising. His eyes narrowed, his jaw clenched, and his nostrils flared.

“Are you saying I’m a hooker; Raven?” he growled.

“No, because that would mean you charged. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t think you’re a man-tramp.”

Beck took a deep breath through his nostrils, and slowly released it. He started walking towards Raven, forcing her to walk backwards.

She had nowhere to turn when her back came into contact with the wall, and Beck stopped mere inches from her.

“Do you want to know why I have that fucking rule?” his voice was so low it vibrated right through her body.