Unstoppable (4 page)

I nodded my head then stepped away from him, so we could find Star.  When we did find her, she was
not
happy that it was time for her to go home. Ryder told her she would be grounded if she was late and she practically sprinted out of the gymnasium. 

On the ride to her house she talked about how much fun it was and tried to sing some of her favorite songs that she had danced to.  Ryder smiled and sang along with her until we pulled in to her driveway.  He quickly got out of the car and jogged around the front to the passenger door and opened the door for Star.  Once she was out he flipped the lever and folded the seat forward then held his hand out for me. 

“We need a self-picture with all three of us!” Star smiled big and pulled her phone out of her purse. 

“Ah yes how could we ever forget to take a SELFIE?” Ryder said with a laugh.  With Ryder standing between us, he bent his knees so he was closer to the same height.  First I used Star’s phone to take the picture, then his, then mine.  “All I can see now is dots.” He blinked his eyes rapidly causing both Star and I to laugh at him. 

John and Marie were laughing when we walked in the house, “Selfie times three huh?  Thank you so much for taking her and bringing her home on time.” Her mom hugged each of us.  We hugged Star then left. 

“Well, I don’t know why neither of us thought about this before; they won’t let us back in to the dance since we left.” Ryder said when he was inside the car again.

“It’s okay you can take me home I’m sure they’ll let you back in.  I think they’ll be understanding.”

He backed out of the driveway and drove the opposite direction of my house and the school.  “You really don’t like being around me do you?”

I shifted in my seat, “I didn’t say that.”  I gave him a small smile. 

We rode in silence until we were a few miles outside of town.  He pulled the Charger into a lookout cliff that overlooked the city.  He shut the engine and headlights off.  Still silence filled the cab.  “You don’t have to say it Harley.  I just want to know how the hell we’ve grown up around each other, I mean shit, we shared a fucking play pen as babies.  Yet over the years you’ve pulled away from me.  I’d like to know what I’ve ever done.”  Before I could say anything he jerked opened his door and got out of the car.  I watched him pace back and forth in front of the car, his hands clasped together on top of his head, then he rested them on his hips and stared at me.  I gently opened the door and got out of the car then walked to him.  He never took his steely blue eyes off of me. 

“I don’t hate you, honestly I don’t.  We just grew up and grew a part.  We’ve always been friends, I just don’t run with the same group of people at school as you do.”

He shook his head, “Run with the same group of people?  That’s bullshit and you know it.  I’m friends with the same people as you.”

“Ryder what brought this on?” I asked with a sigh. 

He took a step toward me and pinned me against the front of his car by placing his hands on each side of my hips.  “You didn’t want to go with me tonight, you tried to avoid having one fucking dance with me.  But do you know what I didn’t miss?  I didn’t miss the way you melted into me, the way your breathing changed, the way you inhaled my scent and shivered.  Do you want to know what else I didn’t miss?” he wouldn’t stop staring intently and intensely into my eyes.  “I didn’t miss that jolt of fucking electricity when we touched.  I sure as fuck know you didn’t miss it.”  His lips were right next to my ear; his scent enveloped me, his hot breath against my skin made goose bumps prickle in waves over my entire body.  “And I’m not missing the way we both feel right this fucking second.”  He kissed the overheated skin on my neck. 

The very second my lips touched her skin and I felt the goose bumps against my lips I had to take a deep breath and slow down.  She smelled like a mixture of fresh fruits, apples, peaches, and pomegranate.  I moved one hand away from the hood of my car and with a feather light touch moved my fingers slowly up her arm, feeling the brail of goose bumps under my fingertips.  Our breathing was shallow, but my heart was rapidly pounding inside my chest. 

“Ryder…” she whispered as I continued to press kisses against her neck until I reached her pulse point.  I could feel that her heart was beating just as fast and hard as mine was.  I didn’t say anything when she rolled her head to the side giving me even better access to her skin.  Her body was almost trembling as my hand ran across the front of her shoulder up the side of her face and stopped when my palm was resting against her cheek and jaw.  She put her shaking hands against my abdomen and slowly untucked my dress shirt, when her hands met my skin my muscles flexed causing her to stop.  “Ryder…” she whispered again.  I couldn’t wait another second, I had to taste that sweet breath that was breezing across my collarbone.  I lifted my other hand, cupped the other side of her face and lowered my lips to hers.  We both sucked in a short breath, this was the first time we had ever kissed each other.  I sucked her bottom lip gently and swiped the tip of my tongue across it, her hands slid over my rib cage to my back leaving a trail of searing heat behind them.  Then she flicked her tongue against my top lip, I tilted her head and pressed the tip of my tongue against hers.  She pulled me tighter against her, there was no hiding how hard my dick was since it was firmly pressed against her stomach.  I kept waiting for her to pull away or push me away but she didn’t.  Each time she would moan and caress my skin I wanted more of her, but this wasn’t the time or the place for more than what was happening right now.

My cell phone rang in my pocket, our kiss paused, we were breathing heavy against each other’s lips.  Dad was calling but I sure as fuck wasn’t going to answer.  I lifted Harley and set her on the hood of the car, I couldn’t resist kissing her—tasting more of her.  Standing between her legs I placed a hand on her knee and started sliding my hand up her thigh, she lightly bit my lip and pulled me closer to her.  She gently raked her fingernails up and down my back sending currents of electricity over my skin, we moaned into each other.  I slid my hand under her dress and toward her center, my cell phone rang again.  Dad was calling again, “Maybe you should answer it, he’s called twice.” Harley said against my lips.  I didn’t want to answer I wanted to keep exploring Harley’s silky skin. 

I slammed the palm of my hand down on the hood with a growl and pulled my phone out of my pocket and answered it, “Yeah?”

“Hey sorry, I know you’re at the prom thing but we just rushed Prez to the hospital.  Your mom wanted me to call you.”

Harley heard him and pushed me away then tugged the bottom of her dress down.  She quickly stepped past me and got in the car. 

“Alright we’ll be there in a few.” I told him then hung up.  I looked at Harley, she was looking down at her hands. I walked around the car and got in.  After a few miles of silence I reached for Harley’s hand.  “Why are you so quiet over there?” I asked. 

She didn’t take my hand, “That can’t happen again.” She said softly.

I laughed once, “What?  Why the fuck not?”

“BECAUSE Ryder…I’m not one of your little high school whores!  I won’t be.” She finished.

I clenched my jaw pulled my hand away and drove the rest of the way in silence.  I had too many things running through my head and knew that if I tried to tell her that I wanted only her, that she wouldn’t believe me. 

We pulled into the hospital parking lot, Harley was opening her door and getting out of the car as soon as I pulled into a parking stall.  I hurried to get out and caught up with her, I grabbed her by her wrist and spun her around pulling her into my chest.  Her eyes were big but she didn’t try to push away.  I cupped her face in my hands and roughly pressed my mouth to hers, she fisted my shirt in her hands and met me with just as much force.  Then she tried to push me away, I held her tight, “Someday Harley you’ll let me prove to you how much you mean to me.” I whispered against her lips.  She pushed harder, so I let her go. 

“Fix your shirt.” Was all she said then she walked away from me and into the hospital entrance.  Dad was standing there with a grin on his face.  Harley ducked her head and said
Hi
to him as she rushed past him.  I tried to walk by him too but his arm shot out against my chest stopping me.  Bryan walked out at that exact same time. 

“Prez is going to strangle Syd,” he looked from dad to me, “Is that fucking lip gloss on your lips and cheek?” he looked closer.  “You little mother fucker!” then he tried to lunge at me.  Dad laughed and stepped between us.  “You little son of a bitch!” Bryan yelled and tried to get around dad. 

Dad rolled his eyes and grabbed Bryan by the shirt and held him at arm’s length, “Chill the fuck out.” He told Bryan.

“That’s my daughters fucking lip gloss all over his face.  His shirt’s half untucked.”  Bryan yelled at dad.  He looked at me, “I swear to god if you…”

“Did you fuck her?” dad interrupted Bryan.  Leave it to dad to not be subtle.

“Nope.”  I said through clenched teeth and glared at Bryan just as hard as he was glaring at me. 

Bryan narrowed his eyes at me before shoving dad’s hand away and turning around to go back into hospital. 

After the doors shut dad looked at me and crossed his massive tattooed arms over his chest, “I fucking knew when I called that you weren’t at Prom.  It was too quiet and I could hear how heavy you
AND
Harley were breathing.  So I’ll ask again, did you fuck her?”

I ran my hand through my hair, “I said no.” I made sure I kept eye contact with him. 

He nodded his head, “Go clean that shit off your face.”

“What’s wrong with Gramps?” I asked as we walked inside.

“Oh your mom freaked out because he was getting dizzy and nauseous.”

I nodded my head and walked away from him so I could go ‘clean up’.  Once I had managed to scrub the stickiest damn lip gloss off of my cheek I walked out of the bathroom and went to the waiting area where grandma and the rest of our family were.  I looked for Harley, but, she and Theresa weren’t in the room.  Mom was nervously pacing the length of the room.  When she looked up and noticed me she quickly walked toward me. 

“Bryan is livid with you!” She whispered

Before I could answer or say anything Bryan was stepping between us, “I’m only going to warn you one fucking time Ryder.  If you do anything, and I do mean fucking anything, to hurt her I will cut your balls off.  The last god damn thing she needs is some high school play boy screwing with her head.”

Mom gasped and I glared back at him, grinding my teeth together.  I was nose to nose with him.  “Step back Bryan you don’t know shit about me.”

He never took his eyes off of mine, “This isn’t the time or the place for us to hash this shit out.  I trusted you with her.”

I shook my head, “I fucking kissed her, that’s it!  Is that a crime?” I was trying not to lose my temper. 

“I suggest it doesn’t go any further than that.”  He stared me down but I didn’t back away.  He had no idea how I felt about Harley or that I had felt like this for years. 

Dad was getting ready to separate us when the doctor entered the room.  He looked at all of us, “Phillips family?”

Mom about tackled the doctor, “Is he okay?”

The doctor motioned for her to sit down, “He’s fine, we are still running some tests his blood pressure was pretty high.  He’s on medication for that..”

Mom put her head in her hands while grandma rubbed her shoulder, “That old jerk has been lying to me.  He said he takes his meds every day.” Mom mumbled.

The doctor laughed, “He is definitely stubborn, but, he really has to take them every day.”

“You can bet that we’ll make sure he does.” Dad said. 

We stayed at the hospital for another two hours before they released him.  Grandpa was grumbling about having to be pushed out of the hospital in a wheelchair but one stern look from Grandma and he shut up before getting in the car. 

When I got home I took a quick shower, changed into my gym shorts, and text Harley;

Me
: 
Thank you for tonight…I just want you to trust me
.

I tossed and turned trying to go to sleep but no matter how hard I tried to get the memory of Harley’s lips and skin out of my mind I couldn’t.  My dick instantly grew hard.  “Mother fucker.” I mumbled and tried to adjust it back down inside my gym shorts.  After a few minutes and no luck of it going down I shoved my shorts down and gripped my cock.  I slid my hand up and down trying to ease the ache that was growing stronger in my nuts.  I quickly released my dick and reached into the night stand where I kept the KY lube.  I squeezed a good amount into my right hand and grabbed my cock that was now as hard as granite.  The slickness of the lube, the warmth of my hand, the memories of Harley’s breath against my skin, her lips against mine, and her tongue working with mine had me gripping my cock tighter and stroking it faster.  I circled the head faster and faster then pumped my hand up and down.  Her soft whisper of my name against my lips played over and over in my mind.  I imagined what she would sound like as I slid in and out of her pussy.  My balls tightened, my stomach muscles clenched and hot spurts of come landed against my stomach.  “Fuck.” I breathed out.  I had never come so hard that it took my breath away.  It was all because of Harley.