Wanted (26 page)

Ellie walked up and stood on her toes and gave me a kiss on the cheek. My heart jumpe
d up into my throat and
my dick started to get hard.

“Hey Gunner, how are you doing tonight?” Ellie asked wit
h that beautiful smile of hers.

“I’m
doing much better now that you’
re here. How was graduation?” I lo
ok
ed over Ellie’s shoulder to see Ari giving me a shit eating grin. Yep….I knew Ellie had told her about the kiss just by the way Ari was lo
ok
ing at me.

“Ari
……
how are you?
How did you
r
speech turn out
?”

“Hey Gunner!
Oh yeah…the whole speech thing. It we
nt good after I about pissed
my pants from nerves. But I lo
ok
ed out and saw Jeff so I just pictured his ass naked and sucking his thumb and strangely enough
……
I calmed right down.” Ari said with
a shrug and
the most serious face I had ever seen. I kind of believed she was telling me the truth. I threw my head backed and laughed. Damn I like
d
this g
irl.

“Well shit…I’m going to
have to remember that one
when I stand in front of a group pitching an idea for a new building Ari.”
Ari just gave me a wink.

Ellie introduced me to
their two other friends.
“Gunner this is Amanda, Amanda this is Gunner.”
Ahhh
so this was Amanda who lost her virginity at a frat party. It was hard for me to keep a straight face but somehow I managed. She had short brownish red hair right to her shoulders and she was probably dressed the most provocatively in tight jeans and a brown tank top that
showed her assets really well.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Amanda.” I said with a smile.

“We have heard so much about you Gunner….seems you made an impression on our Ellie here.”

I
laughed as I saw Ellie give Amanda a dirty look.

“Anyway, if you are done
Manda
, Gunner this is Heather.” Heather was a little shorter than Ellie and Ari, and the only blonde in the group. She had shoulder length hair and blue eyes. She reminded me of Ellie in a way. Her in
nocence was pouring off of her.

“Heather it is very nice to meet you.”

“The feeling is mutual, thank you for inviting us Gunner.” Innocent and southern charm
…these girls were in for a wake
up call tonight.

B
oth
girls were more than pretty
and I could already see the vultures swarming. I gave all four of them my lecture about no leaving with anyone, not even a girl. No
taking any drinks from anyone other than each other, Jeff or me. I also made sure Amanda and Heather had plans for a ride home. Heather had drawn the smallest straw so she was no
t drinking tonight.

Jeff had already told Ellie that she and Ari could stay over. Som
ething he was regretting just thirty
minutes ago when I mentioned Ari staying over all night.
I thought he was going to come undone.

Once I got the girls a beer
and H
eather a Diet C
oke
,
they all moved out to the back yard and were quickly dancing. I had to smile at Ari….man that girl knew how to get attention.
There must have been at least four
guys dancing around her. Amanda was holding her own and seemed to have Brad’s full attention.
Ellie and Heather were dancing with each other and both seemed oblivious to the guys who were desperately trying to get their attention. I lo
ok
ed over as Jeff walked out the
sliding glass door with Rebecca
in tow. He scanned the people dancing. He saw Ellie and smiled
.
Then his smile faded and was replaced by pure anger. I followed to where he was lo
ok
ing.

Ari…..she was dancing with another girl and two guys. Christina Aguilera’
s
“
Your Body
”
was playing and wow
….Ari could
sure
dance.
She saw Jeff and gave him a smile and a wink. I looked at Jeff and he had his hands balled up in fists. FUC
K that girl had him under her sp
ell whether
he wanted to believe it or not.

Just then Ellie walked u
p to me and bumped my shoulder.

“
You enjoying
your first college party?”
I asked
as I gave her a wink.
I lo
ok
ed
into those beautiful blue eyes and my heart started to pound.
The white lights we had hanging in all the trees were
casting sparkles in her eyes and i
t to
ok
my breath away.

“YES! I think Ari is trying to make a statement though!” Ellie said with a nod of her head towards Ari.

“I think you might be right. By the lo
ok on Jeff’s face I would say
it’
s
working. Where the hell did she learn to dance like that?”

Ellie laughed. “She’
s bee
n taking lessons since she was five
years old. She loves to dance.
” Ellie said as she lo
ok
ed over to Jeff. I saw he
r
smile fade from her face.

“Who is that with Jefferson and is that the girl from the coffee shop behind her? What was her name
…
…
Crysti
?”

Fuck…..

”The girl is Rebecca
. She is the cheerleader who Jeff went out with Thursday night.
Crysti
is another cheerleader and is
one of
Rebecca
’s
friends
. Jeff invited Rebecca
but I’m not sure why because he can’t stand her.”

“Probably to piss o
f
f Ari I’m guessing. They had some kind of fight at dinner and Ari won’t tell me what they argued about.”

Elli
e stared at them for a good a minute
. She turned bac
k to me and smiled but it didn’
t touch her eyes. I reached for her hand and brought it up to my mouth and kissed the back of he
r hand.

“Don’t worry Ellie sweetheart.” I gave her a w
ink and slowly let her hand go.

“I’m not worried. I’
m sure Jefferson knows what he
is doing. I just hope he didn’
t invite this girl to make Ari jealous.
They were both
in piss poor moods
when they came back in from outside
. Ari just tol
d me Jefferson was being a
dick
wad
. That seems to be her favorite
word
to describe him the last few days!”
Ellie said with a small laugh.

I lo
ok
ed back out to the dance floor to see Ari dancing pretty close to Josh. I to
ok
a peek at Jeff and he was trying to pa
y attention to what ever Rebecca
was saying to him but he kept lo
ok
ing out on the dance floor
at Ari
.
He looked worried and
he should have been. Josh has probably slept with every girl at this party except for Ellie and her friends. The way he was looking at Ari though…I know what that fucker was thinking.

“Gunner can I use the
bathroom in your bedroom? Jefferson said y’all keep your rooms off limits and your bathroom.
There was a pretty long line waiting for the bathroom
when we walked in
.
”

“Of course you can sweetheart. Just be sure to lock the bedroom door when you go inside.”

“Will you wait right here until I get back?” E
llie asked as a blush crept up
her cheeks.

“I’
ll be right here.” I said as I leaned down and kissed her forehead.

Ellie stopped to talk to Jeff for a quick second. I saw Rachael and
Crysti
staring her up and down.

Bitches.

Jeff walked over to me and slapped me on the back. “So you think my baby sister is having fun
at her first college party
?”

I lo
ok
ed at Jeff who was clearly getting
himself drunk. “Jeff man what’
s going on
with you tonight
….you
never get wasted like this
. You’
re leaving me totally responsible for watchi
ng your sister and her friends.”

“It lo
ok
s like Jeff’s little sister’s friends are taking pretty g
ood care of themselves.” Rebecca
said with a laugh.
Crysti
and some other girl
who I’d
neve
r seen before started to laugh as they lo
ok
ed out
to where everyone was dancing.

Just then Ari started to walk over to where we were standing. She was out of breath
from dancing
. I reach
ed into the cooler I was standing by
and handed her another beer.

“Whew! I have not danced like th
at in forever! Where is Ellie?
She needs to get her ass out there and dance with us.” Ari said as she to
ok
a sip
of beer.

She lo
ok
ed over at Jeff and then noticed R
ebecca
hanging onto him
. This was not going to turn out good.
Ari’s e
yes traveled up and down Rebecca and land
ed
at where she
had her hand on Jeff’s waist.

“Who is your friend
dic
k
wad
?” Ari asked Jeff.

“Rebecca
,
this is
Ellie’s best friend
…..
Squirt. Squirt this is Rebecca
…..a
friend
of mine.” Jeff stressed the word friend and I
saw Ari’s whole body just stiffen up
. What the fuck was he doing?

“Hello Jeff’s
friend
Rebecca. The name is Ari
, n
ice to meet you.” Ari
said as she reached for Rebecca’s hand to shake it. Rebecca
, being the bitch she was
,
just lo
ok
ed at Ari’s
hand and laughed.

Jeff just stood there with a grin on his face.
Why in the hell was he letting Rebecca be so rude to Ari, this was not like him at all.

He leaned closer
in
to Ari like he was goin
g to say something only to her.

“Better be careful
dancing like that out there squirt
.
You’re playing with the big boys now.
You might just lo
se your V card if you keep dancing like that honey
.”

HOLY FUCK!
OH
shit……..he did not just say that!

Jeff practi
cally shouted it to Ari. Rebecca
and
Crysti
started to laugh. I just stood there stunned. This was not Jeff. He wou
ld never purposely hurt anyone.

I lo
ok
ed at Ari. She just stood there staring at Jeff, the tears where slowly starting to build in her eyes. She lo
ok
ed over at the two b
itches who were laughing still.

“Rebecca
, knock it the fuck off or you can take your friends and leave.” I said as I walked in between Ari and Jeff. She lo
ok
ed like she was ready to knock the shit out of him. He just stood there smiling at her. After what felt like forever I
saw Ari’s shoulders square off and she stood up tall.

“Fuck you Jeff
! It’s not the first time I’ve played with the big boys
and it certainly won’t be the last
.” A
ri turned and walked over to
Jack. It lo
ok
ed like she
was asking him to play a song.