Page 42 of Teach Me How To Fly

“Already looking forward to going back home,” I replied as I sat beside him and squeezed his hand.

“Stop being so boring!” he thundered at me with a furrow on his face, and by the way his mouth smelled, I knew that he had more than a bottle of alcohol.

He enjoyed doing such things way more often than I would indulge, but he was my best friend, so I had to accept him as he was.

“I’m not boring, I just care about my health and well-being,” I answered and I felt Laura’s gaze pinning me.

“Exactly! Stop being boring, have some fun with me!”

He was drunker than I’ve ever seen him before. He stood up from the seat and almost fell on the table in front of us, then he managed to step forward, turning on his heel to face me directly.

“I’m going to bring you some vodka. Don’t leave,” he mumbled and smirked at me, then turned back and walked into the crowd.

I cleared my throat and ran my fingers through my hair, and the moment I almost let myself fall prey to my own thoughts, I felt how Laura came closer to me. I didn’t raise my gaze to her,but I surely did move my eyes subtly so I could see a glimpse of her.

She was a beautiful woman indeed, so I understood why Katya was so in love with her. She had good tastes, I had to admit it.

“I didn’t know I would get to see you here tonight,” she whispered and put her hand on the back of the chair.

“I didn’t know I would come here either,” I quickly replied and glanced at her.

Her lips were covered in a layer of red lipstick that matched her olive like skin. That was her signature. She couldn’t be Laura if she wasn’t wearing red lipstick all the time.

“I heard you won over my father,” she said between her lips and she smirked at me. “You’re a hell of a subject in our house, you know? I’m falling asleep and waking up with your name spoken to my ears,” she added, this time on a more seductive tone of voice.

I knew damn well what she was trying to do, but she wasn’t aware that I knew about her and Katya. So it was funny for me to watch her trying to seduce me while she had a girlfriend. Well, not that funny, it pissed me off a bit too.

I drove my gaze to her lips, then to her beautifully rounded chest and came back to her face. I could see how her breathing quickened and her lips parted so the air could escape between them in the alert rhythm it needed to. I tried to offer her a piece of what she desired, but I was waiting for the right moment to destroy her tactics.

“It must be a delight to hear my name all the time, isn’t it?” I whispered close to her face and the glimpse in her eyes proved she was down for me at any moment.

“Maksen Brown,” she demurred and came closer to me, her breathing now hitting my neck. “A delight to my tongue as well when I’m saying each letter of your name.”

“It must be even more delightful to say Katya Makenova, am I right?”

The grin on my face made her swallow her lump.Not so courageous anymore, huh?Of course not, because she was a twenty four year old woman who was in love with a seventeen year old girl.

“You two! You’re not fucking on my watch!” Joseph yelled at us as he came closer with a big bottle of Vodka under his arm.

I laughed at his words and I eyed him attentively. He put the bottle on the table and took two glasses from the ice bucket. Without even asking, he poured the colorless liquid and filled both glasses.

I took it and drank the whole glass, feeling how my entire esophagus was almost caught up in a fire. But it felt good having those tingles all over my body once the fiery liquid burned its way down to my stomach.

“See? It’s not that hard to have some fun!” he exclaimed as he sat beside me with his own glass of alcohol.

I laughed because I knew that if I brought him some arguments about why having alcohol didn’t equal having fun, he wouldn’t care and would simply get angry or start talking about something else.

Laura kept silent as we were analyzing the entire room of people. The music was not too loud, which made me more comfortable considering I didn’t want to be there in the first place. Joseph was devouring some of the girls dancing, and I knew very well he must’ve had his eyes on one of them.

I looked at my empty glass and a veil of truth fell on my eyes, making me realize that I really shouldn't have been here.

I was just as numb and empty as that fucking glass was, and I didn’t know why I accepted coming here. I needed to stay home and think how I could’ve helped Anna remember her childhood.

Instead, I was here with a woman who just wanted to suck my cock even though she had a girlfriend, and Joseph who was just being himself and I couldn’t judge him for it.

I looked up at Boyce who didn’t leave my side and gave him a subtle message with a little turn of my head. He came closer to me and I stood up, letting my gaze fall on Laura.

“I’ll leave you two to have fun together,” I said as Joseph pinned me with his eyes too.

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