Page 90 of Win Some Love Some
“Why?” I handed her my phone.
“I’m going to show…oh, you have an account. Nice.” She smiled at me and I reached for the phone. The only thing I had to hide from her were those saved videos and I wasn’t even sure why I felt compelled to hide them. They’d been a secret for so long, I didn’t know how to make them not a secret.
She didn’t look at the saved videos. She just made one of her own of the garage. I had a few high school students who came to work in the afternoons in what the guidance counselor called a co-op and I called babysitting.
She got them to do a dance to some popular song and they went for it. Smiling faces, smeared with a little grease. She panned over to me, not smiling, not dancing.
“Oh my God, it’s so good,” she said, and posted it.
Every day. One video about the shop. Nothing came of it. People liked it. Folks from Calico Cove commented. But it made her happy. And it made me happy to see her happy.
Everything was perfect, really. Except for the fantasies.
The one where I lifted her onto the hood of the Mustang I’d been working on, pushed her jeans down over her knees and fucked her so hard she screamed my name and ran her nails down my back. Only to make her go back to work, red faced, breathless and dripping my cum into her panties.
“Okay, now you’re fucking scaring me,” Roy said. “You’ve got serial killer face.”
“I’m not sure what that is,” I mumbled.
“We’ve got to go or we’ll miss the vows.”
“Unless she makes a run for it,” Vanessa said, coming out from the kitchen. “Not that I’m rooting for that.”
“Oooooh,” Bethany crooned as she followed her mother into the living room. “You look so pretty Nora! Don’t you think she looks pretty, Nick?”
“Beautiful, actually,” I said quietly. Although now I could feel both Vanessa and Roy’s eyes pinned on me.
“Girls,” Will snorted, hip checking his sister as he came into the room behind her. “They always have to be told how pretty they are. There’s this girl in my class – she’s so conceited.”
“Uh, oh. Does Will have a crush on a girl?” Nora asked, teasing her younger brother.
“No!” Will shouted, a bit too loudly for anyone to believe him. “I’m just saying, she thinks she’s all that, and every guy in my grade is all….” He made a love struck googly eyed face.
“Pro tip,” I told Will. “Play hard to get with this girl. They like the guys who don’t fawn all over them.”
“I told you, I don’t even like her!”
“Will’s got a girlfriend,” Bethany sang, which in turn led Will to chase her out of the living room until we heard faint screams coming from the back of the house.
“Hey! No running inside!” Roy barked.
“I better make sure she doesn’t hurt him,” Vanessa said. “You two have fun at the wedding.”
“Yep,” I said. “You want to get that coat, Nor?”
She smiled at me with all of her teeth and found a black trench coat in the closet that covered her from neck to knees. She tied the belt around her waist and I could finally breathe.
“Much better,” I said, only to find Roy standing next to me, staring me down. “What?”
“You still look like a serial killer.”
“But you know I’m not,” I reminded him.
“Do I?”
“Dad! Let’s go, Nick,” She pulled me outside the house and closed the front door behind her.
Halfway to the car, the same BMW as last time, I stopped her with a tug on her hand.
