Page 106 of Honey Undone
“Yeah.” I bit my lip letting up on the gas as the driveway for the cabin came into view. There were already a ton of cars parked in the massive gravel driveway and my eyes went wide at the sight of the cabin. “He really does make it sound small,” I said, looking over at Jensen who was pushing his hair back to hide it with a backward hat.
“Modest is Silas’s middle name.” Jensen laughed, “go on in, I’ll grab the bags.”
I cut the engine and inhaled slowly, I could do this. I took the stairs inside and was instantly met with thunderous echoes of laughter and chatter. I’d have back up in Cosy for the weekend and could hear her chatting from the front door, my ears leading me further inside.
“You made it,” she turned around, her dark red hair curled around her face. She was standing with Zoey, both sipping on something that smelled delicious and sweet
“Yeah, sorry we’re late,” I said, giving her a small hug. The room erupted again when Jensen burst through the door and chucked our bags on the floor.
“What was it this time?” Cael asked, from the counter.
Jensen came up behind me and threw his arm around me, “this one doesn’t know how to keep his hands to himself.”
“Oh yeah blame me,” he huffed.
“It’s always you, Jenny.” Arlo dropped the beer from his lips with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah yeah!” He laughed, “I’m starving, when's dinner?”
“We’re waiting on Gramps,” Cael groaned like he was dying. It was good to see him in good spirits. Jensen had been a mess for nearly a week after that game. I was selfishly grateful I wasn't there to watch Cael tear that muscle, when Jensen told me I could feel the strain in my own shoulder and winced. I’d never seen him so cuddly, it would have been endearing if it wasn’t heartbreaking. Even though there was nothing any of them could have done, it still ripped through the team like an unstoppable storm.
This weekend was a break for them, they’d been training and playing harder than ever. They won the semi-finals but not without bloodshed and the championships would be no different. Jensen came crawling back to the apartment every night barely on his feet but still in search of comfort and I would continue to oblige for as long as I could.
I couldn’t think about that right now, it was going to make me sad.
“Is it frowned upon to get drunk tonight?” I asked Zoey and Cosy, only to be met by excited laughter. Three hours later and probably one too many shots half of us were sitting around the coffee table in the living room playingnever have I ever.
“You definitely have,” Van was laid across the floor propped up on an elbow so Zoey could use him as a backrest.
“I never made out with Otis!” Dean argued. “I have standards,” he scrunched up his face. “The real question here is why Clem drank for Cael!”
“Otis really?” Van still sounded horribly confused.
“Drunk people do drunk things, and Otis has really nice green eyes,” Cael said with a shrug. “It’s Jensen’s turn,” he passed off the conversation to his left.
He was sitting flush against my back with his head resting on my shoulder and let out a low grumble. One of his hands was on his beer and the other one was tucked under my shirt and pressed flat against my stomach. I could practically hear him thinking with how long it took him to come up with something to add to the game's already hilarious turn of events.
“Never have I ever skinny dipped in the lake,” he blurted eventually.
Not a single person moved.
“Seriously?” I looked around, “You guys? Not even one of you has gone in the lake naked?” I moved to look around at the players that had stayed awake.
“Don’t look at me this is only my third time up here,” Joshua Logan scowled at me.
“What about the rest of you?” I looked at Van, Dean, Arlo and Cael.
“Never really crossed our minds?” Van shrugged. "We're naked around each other enough…"
“Cael?” I was actually in disbelief that this wasn’t a common thing with them.
“There’s a first for everything.” A wicked grin formed on his face.
“Don’t you fucking dare,” Arlo warned and Ella started to laugh as Cael stripped from his shirt. “Sit the fuck down.”
“Mom’s laughing, all bets are off,” Cael yelled, backing toward the door.
“Stop encouraging him,” Arlo sighed, looking at Ella.
