Page 28 of Resurrecting the Enemy
“You guys enjoy watching me lose my shit?” I asked, though I really haven’t yet. I’ve been actually decent to Lake, considering. Well…I guess,mydefinition of decent. I hadn’t even come close to losing my shit, but I could feel the possibility getting closer and closer with each roadblock she put up.
Chance scoffed. “Oh, please,” he drawled out. “I’ve seen you lose your shit, R.J., and you’ve been hitting that girl with kid gloves all week.”
“It’s true,” Mad agreed. “You’ve been playing nice with the girl, and maybe that’s why she’s not scared to block you.”
Dash raised an ebony brow and fastened those bright green eyes on me. Like his brothers and sister, he took after Uncle Deke in coloring, so they all sported the same inky-black hair and those eerie green eyes. Really, all us kids took after our fathers. Even D.J. and Maggie took after Uncle Ace.
Being the oldest in the bunch, me and Dash were super close. Even though he lived in Port Lucia and Chance lived in Sands Cove, Dash was second to me behind Maddox. I’d say Dash was my best friend where Chance was Mad’s best friend. Of course, Mad and Chance were both seventeen and in the same grade, so there was that.
“Why?” he asked. Just one word. One question.
I met his stare. “Why am I going easy on her?” He nodded, and I knew they were all waiting on my answer. “Because there’s still a chance she’ll come to me on her own.” I told them. “She’s attracted to me, even if she doesn’t like me.”
“And if she doesn’t?” Dash asked.
I shrugged a shoulder. “Then all bets are off,” I said truthfully. “I’ll transfer to SC High and make her life a living hell.”
Chance barked out a laugh. “And that’s the R.J. we know and love.”
Maddox snorted. “And what would you tell Mom and Dad about transferring to SC?”
I looked over at my brother. “Dad already knows about Lake,” I informed him. “So, what do you think he’d say?”
Dash let out a dark chuckle. “Uncle Ramsey’s the last person who would stand in your way, considering.”
While none of us knew the details, we do know that my parents’ relationship hadn’t been all beautiful barbwire and razor blades when they’d first met. Like Dad said, Mom had made him fight for it. But we did know something pivotal had happened in their relationship once, that had been so significant, my dad would get on his knees and bow to my mom in front of the world if she asked it of him.
So, if I had to switch schools or outright kidnap the damn girl, we all knew Dad would support my madness fully. I might have to keep the details of the kidnapping from Mom, but I knew Dad would back me. However, she wouldn’t balk at me switching schools.
And I would.
I’d do anything to have Lake Warren, at this point. And that included placing a phone call to SC High’s principal this morning. The second I had given my name, his secretary had patched me right through, and Mr. Hughes had assured me that Lake would have no troubles her senior year of school.
I had also instructed him to call her into his office, so that they could chat about it. While I couldn’t be there to witness it, I could only imagine how lovely that meeting had gone.
Then there was also the fact that, as soon as we’d gotten home from school this afternoon, Mad had gone to work on hacking all her social media sites and unblocking me. He’d also gone a step further and had changed her relationship status on all her sites. It was obvious my brother was having way too much fun with all this, but he was still doing what needed to be done.
“So, what are the rules tonight?” Dash asked. “Are we there to make nice? Or are we there to make a statement?”
“Please say make nice,” Chance whined. “I haven’t gotten laid in over two weeks.” All our heads reared back as we looked at him in surprise. “What?”
“Aren’t you the one who believes his dick will fall off if he doesn’t use it every weekend?” Maddox asked, jokingly-but not really.
“Seriously. I think Trojan stock just plummeted,” Dash added.
“Oh, fuck you, guys,” he bit out. “I’m not that bad.” When his statement was met with silence, he conceded a bit. “Fine, but you guys don’t have to be assholes about it.”
“So, why haven’t you been laid?” Mad asked. “Decided to save it for marriage, after all?”
Chance flipped him off because Maddox deserved it most of the time. “I’m bored,” Chance admitted. “I’m fucking the same girl over, and over, and over again.” We watched as he rolled his neck, popping his joints, trying to explain. “It doesn’t matter if she’s blonde, brunette, bald, real parts, or fake parts. They are all the same fucking girl. Their exaggerated moans and porn promises are all the same, and they never fucking deliver.”
“Oh, the tragedy,” Mad deadpanned.
Chance ignored him and looked over at Dash. “I know you know what I mean,” he told him.
Now, while I did my best in the bedroom, I wasn’t in there for anything other than a good fuck. I always made sure the girl knew what she was there for and it wasn’t to reenact some cheesy porno scene. I didn’t need her promising me the best sex of my life, and I didn’t need her telling me I was the best sex of her life, because both were bullshit. I’d have to be invested in a girl to put in the effort to give her the best sex of her life, and I’ve never been. I got in and got out and made sure it was good enough for both of us. Did she see God? Probably not. But did she cum? Fuck yeah, she did. And at the end of it all, that was the goal; for the both of us to get off.
I’ve also never forgotten when Dad gave us ‘the talk’. He said he’d skin us alive if we ever forgot the condom, and we took that one seriously. But he had also spoken to us about more than protection and the mechanics of it all. He’d also told us that if we were going to fuck around, don’t do it indiscriminately. He had told us to pick something and hold it back for that one girl who would, one day, matter more than all the rest. He had told us that his biggest regret had been that he’d had nothing to give Mom that he hadn’t already given to a dozen girls before her, and that had stuck with us. So much so, that I didn’t eat pussy and I’ve never fucked a girl up the ass.
