Page 144 of Hot Four Teacher
And I’m home.
It’s been a couple of months since we spilled the beans to Eve and everyone in town. I figured the world would fall down around us, but it didn’t. Honestly, no one in town cared too much. I heard a couple of jealous whispers, but no one ever took it any further.
And it didn’t take long for Eve to come around. As much as she didn’t want to admit it, I think she liked having some male energy around for once. He’s there for her when she needs him to but also backs off and lets me handle the parenting.
Much to my surprise, she even wants to ask him to go on her camping trip with her later in the year. She has yet to do it because she’s scared of the answer, and she’s sworn me to secrecy.
For once in my life, things are good.
Okay, it’s not fair for me to say that. Things have been good before.
But with Dane, things feelright.
Any other time in my life, I would have felt self-conscious standing up here with my sisters. Between Ronnie’s curves and Jo and Liz’s lean frames, I would have felt bad about the way I appeared next to them. But Dane looks at me like I’m the only one in the room, and I feel beautiful.
I know it shouldn’t take a man to make you feel good about yourself, but I think he’s helped me find my confidence that was buried deep inside.
Liz leans over to me and whispers, “Ten bucks says the next wedding we are at is yours.”
While I would love that, Dane and I are in no rush. Hell, we aren’t even officially living together yet. We’ve made the decision when the time is right, he will move into my place so as not to disrupt Eve and I, but for now, he still has his own place. Plus, we enjoy using his house as our own secluded fuck pad. We get to escape there and have some alone time without teenage ears around.
And we take advantage of it.
A lot.
In fact, I wouldn’t mind ducking out of this wedding early to go there and get a quickie in before we ultimately stay the night at my house.
Stop thinking about it, Michelle. Your brother is getting married.
I do my best to pay attention, but my mind wanders the whole time. Thankfully, the ceremony is over fairly quickly, and we all get to the reception.
It’s a small affair–just our family and a few close friends. After we make it through dinner, Dane holds out his hand for mine. “Care to dance, baby?”
I pretend to think about it for a second, but who am I kidding? There’s no way I would say no to that.
He leads me to the dancefloor, and moments later, I’m in his arms, swaying to the music.
“Do you know how stunning you look?” He asks.
“Why don’t you show me?” I tease.
“I can’t very well do that in the middle of the dancefloor.”
“We could go find a coat closet or something,” I say, only half-joking.
“Good lord, woman. You’re going to get us into so much trouble.”
I look over and see Eve watching us. She looks nervous as though she’s trying to get up the nerve to come talk to Dane.
“Hey,” I say to him. “There’s something that Eve wants to ask you, but I think she’s a little scared.”
“I can’t imagine why she’d be scared. That girl has zero filter when I’m coaching her in soccer.” He chuckles.
“I’m not supposed to say anything, so I want you to act surprised, but she wants to know if you will take her on that camping trip they’re doing later in the year.”
Confused, he asks, “She doesn’t want you to go?”
“Well, A, we all know how I feel about the great outdoors, and B, apparently, a lot of the girls decided to take…their dads. She asked Danny way back when, but he told her no, so I think she’s scared that you’re going to say no too.”
