Page 2 of Nightclub Surprise
That’sfreaky…
“Mom!” his excited little voice shouted as someone moved past me. Our arms brushed for just a split second, but the electric current that came along with that touch pulsed all the way through mybody.
“Calum!” the curvy redhead who’d just shocked my system with a simple touch called out to the kid. She picked him up, hugging him, and all I could do was look at her spectacularass.
Hubba,hubba!
“I didn’t think you was comin’, Momma,” the boy said as he clung toher.
“I wouldn’t miss your first-ever field trip.” She put him down, taking his hand then turning to the side to look up at the spaceshuttle.
Her profile was pretty; her nose turned up a bit at the end. Her pink lips were on the plump side. The way the blue jeans hugged her curvy hips and the light beige sweater clung to her double D’s enchanted me—and my cock, which thumped inside my slacks. She turned all the way around, taking in everything that surrounded us, and I finally saw her entireface.
TawnyMatthews!
My pulse raced, my body heated. The feeling was familiar—it was the same way she’d always affected me from the moment she went from a gangly little girl to a curvy teen dream. But there was more than mere attraction with this one. Tawny had a place in my heart she’d stolen longago.
Like a time warp had opened up, my mind left where I was to head back to where I’d been seven yearsearlier…
A full moon hung low in the night sky as I looked out the backdoor window of my parents’ home—a home I’d be leaving in the morning. Destination San Diego. Marine boot camp. After graduating early from college with a degree in engineering, I’d enlisted with the marines to do my part in the ongoing war. At twenty-one, I was heading into danger for the first time in mylife.
The midnight hour was at hand, but sleep was not. I’d headed to the kitchen in search of a glass of milk, hoping that would help me relax and get some sleep before I had to leave for San Diego at six a.m. The moon captured my attention first though, drawing me to the window. And out that window, I spied another thing that would keep me from the glass of milk. The girl next door was outside, lying back in a loungechair.
We didn’t have privacy fences in our neighborhood, just short chain-link ones. The small town of Sebastopol, California wasn’t the kind of place where you hid from your neighbors. And one of my neighbors was Tawny Matthews, a recent high school graduate who’d turned eighteen only a few weeks ago, if I recalled correctly. And she had her eyes on the sky, doing a little moongazing.
Music floated on the breeze as I opened the back door. The sounds were light, airy, and romantic. Something inside of mestirred.
Tawny was pretty; I’d always thought so. We’d lived next door to each other forever. When we were really young, we’d played together in our backyards. When we were both little kids, we used to love tossing a beach ball back and forth over that chain link fence that separated ouryards.
But once I left grade school for junior high, she and I lost that friendship we’d had. Puberty had started having its way with me while Tawny was still a kid with pigtails who played with dolls. My attention went to the girls my age and older, the more mature ones. Tawny got left behind, a thing I hadn’t really noticed until she started sprouting up and growing the female parts that took myinterest.
But we were four years apart, and she was too young for me then. A senior in high school definitely couldn’t be with a girl in the eighth grade, after all. But that didn’t stop me noticing how attractive she’d become. So, I’d kept my distance from her onpurpose.
But now that she’d turned eighteen, she wasn’t so younganymore.
Like a moth to a flame, I was drawn to her. I stepped out into the night. “Hey.”
She smiled at me. “Hey.”
Shoving my hands into the pockets of my jeans, I rocked back and forth on my bare feet. “You’re uplate.”
She chewed her lower lip as she looked me up and down with her pretty green eyes. My t-shirt was black and tight, hugging my pecs and biceps. I’d worked hard to get my body into excellent shape, so boot camp wouldn’t completely kick my ass. “So areyou.”
The way she eyed me made me think that she might be more interested in me than I’d ever known. “You want somecompany?”
Plump pink lips pulled up to one side. “Why, you wantsome?”
Everything about her told me she was into me, so I headed through the gate that separated our yards, taking the lounge chair next to hers. “I do want some. I’m heading out to boot camp in the morning, and my mind’s a mess aboutit.”
Her lips formed a straight line as she looked into my eyes. “So, you’re really goingthen?”
With a nod I went on, “I’m not afraid to fight in this war. But I am afraid I’ll never see homeagain.”
With my words, she glanced up at the rising moon. “If it helps at all, I think you’re a hero,August.”
“I’m no hero. Not yet anyway. But thanks.” Thinking about what lay ahead of me put me in a mood for some midnight confessions, so I told her, “And I should tell you since I might never see you again, that I think you’re beautiful. I’ve thought so ever since you turned fifteen. You and I were too far apart in age to ever do anything about thatthough.”
She sat up, looking me right in the eyes as she smiled. “Okay, if we’re being honest then I can tell you that I’ve always thought you were smokinghot.”
