Page 32 of The Boys Next Door

Oh, I can,Diana thought. Naked or not.

“Diana can hook us up, right, Diana? Just tell them no strings attached. Either guy. One’s as good as the other.”

She pressed her face into the grass. It was so nice and cool. Grassy. She couldn't stop giggling.

“I think they're done with high school girls,” she spluttered. “They’re all busy with college and stuff. Basketball. And I heard they've taken a vow of celibacy. You know, to perform better on the court. They told me themselves.”

“That would be such a tragedy.”

“Hey, is everything true about Ian?” Marissa turned towards her. “I remember when he spray-painted the principal’s car pink. I heard the basketball coach pulled all kinds of strings to keep him from getting expelled.”

“I heard he hooked up with someone else’s girlfriend at a party, and when his own girlfriend found them, he convinced her to join in.”

“Well,Iheard the only reason he graduated is that Brendan did his homework.”

“Is it all true, Diana?”

Probably. She tried to catch her breath. “You can’t believe everything you hear,” she murmured.

Before anyone could say anything else about the twins, Diana rolled over. And over again, a few times, until she was on the other side of the yard, nice and quiet. Leaves rustled overhead. Grass whispered by her ear.

Someone was stretching out next to her, she realized, almost close enough to touch. Tilting her head to the side, she focused on a pair of dark eyes. Boy eyes.

“Alex?” she asked. “Alex Noriega. You’re lying next to me in the grass.”

“Yep. I am.” He smiled at her like the two of them lying on Marissa’s lawn together was the most normal thing in the world.

Diana blinked at him a few times. What was she remembering about him? Oh, yes. He'd checked out her breasts in AP World History last week, and she'd stared him down. He hadn't looked too embarrassed either -- just a little. And then she’d fantasized about him in the school bathroom right afterwards, licking her throbbing pussy before the twins took his place.

Other than that little episode? He'd been in a lot of her classes. He'd dated her friend Lin junior year. And she'd never really gotten to know him, because how much had she let herself get to know most people in high school?

Alex was saying something. A monologue about the vastness of the universe and the intensity of the stars and blah blah blah…she let it wash over her until he ended on a question.

“Sorry?” She glanced his way. Alex was just cute enough that a couple of weeks ago, she would have had trouble meeting his eyes. Now, it didn’t seem difficult.

“I was saying, we’ve had all these classes together the past four years, but I feel like I’ve never really gotten to know you. You’re pretty unapproachable, you know?”

“I am?” Diana rolled her head all the way towards him, startled. Unapproachable? No, she was shy. She was the one who had trouble approaching people. Alex’s comment struck her as funny. Hysterical, actually. “You’re lying right next to me in the grass.” She was giggling again, her whole body shaking. “Because I’m soooo unapproachable. Guys have all kinds of trouble approaching me, you know?”

She could feel the twins’ hands all over her, massaging her bare skin, slipping between her—

Wait. That was an actual hand. Alex had wrapped his fingers around hers. Okay. That was nice. Warm and pleasant.

“I bet they do,” he whispered. “I know I have.”

He leaned toward her. What? Lips — on hers. He was kissing her. Half-laughing, half-surprised, her mouth opened, and his tongue slipped in.

Oh God. Excitement rushed down her body, pointing straight between her legs. This was what she’d been afraid of. She could barely handle the twins. Alex Noriega did not need to complicate things, and — oh shit, he was brushing her dark bangs off her forehead, nibbling her lips, cupping her cheek, and all she wanted to do was pull him on top of her.

She put one hand on his chest and pushed him back a few inches.

“I should go,” she whispered, laughing in little gulps. This was so crazy. “I’m not, uh, I’m not really in any condition to do this.”

“Then let me take you home.”

“No, no, I’m okay. I have a ride,” Diana hiccuped. Alex was still leaning over her like he expected to kiss her again. “I just want to, uh, focus on school right now.”

He peered at her. “We’re done with school, Diana. We’re graduating tomorrow.”

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