Her taste is still on my tongue when we walk into the house. Amy and Jack sit in side-by-side loungers holding hands and watching TV.

Jack glances at both of us. “What took you so long?” Jack asks.

I couldn’t tell him that I was pleasuring his daughter on the floor of an out building. That I was licking up her honey like a starving man. So I did my best to come up with a believable answer. “It was hard to collect my things in the dark.”

“Sorry,” Jack says, “I could have given you a flashlight.”

I drop my bag near my feet and lean on the wall beside me. I risk a glance at Ellie, whose face flushes with the heat of her first orgasm. She’s so damn beautiful.

“It’s okay, I felt around until I found what I wanted.” I didn't think it was possible for her to blush any deeper, but her cheeks turned crimson. Looking straight into her eyes I said, “I’ll go back tomorrow once Brent and I come back from the run and make sure I left nothing behind.”

Jack’s focus is back on the television. “That sounds like a good plan. It’s an early start for you boys tomorrow.”

“Yes it is, and seeing as I need to get up so early, I think I’m going to take a shower and call it a night.”

“Good plan. Ellie, take Cooper to his room.”

“Of course,” she says.

Just as we turn and start up the stairs, Amy calls after us. “Come back down after Cooper gets settled, Ellie. Our favorite show is starting in five minutes.”

Ellie lets out a groan only I can hear. “Sure,” she says. “I’ll be right down.”

“Can you make the popcorn?” her mom asks.

“Sure,” she says again, but I can tell popcorn is the last thing on her mind.

We walk up the stairs and turn right down the hallway.

“This is my room,” she says as we walk past the first door. “This is our shared bathroom.” She opens the next door and walks inside. There are three doors into the big bathroom, one in the hallway, and one door going into each of the bedrooms. Access to Ellie will be easy tonight.

She slides past me rubbing her breasts against my chest on her way through the narrow doorway.

“Fire, sweetheart.” I remind her as she teases me.

“You don’t scare me. I like the burn.” She flips on the light to a room I’d been in a handful of times. Brent’s room. It was on the bottom bunk that he and I flipped through girly magazines and had our first glimpse at pussy. I remember both of us thinking they were gross, but that was before we knew how good that velvet glove felt wrapped around our cocks, or how sweet a woman’s nectar tasted on our tongues. That was when we were idiots.

I toss my duffel on the floor by the lower bunk and fold my arms around her. “Go downstairs and spend time with your mom. I’ll see you later.” My lips brush hers, and I turn around and pat her on her naked ass. “Don’t forget to grab some panties.”

She shakes her head at me before she walks out the door.

Within minutes, I’m standing under the hot shower surrounded by her scent. The soap is lavender, her shampoo is lilac and her body wash is jasmine. She’s a bouquet of beauty. My cock aches to be inside her. It sits heavy in my hand as I stroke it to the memory of her shuddering under my tongue. I lean one hand on the tile wall and let my head fall forward as I grip tighter and pull harder thinking I’ll be able to love her a long time tonight if I can ease my ache right now.

The pressure builds, my balls tighten, and my release flows free the minute I close my eyes and relive the sound of my name on her lips. I told her the first time we make love I want to hear her scream my name, but that won’t be possible with her parents sleeping down the hallway. She’ll have to give the same whimpered whisper that she did today. I can live with that.

With a towel wrapped around my waist, I walk into Brent’s room to find Jack sitting on the bed. I come to a dead stop in the doorway.

“Jack, you startled me.”

He looks around the room. “I just want to say it’s nice that we’ll be neighbors. Also, want to tell you that I see how you look at my daughter. I know you like her. I know she likes you. Don’t hurt her, and for your health and safety, don’t let me catch you in her room.” He rises from the bed and walks out the door without another word.

My heart pounds in my chest for minutes after he leaves. Is it possible that he knows what we were doing? I don’t want to screw up my friendship with the Hawkins’, but I also refuse to give up Ellie. I pull her underpants from the pocket of my discarded jeans and bring them to my nose.

She’s is worth the risk, but Jack is right. There is no way I can sink my body into hers while her parents are two doors down. What was I thinking? They deserve more. She deserves more. Our budding relationship deserves more.

Disappointed that Ellie won’t be in my arms tonight, I drag on a pair of flannel pajama bottoms and climb into bed.