Chapter Ten
The Hesitant Miss Dillinger
Ian
“I’m pretty impressed,” I whisper to Mia as I help her the rest of the way into my room. “Most people have a harder time climbing that thing.”
She shoots a glance at me, asking, “Just how many people climb your pipe on a regular basis?”
“You know, the way you phrased that, I’m not quite sure how to answer,” I laugh.
She lets out a derisive snort and leans her head forward a little, looking up at me. “Really?” she asks.
“I reinforced that drain back when I was like thirteen,” I tell her. “Rob’s dad always had tools lying around and my parents were out of town. When I was younger, a lot of people climbed up that thing. Not so much the last few years, though.”
Her stance relaxes a little.
“So, what’s up?” he asks. “You took off so suddenly earlier. What are you doing here?”
She opens her mouth and takes a breath, but she doesn’t speak. Before I even realize it, we’re kissing again and she’s lifting her shirt from the bottom.
We pull apart long enough for her to get her shirt over her head and then she starts kissing my neck and running her palms up under my shirt, the warmth of her hands exciting every inch of skin on my upper body that she touches.
“You sure?” I ask.
“Yeah,” she says in a hurried whisper. “Now shut up. I really don’t want to have your dad coming in here right now. The guy kind of freaks me out.”
Yeah, me too.
I undo the clasp of her bra and she’s got the straps off of her shoulders an instant later and she tosses the bra off somewhere into the darkness of my room.
I’m kissing the arch of her neck and she’s unbuttoning my pants.
This is moving a lot faster than I expected it to, though I’ve had a few fantasies that have actually come reasonably close to tonight’s reality. I’m not complaining.
I tear my shirt over my head and throw it blindly, possibly out the window, though I’m not paying anywhere near the kind of attention to know for certain, and Mia’s kissing her way down my chest, over my abs and navel.
She stops a moment at the top of my boxers and she works the fingers of both hands between the fabric and my skin before she slowly starts pulling both pants and boxers down together.
I’m most of the way hard already, and the feeling her soft hand encompassing me and her lips teasing my tip only hasten the transition.
“Why’d you take off earlier?” I ask.
She coyly shakes her head and doesn’t respond, only takes me into her mouth, her lips sealing around me, her tongue already massaging the underside of my cock.
Mia’s working me with her mouth and a hand and, a second later, her mouth is free of me and she’s pushing me backward.
Between the darkness and the general disorientation caused by the moment, I’m not entirely sure of my relationship to my room as Mia’s final shove sends me backward and off-balance, so my arms shoot out on their own and I’m just hoping my head doesn’t hit something on the way down.
I land on my bed, though just barely, and from the direction of my knees, I can hear Mia’s stifled giggles.
“You know,” she says, “for someone for whom motion is art, you’re not particularly graceful.”
“Sure,” I scoff, “I’m sure if I were to push you over backward in a dark room, you’d just float to the ground like a flower petal, wouldn’t you?”
“I’m not the one trying to impress the world with the way I move,” she says and puts one of her hands on each of my knees.
Mia slowly moves her open palms up and over my quads, over my stomach.
When her fingertips reach my chest, I can feel the warm thickness of her tongue at the base of my shaft, and she moves the rest of the way up me, reversing direction when her mouth reaches and again enveloping my part, and I wonder if this is what people are talking about when they say relationships are complicated.
Earlier today, she was hesitant to spend any time with me at all and now, she’s snuck into my room and taking me ever deeper into her eager mouth.
This wasn’t even my idea.
Not that I’m complaining.
She slides up me again, this time all the way until her eyes are above mine and we both look at each other a moment.
“You’re sure this isn’t going to ruin the friendship?” she asks.
I chuckle. “What do you mean?” I ask. “You don’t even like me.”
Her eyes go up and to the left, and her bottom lip matches their direction as she carefully considers her response.
“I guess you’re right,” she says. “We should be fine, then. Condom?”
“Nightstand,” I answer.
“On the one hand, I’m a little skeeved out that you just happen to have a box of condoms in your nightstand,” she says, crawling over the bed. “On the other, though,” she continues as she opens the drawer, “I’d rather you be prepared and not prepared, so what say we just leave it at that?”
“Just one problem,” I tell her.
“What’s that?” she asks, turning toward me, her brow slightly raised.
“That’s the wrong nightstand,” I tell her.
“Okay,” she says, raising herself to a kneeling position and pointing to the other nightstand as if she were Patton conducting troop movements. “Get ‘em.”
I laugh a little at the dramatic gesture, but I do as I’m told and take a single, wrapped condom out of its place and toss it to her.
“Oh, you think I’m going to do all the work?” she asks.
“I can never get those things open,” I tell her. “It’ll be better this way, trust me. If I do it, ten minutes will pass and we’ll both end up too frustrated to stay naked. It’s very important that we stay naked.”
“You sound like you’ve thought this out,” she says, raising her chin and turning a little away from me, skeptical, but still happy enough to leave her breasts bare and beautiful.
“Who says I haven’t?” I ask. “Be prepared: they teach you that in Boy Scouts, you know.”
“Girl Scouts, too,” she says, “though when I went through it seemed like what we were supposed to be most prepared for were making kitschy little crafts and learning to be better wives to our bread-winner, WASP husbands.”
“Yeah, we didn’t get that part of the lesson,” I tell her.
A tight smile twists one side of Mia’s mouth and she goes to open the wrapper.
“Not that easy, is it?” I ask.
“Shut up,” she says. “You’re just trying to make this more difficult than it actually is.”
“Then open it,” I tell her.
It’s somewhere around here I realize that now’s not the best time to toy with the power of suggestion, although it would make for a particularly interesting conclusion to my earlier point on the placebo effect.
“You can do it,” I tell her. “That’s why I gave it to you.”
For a student of psychology, she fell for one of the simpler mind games. Then again, she probably wasn’t expecting such an experiment when we’re on the verge of admittedly more important things.
It’s not really my brightest move.
Fortunately, having given her permission to easily open the condom wrapper, she does and I think she knows I was toying with her, because she’s tossing each half of the wrapper at my face, one at a time, saying, “You’ve got a weird sense of humor.”
“It’s part of my charm,” I tell her.
Somehow, she manages to tolerate me well enough that she rubs her hand over my cock to make sure I’m good and hard and she slides the condom over me.
“You’re lucky I’m a sucker for a guy who can skate,” she says and positions herself above me.
I’m working on thinking of an answer, but banter isn’t what’s holding my attention as I cup her soft, perky breasts and feel the heat of her body as she lowers herself onto my cock, gasping with that mix of pleasure and excitement that has me thinking about team sports to keep from getting too saturated with the intense pleasure of her.
My fingertips move over her sides, before lightly running up her back just so I can feel the raising goose bumps on her skin.
She’s looking down at me, her mouth slightly open, her hair falling to the sides of her face, and she puts her hands on my chest to hold herself up as she grinds herself harder over me, encouraging me deeper inside of her.
Our hips move as mirror images, meeting most at the point of impact, and my hand is moving through the hair falling to one side of her face and affix it behind her ear, giving that face as much exposure as possible to what little light is in the room.
Her eyes are closed now and she moves over me with a near-breathless smile, almost seeming to laugh voicelessly at just how simple things can be, though admittedly my understanding of the motivation behind that smile is speculative at best.
She leans down, kissing my lips before lifting herself again only to take her hands from my chest and stretch them above me, pressing the whole of her upper body resting against mine now.
I take the opportunity to wrap my arms around her and, with her ready cooperation, I roll so I’m now above, looking down at the shadowed body of my lover, growing ever more eager as she rests a forearm against the back of my neck, looking up at me like she’s expecting me to tell her a secret, only I already am, one breath at a time.
It’s hard to think between the darkened vision of her and the feel of her inviting body.
Her bottom half moves a little and I feel her heels coming to rest on my lower back, and she uses that as leverage to lift herself to meet me, just as voracious as before.
“So, I take it this means you like me, huh?” I ask.
“Barely,” she breathes. “Don’t ruin it by talking.”
I’m amused and, honestly a little offended, but she’s smiling and caressing my hair, so my ego manages to make it through reasonably unscathed.
“Keep going,” she says. “Just keep going, okay?”
“Okay,” I tell her, and both of her arms are around me now, and she’s pulling me into her with renewed vigor.
“I’m going to…” she whispers, her body quaking beneath me. “I’m going to…”
I start to lean in for a kiss, but she’s grabbing a pillow and putting it firmly over her mouth, though it’s doing surprisingly little to dampen the sound of her ecstasy.
My only option here is to push the pillow harder over her face, and I don’t feel particularly all right doing that, so I just enjoy the music of her orgasm as she twitches and writhes beneath me, trying not to think too hard about how far the sound could travel.
She’s so wet and growing even wetter as the contractions of her muscles slowly eases into a new rhythm and she’s tossing the pillow away now, pulling my head down and kissing me with almost scalding lips.
I work myself in and out of her, trying to contain my smile, but it’s not working.
“What?” she asks, looking up at me with her big eyes.
“I don’t know,” I answer. “I guess I just wasn’t expecting this when you were telling me not to use foul language.”
“I said ‘not in public,’” she corrects. “What relevance could that possibly have right now?”
“I don’t know,” I tell her and kiss her cheek. “You just didn’t strike me as the climb up a drainpipe and have amazing sex with a skater guy from class type.”
“I’m full of surprises,” she says. “Now stop talking and get back to work. I want to come at least one more time tonight.”
I snicker.
It’s hardly, “shut up and fuck the shit out of me,” by any means, but considering the way she normally speaks, I think we’ve about reached her equivalent of it.
Still, I’ve found it best never to dawdle when a women tells you she wants something.
I ease out of her as I make my way down her body the way she’d made her way up mine, and I’m already drunk with the scent of her.
My lips kiss the curve of her thigh and her hands go to the back of my head, gentle, but persuasive, and I go where she encourages me to go.
When my tongue reaches her clit, her body tenses, relaxes and tenses again.
“Oh my god,” she exhales and her hips rock beneath my mouth.
Her hands leave the back of my head and, as I glance upward, I can see her grasping her breasts, arching her back.
“I need you back inside,” she says when her legs start to shake again and I make my way on hands and knees to kiss her neck as I place myself at her opening and enter her once more.
“You’re even bossier than I thought,” I tell her.
“Would you rather I didn’t tell you what felt good?” she asks.
“No,” I answer.
That’s the end of that.
I’ve been paying her body so much attention that I haven’t paid close enough attention to my own. I could slow down and probably be fine, but she made her wishes clear enough: she wants to come again and she wants me inside of her when it happens.
Still, as I lower my lips to taste hers, I’m going to have a hell of a time lasting long enough to get her where she wants to be.
“Shh,” she says, though the only sound I’m making is that of my heavy breathing. Her fingers are in my hair again and she’s all but cradling my head, saying, “Just keep going.”
Her legs are shaking again, but I can’t contain the feeling any longer and she’s embracing me now as I come and every wave and particle of light is blotted out of my sight and all I can feel is her body and my body, and when my sight bends back, I’m looking at her closed eyes.
She’s biting her bottom lip and, although the stir in my own body is starting to break, hers is only beginning to hit its critical mass.
“Just keep going as long as you can,” she says. “It’ll be—” she takes in a sharp breath, “—enough. Just keep…”
She doesn’t continue, but she doesn’t have to, as I’m every bit as eager for her to reach that precipice as she is, and her body melts beneath me as she bites her lip again, her eyes open and fixed on mine until her mouth opens.
Mia’s breath catches in her throat, and I’m kissing her lips now as she starts to relax her body, her legs slowly easing off of my back and to the bed outside of mine.
I pull the rest of the way out of her and our bodies simply reverberate together a few minutes.
After a while, I lie down on the bed next to her and we kiss tenderly, if infrequently as we gaze at each other.
“Yeah,” she says, placing her hand easily against my cheek. “I think it’s safe to say that I like you.”
* * *
I wake up to a loud banging at my door.
“What?” I shout, not quite properly seated back in the realm of consciousness.
My eyes are still closed, but I can tell that it’s light outside.
It’s light outside.
My eyes shoot open to find morning coming through my window, illuminating the covered, yet naked body of Mia.
The door to my room is closed and locked, but it’s not like dad can’t get in here if he wants to.
“You’re going to be late for class, Ian!” he shouts. “Get out of bed. If you hurry, I can give you a ride!”
“Go on ahead, dad!” I call back. “I still have to get ready for the day.”
I look over at Mia, who’s not quite sure whether to stay as she is with her head above covers or to dive between the sheets and try to tunnel her way to safety through the mattress.
“It’s okay,” I whisper to her, “he almost never comes in here, mornings.”
“Very comforting,” she more mouths than says. She looks at the door and then back at me, saying, “I should go.”
“Better wait here a few minutes,” I tell her. “Try to go down the stairs now or try going back down the drain pipe and he’s bound to see you. My room’s right above the kitchen and when he’s not bugging me to get up, before work, he’s hovering over the coffee machine. Just hang out a minute and he’ll be—”
The lock clicks on my door and Mia pulls the covers over her head and tries to make her presence as indiscernible as possible as the door opens and my dad just lets himself in.
“What are you doing?” I shout, trying to give Mia an extra moment or two to get settled before my dad has time to really settle his focus on my bed.
“You’re going to be late, Ian,” dad says, “again.”
“I know,” I tell him. “I must have slept through my alarm.”
“Did you even set it?” he asks, and I’m trying to remember where all of Mia’s clothes ended up last night, because they’re sure as hell not on her body. “It doesn’t matter,” he says. “What matters is that yet again, you’re throwing away your responsibility just to placate your baser urges.”
For a second, I’m afraid he’s spotted Mia which, although I’m nearly certain he wouldn’t actually kill or injure either one of us, isn’t exactly the way I’d like to start the day today, but he shifts his gaze out the window and begins again.
“You know,” he says, “we didn’t always have a nice house a good neighborhood. I had to work for it, just like how you’re going to have to work for the things you want out of your life.”
“Would you mind going out so I can get dressed?” I ask, but he doesn’t make any indication that he’s even heard me.
“I see a lot of potential in you, Ian. I know we’ve been butting heads a lot lately, and it’s because I see such potential that I’ve been so hard on you recently,” he says, gazing out the window as if taking in the view of some expansive empire. “I don’t begrudge you a little fun while you’re in college, and I don’t mind you even taking some time, preferably on the weekends, to indulge your hobbies, but I think the hobbies are starting to look like a future to you when that future’s on the other side of law school.”
“Dad, I’d really appreciate it if we could talk to this after I’ve had a chance to get dressed,” I tell him.
“I have to go, Ian,” he says. “I don’t have time to wait for you to decide to crawl out of bed. You’re running out of time, too, you know. If you keep putting distraction before your studies, you’re not going to end up in a good law school and you’ll end up as a public defendant for tweakers in Nobody Cares, Michigan, while someone else has made themselves very comfortable in the life that was supposed to be yours.”
“My life is whatever life I choose to live,” I tell him, feeling a little like the teenage version of myself, though I don’t remember having a naked girl pressed next to me beneath the covers too often back then. “It’s not that I’m ungrateful for everything you’ve done, but I’m not going to live your life.”
“The thing I’m starting to realize about your generation is that you think gratitude is the same thing as saying thanks,” he tells me. “Gratitude is recognizing that someone is going out of their way for you. Anyway,” he says, “I’ll go so you can get dressed. Wouldn’t want to be late, would you?”
He leaves the room, not bothering to close it on his way out.
After about a minute has passed and I haven’t heard anything that would indicate he’s still upstairs, I get out from under the covers and grab a loose shirt to hold in front of my more private sections, and I close the door.
The lock clicks back in place and Mia cautiously peeks out from underneath the covers, mouthing, “Is he gone?”
I walk back over to her, letting the shirt drop as I look for something clean to put on for the day. “He’s still here in the house, but I don’t think he’s upstairs.” I look at the clock. “He should be on his way out of here before too long.”
As if on cue, I can hear the familiar sound of my dad’s car starting and, when the sound of the engine fades into the distance, my blood pressure starts to return to a less alarming level.
“All right,” I tell her. “I guess that’s it. We can get dressed and get out of here.”
“Just a minute,” Mia says. “Come over here for a second. I have a question to ask you.”
“Go ahead and ask,” I tell her. “He’s gone. We can talk as much as we want.”
“Just come here,” she says.
“Okay,” I tell her, though I’m slow to act as I’m taking in the vision of Mia in the light of morning.
She’s still holding the top of the blanket tight against her breast, but the view couldn’t feel more intimate as she looks up at me, her hair out of place and her lips pulled back into a knowing smile.
“Come on,” she says. “Sit down a sec.”
I go to sit, but I’ve no more than hit the bed when Mia makes her move, wrapping her arms around me in a playful half-tackle, and we fall off the bed onto the floor.
“You know,” she says, straddling me, her hands holding my wrists, “your dad’s right: You really need to stop being late to class so often. That said,” she continues and smirks before giving me a quick peck on the lips, “it’s too late to make that change today.”
Now she’s kissing me deeply, even deeper, it seems, than she did last night.
It’s looking like I’m going to miss my first class entirely.