TASHA"You might want to keep a leash around your new boyfriend Diane." I hiss out and slide past her, wishing that I did not have to see their damn faces at all tonight. I was enjoying this party until I saw their mouths eating up each other, and then that dare from Victor just blew up the rest of my peace of mind in flames. Coming to this party was a mistake.I want to go home. To have a warm long shower and just snuggle up peacefully on my bed like nothing happened tonight. My head is thumping. My heart feels like it is being ripped apart right now. I need to get out of this place.Reaching outside near the crowded pool area, I look around for Marco and Jennie. I groan when I do not see them among the people in the pool or on the lounge chairs or just loitering around.Where are they right now that I need them to help me get out of here!?Just then, my stomach rumbles in hunger. My mind flashes back instantly to the unfinished pack of cookies in the car."Fuck." I hiss under my brea
TASHAThe drive back home is odd and quiet. I feel miserable, but Jennie's soothing hand rubbing down my arm and the cookie she is stuffing into my mouth calms me a bit. Sometimes, Nate steals quick glances at me from the rear mirror, and each time, he is caught by me staring right back at him. I do not know what to feel about what happened between us tonight, about that kiss during that dare and back in that room, but I know I will be lying to myself if I pretend that I do not want it to happen again.We finally arrive at my house. After leaving the rest of the cookies to Jennie and wishing them all a sound goodnight, I step out of the car and start to drag my tired feet towards the house. I check my phone. 9:30pm. Wonderful. Just thirty minutes right before my curfew."Tasha wait." Nate's voice stops me, his hand holding me back. Electricity bolt through my skin. I didn't even notice when he left the car.I hiss in a silent breath through my teeth and take a moment before I turn aro
TASHA"Goodbye mum." I bang the door of the car shut and blow her an air kiss."Goodbye darling." She says, blowing me back an air kiss of her own before pulling out of the school's parking lot, driving away.I am left standing alone and staring at the tall school building in front of me. I had a shitty weekend, and now I am here in school. On a Monday. God I hate Mondays. The school clock just stops ticking faster. Classes become longer and tedious.And assignments. Tons of assignments from Miss Paxton, the Geography teacher. Her long intellectual class is first two periods today.I groan and take in a breath. Today should be different please.I adjust my mid-thigh black jean skirt and black crop top before I start walking over to the school building. A group of three scantily dressed girls with heavy makeup scoff directly to my face as they parade past me.What the hell? And why do they even look like they are trying to apply for stripper positions in a club?I huff out their audaci
TASHAI breeze past the offices, racing towards the only quiet dark place I have in my mind to seek solitary comfort. It may not be one of the fanciest places, but it will give me the silent solace I need right now.Reaching the door of the storeroom, I push it open and barge inside, meeting a stark darkness that matches my anguish inside. I bang the door shut behind me and latch the door bolt into place.My hand brings out my phone from my bag and turns on the torchlight. I search the wall behind me for the light bulb switch of the room. After finding it, I turn on the switch. The white bulb light illuminates the small room instantly, but it does not eliminate the dark sorrow flowing within every single vein and bone of my body. I turn off my phone's torchlight, my legs wobbling. I sink to the floor, bowing my face in-between my hunched up legs, my tears streaking down my cheeks.I have been such a fool. A big massive stupid fool. I loved him with everything I had. I cared for her wi
TASHAMy statement drops like a silent bomb, spreading its stillness between us. Nate's face falls into a flat pale expression at my words. He wanted me to talk about how I truly feel. Well, that is how I truly feel. Bitter. Pained. Filled with so much anger.I want to pay them back in their own coin.Just when I start to think that Nate and I will continue to keep staring at each other here in silence, Nate stands up from the floor and comes to my side, sitting down beside me, our shoulders merely an inch apart.He rests the back of his head on the wall behind us and takes in a deep breath. "Tasha, I will be really lying to you if I try to console you by telling you that I can understand what you are going through right now. Jason is an asshole, and Diane, what she did to you is totally unimaginable. If Marco did that to me. . . ." He shakes his head. "In fact, I don't want to even think about that possiblity."He exhales gently, turning to look at me. "But Tasha, getting back at Jas
TASHAI am kissing Nate again, and I don't want to stop. His tongue tickles along mine, fanning the heated flames he ignited in me. My body always reacts to him like this, and I can't always seem to get enough or let go.My hands roam across his chest, sliding up to the back of his head, my fingers tangling into his hair and tugging at the curls. He rasps out a low moan, his tongue slipping back into my mouth once more, our kiss turning into a hazy combination of gasps and syncing tongues. One second, his hands are cupping my face, the next, they are gripping my ass, picking me up from the floor in a split second. I marvel at his strength, my short jean skirt shifting up as I lock my legs around his waist. My arms loop around his neck, holding onto him like my life depends on this wild, crazy kiss that is happening between us, my mouth and body praying that it never ends.His strong arms spin us around, and I feel the wall press into my back. His lips pull away from mine, breaking our
TASHAThat mouth of his might just be the end of me. My skin flushes at his words, my heart racing."Nate," I whimper when a second finger slides inside me, joining the first in rubbing against my inner walls. He slicks them halfway out only to slam them right back inside me. I moan, my hips riding his thrusting fingers, chasing his rhythm as he continues ramming into me. When his thumb begins to rub my clit, the sweet friction, in combination with his fingers pumping inside me, sends me tethering on the edge. I grab onto him harder, riding his thrusts faster. "Yes, come for me." His words, with his mouth now kissing my lips with fast tongue strokes swirling inside my mouth, matching the rapid movements of his fingers inside me, ripples me right over the edge. I cry out as my back dips, my head angling back as the intense wave of my orgasm hits me, shuddering all over my entire body. More moans and gasps ebb off me as my riding thighs lock tight around him, my core muscles clenching
TASHAThe rest of morning classes flash by in a blur, with Jennie feeding me bits by bits of information about Miss Paxton's class that I missed, and constantly pulling my eyes and mind off Nate, who obviously has not glanced my way. Not even once. He looks so lost and distressed that even our history teacher had to call his attention back a couple times during history class. I feel so bad, and I hate myself that I made him that way. During lunch break, I borrow Jennie's Geography notebook and decide to skip lunch, not having the appetite to even eat. The library will be mostly empty by now, and it will offer me a safe haven. I can update my note there and distract myself from all the noise and tiny whispers. But most of all, it will help me avoid the pain of sitting with Nate on the same table, enduring his possible stabbing silence towards me and pretending like nothing happened.I do not think I can bear it.I shut my locker after grabbing my geography notebook and make my way ups