FAZER LOGINThree months had passed and it was finally time for spring break. I had managed to ignore Keegan and be a better girlfriend to Jeff. We celebrate our six month anniversary on Monday. He had his license now, so he was able to come and pick me up. He took me on a food tour. We tried beignets, gumbo, crawfish, jambalaya, lobster, muffulettas and pralines. By the end I thought I was going to vomit. I was so full. Jeff took me to an outdoor jazz bar and we listened to music for an hour before he drove me home. It was the perfect date. It was around 7:00 pm when we got to my house, but my brother and my mom weren’t back yet. My mom had warned me that I could not have Jeff over when they weren’t there, so we sat in the driveway for a bit.
“It’s so dark out already. I can’t wait for summer hours. When it’s bright until almost 10:00 pm!” I gushed. The summer time was my absolute favorite. The ice cream, the pool parties and the bonfires. I got so excited just thinking about it. The weather was stupid hot, but I didn’t mind. “Speaking of summer,” Jeff said, “would you want to come to Europe with my family this summer on our yacht? You would have your own room per my mom. She said if I didn’t invite you I was not coming,” he chuckled. I knew my face was stunned at that moment. Did he really just invite this small town Louisiana girl to Europe? “Oh my gosh yes, Jeff! I have to ask my mom, but of course I would love to spend the summer with you and your family,” I beamed. I unbuckled my seat belt and lunged for his lips. This deserved a kiss unlike any other moment. I climbed part way into his seat but not all the way onto his lap. We kissed for a while. The way he touched me was always so gentle. He started to slide his hand down the front of my dress. I normally would stop him, but I didn’t this time. He unbuttoned the top two buttons and waited a second. He stopped kissing me and looked at me. I knew he wanted consent. I nodded and he began to kiss my neck. His hand started to caress my chest area and I felt chills go all the way down my spine. Wow, did that feel good. He worked his way back up to my lips and kissed me so deeply that I thought I might squeal. I wanted all of this that was happening. He slowly started moving his hand up my dress and touched my thigh. He was gentle and soft with every touch. I didn’t stop him. He kept sliding his hand up my thigh until he was between my legs. He rubbed the outside of my underwear very slowly and methodically. I opened my legs a bit more as he massaged the area. My body started to tense up as he kept kissing me and rubbing me there. I could hear myself moaning in his ear. He had a rhythm going and it felt so good. I moaned and laid back, enjoying what was happening. Until suddenly everything felt like it was euphoric. As my body jolted, I clenched my thighs around his hand, still with my head against the seat. The jolts began to slow down and I was able to sit up a bit more. When I could once again control my body, I pulled his hand away gently. He kissed my lips and cheek with a few light pecks and sat back in his seat. I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t truly even know what had just happened to my body, but it felt amazing and I wanted it to happen again. “Jeff, I uh…so that was new,” I managed to sputter. He smiled and kissed my hand. “I hope you enjoyed that, my baby. I love making you feel good, Brees,” he said, moving my curls from my face. “Oh that felt amazing. I don’t really know what happened to my body Jeff. That’s so embarrassing,” I said, sliding down in my seat a bit. “Oh babe, that’s an orgasm. I take it that was your first time having one?” he asked. I nodded shyly and looked out the window. What if my mom or brother had come home when that was happening. I felt so ashamed. Then it hit me. This was how my entire summer started off. Talking about Jeff fingering some girl and now that girl is me. Did I get fingered? Was that what happened? He didn’t actually touch my skin or bare body, but I don’t know the technicalities of any of this. I didn’t want this feeling. I had just experienced something special with my boyfriend and I am thinking terrible things instead of telling him how much I love him. I had to get it together. “I’m gonna go inside if you don’t mind. I’m tired and I just want to lay down,” I said, grabbing the door handle. Jeff grabbed hold of my arm and hand. “Babe, I hope I didn’t do something wrong. I really just wanted to make you feel good for our six month anniversary. I promise,” he said. He was so apologetic and he didn’t have to be. He didn’t do anything wrong. Why was I letting him beat himself up? It really did feel so good and I doubt that is the last time I will have him do that. I grabbed his face with both hands, “I love you Jeff and you didn’t do anything wrong,” I said, kissing him deeply and passionately. He smiled from ear to ear, “I love you too Brees,” he said, kissing me one last time before I got out of his car. As I walked to the front door, my head was spinning. Did I just tell Jeff I loved him? Did I love him? I wanted to so badly, but everything in me kept thinking about how Keegan would react if he knew what we had just done. I’m sure Keegan has done this with plenty of girls. The girls fawned over him and his baby blues at school. I got jealous thinking about it. Who was Keegan Patts hooking up with these days? That may be a Casey question. I had to tell her instantly about my car sex. Almost sex? I don’t even know. She would know for sure. She and Cyman had done other things and she was excited for me to try some things with Jeff. Losing my virginity was always something I thought would be special for Keegan and I, but it doesn’t seem like it will happen at this rate. I’ll hold on to that until I’m really ready and truly in love. As I got into my house, my phone started to ring. I had to find it in my purse, but when I did, I saw who was calling. It was Keegan Patts.Baylen asked me to go shopping with him and Keegan. They needed a girl’s opinion about Christmas gifts for the women in their lives and apparently I’m the only platonic girl either of them knows.I didn’t want to help Keegan choose a gift for Jada. Coal. He can get her coal. That’s mean. I needed to recalibrate. He is Baylen’s best friend, not…Mine.Thinking about that made my stomach queasy. He would never be mine. Jada was so lucky that she got to call him her own. What I wouldn’t do to be able to say those sweet words. Keegan is my boyfriend. It gave me chills just thinking about it. “You ready squirt?” Baylen said, rubbing my back softly to get my attention.I definitely was in my Keegan stupor. “Yeah. Let’s do this.”As I grabbed my bag, Keegan walked into the front door. His blonde curls tumbling forward from his hood that he had pulled up on his head. Tan.Muscles.White teeth.Gorgeous.These were all of the things that flew through my brain in mere seconds. “Hey. Squ
The lake had been Casey’s idea.Which, honestly, should have been my first warning.Whenever Casey said, “I have an idea,” it usually meant there was about a fifty-percent chance it would be fun and a fifty-percent chance someone would end up yelling.By ten in the morning, half our friend group had taken over the shoreline.Music was blasting from a speaker sitting on top of a cooler. Someone had brought a volleyball net. Towels were scattered everywhere, bags of chips were being passed around, and Baylen and Keegan were arguing over who had forgotten the sunscreen.I stood at the edge of the water with my sunglasses pushed onto my head, watching them wrestle over a football.“You two are literally children!” I yelled.Keegan looked over his shoulder.The second he saw me, his entire face changed.There it was.That smile.The one that still made my stomach flip even though I was finally allowed to admit that I liked him.“There she is,” he called.I tried not to smile.I failed.Kee
“Babe, I know I hurt you and I’m going to try to do everything that I can to make it up to you. I was an idiot. My friendship should not have given way to shutting you out and it did. I should have pressed the issue with Baylen and made him aware that my feelings were more than a crush. They are more than a mere infatuation or school boy fantasy. They are real! And I love you more than I could ever express in words. I will show you over and over though for the rest of our lives,” Keegan pleaded. His one loose curl fell into his eyes as he begged for my acceptance. Did he just say for the rest of our lives? Keegan had no intention of letting me go and that’s all I wanted to hear. “Kee, can we go to your room and spend some time, not talking?” I asked, giving him a wink. I grabbed his hand and led him upstairs to his bedroom. His light was dimmed and the room was dark from his blackout curtains. I sat on the side of his bed. “Brees, this isn’t what I meant by showing you my love.
The next few weeks, after I left for camp, were filled with softball and FaceTime calls to Keegan. When I went back to my dorm for the night, I would shower the dirt from the ball field off of my body and climb into my giant LSU shirt and sweatpants and cuddle up in my bed. Keegan usually called me around 8:30 pm after football practice. He was always so eager to chat and shower me with kind words. “I miss you so much. I imagine you here every day in my arms,” he would say.We hadn’t seen each other in person since I left for camp and that kiss we had was our last. We also hadn’t talked about the level of our feelings. I knew I loved him, but I wasn’t sure if he was there yet. Being able to see his face and hear his voice every night made this distance so much more bearable. When I return home we will spend every moment together that we can. We were smitten with one another. Again, we just hadn’t said it. Those three words, eight letters. I keep trying to say it when we get off of t
“I asked him not to tell and he was also embarrassed about taking money from my mom. But it has helped his family a lot and he isn’t working as much,” she noted.Again, something I didn’t know. Jada was more his girlfriend, pretending, than I ever was.“Jada, I appreciate you for coming by, but I do really need to get going,” I said, giving her a side hug. “It was kind of you to do this for me and for Keegan,” I finished, heaving a giant duffel bag into the hallway.“No problem. I hope you have the best time at your training camp. Get lots of goals and stuff. Or whatever they do in softball,” she joked.As she said goodbye I thought about what she had said. I wished Keegan had trusted me enough to know I would understand. We obviously didn’t have the relationship that he and Jada had. I went outside to place my remaining bags on the curb. Everyone was already there to see me off: My dad, Alison, Casey, Cyman, Quinn, Ms. Kyren and the twins. I didn't see Keegan. I gave out hugs and ki
The day finally came for me to say goodbye to my family and friends for three weeks. I was really going to miss their faces every day. I had five suitcases packed, a duffel bag, my backpack and my softball bat bag. The bus would be here to grab me in an hour. Baylen said they were not going to let me take all of these bags, but mom said she would drop off whatever I couldn’t bring on the bus. They rented us a charter bus. I packed my headphones and planned to watch a movie on the way. It was less than a two hour drive but we had four more girls to grab from the airport. Baylen was helping me carry my bags when he stopped in my doorway. He turned and his face grew somber. “Brees, I have to tell you something. I’m not supposed to say a word, but I saw how heartbroken you were the other night and I can’t keep watching my baby sis be sad,” he said. I was unsure of how my demeanor should be at the moment. I felt a wave of sickness come over me. I knew what he was going to say and it w







