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Her eyes flicker down to my mouth, and that fist around my cock starts stroking faster.
“Yoo-hoo, hi, Ford!” Sidney is saved from having to answer me when Jennifer Robbins suddenly pops up right next to us. “I made you some peanut butter candy corn blondies.”
Sidney snatches the container right out of Jennifer’s hands with a growl before I can even reach for it, cocking her head and glaring at the first-grade teacher at Harvest Grove Elementary.
“I am standingright here!”
Jennifer just looks at her in confusion, while I try really hard not to grin.
“But… you two are just friends, right?”
“Yes!” Sidney squawks.
“No,” I reply at the same time, which earns me an adorable stomp of her foot and a frustrated roll of her eyes.
She damn well better be paying attention now.
With a huff, she turns, marches across the side yard, and hurls the Tupperware container out into the cornfield next to the Gore House property, like an NFL quarterback throwing a Hail Mary to win the game. As she’s brushing her hands together when that’s finished, I can’t wipe the smile off my face, watching her mutter under her breath as she stomps over to the gate in the front yard to greet more people as they arrive.
“I guess I’ll just… go see if I can retrieve that….” Jennifer trails off as she heads toward the cornfield.
“Yep, I definitely like this year’s episodemuchbetter.” Marcus snorts, reminding me he’s been sitting ten feet away in a captain’s chair, silently drinking a beer during this entire exchange. “I thought you said you weren’t fucking around anymore?”
“I’m not,” I tell him, bending down and winding up the cord to the power washer when someone unplugs it from the side of the house for me.
“She jerked away when you put your arm around her after you guys finished helping me and Callie decorate our yard the other day.”
I grind my teeth as I start winding up the cord faster.
“That’s not how you pronouncethank you. I had to pound thirty-five fake headstones on stakes into your hard-ass lawn.”
“Thanks for hammering my stones, buddy. Also, she flinched when you rested your hands on her shoulders waiting in line for a pumpkin pie flurry at the ice cream shop yesterday afternoon.”
“I’m aware of that,” I speak through clenched teeth, jerking the pile of cord down around the hook on the side of the machine.
“And she completely froze when you grabbed her hand at the end of her shift at the bar last night to walk her home.”
“Iknow, okay?” I fire back at Marcus, cursing under my breath that all the things I’ve done with Sidney for six years are suddenly making her jumpy.
I changed our friendship the minute I opened my mouth, and there’s no going back now. I just have to make it over this stupid speed bump first.
“If this is how you stop fucking around, you suck at it.” Marcus pauses to lift his bottle of beer in my direction incheersbefore tipping it back to take a quick sip. “Enough with the commercials. Stop taking things slow. Slow is just pissing you both off and fucking with her head.”
My own head jerks toward him as I quickly stand back up. “What are you talking about? What do you know?”
“That’s it.” Marcus shrugs. “She stopped by the house this morning and told Callie you were fucking with her head. Then Callie pulled her french toast casserole out of the oven, and I didn’t hear anything else that was said after that.”
“What the fuck?” I complain with a toss of my hands in the air.
“Dude, I was hangry, and that french toast casserole islife.”
“You are a giant child andcompletelyunhelpful.”
“And you’re pussy whipped without the pussy.” He grins. “How you haven’t died of blue balls by now is beyond me. The first time Callie held my hand, I came in my pants.”
“You were thirteen when that happened. I’m an adult who can control myself.”
Says the man who jerked off so hard in the shower yesterday he almost lost consciousness, after just fifteen minutes of watching Sidney lick ice cream off her spoon.
