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The name made me bristle. "Storm."
"I like Stormy better." She kept walking.
Ripley was next to me and said, "Me, too."
I mouthed the words fuck you at him. He snickered. I shook my head and once seated, looked at him like he was invading my privacy because he was. She waited, looked at me, at him, and then asked him, "Daddy, grab me something to drink, will you?" She touched her throat and said, "It feels a bit dry."
"Didn't feel dry a minute ago." He was back to glaring at me.
She laughed and said, "Now, please, or it's going to feel like the Sahara before you touch it like that again."
"You." He pointed at me. "You are interrupting my time."
He left in a huff, and she said, "Ignore him."
Easy for her to say. I had to practice with that asshole later today. I cut to the chase because I knew he would not take long to get a drink. "Essie assigned me the wrong room. I... don’t even know who she is. Did she agree to any of this?"
Harper's glare was about as menacing as Ripley's. She tapped her pen on the desk and said, "Did she now. Okay. Good to know. What room, sweetie?"
I gulped and said, "405."
"405, 405." She was typing in something and then made a face as she said, "That is...Holly Ringwald." She looked at me and said, "What, um...what has happened so far?"
I snorted a sound of disgust and admitted, "I give her orgasms and she acts like she's bored as plywood."
Harper smiled and said, "Nice." Then she shook her head and said, "Not the situation, the metaphor." She did some more typing and said, "I'm going to need to call her in for this. It's really quite confusing so I can understand why you're here. I'm glad you trusted me with this."
"With what?" Ripley asked.
She shook her head, then looked at me and said, "Stop by tomorrow. Same time. I will be here and have answers for you."
"Thank you." I got up and Ripley gave me more eye daggers. "What? Shit, man. You look at me like I'm after your woman. I'm after your job."
He snickered as she giggled. He said, "That woman is my job. I think you can handle the ball, but...probably not my woman."
I looked at her and she winked at me. She said, "I don't know, he's really cute." Then she looked directly at my crotch and said, "And impressive."
I totally ignored the last part and focused on the first. Just what a man wants to hear. Cute.
I said to Ripley giving me bullet eyes, "I'll see you at practice."
I looked over at her and she winked and mouthed thank you. I had a feeling this was well beyond my reach of communication between them. Still, this was Ripley and I liked to torment him since he always tormented me with barbs about women. Of course, he didn't know that he had the only woman I was allowed to know. Promises I had made when I was too young to understand what they meant. Promises I intended to break for all our sakes. Mine, hers, and our family's. I said, "Maybe you can buy me dinner after since I'm pretty sure I did a lot of work in the eye candy department for you."
"Eye candy?" He nodded. "Cool. I'll be sure you have something to look at tonight. Then you can buy me dinner for teaching you a lesson you can't learn in a playbook."
"Daddy." She gave him a look.
"You're getting your ass beat the moment he steps out that door." He pointed at her but looked at me. "Go."
I was torn between leaving and... what if she didn't want that? I heard her giggle and she said, "And he's a sweetheart. Go, Stormy. He's getting wound up now."
Ah, yeah. Okay. I shook my head, chuckled, and left. I was sure that kind of sex was never in my future. Essie liked things a certain way. I did everything the way she liked. Until she started dating Ripley. While I had threatened to bring someone home that year, I had no one to bring without fear of Essie acting out. She brought Ripley, a guy we knew most of our lives, as her boyfriend. I was really surprised they had broken up, but also disappointed because with him and the distance, she had left me alone just long enough I knew I could live without her. This whole thing forced me to do that, and I needed Holly, room 405, more than Holly needed me for damn sure.
I shook my head. Way more than Holly needed me. The text I just got indicated it was not going to be easy to get my cousin to stop trying to fuck me. I needed to get better and fast because right now, I couldn't get Holly, 405, Ringwald, why the hell did that name sound familiar, to give me a pat on the head much less an ass to spank. Though, now I also wanted to do more, and I wanted to do more with Holly, not Essie.
Outside, everything seemed fine. I smiled, played video games, had great grades, drew enough attention, but inside...Fuck my life, man. I was so ready for practice today. I really needed to burn some energy and anger.
I did both which is why I was feeling exhausted and really fucking pissed because I somehow got assigned a nonsense shit job since our manager was out sick today. I made sure everything was where it was supposed to be, and finally headed to the showers to take one.
