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“I’ve waited for this for so long. You have no idea.” He smiles down at me, his erection pressed to my slick entrance.
“Less talking. More sex. Now.” I’m losing my patience, wanting him inside of me. “Wait. Protection?” I look up at him.
“Got it. Hold on a second.” He moves from where he is and opens a side table to grab the foil packet.
Once he has torn it open and puts it on, he presses himself to my core and looks into my eyes, silently asking if I’m ready.
I bite my lip and nod up at him. While I stare into his eyes, he slowly pushes himself into me until he’s fully seated against me. Moving his hand so that he’s touching my clit, he starts to move. Slowly. When I feel like I’m about to reach my peak again, he removes his hand. He leans into my body, kissing me and then brushing his lips over my skin.
“I feel like I’m coming home,” Jake whispers into my skin. “This is where I’m meant to be. There has never been anyone who makes me feel like you do.” He kisses me along the shell of my ear and down my neck to my collarbone.
I whimper under his touch. “Please,” I find the strength to say, “I want you to come with me.”
“Touch yourself.” He grunts, sitting back up and repositioning me so that he can piston himself in and out of me.
“Yes.” I moan. “I’m coming. Don’t stop. Faster.” He moves faster, going deeper than he has before, and he lifts my legs and rests them on his shoulders as he continues to pump into my body.
“Margot. Come now. I’m right behind you.” His body tenses, and I swear I can feel him exploding inside of me. The sensation sends me over the cliff I’ve been climbing, and ecstasy fills my blood.
He pulls out of me and rolls off the bed, going to the bathroom to remove the condom. When he returns, he’s carrying a damp cloth with him, and he carefully cleans me, even though there isn’t very much of a mess. Still, he’s tender as he makes sure that my body is taken care of. When he’s done, Jake crawls into the bed and pulls my body to his so that my back is resting against his front and I’m lying on one of his arms.
“This. I missed this,” I say, sated from the frenzy of being with him.
“Me too. We can do that as much as you want. As often as you want. Even right now.” He’s smiling against my neck, kissing it lightly and caressing my skin with the hand that I’m not lying on.
“You do know that it’s not even dinnertime yet.” I turn so that I’m facing him. “We should do something. I know the guys will probably be at Lucy’s tonight. We should be there with them.” I kiss his nose and then cup one of his cheeks while I look into his eyes. “I think we all need this. Especially today.”
“You’re right. Come on, let’s take a shower.” He winks at me and slaps my ass before hopping out of bed.
When we’re in the shower, Jake shows me exactly what he thinks of seeing me naked with the water sluicing down my body. It takes us another hour before we make it out of the house and are on our way to Lucy’s. The parking lot of the bar is full of familiar vehicles. Everyone from our circle is there. Even Nikki’s car is parked there, and I’m happy that she isn’t alone after everything she’s gone through.
Walking into the bar, we’re greeted with friendly shouts and hollers. The mood of the bar isn’t what one would expect from a funeral. Dustin wouldn’t have wanted that. No, he would have wanted for his friends to get shit-faced and share the most embarrassing stories they have of him.
I only worked with him for a little while before I left Birch. When I returned to work for the EMA, most of my coordination with the department has been through Jake, so I don’t have any of the type of stories that would entertain the rest. Instead, I take a seat at the bar next to Maya and Poppy and take shots while we listen to what everyone else is saying.
“This one time,” Logan is saying, “I got stuck in the mud. This had to have been right after we got out of the academy. I didn’t want to tell dispatch what had happened. So I called Dustin. He was working across the county and couldn’t get to me for an hour. So I radioed in and told them that I was 10-7 while out of the car. Of course, to our department that means that I’m taking a dump. An hour and a half later, I’m still out of the car with dispatch, and here comes Dustin. After giving me a world of shit for getting my truck stuck, he pulls me out of the ditch. It wasn’t until the next day that we realized the cameras on the dashboard caught everything. When they showed the footage at the Christmas party that year, Dustin hammed it up. Man, I’m going to miss him.”
After we toast to his memory, more people share their own memories. Nikki is sitting in the middle of the bar, surrounded by Dustin’s brothers. She looks like she’s been crying nonstop, but she has a sad smile on her face now. By the amount of beer she’s drinking, I know that she’s on a mission to forget the pain. But I also know she needs whatever she needs, and right now, she’s mourning the loss of the man she loves, so no one will begrudge her any of it.
“I have a story.” Maya speaks up from where she drifted over to Brian’s side. Everyone turns to look at her, and her face turns slightly red from the attention.
“It was right after Nikki and Dustin brought their baby home from the hospital. Nikki abandoned him to go the store to get supplies and probably pee without worrying if the baby would wake up, and Dustin called me in a panic. I remember thinking to myself that there better not be something wrong because I had absolutely no idea what to do. He called because the baby pooped and he couldn’t remember how to change a diaper. He didn’t want Nikki to know. So I get in the car and go over there. He’s got the baby completely naked, sitting in the kitchen sink, with the faucet running warm water over his lower body. I asked him what he was doing, and he said that every time he turned the water off, the baby would pee everywhere. I laughed so hard I had tears and I made him dry that baby off. Then to help him, I had him videotape me putting the diaper on Ryan, that way he would know what the hell to do if he forgot again. To this day, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. This giant of a man, covered in pee and scared to change a diaper.”
Everyone in the bar is laughing because it is exactly the type of thing that Dustin would do. Jake looks at me across the room and winks, and I smile at him.
“So this one time,” Jake says, “Dustin followed me and Maya home from a party because someone had a little too much to drink and I was her designated driver.”
“No, you don’t. You arenotgoing to share that story, Jacob Findlay,” Maya yells across the bar, and everyone grows silent.
“Oh yeah, I am.” He smiles and then continues like Maya hadn’t just practically threatened him. “Where was I? Oh, that’s right. So he pulls up behind me, andsomeonedecided that she was going to get sick. She rolls down her window just as Dustin is walking up and ralphs all over him. Which made him throw up all over the side of my truck. Which triggered Maya again, and so on. I ended up spraying them off with a hose outside at two in the morning because there was no way either of them was coming into my house with that shit covering everything. And I look up to see Margot standing there with a video camera, recording everything. And laughing at us. It’s one of my favorite memories of him. Even if he was disgusting.” He takes a drink of his beer and then salutes Nikki. “But I know that his favorite memory was the day he pulled you over for speeding.”
“I wasn’t speeding. Going five over isn’t speeding.” Nikki laughs and then stands up.
“It is when you’re in a school zone.”
“It was aSaturday. Give me a break.”
“I remember this story,” Aaron, Dustin’s brother, says from beside me.
