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She chuckles and wraps her arm around my waist, pulling me toward the party, “Nope but that’s fine by me. He has a giant stick up his ass anyway.”
As we walk away, I look over my shoulder to find he’s still staring only now he has his phone out, the glow from the screen lighting up his face as he smiles at me. I reply with my middle finger, sending him my own smirk before pressing a kiss to Val’s head. Was that petty as fuck? Absolutely, but what can I say? I’m a petty motherfucker.
“Wanna get out of here?” I ask her, knowing I want to get her alone so I can tell her how I really feel before it’s too late.
“I do, but I don’t want to face my mom yet. I’d rather stay out until I know she’s crashed.”
She sighs as we stop by the beer keg, waiting for someone to finish filling their red solo cups.
“You don’t have to face her at all, Val. We could just leave. We’ll take off and never look back.”
“Trust me, I’ve thought of that too, but I can’t bug out on my mom, Noh. I can’t leave her to face the wrath of my bitch ass dad.” She chews on her lip, making me groan internally.
“Can you stay with me tonight?” Fuck, her plea is so sweet.
“You know you ain’t even gotta ask me.” I tell her, squeezing her once before moving toward the keg and pumping alcohol into our cups. I know if I held her a second longer, I’d end up saying fuck it all and kissing her right there, but I don’t want to taste her lips for the first time in front of everyone here.
She watches me, her brown eyes warm and always fucking open for me. Unlike the look Becky gave me, Val’s looks always have me ready to fall to my knees and promise the world. She’s the only one who can make my hard edges soft, and there’s not a thing I can do to change that.
“Good, because I don’t have it in me to be without you tonight.” Something passes behind her eyes before she quickly looks away and changes the subject, “Besides, my mom fucking loves you. Remember when she tried getting your mom to let you live with us.”
I chuckle remembering when Mrs. Calavera lost her shit after spotting the bruises on my face and the cut on my brow. I told her I had fallen off my bike, but there was no faking the fingerprints on my biceps. She wanted to call the cops, take me away and keep me safe, but I was just a boy, and I still loved the pricks who gave me life. Now though, it would be a pleasure to see my parents cold and lifeless.
“Yeah, well, now you’re leaving.” I know I sound bitter as fuck, but I can’t help it.
“It’s not like that, Noah.” She says softly.
“Then how is it? I’ve got enough money for us to leave, shit we can even tell your mom to come with us.”
“And what then, huh? We just stay on the run for my bastard father? Do you have any clue what he’ll do to my mom if he finds her? No, we can’t just run. It’s only a few months ‘til my eighteenth birthday and that’s it! I’ll be free and then we’ll leave, just you and me.”
I shake my head, chuckling humorlessly, “That sounds like every fucking failed promise, but whatever, Val. Do what you gotta do, I just don’t know if I’ll be here when you get back.”
I turn and walk away, chugging my filled cup until I find myself a bottle of tequila and some distraction.
FIVE
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‘BATHROOM’ MONTELL FISH
I watch Noah walk away,hurt, anger and sadness flow through me faster than a drug. I wish I could make things different; I wish I could leave just like that and never look back, but I can’t. It’s fucked up that I’m already in this situation, but for him to put me into another bullshit position is selfish as fuck and he damn well knows it.
I’d never do that to him. I’d never make him feel like he’s picking anything over me. I watch him walk over to Lucas, a guy I’ve never liked for a second because he’s Noah’s go to fuck buddy. He’s a total dick but thankfully he’s not a clinger, preferring to fuck and done than be in a relationship.
“Trouble in paradise?” That cool, deep voice asks from behind me.
I turn to Mateo and find him leaning against one of the trees nearby. Like Noah, girls eye Mateo hungrily, the difference is I don’t have the chest burning jealousy when they stare at Mateo.
“Something like that.” lean against the keg and let my gaze drift over to Noah, but just as his eyes lock on mine across the party, Mateo’s rough fingers meet my chin.
“Let’s get your mind off things then.” He says as he turns my face to his before his lips fuse mine.
I wish things were different, I wish Noah and I weren’t fighting, I wish I wasn’t leaving, I wish my dad had died when he left…but that’s not how things turned out.
So, as I kiss Mateo back, I force all those thoughts out of my head and allow myself to feel what’s instinct, pure unadulterated sex.
My arms wrap around Mateo’s neck, his arms coming around my waist as our kiss deepens. I don’t think about the taste of this stranger, I don’t think about how foreign his touch feels or how incomplete our kiss is, I just fall into the unfamiliar abyss of pleasure.
