Page 45 of Real Forever
Holy shit,bitch. Please don’t tell me you fell in love and now you’re going to hallucinate cheesy ass love songs all day.She strained her ears. No. She wasn’t hallucinating.
“Jake?”
“Yeah?”
“Are you playing theDirty Dancingtheme song?”
“What?” Jake sat up and listened. “Oh my god.” He winced and shouted, “Zach, piss off!”
The music cut out and Zach’s muffled voice from behind the door replied, “Sorry. Thought it would help set the mood, man.”
Jake groaned and fell back into his pillow. “Sorry about him.” But Madison erupted in a fit of giggles. Jake rolled his eyes. “Of course, you’d think he was funny.” He chuckled. Madison, though, was laughing harder and harder, tears forming in her eyes, and she snorted.
“I’m sorry—” she was laughing so hard, she struggled to get the words out. “It shouldn’t be so funny, but I—” She snorted again.
The snort made Jake crack up as well. The more Madison laughed, the more Jake did, and pretty soon, Madison was in hysterics, laughing so hard it had become soundless.
“I can’t breathe.” Madison wheezed through her laughter, clutching Jake’s arm. She snorted again.
Jake clutched his ribs. “Oww.” He held up his hand to Madison, unable to take it anymore. She grabbed his arm and tried to gain control of her breath, forcing slow exhalations out of her pursed lips. Jake sat up and wiped his face with the edge of the sheet. He stared at Madison, naked, sweaty, glowing with laughter. Madison stared back at him, grinning.
“What?” Madison asked, as Jake’s stare grew intense.
“I’m… I just want to look at you. Remember exactly how you look at this moment. I want to see your incredible smile, your sparkling eyes, your beautiful skin and hold it in my mind anytime I want. I want to hear your laughter in my ears forever.”
She reached for his face, caressing his cheek, and reached up to kiss his lips.
“I want to remember this moment forever too, Jake,” she whispered.
Jake wrapped his arm around her back and Madison laid her head back down on his chest, closed her eyes, and fell asleep to the rhythmic rise and fall of Jake’s breath.
20
Jake
Mmmmm.Before Jake had opened his eyes, the soft, clean scent of Madison’s shampoo had filled his senses. He nuzzled into her hair, breathing it in. Jake blinked his eyes open to find they were still holding each other the same way they had been when they fell asleep. The sunlight coming through the crack in the curtains drew a hazy swath of light across Madison’s back, and he traced it with his fingertips. Her skin was unbearably soft.
Madison wiggled, tilting her head up, pulling her arm tighter around Jake’s chest and sighing. He stared down through her long, dark brown eyelashes at her pink lips, parted slightly.
Jesus Christ. She’s so fucking beautiful.
Jake’s dark gray bed sheet draped the lower half of Madison’s back and Jake slid it down past her hips, revealing the gentle sway of the small of her back. He ran his hand across her, slipping down under the sheet to grip her bottom.
She purred in response, bringing her knee up a little higher around Jake’s waist.
Knock,knock, knock.
Someone wasat the front door.Fuck it. Zach can answer it or they can go away.He returned his attention to Madison’s ass, tightening his grip and pulling her in closer. Madison’s breath grew quick and shallow, and Jake’s cock responded.
He heard the front door open and the murmur of voices.
“Is somebody here?” Madison whispered.
Ignoring her question, Jake grazed the backs of his fingernails down her bottom and slipped his fingers between her legs. She inhaled sharply and tipped her head up to kiss his neck, easing her legs apart for him.
Jake’s phone buzzed.
He stroked her, feeling her growing wetter with each circle of his fingertips. She rolled from her side to straddle Jake’s hips, her legs spread wide.
