Second Chances (10 page)

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Zoey
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When I went into the house it was
dark except the light coming from the hallway that led upstairs. When I reached
Lily’s room my mother was tucking her in she was holding a book in her hand,
“Hey Lil can I read you your story?” She turned and smiled so big I almost lost
it right then. I fought back my tears. After my mother kissed her she walked to
the door looking up into my face and that is when she noticed the mark on my
cheek she reached up to touch my face and I shrugged away “Oh
Zoey
I am so sorry I did that.” Her eyes were full of tears
and I was so close to losing it. “So Lily May what are we reading tonight?” I
asked her as I walked passed my mother and crawled into bed with her snuggling close.
At this moment she was my security.

When we had finished the book and
I was asking how her sleep over went my phone beeped. I grabbed it from my back
pocket looking at the screen.

‘Honey I’m Home!’

Luke’s text made me smile.

Lily asked me who that was from
and I told her a special friend. I kissed her good night and went to my room to
get ready for bed. I send a quick reply to Luke.

‘Thanks for making me smile’

His response came very quickly.

‘I love making you smile…Sweet
dreams
Zoey
’

This boy was weakening me in a
good way I only hoped I didn’t get hurt in the end.

‘Good night sweet boy…dream of
me’

A couple minutes later my phone
began vibrating and it was Luke in swimming trunks standing on the beach across
my screen. “Hi” I spoke into the phone quietly. “I just wanted to hear your
voice before I closed my eyes and to tell you that I always dream about you
Zoey
. The difference now is when I dream of kissing you I
really know what your lips truly feel like against mine.” I just sighed as I
felt overwhelmed with emotion for what he was saying and for what had happened
earlier all wrapped up it was hitting me again. “Good night beautiful
girlfriend,” I smiled under my tears and whispered “You know you’re getting
pretty good at the whole sweet boyfriend thing Luke… good night.”

I fell asleep with sweet visions
of Luke and imagined I was back on his couch with him snuggled into his chest
and felt his light exhale blowing into my hair.

Monday morning was quiet and a
little uncomfortable I tried to hide everything from Lily as best as possible.
Sophia met me outside handing me the bag I had requested her to bring it was
great that her mom worked at a pharmacy...and we walked into school together.
In first hour when I walked into class Ashley was sitting down at her desk
flirting with a couple guys and I had to admit it was the perfect setting for
payback. I reached into the bag and pulled out the tube of cream I walked
straight to her desk and she looked up at me with a snotty smirk. I threw the
cream in front of her and said “Ashley tell your mom next time you need a
refill on your ‘
Imiquimod
’ cream for your genital
warts to pick the damn shit up herself my mom is not her gopher,” I turned and
walked to my desk never once breaking character. She looked horrified and
extremely embarrassed but the best part about it was that the two guys that
were all flirty looked completely disgusted as they turned away from her and
scooted there chairs in. Whoosh…I so scored…! Suck on that Bitch!

By the time I reached home room
Sophia was laughing so hard with a few other girls and she immediately walked
up to me and whispered “You Rock girl the rumors are flying and as I see it your
cousin is going to have to go to prom alone. Someone even wrote Ashley has
Warts on the chalk board in my last class. Rumors fly fast here.” I smiled and
had to send Luke a quick text that Ashley now knows Karma is a major bitch. I
knew he would take a while to respond because of being in class. Right before I
left homeroom though I got a message from him ‘You will definitely have to fill
me in later…Miss
ya
baby.’

The rest of the day flew and into
my evening I refused dinner I just wasn’t that hungry I stayed in my room doing
homework. Lily conned me into playing Candy land with her…twice.

About Seven Thirty my phone rang
and it was Luke “Hey Handsome.”

“How was your day?” I told him
about the entire Ashley scene and he laughed so hard. He said that it was
Guinness and that I made very him proud. We talked for over an hour. Tuesday is
his early day so I let him go. He was still being such a sweet guy.

The rumor about Ashley spread
like wildfire and before I knew it everyone in the entire school was talking
about it. As for talking well me and my mom weren’t doing much of it. Thursday
came very quickly and as I was leaving school I had just gotten my things out
of my locker and shut the door only to turn and look up into Luke’s eyes. I
know I had to have been smiling like a complete idiot. I wrapped my arms around
his neck as he picked me up. “What are you doing here? Not that I am
complaining I just thought you had practice.” He kissed me very lightly and
brought me back to place my feet onto the floor, “I had a little time to spare
and I really wanted to see you. I don’t have long just enough to stop by and
see your beautiful smile.” I noticed the stares I was getting as a few groups
of girls walked passed and melted at the site of Luke standing in the hall
looking all sexy. He walked me out to my car giving me a few knee weakening
kisses, “Can you come to my game tomorrow night?” I knew I had already agreed
to spend the evening with Lily. I was looking forward to it but I also wanted
to see his game. He looked a little disappointed and I felt horrible. “I will
see what I can do…promise!” We said our goodbyes and off he went to rush to
practice. The rest of the night and into Friday seemed to drag on and on.
I was missing him so much. It
wasn’t right that I felt this glued to him…it was scary but a really good
scary. Today I was going to surprise him by showing up at his game. When he
asked me if I would be able to come I told him I had to watch Lily. Well she
decided she wanted to stay with Hannah. Sophia and I planned it out and I was
going to meet her at the game but as far as Luke went he had no idea that I
would be there.

I was walking up to the gate when I saw Whitney standing just inside. She
was of course half-dressed and flaunting herself to anyone who showed her
attention. After I had paid and entered I text Sophia telling her to come down
from the stands and meet me. I tried to avoid Whitney by walking fast but she
had already noticed me and was running up behind me to get my attention, “
Zoey
, hey how are you?” I still wasn’t exactly sure what
she wanted I mean the only interest her and I could share was Luke and well I
really didn’t want to stand here and have her talk about being sex buddies with
my boyfriend. I turned and played along, “Whitney Hi, sorry I didn’t see you.
Actually I am meeting Sophia; I
gotta
get going but
good seeing you.” I started to walk away and she placed her hand on my
shoulder. “Listen I hope things aren’t going to be weird between us because of
me and Luke. I am friends with him and I would hate to feel like I can’t be
around him anymore. I mean it was always just sex with him and me…really great
sex but we kind of just worked together well that way you know. I do have to
say…that guy really knows what he’s doing in the bedroom…wow hot and he is
really hard to resist. I’m sure you know that already though.” I was starting
to figure her out she fed on attention and Luke had stopped giving her what she
craved so now she figured she would try to make me feel uncomfortable. Well not
going to happen! “Whitney really I’m not
gonna
stand
here and exchanged notes with you. Luke and I are together now and I’m sorry
things didn’t work out between you two but that really has nothing to do with
me.” She took a step toward me looking directly at me with this nasty glare,
“See that’s where your mistaken little girl. Luke and I have this special
little bond that you will never understand. I’m the girl he calls when he needs
a night of fun. We always end up back together. When he gets done playing with
you, he’ll call and I’ll take care of him completely.” I just stood there
glaring right back, “You see now that’s just really sad I mean you have sex
with people hoping that you can hold onto them. When in the end once they get
what they want…they move on. Anyone can have sex with anyone else, but it takes
a real woman to hold onto a guy without using her vagina as a weapon. Good luck
with your little scheme you got going on.” I turned and walked away but I did
have a sick feeling in my stomach about what Whitney and Luke had shared.

“There you are” I heard from over my shoulder. Sophia thank god. She gave
me a quick hug and I must have been wearing my current mood on my sleeve
because she immediately asked if I was ok. I gave her a quick recap of my
conversation with Whitney. “Oh hell no, she didn’t do that! What a bitch! You
have to tell Luke…really
Zoey
he’ll be pissed!” I
just shook my head “No I’m not worried about Whitney. She doesn’t bother me.” I
shook it off and followed her to her seat. I immediately found Luke on the
field. I loved watching him play. He really gave it his all and he looked so
hot in that uniform. All the girls we were sitting with were talking about a
party after the game and how everyone was going there. I really didn’t want to
go to a party I did not want to end up somewhere
whitney
would be and have to be subjected to her evil
eye. I honestly just wanted to spend some time with Luke.

The game was over and they had won so the guys were all jumping all over
each other afterward. We went down the bleachers to wait for the guys by the
exit gates. Sophia was saying she was just going to convince Evan to go back to
her house and hang out. “You and Luke should come too I’m just not really
feeling a party tonight.” It was like she read my mind, “Yea that sounds good
you should help me convince Luke to avoid the party.” I heard them yelling as
they came out of the locker room still wound up from their win. Whitney was off
to the right like she was stalking her prey she jumped up and went straight for
Luke. Sophia saw her just as I was about to say something to her about it,
“Look at her she is so pathetic. I never pegged her for being such a
munipulative
bitch.” I just laughed as if it wasn’t
bothering me that she was hanging on his arm and had her tits smashed against
him.
 
I guess what helped me was that he
was completely shrugging her off as if she didn’t exist. He looked up and saw
me looking surprised to see me he quickly walked in my direction. He smiled
that sweet smile that literally can melt my insides. “Hey baby, I thought you
couldn’t make it,” he reached for the side of my face tilting my head back to
kiss me before I could reply. It was a hungry kiss one that I assumed had been
building all week and because Whitney was right in the view of it I let him go
for it. I reached up and ran my hands into his hair as he wrapped his other arm
around my waist. I could feel his tongue trace my lower lip. “
Mmm
now that was nice,” He whispered against my lips before
giving me one more little but satisfying kiss. He traced my tongue with his
just before pulling back to look at me. “I missed you”, I said to him with my
eyes still closed. He kissed the tip of my noes “Not as much as I’ve missed
you. I’m glad you were able to come tonight.” I opened my eyes to see him
looking down at me so sweetly.

Sophia had convinced Evan to go back to her house and as for Luke he was
quick to agree…that sounded better than a loud party. Sophia’s mom was such a
great lady she didn’t care if we hung out as long as we didn’t disrupt the
younger kids. Luke had driven to the game so he followed me.

When we got to Sophia’s we decided to sit out back for a while. Sophia
with her big mouth had to bring up Whitney and the way she throws herself at
Luke. I could tell that Luke’s mood changed quickly turning to glare at her,
“Sophia don’t bring up that shit.” She laughed, “Luke you can’t deny your past
I mean especially since she got all up in your girlfriends face tonight talking
about how good sex was between you two and that you’re going to come crawling
back to her anytime now. I think you need to get a handle on that bitch.” Luke
turned to me, “Did she really do that?” I glared at Sophia who stuck her tongue
out at me in return and then excused herself and Evan to allow us to talk. We
were sitting on a porch swing and I slowly started kicking my feet to cause it
to rock. “
Zoey
what did she say?” I still didn’t look
up from the ground, “Sophia pretty much covered it. She just told me that when
you’re done with me…you’ll go crawling back to her. She made sure she threw in
a little about your past sex-
capades
with her and how
good you two are together.” He reached out and took my hand, “You going to look
at me or stay staring at the ground all night.” I leaned back and looked over
at him. “I wasn’t even going to say anything about it. I guess I’m going to
have to stop talking to Sophia because she has a HUGE mouth.” He just looked at
me a few seconds before, “I’ll talk to her. She needs to stay out of your face.
I’m not going to have her trying to start shit between us. I want this between
us to work Z; I really love how I feel when I am with you. Hell, I even get all
nervous when we talk on the phone. I find myself every day looking forward to
seeing you or talking to you. You make me happy
Zoey
.”
He leaned over and kissed me. When he pulled away I could tell he was nervous
and I needed to say something, “Luke I don’t want to talk about her or any
other girl from your past. It really makes me ill to think about you with
anybody I’m not
gonna
lie to you. I get crazy jealous
but we barely have anytime together as it is and the last thing I want to do is
waste what we do have on that stuff. Right now I just want to talk about us.” I
crawled up and over his lap as I straddled him and wrapped my arms around his
neck. He reached around me with both arms and pulled me close as he held me. I
stayed that way for a few minutes it just felt nice to be held. When I pulled
back I immediately searched for his mouth with mine. The kiss started very slow
and sweet. Then he lightly touched his tongue to my lips asking for access. I
granted his entranced and met his tongue with mine slowly brushing them
together and a light moan escaped me he smiled and spoke against my lips, “God
I love that sound.” He continued kissing me slowly and I felt like I melted
into him.