Starburst (41 page)

“Mom,”
Trevas began next. “I am your son, and I shouldn’t have gone along with any of
this either, but like Kevin said, none of us would ever do anything to
intentionally hurt you. If we could do it over again we would, but we can’t.
All that we know how to do is beg for you to forgive us, and say that we are
sorry.”

“Alley,
I am so sorry to you too. I should have talked to you about it too, and I
didn’t and you are right, we are equal partners, and I promise to never make
another decision without you. You know how much I love you, and I would never
expect you to move here if you didn’t want to, and I would follow you anywhere
you wanted to go because I can’t live without you.”

Alley
stood and leaned into Trevas, and he wrapped her in his arms and kissed her
head. “You are not off the hook, and we are still discussing this later,” she
demanded.

“Peyton,
can I talk to you for a minute?” Kevin asked next, and she got up and followed
him to the living room.

“You
don’t have to talk to me, and you can be mad if you have to, but will you at
least leave with me for a little while so that Don and Kay can talk.”

“Yes,”
she smiled up at him.

Trevas
and Alley said goodbye and Peyton told them to come and see her before she
left. Kevin and Peyton left next, leaving Kay and Don alone in the kitchen. He
stayed standing and she stayed sitting at the end of the table.

They
stared at each other for the longest time before either of them spoke.

“Kay,
come here,” Don finally said.

“I
can’t Donnie.”

“Yes
you can. Get up off of that chair and come to me, please Kay.”

Kay
looked at him and sighed. “I can’t. I don’t want this. I think it is best if
you just go.”

“You
can’t because you know that you do still love me, and you are afraid of feeling
like you should feel.”

“Like
I should feel?”

“Yes,
happy and in love, Kay I love you, and I swear that I will spend the rest of my
life making up for what I did to you, these last fourteen months. Please let
me.” Don knew that she wasn’t going to come to him, and if he was going to get
anywhere, he was going to have to go to her, and he did. He went to her and
took both of her hands, pulling her up to him and wrapped her in his arms.

“Kay,
please tell me that you want me as much as I want you,” he begged, and pulled
her away from his chest and wiped her tears away with both his thumbs.

“I
don’t know if we can fix this Donnie.”

“We
can baby, I know we can. I told you I will walk away from this project right
now if that is what you want.”

“It’s
not about that. It’s about you doing this behind my back, and letting me think
for months that something was more important to you than I was, whether it was
the school or the work, you still didn’t choose me and that hurt more than you
could imagine.”

“I
didn’t know that Kay. I really did think that you would stay mad for a little
bit and get over it. I never dreamed you would ignore my calls, and then have
your number changed.”

“I
am true to my word Donnie. I told you that if you left and did this again that
I wouldn’t be here waiting on you when you got back the next time.”

Donnie
didn’t respond with words, and lifted her face to his and kissed her until she
thought she was going to pass out. She didn’t think it was possible to still
feel this way about him, and she did. She was so confused by this point that
she didn’t know whether she was coming or going, and it was temporarily
interrupted when her cellphone rang. She figured it was Peyton wanting to know
if she should come and save her and she hit the end button when she saw that it
was Ken.

Peyton
did call right after Ken, and Kay told her that she was fine, and she would see
her in the morning. Don took her phone out of her hand and started to kiss her
again when her phone rang again, and it was Ken again.

Don
answered. “Hello,” he said.

“Um…is
Kay there?” he asked, not sure who it was.

“Yes
she is here, but she is not interested in talking to you and I would appreciate
it if you would stop calling her. She will not be accommodating your bootie
calls any longer.”

“Who
is this?” he wanted to know.

“It’s
the guy who will be servicing her from now on, maybe you should go home and
service your wife,” he added, and hung up.

Kay
had and amused look and was shaking her head. “You know about that?” she asked
pointing to her phone as if it was Ken.

“Yes
I knew about the married Ken, stopping by and baking cookies with you.”

“Cookies?”

“That’s
what I had to tell myself to keep from knocking on your door and ripping his
head off. And I really want to lecture you right now about you letting him use
you like that, but I am going to refrain and let it be whatever it was.”

“It
was being safe.”

“Safe?”
Don asked, not understanding.

“Yeah
safe, as in unable to get close, unable to love and unable to be hurt.”

“Kay
I am so sorry,” Don said looking into her eyes, and wishing he could change
what he did to her.

She
smiled a warm smile. “Are you spending the night?” she asked quietly.

“Is
that an invitation?”

She
shrugged her shoulders.

“I
am going to take that as a yes,” he said, smiling and he swooped her up,
causing her to scream and carried her to her bed. He laid her on the bed and
took her in his arms and kissed her. He ran his hands up her shirt, and she
felt like it was her first time ever. She had made love to this man hundreds of
times and still felt like a nervous teenager.

“Kay
I love you,” he whispered, to her lips as he helped her slide out of her jeans.
 

Kay
had forgotten how good it felt to be with him and how much she loved being in
his arms. He kissed her throat and then her breast as his hands wandered down
her body, resting between her legs. She quivered at his touch, and he brought
her to bliss with his fingers because unlike her, he had not been with anyone
since her, and was afraid that as soon as he entered her he would let go, and he
wanted to make sure she was satisfied before he was.

He
pulled her legs up before she was concluded from her first orgasm and came
between them. She moaned in pleasurable agony when she felt him enter her, and it
instantly started building again, unable to contain her desire as he plunged in
and out of her. He held onto her hip with one hand, and held himself up with
the other so that he could see her face. He never wanted to take his eyes off
of her again.  As soon as Kay threw her head back and pressed her breast toward
him from arching her back, and that one last scream of ecstasy, pushed him over
the top and he thrust deep into her and moaned his own pleasurable moan.

“God
I’ve missed you baby,” he said, panting like an overheated dog.

Kay
reached up and touched his hair, and he kissed her. She knew this was right,
and she knew that she was never going to feel like this with any other man, and
the truth was she didn’t want any other man. She wanted Donnie Beckett, and she
wanted to wake up in his arms for the rest of her life. So, was she willing to
throw away all of the pain and suffering that she had endured for months to
have him there? Yes, she was willing to do that, and she knew that she would.

Peyton
stood across from Kevin as he sat at the bar. “Go ahead, Peyton. Let me have
it,” he told her, meeting her glare.

“You
lied to me?”

“No,
I lied to Kay. I just didn’t tell you.”

“No,
you lied to me. When I asked you if you knew how to get a hold of Don, you told
me no that you were loyal to Kay, and you didn’t talk to him anymore. You have
been talking to him the whole time, haven’t you?” Payton accused, with narrowed
eyes and crossed arms.

“Okay,
you’re right. I lied to you too, and I am sorry.”

“I
feel like you helped him hurt Kay.”

“I
feel like that too Payton, and I wished we would have just been honest with her,
but I am like Don, I never dreamed she would end it like she did. I thought
just like he did, and figured as soon as he was gone for a couple of weeks, she
would miss him and talk to him, and when he got home he would go home to her.
She didn’t talk to him, and he didn’t come home to her.”

“That
is because you both underestimated her. Kay is a very strong woman, and even I
am smart enough to know that when Kay says something, Kay means it.”

“That
she does,” Kevin agreed. “Can we make up now?” He asked with a grin.

“Depends.”

“On
what?”

“On
whether or not we are eating anything tonight, we were supposed to cookout with
everyone, remember?”

“If
I feed you, can we make up?”

“It’s
a good possibility. What are you going to feed me?”

“Pizza,
Chinese or I can order subs from Frazier’s.”

“Let’s
do the subs. Do they have an Italian sub?”

“Hmm,
the best one you have ever tasted,” he boasted about the local sub shop.

Peyton
and Kevin ate there subs, and Peyton did agree, it was the best sub she had
ever tasted. She cleaned up their trash, and took a drink of his coke and then
turned to him sitting on the couch with a very sneaky grin. She straddled him
and pressed her breast against him as she kissed him.

“I
still need a shower from playing basketball,” he told her, knowing that he had
to smell.

“I
think you smell sexy as hell, but we can go to the shower if you want,” she
replied on his lips, and then forced her tongue between his lips before letting
him respond.

“If
you get in the shower with me, there is no way you are getting out without me
taking you.”

“Do
you know how long it has been since I have had sex in the shower?”

“No,
tell me.”

“A
long time,” she smiled and stood taking his hand. “Come on, show me what you
got,” she teased with a sexy expression.

Kevin
was ready before he ever touched her, and she pressed her naked, wet body
against his as he entered the shower with her.

“It’s
too hot,” he winced.

“It
is hot,” she replied, taking his mouth with hers, talking about two different
things.

Kevin
pulled her up, and she wrapped her legs around his waist as he entered her. It
was hot and, she thought it was the most erotic scenario, she had ever had. She
had, had shower sex before, but the sexual tension that the two of them shared
was not even in the same ballpark. Peyton put her hand flat against the wall
and surrendered in record time.

Kevin
shut the water off and pulled her from the walk-in shower, kissing her the
whole time. He backed her up to the counter and lifted her gracefully as he
entered her again. He took her with great force and speed, and as soon as she
was ready he was ready with her, and they came together as he pulled her close.

Kevin
pulled back to look at her, and she smiled a warm smile and touched his cheek
with the back of her hand. They were both feeling the effects of saying goodbye
and each of them knew it.

“What
if I asked you to stay with me and move here?” he asked the rhetorical
question.

She
smiled again. “I would say no. What if I asked you to move to LA, with me?”

He
kissed her and smiled. “I would say no,” he admitted, and they both knew that this
was the way it was, and she would say goodbye to him when he left for work the
following morning.

Peyton
lay in his arms with her naked body next to his and they talked.

“Your
daughter is a feisty little thing,” he told her, and she laughed.

“Yes
she is most definitely a feisty little thing.”

“She
is very pretty too,” he admitted to her and kissed the top of her head. “She
takes after her mama.”

“She
is a very pretty girl and thank you. She hasn’t had the easiest life, and I
find myself wanting to be around her more and act like a mother now that it’s
too late.”

“I’m
sure you were a good mom,” Kevin assumed.

“I
wasn’t a mom at all. Fletcher got me pregnant when I was eighteen, and just
starting out, trying to make it in showbiz. I had the lead role in the movie ‘Support’,
do you remember that movie?” she asked looking up to him.

“Only
because I have recently watched every movie you have ever been in.”

“You
have?”

“Yup,
and I don’t think there is one that I didn’t like.”

“Anyway,
I had the lead role, and they waited for me to have Alley because they really
wanted me to star in it. I had her and hired a nanny, Maria, and went to work
when she was three weeks old. That movie was a big success, and as soon as it
was done another one came along, which wasn’t such a success but long story
short. Maria raised Alley. She was there for it all, and I wasn’t and neither
was her dad. Marie passed away with breast cancer when Alley was fourteen, and
she went from a quiet, backward kind of kid to a rebellious teenager in the
blink of an eye.”

“Yeah
I read some stuff about her online.”

“Most
of that stuff is not true, you shouldn’t pay any attention to that stuff,
better yet don’t even read it.”

“You
two seem pretty close now.”

“I
don’t know, I guess we are in away. She has grown up a lot since Trevas.”

“I
have never seen Trevas so preoccupied before. You may as well talk to a wall
when she is around. He doesn’t see or hear anything but her.”

Peyton
smiled, happy that he loved her the way he did. “Yes, and she is the exact same
way. I just can’t wait until she is done with this movie, so they don’t have to
hide anymore.”

“Why
do they have to hide anyway?”

“Producers,
agents and publicist get pretty pissed off when you take the focus away from
the movie and put it on your personal life.”