Chapter 18

*Payton*

I give Kara my most serious face. “Okay Lady, let’s hear all the juicy details, you have been holding back long enough.” We’re sitting on the floor of Melissa’s living room. We’re having a Sunday brunch, with Mosomoa’s. We were supposed to meet yesterday but Kara actually changed shifts so that she could be off yesterday to spend the night with Mike.

Kara looks up and actually tries to give me a coy look. “Whatever do you mean, Pay?”

Melissa snorts. “Mike! Give us the juicy details! Is he an animal in bed?.” Then puts her hand over her mouth as she realizes what she asked. Yes, Melissa is definitely the shier one of us all. We both looked at her a little shocked. “What? I live vicariously through you two, you know that!”

It’s my turn to snort now. “Well, you have been waiting a long time to get anything stimulating through me.” Then I get back to the point at hand. “When was the last time you got a shift changed Kara?” I asked my friend.

She blushes, actually blushes. That’s when I know, this is more than about sex for her, she really likes the guy. Kara can talk in the most vivid detail about her sex life but she keeps her emotions close to her heart.

Kara shrugs it off. “It’s no big deal. He works Monday to Friday on his investigative business and does some overnight shifts, with Jake’s security. It was the only night we could get together. Besides, I’ve switched shifts before.” She protests.

“For someone else’s convenience, not for your own.” Melissa points out.

Kara shrugs again and stuffs some of her bagel into her mouth.

I can’t hold back any longer. “You like him, like him, don’t you? Otherwise you would be spilling all the sex details and gloating over the many orgasms you had.”

Melissa looks up with a shocked expression but a little mischief in her eye. “You never had any did you? Can’t he not make you, you know?” She asks as she wiggles her eyebrows.

“Oh shut up!” Kara says. “He has no problem making me orgasm.” She admits with a smirk on her face. Then sighs. “But we haven’t had sex yet. I’ve stayed over at his place twice now and we haven’t had sex! We have done everything else but actual sex.” She dramatically flops back on the floor. “It’s so frustrating!”

“Tell me about it.” I say before realizing what I was saying. Kara springs up off the floor.

“You too?” She asks me.

“You first, then I’ll fill you in on my frustrations.” I tell her. Melissa is just looking back and forth between the two of us. Listening and eating.

Kara’s shoulders slump and she lets out an exaggerated sigh. “Maybe I am making too much of it. We’ve only known each other a week but it felt like an instant connection.” Boy do I know what she means. “Maybe he doesn’t see us going anywhere or he has some moral code about not having vaginal sex or something. I mean since when has a man slept beside a willing woman two nights and not had sex with her?”

“Did you like, openly offer?” I ask, knowing Kara and knowing it’s a stupid question. “Never mind, I know you did. Does he give a reason as to why he hasn’t has sex yet? Maybe he is doing some self control thing or someone. You know how regimented those servicemen can be.” I’m just trying to come up with reasons now to make her feel better.

“Maybe he’s not into women?” Melissa suggests. This gets her a throw pillow to the side of the head.

“Oh believe me, we have done enough to prove that he is definitely into women.” Kara answers. “He just drives me crazy with his fingers and tongue and won’t give me his penis damn it!” She sighs again. “I just want him to do the deed you know. I mean he has a package, if he is that good without using it, imagine how good he is when he involves his penis!”

Melissa giggles again at that one.

“So, ask him.” I say and then think about my own predicament with Jake. Twice now he has given me orgasms. Once with his hand and once with his mouth but didn’t try to have actual sexual intercourse with me. Huh, I say to myself. Well actually, I must have said it out loud.

Kara is now pointing a finger at me. “What is that huh for? Your turn for details.”

I feel my face turn beat red as I relay my last encounter with Jake. It’s Kara’s turn to get a pensive look on her face. These two guys are actually starting to sound a little alike, except maybe Mike is a bit more considerate of Kara’s feelings as she seems more frustrated than angry. I’m angry. At least Mike didn’t tell Kara it was all a mistake, to forget about him.

When I finish telling my story, Kara says nothing for a minute. Melissa on the other hand holds nothing back.

“What an asshole! Why is he treating you like that?” She rhetorically asks. “Is he trying to hurt you on purpose? Why would you want someone like that in your life?”

The thing is, no matter what he says, that look in his eyes when he’s with me makes me feel wanted in ways I never have before. Not even with Dean. Dean makes me feel special, comforted, safe. Jake, Jake makes me feel sexy, desired, like I am the center of his world. Well, at least while he is caught up in the moment. The rest of the time. I just don’t know.

Kara finally speaks up. “Hold up Melissa, we don’t know what Jake has been through. Obviously he has a shit relationship with his father. Maybe he just doesn’t know how to express himself.” Then as fast as she starts speaking she stops. With a weird look in her face she finishes off her mimosa and stuffs the rest of her bagel in her mouth, chewing exaggeratedly. Okay. That’s strange.

“Since when are you the expert on men, especially Jake?” I ask her. “I’ve known him longer than you and believe me, he has no problem saying what is on his mind.” I actually feel a little possessive over him.

Melissa must feel the tension as she cuts in. “So, what about Dean? Didn’t you have a date with Dean last night?” She asks.

I can feel myself smile as I answer, “Yah, I did. It was great. We went to May’s.”

“Of course you did.” Kara cuts in.

“What’s wrong with that?” I ask. “We had a lot of great times there.”

“Yah, as kids.” Kara answers. “Don’t you want to move on to better things?” She asks.

“I think it’s romantic.” Melissa says. “I bet it was just like old times.”

“Yah, it was like we had never been apart in some ways.” I tell her. Melissa looks back with a dreamy smile on her face. Always the romantic!

“Are you going to see him again?” This from Melissa.

“He is cooking me dinner at his place Wednesday evening.” I tell her.

“Oh, that’s so romantic. So Dean.” Melissa is just about swooning.

“Well, I for one want some excitement in my life. A guy who will sweep me off my feet.” Kara says.

“And onto your back.” Melissa giggles.

“And how is that working out for you? I ask, a little snippy.