Where the fuck were these thoughts coming from?
“So, what happens now?”
“What do you want to happen?”
Chapter Seven
The following Sunday
“What’s going on with you and the awful neighbor?” Beth asked.
Elisha paused as she took a piece of celery. “What?”
“You never told me what happened after the confrontation. I was expecting a call.”
Elisha took a bite of the celery trying to take her time so she didn’t have to answer. “You could have called me at any time. I don’t stop you from calling.”
Beth started to chop the celery ready to go into the coleslaw. The kids were out in the yard playing with a large swimming pool, and Andrew was lighting some coals underneath the grill. They had several of their own neighbors around for a barbeque, and if Elisha had known, she’d have stayed home. Well, she’d have invited Brant around, which she’d been doing every single day this week. Maybe she should be ashamed of calling on her neighbor to answer her needs, but she just couldn’t help it. He aroused her in such a way that she just couldn’t turn him down. She wanted him badly. During work, she found herself thinking about him, and what she wanted to do to him.
He even had her cell phone number now, and sent her texts about what he wanted to do with her. They couldn’t use his house as Sean was there, and she’d come to see that Brant liked to fuck wherever he wanted. They were not bound by rules with each other. They both had sex where they wanted.
Yesterday they hadn’t even made it past her doorway before he closed the door, thrust her up against it, and started to fuck her raw. The condoms she’d owned for a couple of months hadn’t lasted. She’d had to go and buy some new ones that very morning. Elisha couldn’t recall the last time she had to get condoms.
In fact, the condoms she used may have belonged to her ex.
“Earth to Elisha.”
“What?” she asked, drawing her back to the now.
“Something happened between you and the sexy neighbor.”
“Nothing happened.” She did her best to brush it off.
“Elisha, I’m older than you, and I’ve always been able to see when you’re lying. You’re so distracted you’ve not even cleaned away my vegetable trimmings, and you always do that.”
Taking a deep breath, Elisha stared up at her older, beautiful sister. “Something may have happened.”
She grabbed the bowl of vegetable cuttings, taking them to the composter in the back yard. Elisha smiled at some of her sister’s neighbors, not really interested in talking or getting to know them. She gave Andrew a quick wave, and walked into the kitchen.
“What happened?”
“Do I have to have the third degree?”
“You called me Monday about a kiss, and you never told me what happened when he came to see you. You’re the only person I know who’d run away from a hot guy who wanted to kiss you. It just makes you completely weird.” Beth frowned, shaking her head.
“I never claimed to be normal.”
“And you show it, Elisha, all the time.”
“What are you ladies talking about?” Andrew asked.
“Elisha screwed her neighbor,” Beth said.
“Beth!”
“I doubt that,” Andrew said, laughing.
What!
“Excuse me?” she asked, turning to look at her brother-in-law.
“You wouldn’t randomly screw a guy. It’s not clean and seemly.”
Placing her hands on her hips, she glared at Andrew, angry with him. “I’ll have you know, you’re so wrong. I totally screwed my neighbor, and I’ve been screwing him all week.”
Andrew smirked. “It’s a good job that I invited him around then. Hey, Brant, how are you doing?”
She spun around, only to find no one was there. “You’re an asshole.” When she turned back, she found that Andrew was no longer there.
Beth was laughing, holding her stomach. “You should have seen your face.”
“It’s not funny.”
“That’s Andrew’s thing. He saw that he’d upset you, and he didn’t want to do that, so he, erm, told you Brant was there,” Beth said.
“I get what he did. I don’t agree with him.”
Beth shrugged. “So, you’re sleeping with your neighbor.”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it sleeping.”
Her sister whistled. “Do you like him?”
“He’s an artist.”
“So? He could be a total asshole.”
“Yes. I like him. I really do.” Elisha smiled, unable to help herself. “He makes me laugh.”
“That’s a step up from pretty much every single guy you’ve been with, right?”