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When she’s bored of that, we watch another episode of Law & Order before she heads to bed.

Piper’s been asleep for awhile, and I grab my iPad for my now nightly ritual of watching Avery’s videos.

My eyes nearly pop out of my head when I see today’s video, F*ck Buddies. My finger flies across the screen and clicks “watch now.”

Unlike her normal videos, this one is raw with emotion. Her normal cool, controlled self is nowhere in sight. Instead, she’s appealing to her viewers to tell her if she should fuck me or not.

My heart hammers against my ribs. I’ve rattled her. There’s not a shred of doubt in my mind that this video is about me.

Avery said she only wants casual sex. Fine by me, that’s all I want too. Except she said she wanted it because she’d never be interested in a relationship with him, because he’s a jerk.

She thinks I’m a jerk?

Whatever. She’s a judgmental meddler. That doesn’t need to stop us having a good time.

It takes all my self control not to barge over there right now and fuck her senseless.

But I have to think about Piper.

There must be a way to keep it secret from Piper. Avery’s home in the day. I’m usually home in the day. We can fuck while she’s at school.

We would just have to make sure Piper never, under any circumstances, found out. Ever.

And we have to be clear from the outset that this is purely a fuck-buddy arrangement. A convenient one, since she lives next door.

I can’t resist commenting.

Ox Man: He doesn’t want a relationship either, go suck him off already. You know you’re gagging for it.





Avery

Knox’s muffled voice comes through the door, saying something about leaving a pizza for me.

I intend to leave it, but realize the animals will get it and make a mess. After twenty minutes, I creak open the door and whip it inside. It’s untouched, the neighborhood cats and wildlife haven’t found it yet.

At least I have dinner. I carry it into my kitchen, intending to microwave it before eating it in front of the TV. Setting it on the hopelessly old and out-of-date countertop, I get a plate and fling open the lid.

What is it? There’s no pepperoni. My nostrils flare as I lean in and look closer. There doesn’t appear to be any meat at all. Oh well, I guess beggars can’t be choosers, but I’m really surprised a rugged man like Knox orders vegetarian pizza.

He’s full of surprises.

On Sunday, I spend the entire day hiding inside. Even though it’s nearly eighty degrees out and I don’t have any fans or air conditioning, all my windows are shut tight. The idea is to pretend I’m not home. And make sure he can’t hear me from his garage, which is far too close to the property line, now that I think about it.

I don’t have to face Knox if I’m not technically here. Even if I am technically here.

It suits me fine anyway, since there’s always more work for me to do.

Upstairs is unbearably hot and stuffy. The heat releases forty years of smells from the carpet. There’s no way I can work in my fake bedroom. Instead, I grab my laptop and find the coolest room in the house.

It’s the hideous kitchen, naturally. At least it gives me extra motivation to work, so I can earn enough money to have it ripped out.

The first thing I do is check the comments on the F*ck Buddies video I posted yesterday. I still can’t believe I did something so rash. How embarrassing. I hope my viewers forgive me for it.

I intend to capture all the comments, save them to my computer, and delete the video before anyone else has the chance to see it.

Except there are only two comments:

Ox Man: He doesn’t want a relationship either, go suck him off already. You know you’re gagging for it.

And, underneath it, timestamped an hour later:

Hung like a Donkey: What he said. Go get fucked u uptight bitch.

Nice. I’d expected some troll stuff but I’d also expected more from my fans. Especially all my female viewers. Fine, maybe not many people saw it. Other than the seven hundred and eighty thousand views it’s showing.

I click onto the other video I posted yesterday, my rant against Nathan, the Don’t be Annoying video.

Hung like a Donkey: Ur more annoying than him

Great, same troll again. I click into another video.

Mel9424: Love you, you’ve brought so much joy to my life ;) ;)

I smile, glad that I can help someone. There are a dozen more like it. My eyes keep scrolling down the screen, until I see a comment that sticks out at me.

Hung like a Donkey: U don’t know what u r talking about

Um, okay. It’s the same troll again, and my pulse increases.

I click through my older videos. Hung like a Donkey has commented on every single video.