The Bad Boys of Summer Anthology(106)
“And now?” I raised an eyebrow at her as I reached over to cup her right breast. “Do you think I’m saying no because I like to be in control?”
“Yes.” She nodded as she squirmed on the ground beneath my fingers. “I think you prefer a more passive girl.”
“Really?” I laughed aloud. How little she knew. I was delighted that she was confident and aggressive. I felt like she was a real match for my more dominant side. I knew I was dominant, but I also wanted a girl to give as good as she got from me.
“Are you attracted to me, Logan?”
“Oh my God, is this a joke?” I groaned. “We are not going to have this conversation already, are we?”
“You’ve had this conversation a lot?” She looked hurt, and a part of me was happy to see her jealousy. I felt a twinge of guilt at my happiness but ignored it.
“Not a lot, but why do girls always think you’re not into them if you don’t want to fuck? I mean, really, Maddie? I can barely keep my hands off of you. I just told you we can try dating and you want to know if I’m attracted to you?”
“Well, you just turned me down for sex.” She looked away. “That doesn’t really happen a lot.”
This time my jealousy kicked in. “Save it, please. I don’t need to hear about every guy you tried to give a blowjob to.”
“What?” She looked at me angrily. “That is not what I was saying.”
“Do you think I want to hear about how many guys were delighted that you were willing to have sex with them?”
“I didn’t say that.” She rolled away from me.
I pulled her towards me again. “I can’t believe we’re arguing about this.”
“Well, believe it, ass.”
“Fine.” I jumped up and pulled her up with me. “Let’s go.”
“What, where are we going?” She stood up reluctantly, and stared at me with a dazed expression.
“Do you want to know something about me?” I leaned towards her and whispered in her ear. She nodded slightly, and I continued. “I like having sex in public.”
“Okay, and …” She reached over to me and reached down my pants again. I shook my head and gave her a smirk.
“I like to have sex in public, where people are around.”
“You like them to watch you?” She looked at me with wide eyes and I laughed.
“No, I don’t go to sex clubs or anything. But I do like the thrill of knowing I’m having sex and that anyone could find out at any moment.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know why, maybe it’s the fear of getting caught. It gets my blood pumping.” I shrugged, worried I had scared Maddie off. It wasn’t every day that people shared the intimate details of their life, and I didn’t want her to think I was a freak. Not with everything else she knew about me.
“I suppose that makes sense.” She looked at me, considering. “I’ve never really had sex in public before; I mean aside from in the field with you, but no one was there.”
“We could change that …” I let my words trail off as I tried to hide my excitement.
“We could.” She turned away from me, and I saw a glimpse of a smile on her face.
“What are you thinking?”
“Let’s go shop.”
“Shop?” I tried to hide my disappointment. “You want to go shop?”
“Yeah. I’m in the mood for some new things.”
“You want to go now?”
“Don’t couples normally go shopping together?”
“Yes, I’m sure normal couples go shopping together.”
“We’re not normal?”
“Well, we’re not from Mars or anything, but I don’t think I’m the sort of person who can be in a normal anything.” I laughed. “Ask any of my exes.”
“I’d rather not ask them.” She frowned. “What did you do with your exes for fun?”
“For fun? Do you really want to know?”
“I guess not.” She started walking away from me and I hurried to keep up with her fast pace.
“You’re mad at me again.”
“I’m not mad.”
“You’ll have to be patient with me, Maddie. This isn’t something I do every day.”
“What’s not something you do every day? Have a conversation or try to not talk about your exes?”
I smiled to myself at her surly tone. Maddie was well and truly jealous. I knew it wasn’t funny, but her jealousy just didn’t seem to fit in with her confident attitude. It made me feel like I meant something to her.
“Let’s both of us not talk about our exes anymore.”
“Sounds like a plan to me.” She turned to me again with a small smile. “Now, can we go shopping?”
“I guess if you make me.”
“Make you?”
“Well, I’m not the biggest fan of shopping.”
“I think you’ll like this trip.”
“I doubt it.”
“We’ll see.” She grinned at me as we made our way to the car. “I mean we don’t have to go if you think they’ll be tracking the car.”
“We’ll park the car at the mall. I assume we’re going to the mall, right?”
“Am I that predictable?”
“You and all girls. Oops.” I laughed. “I forgot I’m not supposed to be talking about other women right now, am I?”
“No.” She rolled her eyes. “Though, I suppose as a guy, you can’t help it.”
“You know us guys.”
“All you think about it getting some.”
“Yup, you got it.” We got into the car and I saw Maddie grinning at me teasingly. “Sex, sex, and more sex.”
“Sex in the bedroom, sex in the bathroom, sex in the kitchen, sex in the field.” She counted off on her fingers. “That’s all that’s on your mind.”
“You know me so well.” I checked to see if there were any cop cars coming before I pulled back out onto the highway.
“I know men.” She winked at me and shimmied in the seat, and I put on a fake Spanish accent.
“Maddie, I think you are trying to turn me on with your sexy talk.”
“Are you trying to pretend you’re Italian?” She giggled.
“How dare you, I’m from Puerto Rico.” I rolled my R and tried to keep a straight face.
“Puerto Rico by way of Rome?”
“I’m from San Juan.” I winked at her. “And I’m going to show you how to salsa.”
“Ooh, really? I’d like you to show me how to salsa. Maybe I’ll get a dress at the mall.”
“Oh, God. Me and my big mouth. I’m going to become one of those men who stands there looking tortured while he waits for his woman to try on clothes.”
“I don’t know that you ever don’t look tortured.”
“Are you calling me dour?”
“Dour?” She made a face at me. “I’m not sure you can call a handsome young man dour. I’ve only ever thought of sour old women as dour.”
“Yay. I’m not a sour old woman.”
“Thank God.” She leaned over and whispered in my ear. “I wouldn’t want to have sex with a dour or sour old woman in a changing room.”
“What?” My eyes nearly popped out of my sockets at her words. “You what?”
“I figured that would get your heart racing.”
“You figured right! Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I would have taken you to any mall you wanted.”
“You’re such a guy.”
“I think we established that already.” I laughed and pressed the gas pedal excitedly. I turned on the radio and stopped at a song that Maddie seemed to know. She was singing along and bobbing her head and I laughed as she danced around in the seat. As I drove, I realized that I was happy. It was a weird feeling. A unique feeling for me, and I wasn’t used to how good it felt. The worries and the stress were gone, albeit briefly, and at the back of my mind. But in this instant, I felt like I was in Utopia. I’d never realized just how wonderful it could feel to be with someone I liked who liked me. It was a different but entirely pleasant feeling. Right now, I was just Logan, a regular boy, and I was amazed at how good that felt.
“Let’s go into Macy’s.” Maddie pulled my arm. “They have lots of changing rooms and they hardly ever have salesgirls around.”
“Macy’s?” I made a face. “That’s not exciting.”
“It’s in a store, it’s fine.”
“No, no. If we’re going to do this, it has to be somewhere exhilarating.”
“This is the mall, Logan. Not Hedonism Island in Jamaica.”
“Now, I wouldn’t mind going there.”
“Hell, no.” Maddie shook her head.
“I’m joking. I don’t have the money to take us there, even if I wanted to.” I made a face and turned away from her, angry at myself for bringing up money. For a moment, I had forgotten the dire straits I was currently in. I followed Maddie distractedly, as I started thinking about what I was going to do. Five hundred dollars wasn’t going to help the family much, and now that Marty was onto me not selling him the cars any longer, I knew I had to think of something else to do.