Xavier FINAL(29)
“If I get fucking frost bite and lose a toe I’m gonna kick his ass and yours.” He grumbled as he walked into the house and kicked the door shut. “You’ll be taking a bath and getting cleaned up, because yeah you kind of smell like vomit. Then you’ll drink enough to pass out and sleep until noon. Then and only then I will take you home to deal with your shit.”
“No!”
“Fight me all you want but I’ll win.”
He walked in the bathroom with his hand on my butt and started the shower.
“I suggest you put me down damn it!! I have done a real good job keeping my temper in check. You really don’t want me to unleash…”
“Do whatever you need to.” He laughed and then walked into the shower.
“What the hell!”
He dropped me on my feet and held me under the water.
“You’ll feel better.”
“Get out!”
“You gonna wash up or you gonna be--.”
“Screw you!”
I tried to move around him and he turned me around and pulled me against his chest.
“I’ve wrestled two hundred pound drunks in the shower. You’re not all that…”
“I don’t think I’d be sharing that information with many people asshole.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“Your story, tell it however you want.”
“Drunk buddies who smelled far worse than you…”
“Again you shouldn’t be--.” He turned me around and let go of me.
“You’ll be just fine.”
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. He grabbed the back of my hair and pulled it back so that my head was under the water. I stood and let the water pour over me. I opened my eyes when I felt him start to massage my hair.
“I can do that.”
He held his finger over my lips and continued. I should have stopped him but it felt good. Like when my mom washed my hair as a child.
He was done and I finally leaned forward and opened my eyes.
“Do you have conditioner? If I don’t use it my hair will…”
“Look like Shawn Whites?” He smirked
“You’re picking on me when I’m hurting?”
“Sorry just trying to make you smile.”
“How would you like it if I said with initials like XS, I wonder why you would be so impressed with--.”
“Oh, this is not the time or the place to have that discussion.” He laughed and so did I. “Wasn’t trying to hurt your feelings Taelyn.”
“I know. I was just trying to make this situation well -- I have no clue. This is messed up.”
He reached over and grabbed the conditioner and I held out my hand.
“Which part is messed up?” He laughed and motioned around us.
“All of it.”
“Okay I will leave you to finish up.” He stepped back completely soaked and laughed.
“What’s so funny?”
“Nothing.”
“No tell me. I could use a laugh.”
“I’ve never been in the shower with a girl who was clothed and so was I.”
“Kind of funny.” I rubbed the conditioner through my hair.
He stepped out of the shower and I could see him through the curtain. He pulled his shirt off and dropped it in the sink and then he let his pants fall to the ground. I stepped back and closed my eyes.
“I’ll leave a couple towels out here and grab you some clothes. Just drop yours in the sink with mine.”
I heard the door shut and leaned against the wall and cried some more as I undressed.
When the water started to get cold I turned it off and stepped out.
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I walked out into the kitchen drying my hair. He was sitting on the island.