TIMELESS 6
Chapter 1
Samantha Forster was riding the bus to school with her best friend Jen Kenworthy. Today was the first day of school and they both would be sophomores.
Sam was exhausted. She had had another erotic dream about her other best friend Jake Ely last night. It had woken her up several times.
This one wasn't much different than the one she had previously. Jake had started out kissing her, his tongue quickly finding hers. Sam had never kissed anyone like that and had always thought it was a bit gross, but in her dream she was a willing participant. Kissing Jake like this in her dream only made her feel warm all over.
They had ended up naked, which still caused Sam some embarrassment. Just thinking about it now while riding the bus caused her to blush. Sam turned to look out the window, hoping nobody, especially Jen, noticed.
Once they were naked, she and Jake had fallen upon the bed. They had been outside so Sam wasn't sure where the bed had come from.
Sam had been embarrassed by what had happened. It wasn't anything she could talk about with anyone. How on earth would you even start to approach that subject?
"What's going on?" Jen asked and Sam finally heard her.
"I had a weird dream last night," Sam just shrugged. She couldn't even talk about it with Jen. Sam felt too weird.
"Is that why you look so tired?" Jen wondered.
"Yeah," Sam nodded.
"Nightmares?"
"No, just weird," Sam shook her head, blushing again. She turned away quickly, hoping Jen didn't see it.
"Want to talk about it?" Jen asked.
"No," Sam shook her head almost violently.
"Okay," Jen murmured, still watching Sam.
The bus turned into the school parking lot and the friends got ready to start another school year.
"Hey darlin's," Darrell greeted them in the hallway. He was standing just inside the door with his and Jake's group of friends.
"Hey Darrell," Sam smiled at him.
"Hi Darrell," Jen also smiled at him.
"When's my man Jake getting back, gorgeous," Darrell asked Sam. His calling her gorgeous always embarrassed her and she blushed.
"I think tomorrow," Sam answered. "He really doesn't call me with his plans."
Darrell gave her a look of amusement, which Sam didn't understand. It almost looked like Darrell knew something she didn't.
"What?" she asked him.
"Nothin' darlin'," Darrell said, his mouth forming a grin.
"I better find my homeroom," Sam waved and headed down the hallway. In homeroom she would be assigned a locker.
She heard the footsteps behind her and saw Jen running up.
"I'm in your homeroom, remember?" she laughed.
"I had forgotten," Sam admitted. "You're only in my history class, then I don't see you again until lunch."
"You could take physics," Jen suggested. "Or maybe trigonometry."
"Yeah right," Sam laughed. "I can barely understand biology and algebra."
"But you are in a senior English class," Jen pointed out.
"Yeah," Sam nodded as they went into their homeroom.
"Is Jake in your class?" Jen wondered.
"I have no idea," Sam shrugged. "I didn't compare class schedules with him."
The two friends found seats and the teacher called them all to order and one at a time, the students went up to get their locker number and combinations.
"We're next to each other again," Jen said.
"That's good," Sam told her. "At least I can see you between classes then."
The teacher dismissed them and they headed for their first class which was history. Sam knew they'd have a substitute today since their teacher had gone with her son to visit local colleges.
Sam still found it strange that her best friend's mother was her history teacher. She had a hard time separating the two sometimes.
Jake's mom had been like a mother to her over the years and Sam appreciated the petite blond woman. She always had a ready hug for Sam who was a hugger by nature.
Sam's own mother had been dead for so long that Sam really didn't remember her. Mrs. Ely was the woman she saw and now Brynna, her stepmother.
The Elys had basically adopted her after the death of her mother. They were her second family and she loved them all. Even though Jake drove her crazy sometimes, she loved him. She told herself she loved him as a brother, but after her dreams of him she wondered if that was changing.
She felt the blush as she remembered her dream. Gosh, this was so embarrassing. Sam wasn't sure she'd ever be able to face him again even though he had no idea she had dreamt of him.
Their relationship lately had been strained. He was leaving a year from now for college and both wondered what would happen to their friendship when he did.
Their friendship had survived eleven years which included two years that she had been in San Francisco after an accident involving her colt Blackie. Jake had and still blamed himself for it though Sam didn't.
When she had arrived back home, she had noticed immediately that he had grown into a man. She had started having the dreams about him a short time later. She admitted that she was fascinated by his exotic good looks.
Jake was very handsome, but Sam was afraid that their friendship would suffer if she acted upon the feelings she was beginning to have for him. What she had been feeling lately wasn't all that friendly or sisterly if her dreams were anything to go by.