Before I knew it, three months had passed. Jay and I were still going strong, though we hadn't had many opportunities to show off that we had become a couple. We'd gone to a few dog bowl sessions together...minus Stacy since he was at work.
But tonight...it was kind of an unveiling to the public. It was the Zephyr party. Everyone was going to be there. A few of the girls and I had been busy all afternoon baking a cake with the boys picture on it, since they'd made it into Skateboarder Magazine. The cover and a six page article. They were finally getting the fame they deserved.
I just didn't know it was going to be that much of a...well...surprise to Stacy. I didn't know that a near fight would ensue and well, I really didn't know Jay would end up cheating on me that night with Chino's old lady and I for sure didn't expect him to get his ass kicked. It started out like any other night would have, any other awesome night.
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Jay's hand was tightly in mine as we walked over to the food and drink table. Skip hadn't skipped out on the booze and party food. I poured myself a glass of spiked punch...it wouldn't be a Zephyr party without the booze now would it? Jay's arms were around me now...I just didn't realize in time that Stacy was standing right beside of us.
"Kathy?"
Stacy asked, of course you could hear the anger in his voice, yet the nervousness there as well. It was known to everyone we'd broken up but Stacy just hadn't found out about Jay and I yet. I didn't want him to find out this way. I had more couth than this.
"I never want you to wear underwear around me again,"
Jay growled into my ear, licking my ear lobe. I guess he didn't hear Stacy's voice...Jay was nearly drunk off of his ass already. A long day of skating and drinking will do that to a guy.
"S-Stacy,"
my voice shook a little bit. I didn't want him to find out this way...especially with Jay all over me like this.
"Hey bro,"
Jay said rather, oblivious to the fact that Stacy was mad at him. I wanted to pull away and run, hide like a scared little girl. I still had feelings for Stacy, that was clear to probably everyone but Jay at that moment. Hell even Stacy could probably tell I wanted to jump into his arms and tell him I was sorry over and over again, but I couldn't.
Not after letting Jay have my virginity like I did. Stacy would just think of me as a fool. Maybe I was a fool.
"When were you going to tell me you were with her?"
Stacy asked Jay, acting as if I wasn't still standing right there. Maybe that was for the best. Jay chuckled, I noticed a smirk come over his lips.
"You couldn't handle her."
"Oh, well, yeah, and you can?"
Stacy asked in a fiery rebuttal.
"She apparently thinks so,"
Jay lightly nudged me towards Stacy, his arm still around my waist though. Stacy looked into my dark brown eyes, his so light and blue...they were so beautiful and perfect.
"I only wanted to be with you."
He said quietly and I felt my heart break into a billion little pieces... I know he only wanted me, for me...but I had let my hormones take over me three months ago...and the booze wasn't helping my judgement tonight. I turned right around into Jay's arms and let him hold me. Of course he wasn't at all tore up about it like I was. Jay didn't view it as he was losing his 'bro'...Jay was too obliterated to know that right now.
"I'm going to go, talk to the girls for a bit, I'll be back,"
I kissed his cheek gently and took off for the other room. I noticed Thunder Monkey wasn't there...guess she was still with Sid. After all, I had introduced them earlier. Maybe Sid was finally getting laid...Jay went on about that all the time that he needed to man up and lose it already.
"You mean, you, left Stacy for Jay?"
My best girl-friend asked me and I sighed, nodding. It was a catastrophe how I did Stacy so wrong but...
"Jay just makes me feel so alive... Before he came into my life, I was so boring and dull and now I've never felt more alive. He makes me feel like we'll forever be young, he doesn't make me regret anything. I even...gave it up to him."
I said quietly and my girl friends shouted with kind of glee yet anger that I wouldn't give it to a sweet boy like Stacy yet gave it away to Jay.
"I love him!"
I admitted honestly, I did love Jay. He'd told me, that every time he saw me with Stacy it had made him sick a little inside and he didn't know why...well I knew why; it's because he wanted me and didn't know it himself.
"Jay's a good guy you guys... when he's not high and drunk he... he's sweet.. He thinks I'm pretty without me getting all dressed up for him like I did with Stacy. He always laughs at these pathetic jokes I try to tell, even when I tell them wrong. He understands the shit I'm going through with my Dad, more so than Stacy did. Stacy's got this perfect home life...Tony and I, Jay, what do we have? Jack shit."
I couldn't believe I was unleashing on my friends like this, but I think they knew...it needed off of my chest, badly.
"Jay's my teenage dream, girls... A lot of women want him and well... I've fuckin' got him. I don't want anyone else anymore. I'm not ever looking back."
I said and wiped the tears from my cheeks, of course my girls were supportive. Thunder Monkey probably would have been too if I didn't hear her moans and Sid's from the back room...so we moved our conversation elsewhere, out by the Tiki; where a lot of our friends were getting high off their asses.
I caught Jay's eyes from across the party, it made my heart flutter. I bit on my bottom lip, giving him a soft smile and a gentle wave. I couldn't believe he was all mine.. I'd seen girls try to get his attention, yeah, he'd flirted a little but...as far as I know, he hadn't been fucking every pussy that walked back since he got with me. Though I knew my brother had been dipping his dick in everything that moved. That was T.A. though.
The party was going great, other than the confrontation between myself and Stacy. I was glad for my boys. My brother, my ex, and my current. I was proud for Sid, Shogo, Peggy, Biniak, the whole gang. Maybe they would finally get out of this place called Dogtown and make a name for themselves. I knew Stacy would...he was going to be on Charlie's Angels supposedly...and well, my brother had his head firmly up Topper Burks ass it looked like.
Naturally when I noticed that, I heard two things break out. I heard Skip start pitching a bitch and I heard Chino hollering...hollering Jay's name. Naturally I took off toward Chino and his yelling at Jay; I saw Jay getting his ass beat. I saw Chino's old lady, I forget her name, standing there cowering... I didn't know why, I didn't know what role she played in this. I wouldn't until later. But I saw Jay, he inched for a skateboard and finally grabbed it, whacking it over Chino's head after swiftly turning around.
The minute Chino was down, Jay took off running and I guess it was my...relationship instincts but I took off after him. When I caught up to him about three blocks away from the Zephyr shop, he was coughing up blood from how hard Chino had punched him in the gut.
"Jay... what was that about?"
I asked him, I knew something like that had probably sobered him up more than he'd been in the last three months combined. I lifted his shirt as he lent against a brick building, Chino had kicked him hard...I knelled down and kissed his stomach gently, earning a coo from my big bad skater boy.
"He thought I was trying to get his old lady to cheat on him. Fuck she came onto me. When he came out, I told him, I was waiting for my girl. I was, I was waiting for you! I didn't wanna walk over there while you were with your girls and fuckin' beg for your attention. I'm not that kinda douchebag. If you want time with your girls, you can have all of it you want. You don't fuckin' make me stop hanging with the guys. You don't deserve that shit."
"Shh Jay, I know. Just, shh."
I said softly... I didn't believe he would try and cheat on me. He hadn't yet, why would he tonight of all nights? I stood back up from kissing his stomach and pushed his blonde hair out of his face, I cupped his cheek.
"Look, your Mom's still at work for another few hours. Let's just go back to your place, I'll fix you an ice pack for your head and stomach and, we'll just cuddle okay? We don't have to always be partying Jay. There was a day before all this."
I reminded him and he nodded, taking my arm. Most would find that to be rather, harsh of him, but I knew... it was his way of showing love and showing me I was right. He took my arm and squeezed it lightly and pulled me with him, kind of using me as support to walk back to his place. I felt bad. I felt like I had been the instigator of all this. Then again, Jay would have went to the party whether I wanted to or not...but I had been so dead set on giving him the cake I'd spent all afternoon baking...
and he barely had a glimpse of it before Red Dog grabbed a big piece of it with his hand and ate it... Glad he at least saw it...and smiled at it. Jay's smile was unlike anything else on this earth. It reminds me of something my Mother said before she passed away...
No regrets, just love.
