We'll Be In The Dirt Designing Stars:
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
"Brie? Hey Brie? Are you awake?"
My eyes opened when I heard my name being called on the other side of my bedroom door, but I didn't become alert until I heard my door start to open.
"Brie? Are you decent?"
I heard a male voice behind me scoff out a laugh so I quickly called out (as loudly as my tired mind and body would allow), "No! No, I'm not!"
"Alright, fine. Enjoy your day off…" He started to close the door, but paused to add, "Oh! And call or text if you decide to come tonight. Dinner's on me after the game if you come."
"Okay… Thanks," I tried to answer in a strong voice. "I'll text you later."
"Sounds good. Sleep well."
His voice started to fade behind my now closed door during his last reply. I immediately groaned and moved to roll onto my back when I hit the now laughing mass behind me. Correction, the laughing, naked flesh of a man I had forgotten was laying down behind me. Me, who was now clutching to the sheets against my chest so that I wouldn't flash my half-brother in case he hadn't heard me and had fully opened the door to my room.
"Oh my God," the man behind me groaned out. "Isn't it too early to be awake?"
That made me chuckle. "All depends on who you are and what you have to get done during the day."
I had started to sit up so that I could turn around to face him while he replied, "Too many words. It's too early." He then helped me to turn my body so that I could lay down facing him with my head on my pillow again. Once I was settled, he kissed me then quietly said, "Mmm… Good morning, Pretty Lady."
I laughed against his lips before I tried to increase the space between us. I didn't have many one night stands, so I didn't want to get too familiar with him. But he didn't seem to have the same reservations because he pulled me in for another kiss. While he kept my lips occupied, he rolled me over onto my back so that he was looking down at me when he finally broke contact.
"You shouldn't be here," I suddenly warned quietly as I became more alert.
"So, I hear. You giggled about that more than a dozen times after we got back here." He started laughing at the look on my face and asked, "You don't remember?"
I placed my hands over my face so that I wouldn't have to look at him as I answered meekly, "That's the problem, I do remember. I remember all of it." I felt him kiss my chest before he moved down to a spot between my naked breasts. "Alex? How are you still here after all of that random shit I babbled out at you last night?"
He worked his lips up my bod so that he was lying down on top of me. I had expected him to stop there, but he didn't. Instead he spent some quality time swapping sleep stale, beer flavored kisses with me. I have no idea how he did it, but Alex made me feel relaxed, at ease and completely beautiful in my skin. Normally, I would never make out with a guy when my mouth felt like it had that cotton ball, dried
feeling that follows a night of drinking, but Alex managed to make even that feel sexy.
He reluctantly pulled his lips away from mine to kiss a path to my ear where he huskily whispered, "Because you're hot when you babble. It made me want to hear more. Do you remember what else you said?"
I was having a hard time concentrating when Alex's kisses turned into soft bites on my neck and then my chest. I could feel the smile that spread across his face when my back arched into his embraces, but I paid it no heed. I just paid attention to the fact that my reaction seemed to be turning him on because his biting became more aggressive when he reached the tender flesh under my breasts.
"What else did you say?" He asked with more force in his tone.
By this time, he had moved his mouth past my navel so that when he bit down again, it was on my protruding hip bone and not the more forgiving flesh of my torso. I must have hesitated too long for his liking because he bit down on the same spot on my hip bone again. This time, it was so hard that I knew there was no way that he wasn't leaving a mark there.
"What else did you say?"
His question was accompanied by him almost embedding his teeth into my skin, so I shrieked out, "You're not a stranger! I kept telling you that… that you shouldn't be here, but it was okay because you aren't a stranger."
I was rewarded with a kiss followed by a sensuous lick of the flat of his tongue across the mark he had just made. I shivered at that sensation and I'm sure that he mentally filed that into his "How to pleasure Brie" file that I was sure that had started a few hours ago.
"Do you remember what else I promised you?" He asked as he gently pried my legs open.
I knew where this line of questioning was headed, I helped him by bending my knees and pulling my ankles back. He chuckled and moved his whole body forward before he gently took each of my ankles into his hands and placed my legs over his shoulders. Now that my hands were free, I placed them on the bed so that I could lean up onto my elbows to watch him. My teeth worried my bottom lip while I watched him start to move towards his goal.
"Shitfuck," I quietly hissed out when he stopped just short of placing his lips against my flesh.
He cocked an eyebrow then asked, "And what did I say to you, Brie?"
I could feel his breath against my moistened skin while he spoke. It was driving me crazy. So crazy that I could barely think, let alone speak. Alex, the cock teasing bitch that he is, kept his eyes on my face as he blew a cold breath over my nearly throbbing sex in front of him. I let out a pain-filled groan and then a frustrated grunt before I pushed myself up and clamped my hands on the back of his head. I tried to force his face forward, but he would not be moved.
"Brie? What'd…?
My frustrated shriek as I flopped down against the mattress quieted the rest of his question. "You said you'd return the favor." I pushed myself back up onto my elbows to make eye contact with him and nearly growled out, "So, return the favor."
He was still laughing when started to kiss my nether lips. Knowing a guy was laughing while going down on me would have normally irritated me, but just like everything else he had done with me, Alex made it work. More importantly he made it work in his favor. Soon enough my body was vibrating on a sexual high and I could no longer support my own weight on my elbows. At the same time my back hit the bed, I felt Alex bite down, oh so gently, on my clit. He coupled that with two of his fingers thrusting into me. I let out a strangled groan, so he decided to switch up his tactics then.
It didn't take long for his thrusting fingers and skilled tongue to bring me to a satisfying climax. The orgasm was so intense that I'm sure that I passed out. I'm not one hundred percent sure that's true, but the next thing I knew, I was opening my eye and looking into Alex's smirking face.
He then plunged himself into me while claiming my lips in a wet, dirty kiss. I could taste myself on his lips, and again with him, I didn't mind it at all. Instead, I just wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his calves to pull him in as close as possible.
He kept his pace slow. Slower than I usually liked from my lovers. At first. I felt myself getting annoyed with him, but then he asked, "The house is empty, right? I can really make you scream now?"
He gave me a particularly hard thrust of his hips as he asked his second question and it threatened to take my breath away. Since I didn't want him to slow down or stop using this more forceful pace, I made myself answer, "Yes… YES… we're alone."
That was the answer he was looking for. He pushed himself up onto his knees and then lifted my legs so that they could wrap themselves around his waist. I watched him with an intrigued smile because this was a new angle that we had yet to experiment with overnight. He was the look on my face and replied to it with another satisfied grin.
I tried to glare at him but my eyes unconsciously went wide when I felt him lift my buttocks off the mattress. I just barely had enough time to grab onto the headboard to help him keep me in place. Once he had my body in his desired position, Alex started to piston himself in and out of my body at a bruising pace. He went hard and fast and I'm not ashamed to admit that it didn't take long before I was screaming out under the weight of my orgasm. I only say that because it wasn't long after I had started to scream that I felt his rhythm falter as he too started to climax.
I'm pretty sure I blacked out again. Seriously, I don't know what was happening to me, but I knew that I wanted to tell Alex that I wanted to be with him forever. And that I wanted him to be the only man to bring those noises out of me and to cause me to experience those incredible feelings for the rest of my life.
What the actual fuck, Brianna? I thought to myself in a voice that sounded eerily similar to Mike's annoyed tone. You didn't cry enough after the last Padre you fucked? Tonight is just a one night stand. Do NOT make more out of this. Don't do that again.
Alex kept one eye on me as he moved around the room to discard his condom. He almost thought about putting on some clothes. But he had left me on the bed completely naked, so he thought it might be weird if I felt fabric between us as we cuddled.
I jumped slightly when I felt his chest touch my back, but I did nothing to try to get away from him when he wrapped an arm across my stomach. I could feel that he was as naked as I was, but our last round had sated him enough that it didn't feel like he'd be up for another round any time soon.
I wanted to melt into his hug, but I kept myself as still as possible when I whispered, "It's okay Ellis, you don't have to stay and cuddle."
"What?" He questioned as he tried to pull me even further into his chest.
But I wouldn't let him move me. Instead, I pried his arm off me so that I could turn over to look at him. Well not AT him because I couldn't bring myself to look him in the eye when I repeated, "I said that you don't have to stay. You repaid your debt, so you can leave guilt free, Ellis. I mean, you don't have to pretend that you want to cuddle."
"What are you doing here?" He asked as he followed my lead and sat up. "Brie, if you want me to leave, all you have to do is say the word."
"No, I don't. But if you want to go, you don't have to say anything. You can just leave without a word or… or anything else."
"Okay." His scowl deepened and he reached out a hand to grab my arm to keep me from leaving the bed. "Does this have anything to do with your conversation with your boyfriend through the door?"
"Boy…?" I sat back down on the bed and actually looked him in the eye when I continued, "EW! No… No, he is NOT my boyfriend!"
"Okay, good because I was trying to figure out why you'd bring me home with you when you already had a guy living here with you."
"No," I replied with an uneasy laugh. "I mean he does live here, but we're not like that. Didn't I tell you why I'm in San Diego for the next couple of months? I'm honestly not trying to be dense here, I just don't remember if I told you or not."
"You did tell me. Oh… shit! That was your brother! No wonder you used the whole not being decent to keep him from coming in here."
"Yeah, that's exactly it. And when I said you weren't a stranger, I didn't mean for me."
"You didn't? Well, you totally fooled me because I've never had a girl use our box score stats to hit on me."
"That's too bad. Obviously, you've been hanging out at the wrong bars."
He laughed and I almost leaned forward to kiss him. He looked so happy and genuinely amused that I wanted to abandon this topic of conversation. I mean what 's done is done, we couldn't turn back now. I felt like he deserved the truth and that thought made me more nervous. After what had happened nearly two years ago, I had promised myself that I wouldn't put myself in that position again. That was until I had been challenged, by a woman who I wasn't even sure I wanted to impress, to go talk to Alex Ellis.
Damn him for being so sweet and such a thoughtful lover. "Well… even though I know OF you, he's… my brother's the one that actually knows you."
"How?" He asked as he settled with his back against the headboard.
I move to sit by his knees but made sure that we weren't touching. He picked up my right foot and started to massage the sole as I answered, "You… uhh… you work together."
By this time, he had my right foot in both of his hands. As his thumbs pressed into the pad of my foot he asked, "Like on the field together?"
I giggled, but that was mostly from me being ticklish. "Yes, I mean on the field kind of coworkers… well teammates." I gave him a moment to mull over that information as he reached over to give my left foot the same massage treatment. He still didn't look like he had found the answer, so I questioned, "You really didn't recognize his voice?"
Alex shook his head saying, "I really didn't hear anything except him tell you to sleep well. Which reminds me, I should probably let you go back to sleep."
"No, you shouldn't," I countered. "You should keep massaging my feet. Because if you don't, I might never tell you whose house you're in right now."
He quickly picked up my right foot and redoubled his efforts on both feet. I almost fell back on the bed again, but I remained upright while I praised his work saying, "That is awesome, Alex. And I don't totally blame you for not recognizing his voice. Okay… Just imagine that instead of hearing him say something like 'sleep well' that you heard him reciting some sort of inspirational speech with him being a god among men as a focal feature."
"Speech?" He started without sounding like he was asking me a question. "The only guy I can think of that does that is Mike Lawson."
I shrugged and gestured around the room. "Thankfully he's done well for himself, so I get to stay here."
"That does seem evident. So…? Really…? You're Mike Lawson's sister?"
"Half-sister," I replied sheepishly as I tried to pull my feet out of his hold.
"Are you the one…?" He stopped to focus his attention on not letting his hold on my squirming feet to slacken when I tried again to pull away. "Alright, I'll take that as you confirming that you are… But after what I heard him say to Gibby, why would you pull me into that mess?"
Shit! He knows about that? He still wouldn't let go of my feet, so I stopped trying to fight him because I didn't want to chance hurting him.
"I didn't mean to… Remember how I kept telling you that you shouldn't be here? Well… that's why."
"Alright, I guess that does make sense. So, Brianna, how is it that I keep from having the Team Captain from coming down on me with an iron fist once he finds out I slept with his sister… err half-sister?"
"Slept with me?" I asked as tears started to force their way into my voice.
He dropped my feet so that he could pet my shins and calves. "Fine… made love to every waking hour since she and I got back to his house."
I bit he right side of my lip as I inadvertently replied in a coquettish tone, "Keep talking like that and you'll have no problems with Mike at all."
"Really?" He asked while he pulled my whole body towards him. I'm not sure how he did it, but when he next spoke I was sitting, straddling his lap. "You really think that's all it will take?"
"Yes. What happened between Gibby and I, it… I was immature and I let him get the best of me and it got ugly."
"But not anymore?
"No, not anymore," I confirmed before I finally gave into my urge to kiss him. "I can admit that I thought what happened between us was more than it really was. Hey… don't give me that look. I'm not pathetic, I was just misguided."
"Okay, I think… I mean, I've got it. So? Last night you just wanted to use me for a fun-filled night of sexual gratification and then what? You'd throw me to the wolves for slaughter?"
"What? NO! I just wanted to use…" My hand covered my mouth there because I did not mean to use that kind of terminology with him. "I didn't mean to say that. What I meant to say was that I had planned on buying you a couple of rounds on Darren's tab to dazzle the office bitch so that she would shut up about me knowing baseball players and then… Then you were supposed to call it a night and leave me there to awkwardly explain why I didn't go home with you… or invite you back here. But no! You just had to be all charming and smooth talking instead and ruin all of my plans."
"Alright, enough flattery… so I'm here, what happens now?"
I shrugged and answered, "I guess it's up to you."
"It's all up to me? Is that where all of that 'you can just go' BS has been coming from?" I nodded and made sure to stare at my lap. "Alright…"
My head shot up and I'm sure there was no way for me to hid the hurt in my eyes when I quietly asked, "Alright?"
"Yes, alright. Last night didn't go according to plan for either of us. But, I can't say that I'm upset with how things turned out."
"Really?"
"Really. Now you being Lawson's sister does sort of complicate things."
"Yeah, I know that it does," I replied as I tried to move off his lap. "That's why I won't be mad if you want to just walk away now. Y'know, before we get in too deep or whatever."
His arms hadn't moved from around my waist, which meant that I hadn't actually moved at all. Since I couldn't move away from him, I kept my eyes cast down to his waist so that I didn't have to look him in the eyes when he rejected me. At least I was fairly certain that was what he was would do. But then again, I was sitting here naked on his equally nude lap, so maybe I might be wrong.
"Another attempt to give me the brush off? I might start getting a complex, Brie." My head shot up and I'm sure there was no way for me to hid the hurt in my eyes when I quietly asked, "Alright?"
"Sorry," I answered a soft smile. I finally moved my eyes to meet his as I continued, "I just want you to know that you can back out now and I won't be upset, okay? No harm, no foul."
"Okay, I more than get that. But I don't think I'm ready to back out yet."
"You're not?"
"No, I'm not. I had a lot of fun with you, Brie," He replied as his hands moved from my waist to my buttocks. He gave each cheek a soft squeeze. "And I'm not just talking about when we got back here. I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I had that much fun just talking with someone, especially a beautiful woman, over dinner and drinks."
"I told you already, you've been hanging out at the wrong bars."
"That I have… well until last night."
My right index finger traced the shape of his lips. "Smooth Talker."
He kissed the tip of my finger and then bit it gently. I gasped in a breath at that sensation. I never knew that soft bites like that could excite me so much. Unfortunately, sitting here in his lap in nothing but my birthday suit made it hard for me to hide from Alex that it was working for me too.
He must have felt it too because Alex bit my finger a little bit harder before he lifted me up and flipped me onto my back. He was quick to blanket my body with his even before I stopped bouncing. I expected him to kiss me, but he seemed to be frozen in a n uncomfortable looking modified pushup over my body.
I tried to turn my head to get a look at whatever had caught his attention, but I couldn't get my neck to stretch that way. Thankfully, he didn't prolong the awkward silence before Alex asked, "Is that the right time?"
I still couldn't move to look at it, so I answered, "The clock on the iPod dock? Yeah, it is. Why?"
"Shit," he whispered before he rolled off my body. He sat on the bed for a second to compose himself, but it didn't look like he was going to say anything else to me.
"Alex?" I called out in a painfully small voice.
He didn't stop as he sifted through a huge pile of our mixed clothing. I figured that meant that he wasn't going to answer me, but again he surprised me.
"I am really sorry Brie, but I'm supposed to be meeting the hitting coach for some early work before I hit the gym. Since I requested it and not the other way around, I think it would be really bad if I'm late."
"You're right, it would be," I agreed, passing him his t-shirt. He looked surprised, so I shrugged and explained, "You tried to impress me by sling-shotting it across the room. Remember?"
"No, no I don't," he confessed with a chuckle.
After he reclaimed his shirt, he started to get dressed. I had become a little self-conscious in my nakedness, so I hurried over to my closet to find something to wear. My go-to in situations like this was an over-sized flannel shirt that I had bought years ago to lounge in while I was studying. Most people assumed I had inherited from an ex-boyfriend and I did nothing to correct their assumption.
Once I had it on, I turned to talk to Alex and ran face first into his chest. We shared an uncomfortable laugh as we both took a small step back. He brushed my hair off my face and tucked it behind my ears so that it was easier for him to kiss me. And it was a good, deep kiss.
"I'm not running away. I really do need to get to the park."
"I know," I said even though I had a lump forming in my throat.
"Hey, I mean it. This isn't me backing out on you. Hey… Why don't we meet for dinner after the game so that we can talk?" My cheeks turned bright pink then. "Unless you're embarrassed to be seen with me in public."
"No, it isn't that. Mike offered to buy me dinner if I went to the game. I was thinking about going just so that he and I could have some time together because… and I know this will sound really lame, but I swear to God it's the truth… but since I started work we haven't seen each other much and I think he might want to talk about… uhh… stuff."
"That doesn't sound lame. It's sweet." He bent down to kiss me again. I went up on my tip-toes to chase his lips to prolong the kiss for as long as I could. He was still laughing at that when he asked, "How 'bout we meet for breakfast or brunch tomorrow?"
"Brunch? You're really the kind of guy who does brunch?" I joke against his lips that were still hovering over mine.
"Not usually, but to spend time with you, I'm will to give it a try."
I stepped back before he could attempt to kiss me again. This thing between us had gotten very real, very fast. I dropped all of the previous teasing and humor out of my tone as I earnestly asked him, "So this…? Us? You really want to give it a try?"
"Yes. Don't you?
"I… Yes, I do, but…"
He pulled me into a hug saying, "No buts. Meet me for brunch and then we'll go from there, okay?"
I squeezed my arms around his waist answering into his chest, "Okay."
"And as for Mike…"
I pushed out of his embrace so that I could place my hands over his mouth.
"Once we know what this thing between us is, I'll figure out a way to tell him."
His mouth moved against my palm, so I moved them away to let him talk again. He smiled and said, "That sounds good to me."
