BAD BOY GONE GOOD - A STRANGER THINGS BILLY+FEMALE OC MIXED FANFIC
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-BAD BOY GONE GOOD-
THE BLACK BIKINI & THE BET
(STEVE'S POOL PARTY PART 3)
Summary:
Billy is ignoring her. Her father must have really put the fear of God in him. Either that or he doesn't want to be seen loving on her around his cool friends and is ashamed. Both situations are pretty annoying and infuriating.
Doesn't matter though as he is with Tina. Tucker is being moody a bit with her. Tommy has Billy make a crude bet over Mandy. Nikki drags Mandy off to change into that little black bikini which is all she's been talking about all week long. Mandy is nervous and not sure about it.
Getting her courage up she wears it. Billy notices. Definitely notices. A fight breaks out in Steve's house leaving just Tommy, Carol, Billy, and Mandy outside in the pool area. He can't take it anymore. He simply must dive in and try to get her to give into him... maybe for a date? Mandy resists but just barely.
Mandy didn't know that Tucker saw it all... but Billy did. Tucker leaves angry. Billy is found by Tina and she is all over him keeping him busy tonight. Even without her, Billy is having fun being busy playing drinking games and getting drunk. He looks sad to be with Tina and not with Mandy but hey, he brought this on himself right?
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"Oh god, Nikki, what am I going to do about Tucker? He is so mad at me. Did you see his face?"
Mandy put her head in her hands then cracked open the soda and took a sip of it hoping the cool refreshing taste would help her to relax a little bit. She hadn't bothered to touch her chips yet as she was suddenly losing her previous appetite due to her growing anxeity over the situation. This was exactly why she HATED coming to parties.
Nikki was rummaging through her bag with her back to her as they talked.
"Well... can you blame him? You walked in with Billy, the guy he hates being around you the most. Even I can tell you two arrived together. Is it really not a date? Oh, you MUST tell me! What is it like riding in his car? Is it fast? Is it super awesome? What kind of driver is he like behind the wheel? I bet he is dangerous but super cool at handling it!"
Nikki's mouth was running a mile a minute full of questions and Mandy simply couldn't keep up. Her friend pulled out the infamous black bikini from a bag she had carried up with her and showed it to Mandy. It was a cute two piece that had low hanging shoulder straps that would fit around her upper arms and there was a criss cross pattern on the back that you had to lace up. The bottoms had two ties, one on each hip, and the design matched the top. It was all black with a hint of white in certain spots but for the most part it was a very sleek dark looking swimsuit.
"Taaaadaaaa!" Nikki exclaimed shaking it excitedly.
Mandy's eyes went wide at how revealing this two piece was going to be on her and almost spit out her soda.
"No. Nikki, that is way too skimpy..." she started to protest but Nikki put her hand on her hip and gave her a look that said she was going to wear it or else.
'Mandy, come on. It's not that bad. I hand picked this one out for you myself so I know it fits your size." She laughed and mandy asked a stupid question of how she knew that forgetting about their times wandering the mall shopping together and trying on fun outlandish clothes they wouldn't actually buy. Well, Nikki would. But not Mandy.
"How?" She said sipping her soda nervously while eyeing the two piece, her heart in her stomach at imagining herself wearing it.
"We've gone shopping together, derp derp, so of course I KNOW your size, remember? This will definitely match your bra measurements."
Mandy blushed and took the two piece from Nikki putting her soda can down. She was cursing under her breath the entire time she was putting it on which only made Nikki laugh while walking out of the bathroom to give her privacy to change.
When Mandy was done she opened the door and was thanking the heavens above she had recently shaved her legs. She put her arms and hands over her breast and torso trying to cover up.
Nikki walked behind her laughing and tying up the criss cross ties in the back to help her tighten it up a bit. She was most likely trying to make Mandy's breasts pop and look more full until Mandy protested asking her not to lace it so tight.
This bikini was making her feel practically naked and she hated it. Nikki looked and made her jaw drop then gave a wolf whistle at her which made it even worse and made her face turn beet red.
"Wow, you look so good in that! Hargrove is going to eat his heart out when he sees you. You fill that out so nicely."
Nikki chuckled and Mandy gave her a look as if she was forbidden from bringing him into this.
"This isn't for him. It's NOT a date, damnit."
She was now fiddling with the strings and swallowing hard looking in the mirror putting her hands on her stomach as she turned to the side. She was realizing just now that there wasn't much holding it together and on her hips. Someone could easily just tug and pull and that would be the end of her decency let alone her social life and reputation as a prude they all loved to label her as.
"Okay, fine, whatever. But he is still going to flip the fuck out when he gets a load of you."
Nikki practically cackled at the thought of it. Mandy just stood there looking in Steve's parent's bedroom mirror and frowning. The top fit but it was kind of snug. She was playing with it trying to adjust it until it was a bit more functional but no matter what she did it was still revealing her cleavage and she lowered her head giving up trying to make it more modest of a cut.
Before Mandy could protest and try to put her dress back on over it Nikki had grabbed her other clothes and stuffed it in the bag then grabbed Mandy to bring her downstairs and show her off. Nikki was way too exciteable over the littlest of things and too eager to show off her best friend's bod to all the guys at the party.
It wasn't until they had flew down the stairs and opened the back padio doors to the pool area that Mandy realized one of those boys would also be Tucker. She groaned and facepalmed and walked out extremely shy and embarressed unsure of how to hold herself. She had one arm draped over her bare midriff and holding her other arm. She tried to let her thick black lengthy hair cover most of her body to hide her curves but it wasn't working out too well.
Alex and Tucker were still horseplaying in the pool and Steve and Nancy were making out. A few guys stopped what they were doing when they happened to glance in her direction and were beginning to practically drool at her. Some removed their sunglasses nodding at her and grinning as they walked by. With her body almost practically bare and her long black hair wisping around her shoulders and hips she was obviously an object of desire.
Damnit, Nikki. Why do you do this to me? How do you talk me into these things?
Her face was burning up with how they stared and she tried to ignore it but she couldn't help but see they were staring.
She tried to hold her chest to cover it or snatch up a towel from the chair to tie around her hips but Nikki slapped her hands away and wouldn't let her with a playful laugh. Despite her better judgement, maybe more out of fear than actually wanting to know where he was, Mandy's eyes scanned the pool party crowd for Billy to make sure he wasn't anywhere near her to look. Just as she thought she was in the clear because it seemed fate had other plans.
At first she thought maybe he was at his car with Tommy and Carol smoking but when she looked behind the pool towards the back yard fence surrounding the property, that is when she saw him leaning up against it with his arm around a girl and flirting with her. Tina hadn't arrived yet so he was already doing his thing.
She rolled her eyes. He sure didn't waste any time to pick someone to prey on. All she could keep thinking was 'poor Tina'. Despite her being higher in status than Mandy she was never cruel to her so she didn't deserve this at all.
Since his two followers weren't in the pool area she assumed Tommy and Carol must be inside dancing to the music or getting food or more drinks for them. Billy was highly invested in his female target as he laughed and chatted with her while drinking but when he looked over and caught a glance of Mandy his eyes went unreadable at first and then blank with lust almost instantly.
His mouth was agape slightly and she blushed at his reaction to her wishing he would go back to flirting with the girl beside him. Even in the space between them she could tell he was checking her out with his eyes on every inch of her. He was biting his lower lip and grinning like an idiot and pushed his sunglasses down his nose slightly. She turned away not wanting to see him stare at her anymore. Instead she focused on Nikki.
He watched her as she walked over to the edge of the pool with her friend. All of Mandy's curves were on display now and he was getting a good look at her for the first time without all those layers she usually covered herself with. He pulled his glasses off his face and began chewing on one end of them doing strange things with his tongue and not looking away from her.
The girl he had been flirting with, who was actually very beautiful with reddish hair and tanned skin, noticed him staring at Mandy and waved a hand near his face trying to put his attention back on her. She moved in front of him insistantly when he didn't break his gaze, which was the only thing that brought him back from getting a good eyeful and then back to looking at her. He smiled at the girl half apologetically with a flirty grin but practically glanced past her shoulders still trying to see Mandy.
Billy felt the urge to say goodbye to the girl and dive into the pool to make an excuse so he could get closer to Mandy but when the girl caught him not paying enough attention to her, she broke the conversation for him and called him him some form of insult. Flipping her hair and walking off pissed she left him standing there alone seeing he was not interested in her anymore and shook her ass as she left as if taunting him that he wouldn't get a piece of her now.
He had called after her for a minute not even remembering her name but once he realized she was done with him, he cursed under his breath and looked beyond frustrated. Why had he been careless enough to ditch a sure thing for someone like Mandy who was basically a prude and a tease? He thought about this for a minute clearly upset with himself but he found he couldn't help but look back to Mandy.
Why wasn't she getting into the water? That would be the best way for him to close in on her but the water ripples would obstruct his view of her lovely and shapely figure a bit. No matter, he would still get an eyeful.
Licking his lips and about to head over, his mind went back to her father's words about respect and it instantly reminded him of a little conversation he had with his own father Neil. It had been about respect and responsibility of treating Max right and watching over her.
When he had gotten surly with him over it denying Max as his family and thusly also his responsibility, his father had hit him so hard he gave him a week long bruise on his ribs and stomach that was just now beginning to heal up. His tan he gained from sunning by the pool helped to hide it a bit better than when it was in full swing.
Billy winced at the memory. Mandy's father wasn't as dangerous but that rifle he saw above the fireplace sure made him question just how far Mandy's father might go to protect or avenge his daughter should he put his hands on her and disrespect her.
He wanted so bad to start his flirtatious game up with Mandy and see if she would loosen up around him but all he pictured was her father's angry face and recalled his stern words to him.
He had promised to obey, both to Mandy and her father. This was killing him inside and was making him pent up and wild just beneath the surface. Like a caged animal being teased with a slab of raw meat and unable to reach it to devour it. An impossible itch he would not be allowed to scratch and it frustrated him as all hell.
Should he break his word and approach? Should he keep it and play it aloof and safe? What if Tommy and Carol noticed him cozying up to her? And if he did keep his distance, what if Mandy didn't think he wanted her and got too cold on him? He was working on heating her up and getting her ready for him. He had been all week long.
Damn it all to hell, he had a bad ass reputation to uphold as the biggest loverboy in Hawkins and to saddle up with Mandy would make them think he had gone soft for a girl.
So many barriers and obstacles in his way of his heart's desire that he hardly knew where to start. So he contented himself with sitting in a pool chair drinking and merely watching her from under his shades trying not to be too obvious. He noticed one of her guy friends swimming over to her and striking up a conversation with her. A slow anger burned and kindled inside of him. Was it jealousy? No. He didn't get jealous. Ever. Over any female. Least of all someone like Mandy Hawkins.
Nikki sat beside her on the edge of the pool and put her feet in with her. They were chatting when Tucker swam over and hooked his bare arms and chest on the ledge of the pool looking up at them smiling.
"Hey, Mandy. How are you?" He said softly, feeling sheepish for ignoring her these past few days.
When he saw her come out in that amazing bikini a pang of longing welled up inside of him and he felt he had to get over his stupid childish temper about her not feeling the same about him. He thought maybe if he played his cards right and was nicer to her that maybe he could still win her over just yet.
"I'm good, Tucker. So... you're going to talk to me now?" He looked down as her big emerald eyes had tried to search his brownish grey ones and felt ashamed.
"Yeah. I'm really sorry. I don't want to lose you, even as a friend. But I'm just hoping that maybe if you would give me a chance... we could still try."
Billy was amused at hearing this. He wasn't too far away so it was within his earshot. His lip curled as he watched and listened to the pining boy trying to get in her pants. Mandy was a hardened shell. A vice or a trap shut up tight. If he couldn't even get in there... this kid stood no chance.
His father always said never send a boy to do a man's job. He took more swigs of his beer and simply listened in silence covering his wandering eyes back up with his shades. He knew he looked good. Tanned, muscled, all sprawled out on the chair. A lot of girls were checking him out. He could have his pick. But he just didn't want to. He noticed Mandy glancing over at him nervously from time to time then turning away quickly. He kept grinning knowing she loved how he looked.
"Well... at least you're hanging out with me. I... I missed you Tucker. I'm glad you're not upset anymore. Friends?"
She put out her hand to shake his. Billy stiffened as he watched them make contact with their hands and even though it was brief, for some reason it still rubbed him raw and annoyed him.
"Friends. Unless of course you ever change your mind."
He slipped that one in slyly and noticed Billy eyeing them both. He gave a smug look as if to dare Billy and telling him to back off. The little punk was trying to be territorial with her.
Mandy hadn't noticed because she was talking with Nikki again and Alex came up pulling on her legs to try and get her into the pool. So many boys all touching and fighting over her and grabbing. Billy's blood was on fire but he maintained his cool demeanor, God only knows how. The dominant Alpha in him longing to come out and play.
"Treat my daughter with respect."
He heard her father's voice in his head again. But were these childish horny boys treating her with respect? He huffed and went inside to look for Tommy and Carol and possibly to get something to snack on. His gait was that of intense anger and yet held swagger and confidence even when angry. Mandy watched him go inside out of the corner of her eye.
"Tucker... if ever a boy could change my mind for something more, I guess it would be you."
She made sure to say that to where Billy could hear it. He was acting weird and him ignoring her was upsetting her. She wanted her words to cut into him. He paused at first but kept on walking barely giving it away if it affected him any. Mandy immediately felt like shit for using Tucker to get a rise and reaction out of Billy. It was low and it would give him false hope leading him on. She vowed not to say something like that again to him. He smiled and obviously took it to heart.
Mandy, you are such a heartless jerk. She thought about herself.
Nikki was talking about their plans for Fall months before it was even officially Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Alex was still trying to tug Mandy into the pool and splashing her while Tucker was rested with his back to the edge as close to Mandy as he dared to get. Her words have given him new confidence but he vowed he would not blow it or make her upset with him again. He had to wait patiently if he felt he would even stand a chance.
When it began getting dark, Steve announced he was going to light the Tiki Torches his parents had bought to give them some ambiance and lighting. The pool lights were too dim and he didn't want anyone to have an accident.
Nancy followed him indoors to where the music was and Mandy had stood up to dry off her feet and legs with a towel. She was about to head to a pool chair to lounge when Alex and Tucker both piped up about her not getting in and were begging her to come enjoy the water. She looked around still feeling eyes on her and really just wanted to wrap a towel around herself and cover up.
When Billy, Tommy, and Carol had come back outside they kept to their own little corner by the fence beyond the pool smoking and talking. Mandy could tell that although he was listening to them that still didn't prevent him from keeping his eyes on her. It was the most uncomfortable she had been since the night he kissed along her neck and tried to touch her in his room. Just recalling it made her shiver and her heart pick up fast and unsteady rythm with every beat.
"No, really, I'm good. I... I can't. I mean, I don't really wa-..."
Before she could finish her protest as she was slightly bent over still drying her legs, Nikki winked at Alex and Tucker mischieviously and then as she walked by her on her way into the house, she lightly shoved Mandy with her hips causing her to pitch forward into the pool.
The boys laughed at this and it definitely caught Billy's attention. Now was his chance. He would either join in swimming and make a move or forever hold his peace and continue avoiding. But he had to wait until her two guy friends weren't hanging around her so much.
Mandy came up from the water wiping her long wet dark hair out of her eyes as it trailed behind her and around her in the pool water. Her face was slightly sputtering and spitting up water. She blew her nose gently and felt the sting of the chlorinated pool water that had gone up her nose from the sudden shove into it. She whirled around and tried to splash Nikki in retaliation but she had already disappeared inside.
"Nikki... you... uggghhh..." Mandy grumbled and then noticed that Alex and Tucker came over to check on her.
"You okay?" Alex laughed and was jumping on Tucker's back trying to push him under playfully but Tucker deflected and flipped him over instead.
"Yeah..." She coughed. "I'm fine. Just a little water up my nose, that's all." She gave a smile.
"When Nikki gets back out here let's all get her good." Mandy grinned deviously. She was actually having a lot of fun now despite Billy's way of giving her attention while also ignoring her.
Alex nodded and Tucker grinned agreeing to the plan. When Nikki returned Alex and Tucker got out of the pool and ran up behind Nikki lifting her up by her wrists and ankles while she screamed for them to let her go. But it was to no avail because they had resolved to throw her in regardless. She made a huge splash and came up for air leaving the pool and chasing the boys around it yelling at them. Mandy told her to be careful or she might slip.
"Now, now, Nikki, turnabout's fair play." She laughed at her friend's misfortune and whirled around in the water.
Billy saw just how happy and switched on she was. He almost felt bad that he hadn't been able to cause that happiness. Still, he went back to chilling with Tommy and Carol who asked him when Tina would be coming by. He shrugged not really sure and not really caring.
Mandy giggled in the pool with her friends and they all whooped and hollared while playing together rough housing in the water. Once they were done, the boys heard someone yell from inside and turned to look.
It was Steve yelling. He sounded distressed. Someone was very drunk and trying to start a fight inside the house. Mandy's heart stopped. Was it Billy? She frowned but then breathed a sigh of relief when she saw he was still hanging out with Tommy while oddly turning down left and right almost every girl that was approaching him and trying to get his attention. She guessed he was far too busy drinking and enjoying his buzz to bother but it wasn't like him at all. Perhaps Tina was on her way so he had to watch himself.
"I better go and help him."
Alex said jumping out of the pool over the edge and Tucker looked at Mandy longingly, not wanting to go, but followed him to help break up the fight and try to stop the drunken roid rage jock from breaking things indoors.
"Me too, before Steve has a hernia or pops a blood vessel." Tucker followed waving to the girls. Tommy was definitely interested so he grinned and craned his neck to see what was going on for himself, Carol rolling her eyes being just as annoyed with it as Mandy was.
Nikki's eyes got wide and it was obvious she was next.
Everyone was clearing out on her, what the hell?
Mandy frowned.
Gosh, people were so high school while in high school.
She thought on that musing to herself for a bit.
"A fight? Oh, I have GOT to see this. I'll go check on Nancy too while I'm in there."
Nikki shouted with a spark in her eyes and made her way out of the pool grabbing a towel and running inside. The music was still going but she saw a crowd of people staring at the commotion inside the house. Steve was most likely beside himself at this point fretting over broken vases and valuables. It was highly unlikely he would survive graduation at this point.
When Billy noticed Mandy was alone in the pool he told Tommy and Carol he was going to go for a swim. Tommy smiled knowing exactly what he was doing. He looked at him as if he were stupid.
"Seriously? Mandy Hawkins? Why?" He asked wondering what Billy even saw in the girl. She was a little nobody and he literally watched Billy turning down hot pieces of tail left and right for a solid twenty minutes or so.
Carol took a puff on one of Billy's cigarettes and exchanged confused and annoyed glances with Tommy who was slack jawed and heavy lidded from being way beyond buzzed. He had brought his own flask and fished it out of his pocket earlier drinking stronger stuff than what Steve was offering.
"Why else? Did you see her in that bathing suit? She is RIPE for the picking. No guy here could handle a body like that, except me."
Billy boasted putting out his cigarette and running his fingers through his long curly blonde hair. He began taking his boots, socks, and jeans off to reveal his swim trunks underneath. Thank goodness he wasn't too excited over her for all of them to see.
Removing his leather jacket and pulling his red buttoned shirt off of his toned chest he laid them over the pool chair and made like he was going to dive in when Tommy's hand shot out and grabbed his wrist. Billy turned and glared at him looking at his hands that dared to grip him. They locked eyes and Billy was about to clock him if he didn't let go.
"Tommy, you better remember your place. Get your hand off me or I will break it off." He growled at him and Carol looked nervously between the two of them. Finally, Tommy let go but didn't stop grinning at him.
"You're barking up the wrong tree, cherry hound. She won't put out. She's not only a freak but she's a stuck up prude too. You won't even get to the ball field with that one let alone first base."
He was slurring his words and looked angry at Billy for choosing her. Why? What was it to him?
Billy shot him a look with his feral blue eyes and wanted to pound the crap out of him for pulling that with him. His look was fierce and Tommy backed down but still kept his drunken twisted smile on his face.
"No one can resist me, Tommy. I can have any girl I want. It's none of your business who I choose to chase after so remember that I am in charge here." Billy spat out with a menacing glare at him. Tommy gave a drunken laugh almost mocking that he was shaking in his shoes. Carol saw if he didn't tone it down there would be another fight. Right out here between the two of them.
"Chill out, guys, c'mon." She said nervously trying to stop them from being at each other's throats. They both ignored her and she sighed.
"I bet you fifty bucks you won't seal the deal." Tommy laughed his freckled face grinning widely at Billy.
"You're on. Put your money where your mouth is, Tommy." Billy growled at him and this made Carol roll her eyes at their lame bet. Tommy pulled out his wallet and flashed the cash to Billy to prove he could. Billy didn't have to. Tommy knew he wouldn't say it if he couldn't back it up.
"Alright. It's a sucker bet. You can pay me as soon as you strike out." He took a drag on his cigarette and laughed softly.
"How long do I have? What's the terms?" Billy sneered his body language stiff. He looked to Mandy seeing his time to get over there was being wasted on this childish crap.
"By graduation. I'm feeling generous." Tommy smirked. There was something in his eyes that told Billy he was seriously counting on him failing.
"Let him go after the freak, Tommy, it's his time to waste." She popped her gum and was amused at this bet but her words were also laced with a hint of jealousy and Billy grinned at the both of them.
"I won't lose. I NEVER lose." He said, his ego swelling with pride and his voice oozing with confidence.
"You have to bring proof. If you do get all up in that, bring a pair of her panties and make sure they aren't a clean pair, if you catch my drift..."
Tommy eyed him with his challenge and stared him down.
"Fine. Sick, but fine." Honestly, he didn't care if he lost the money. Or if he didn't win the bet. He just wanted to shut Tommy up so he could go to her.
He turned away to walk to the pool where Mandy was sitting alone on the steps looking inside the house for her friends. He was eager to talk with her and get closer. That bikini was insanely sexy and he wanted a close up look.
When he dived in at the deep end and resurfaced swimming over to her, Mandy was now playing with the water trailing her fingers in it and curled up hugging her knees while waiting for her friends to return.
She was leaning her cheek on her drawn up knee and when she least expected it, she felt the splash of water from Billy's sudden dive into the pool before she even knew he was coming in. She gripped the railing by the steps and ducked down lower into the water sitting on the lowest step as if it could hide her body from him.
When Billy came up from the water he had a smirk on his face and pulled back his wet curly hair sliding it across his forehead and out out of his eyes. He began swimming towards her and she swallowed audibly wishing that Alex and Tucker were here in case he tried anything funny.
It was apparent she had not heard a word of what Tommy and Carol had been talking about with him or she would have been getting out of the pool angrily to avoid him. He took the bet out of pride but if she found out it would be game over before he even started. Hopefully those two could keep their big mouths shut and not sabotage his plans.
"Hey, rabbit. Where are your friends? Left you all alone out here?' He was swimming towards her, his strong body gliding through the water expertly and with ease. She backed up against the steps as he approached. He stopped just short of the lowest step in front of her and simply stood there half in half out of the pool grinning from ear to ear.
"Umm... there was a fight. They went inside to help Steve. What do you want, Billy?" She folded her arms over her chest sort of angry with him for invading her space after ignoring her for an hour but when she realized it made her cleavage stick out even more she placed her arms back around her knees drawing them up to block his view of her once more.
"Just thought I would come and keep you company is all. Is that against the rules of our deal?"
His smirk made her want to shove a crap ton of water at his face so he could choke on it and she wanted to run out of the pool and grab that towel. Right now. The way he was looking at her made her tremble causing all her nerves to feel as if they were on edge.
"I guess not. As long as you keep your hands where I can see them. Like you promised."
She glared at him and it made him give a deep low laugh. This wouldn't be easy. The butt of the joke was on her, really. Of course he could put his hands on her now that she said that. She would be able to see them. They were in a pool. In clear water.
When he came near her on the steps, she could feel his body heat flowing off of him as he sat beside her, even in the moderately warm pool. The drops of water dripping off his face, his hair, and all of his muscles making little beads on his skin while running down along his sleek well toned body. Just as she had imagined it earlier and twice as amazing as she had seen in her mind's eye.
His eyes were reflecting the water and the tiki torch flames. His soft full lips and his cupid's bow even more lovely up close to her. Each time he had come in for a kiss denied she had seen just how beautiful his lips were. He was very tempting. It was still on her mind when he would try to steal that kiss he had claimed he would come for.
He flashed his white teeth at her with a wide grin because she was looking at him and taking in all of his features and he knew it. His curly wet hair was dripping beads of water and it rolled down his clavicle and his pecks to rejoin the rest of the pool.
Her eyes unbiddenly lowered to his strong taut stomach, his four pack, and his belly button. Before she looked even lower and below the waistband of his red swim trunks, his lifeguard colors, she looked away stopping herself from checking him out. Her face was red and heated. To escape him she waded out into the water and swam in the middle her back to him pretending she wanted to be in the water and not on the steps.
Tommy and Carol were watching and laughing each time Billy was denied by Mandy and they decided to go inside and let him do his thing. It was now just Mandy and Billy in the pool, alone, with the starry night sky above them which also reflected lightly on the pools surface.
"Where are you going?" He asked sitting there with his hands on his knees.
"Isn't obvious? Away from you, Hargrove." Mandy shot back flatly.
He narrowed his eyes at her and sighed. Why was she doing this? Hot and cold all the time. Hot in his arms one moment, cold and pulling away the next. He could make no progress with her like this. She wasn't being fair.
"You know, you make no sense to me. First you pass notes about me with your friend in class, most likely discussing how you want to jump my bones. Then you come to see me in the gym just to watch me play in my gym shorts showing my body off to you. Next you invite me to your house for a movie night, tricking me to hangout with your whole family, and then to be alone with me on the couch letting me put my arm around you and then my lips on you, even moaning softly when I do it."
That earned him an angry look from her. He almost laughed.
"But as if that isn't enough... you touch me on my thigh in my car on the ride over here. You even took the time to get angry at me ignoring you so much that you used one of your friends to try and get to me. Now you get pissed at me for trying to be near you and you push me away?"
Mandy stared at him in disbelief of how he was stringing things together. He continued not stopping.
"Earlier since we arrived here all the way to now you have looked at me almost all night for not even speaking to you out of respect and me keeping my end of our agreement leaving you alone. Now you're in a sexy bikini teasing me in the water and when I do come to you, you get upset with me for approaching you? Just what is it you want from me, Mandy?"
He sounded like he was almost in physical pain with his frustrated words to her.
Her face scrunched up with a mixture of anger and shock at his full on recap. But she frowned knowing he was exactly right. She had been giving him mixed up confused signals all night if not all week long at school, not always entirely aware she had been doing it.
The last thing she wanted was to make him believe he even had a chance of hooking up with her, and yet every time he touched her, nuzzled into her, spoke to her, a part of her body had responded to him and he could feel it and see it. They both knew it was there, whatever it was, between them.
Apparently, she had failed at making that clear to him she didn't want him to touch her or come near her. She swam a little closer and this made him smile again at her and lean forward watching her intently.
"You know what they call that, Mandy? A tease. A fuckin' bonified tease and a flirt. Yet you want to act all 'holier than thou' to me. If you want to scrap the deal and stop being one like this, then you should really let me know. I'm right here. I'm practically throwing myself at your feet. And if you knew me better you would know that isn't like me at all."
He had her cornered now with logic. She knew what she was doing wasn't right. It should be a straight up no and cutting all ties. But she had deep down wanted to get to know him a little. Just... without all his other crap that came with him.
He saw her puff up with anger at his statement about her and silently cursed himself for saying it. So much for being smooth with her. But she stayed in the water and didn't get out to leave. She was thinking about this and it was clear he had spun her for a loop on with all his fine points.
Mandy stayed frozen in the water unsure of how to respond to that accusation and label. She knew it was being passed around about her at school. But to hear it coming from him... from his own lips. Right before her. It stung. It actually hurt. It really burned her up inside that he would insinuate she was being the tease as if she were putting moves on him. He had his nerve. All the moves made have been on his part. If anyone was teasing... it was him teasing her.
She gasped when she noticed he was getting off the steps to swim out to her before even getting her answer or if she would go off on him. His form was graceful in the water and he drew out his swimming slowly, approaching cautiously not wanting her to run away from him again. He paused just five feet from her and tread water keeping himself afloat awaiting her answer. In a playful manner he began circling her in the pool, like a shark, and she turned to try and keep facing him as he did.
"Billy, that was a dick thing to say. I'm nothing of the sort. I'm not whatever it is you are imagining me to be in that confused hormone driven head of yours." He smirked and kept circling around her and spit out water at her playfully while doing it. His smile showed her he liked getting the better of her. Calling her a tease definitely made him feel he had achieved that.
"Oh? Well, that's not what I hear. It seems you enjoy making guys get hot for you and then put them out without so much as even a putting out or giving them even a kiss. Was I the exception to that rule last night? You did that on purpose and then you pulled away. Even Juliet did more than that with Romeo."
He quipped recalling to mind the night of them watching the film together and how she knew every word of Romeo and Juliet's love story and their words to one another. Her face burned hot remembering how he had tried to kiss her mouth and then got her cheek instead when she moved at the last second, kissing her neck and jawline trying to make his way over to her lips while holding her on the couch. How he had been playing with and smelling her hair in the darkness lit only by the glow of the t.v. and moaning softly at her.
"Regardless of what you've heard, Hargrove, I don't do that. I honestly regret our kiss. And I will not agree to you having a second one either. Or did you think I was a liar when I told you earlier that I've never even dated anyone. I'm simply not interested." She shot back at him.
He was still circling her trying to find an opening to get closer to her. He was ruthless and in hot pursuit. She knew he was going to fail in keeping at least ONE of the conditions she had made him swear to before coming out here with him.
He had left Steve and her friends alone. It hadn't been him who started a fight tonight with anyone.
But his hands were itching to touch her again and she didn't know what to do about it. He was getting closer with each circle of her he made.
Would he try to use force? Would she have to yell for someone? Would they even hear her outside with how loud the music was blaring drowning out any cry for help she could possibly give?
His eyes were focused and wild, taking in every inch of her even underneath the water.
"Could you stop doing that? You're making me dizzy and it's very annoying."
It was the only thing she could think to say. He laughed not stopping his movement around her until she attempted to leave the ring he made around her.
Mandy tried to swim away from him once more and he effortlessly caught up to her and grabbed her wrist. He didn't do it rough, just a firm gentle grip while keeping her from escaping him. Why was panic in her eyes? She knew him. She had to have known by now he wouldn't hurt her or do anything against her will. He just wanted to be close to her, that's all.
Turning to face him she tried to pull away backwards, her long hair twirling all about them in the water, but he used the current of the pool and his adept swimmer's body to swim towards her. He gently backed her up against the edge of the pool and had both hands up on the ledge on either side of her. She had guessed his weeks of being a lifeguard at the community pool had strengthened his prowess in the water with how he moved.
He trapped her there and moved in closer. She felt the water rippling between them tickling her skin. Giving up she realized she was now pinned with him facing her and he was slightly pressing closer to her. She felt their bodies make sudden contact and his warmth meshed with hers. She could feel his bulge pressing into her core beneath the thin red swim trunks he wore.
"I'm making you dizzy? That's nothing compared to what you've been doing to me, Mandy. I'm getting impatient. I know this isn't a date. But I want a yes or no on whether or not I can take you out on a proper one. What do you say?"
He loomed in getting even closer with his face just inches from hers. He bit his lower lip and was looking from her eyes to her neck and down to her chest. His look screamed that he wanted to kiss her. To take what he requested just hours ago.
Admiring her curves and her round lovely breasts that could barely be contained by the bikini top, he sucked in a breath between his teeth and slid one hand down as if he were going to place it on her hip underwater. She flattened herself as far back against the pool wall as she possibly could and saw the hungry look in his eyes. He was positively sinful and overbearing and his wet curly hair and bare chest made her stomach flutter.
She was liking his heat and the feel of him against her but she wouldn't ever let him know. She could never. Maybe she was teasing him. Maybe she felt he deserved it for all the things he had done to her since day one of coming to her school and taking over her piece of mind replacing it with lustful fantasies about him she didn't want. Did she? Didn't she?
"Billy, I think you have me confused with the tramps you run around with. Again, I'm NOT interested. In fact, I am so not interested that I will be happy to go back to avoiding you just to prove to you how much I want nothing that you could possibly think you have to offer me."
He looked angry and his eyes flashed to her lips and then back into her green ones searching her as if to call her bluff.
"Playing hard to get can be fun. But it can only last for so long. I felt you and heard you when my lips were on you that night. You put up a good fight, but I think you want to be alone with me. I think you like it what I do to you. Mandy, go out with me."
It wasn't a request. It was a command.
"You want it as bad as I do. I can read your body like a popup book. Yes or no, Mandy, and be honest."
Her chest was tight and her breathing rapid. Then she felt his hand move from her hip to sliding along her stomach slowly in the water. Soon he was trailing his fingers along her abs and then back to her pelvic bone. He carressed her hip and pushed even closer into her making her gasp which illicited a rumbling low laugh from him. Just another more couple of inches lower and he would be at her apex stroking her inner thigh. Or was he planning on tugging on that thin little string that was all that was between him and her dignity.
"I said keep your hands where I can see them, Hargrove. Or did you not hear me?" She angrily spat out when he kept messing with her bikini string.
"Mandy... we're in a pool. You can clearly see my hands."
He smirked wickedly at her and she stopped with her words of protest dying on her lips. She really should have chosen her words more wisely, she could not deny he was right.
"Mandy, again I'll ask. Let me take you out on a date. Just one." He attempted again as he pressed his warm body against hers more urgently causing a soft sigh to escape her lips without any way to stop her body reacting to his.
"I can't. I'm sorry..." She tried to force the word 'NO' out but his warm searching mouth had grazed along her shoulder for a few seconds as he returned his hand to run below her flat smooth stomach, teasing her by keeping it there and going no further down to her bikini line.
She now understood that this was part of his game. He didn't want to force it or force her. He wanted her to fold and give in on her own terms and of her own free will. Wanted her to make the decision and say yes. He wanted her to give him what he wanted willingly.
Just as she had guessed before, and what Tucker had tried to warn her about, he wanted to break her and have her beg him for more. To ruin her ability to say no to him. To play his game back with him and allow him full unadulterated access to her completely. Everything he did was done intentionally with the sole purpose of not allowing her to be able to think straight so she would give in to him and break down.
"Is that your final answer? Are you sure?" He said in between tracing his tongue and lips along her shoulder and biting it playfully while heading for her throat. This made her moan softly at the feel of his teeth gently sinking in as he left behind light marks on her. It rippled pleasure all throughout her body and straight into her core like hot white searing lightning.
She was breathing hard and all her senses were flooded with him as she tried to get the strength to swim out from under his powerful hold on her. She longed to get to the safety of her towel and to run inside Steve's house and find Nikki and the group, but she felt glued to him and unable to move away.
"Billy... don't." Her body was screaming with his touch and his trailed kisses and nibbles. She almost pushed itself into him wantonly but very much against her will and better judgement. What was happening to her? Why did he make her feel like this?
He grinned and continued to press his lips to her wet soft skin and kissed a slow trail along her neck making his way to her ear, his breath hot and just as rapid and labored as hers.
If she was trying to push him away and end this, she was doing a terrible job of it by her needy responses to him and his touch. Her body betrayed her and her heartbeat revealed what he was doing to her as her brain screamed at her to escape. She couldn't will herself to tear away from him when he suddenly placed his other hand on her back and slid it up along her spine playing with and tugging at the laces that crossed the backside of her top.
He groaned into her ear saying her name as he felt her bare skin and pressed his body into hers with a need that matched her own albeit secretly. She could feel him grinding himself into her slowly. The water gently lapping at both of their bodies caressing them like a lover adding to the pent up desire that burned between them both. She couldn't deny their chemistry together, but she wanted to. Oh, how she wanted to.
"C'mon, Mandy. Just say yes. I'll take you someplace really nice. I'll treat you like a queen. I'll do things to you that no one will ever be able to do to you or for you but me. Would you like that?"
Every word whispered in her ear made her body vibrate and shot a stab of need straight into her. The sounds he was making as he touched her made her tremble against him and stole away all of her ability to resist.
He was just too much to handle despite all her alarm bells going off. Too close for comfort, he was manipulating the feral animal part of her mind and body activating it rapaciously. She could feel every hard muscle of him pressed into her softness and she was coming undone against him in a losing battle by the minute to remove himself from her.
Mandy gave another unbidden soft moan that escaped her lips when he put his other hand back down to her bikini line, playfully running his fingers along the string that held her bottoms on and tugging at it as if he would tear it away. He didn't however. He was messing with her making her think he would.
"Stop, Billy... stop." She breathed out softly. He heard her say stop but he played it off like she didn't.
"I'm sorry. I thought I heard you say something. I could have sworn I heard you say 'yes, Billy, I would love to go out on a date with you. Pick me up at seven. I'll be waiting.' Is that right?"
He mocked as he put a hand up to his ear as if he had been listening to her actually saying those imagined words to him. He went back to grazing his warm lips all over her throat moaning so that his mouth vibrated on her with each kiss and she felt herself getting dizzy from where his hands were carressing her at her abdomen. He was still teasing his fingers along her bikini line.
"I didn't... say..." She tried to deny his joke but she couldn't get the words out to rail on him for humiliating her the way he was doing.
"Huh. Imagine that." He said as he continued to kiss her along her soft neck passionately. He wasn't slowing down anytime soon, not until she would answer.
Closing her eyes she involuntarily leaned her head back which gave him more room to kiss her soft fair neck and he seized the opportunity to do so. He was now kissing under her chin and tracing his tongue down to the space between her collarbone eventually kissing the top part of her cleavage between her breasts. His breath was hot on her skin and she was melting against him feeling a wetness below that had nothing to do with the pool water.
He suddenly stopped and pulled away from her to look at her face which was turned upwards and frozen in an expression of sheer ecstasy. No matte how hard she fought she couldn't hide the pleasure he gave her barely doing anything at all to her besides light touches and what he considered soft innocent kissing. He smirked at her and enjoyed the sight of it. Enjoyed seeing her come undone and unraveled before him.
He also looked up just in time to see her little friend, Tucker, glancing out the glass slider door at them and he made it very clear with his expression to the kid that he was thoroughly enjoying Mandy in the water. Tucker frowned angrily while gripping a red plastic cup in his hand and looked away from them as he moved back somewhere into the house not wanting to see what he had any longer. Billy looked back down to Mandy to once more enjoy her facial expression as it was all knitted up in pleasure over him and what he was doing to her.
When Mandy noticed he was no longer nuzzling his lips against her or using his tongue to message her skin, she opened her eyes slowly while panting softly at him. His blue sharp eyes dancing with amusement were locked onto hers and his lips so very close to her own again that he could just lean forward and capture her mouth with his. He could just take that kiss he told her he would have one way or another. But he didn't even attempt to as he just floated there with her in the water.
"You didn't say please when asking me to stop. And you didn't say no to my question. Don't make me beg, Mandy, it's not my style."
He groaned the words out panting with her as their breath mingled together with how close they were now when face to face. He placed his finger over her full lips and gently ran it along the tender soft flesh and the parting line where her upper lip met the lower one. He could feel that her full lips were just begging for him to put his hungry mouth there and fulfill his claim from earlier.
She accidentally moaned out softly when he stroked the smooth skin of her bare back along her spine tenderly with his fingertips. He ran them along the line of it all the way to her dimples just above the backside of her hips and cute full bottom. At first she thought he was going to take the kiss he wanted but he didn't come any closer other than teasing her with his finger to her mouth and keeping his eyes intently on hers while watching to see how she responded to him.
She was cornered. No one was around. Where the hell was Nikki, Tucker, Alex, Steve, or Nancy? Just how bad was that fight indoors and when would they be coming back?
She turned her head from him and looked around desperately for a distraction to use to get away but found nothing but him, her, and the water all around them. His face was urgent and eager as he held her stare captive once more by turning her chin to make her face him with his firm but gentle grip. He was waiting with abaited breath, his body holding hers up against the pool wall not budging an inch to let her go until she answered him.
"Billy... please let me go. Let me think. I can't think when you're doing this. If I give you my answer tomorrow, will you let me go?"
She whispered it to him softly urging him to release her.
He briefly considered this. Just how truthful was she being that she would give him the answer by morning? He almost pictured her walking up to the door of his father's house and ringing the doorbell or knocking just to say one little world he desperately longed to hear.
Her response was to make him wait and let her think on it for a while then answer. It wasn't a no. But it wasn't the answer he wanted either. It was a maybe filled with possible time delayed promise but lacking any certainty should she double cross him and not follow through. He supposed it would have to do for now...
"As you wish, rabbit. Think on it tonight. I'll be waiting for your answer but I want it by tomorrow, no excuses. Date or no date, don't forget... I still want my next kiss. See you around, princess. I have a party to go enjoy."
With that he pushed away from her and withdrew his masculine frame from her soft supple one. He had said his parting words in a low deep whisper unmistakably laced with lust and longing and finally allowed her passage to move freely once more in the water. He was backing off and swimming away to climb out and towel off. The sudden feeling of him no longer pressed against her felt strange as if it was wrong somehow.
She gripped the edge of the pool to steady herself trying to collect and regain her composure at his sudden absence. He winked at her over his shoulder and left her to her thoughts which he had no doubt were all about him now. She would have dreams and fantasies about him and in no way would they ever be enough until she finally surrendered to him.
He laughed at what a trembling hot mess he left her in as he was pulling on his jeans and putting his shirt back on. Finishing with his socks and boots he got up from the pool chair and peeked his head inside the house before walking in to rejoin the rest of the party people. Some of his fave music was playing as he cheered for it before closing the slider door behind him leaving her out there alone in the dimly lit pool.
How could he call HER a tease after what he had just put her through just a few minutes ago?Lost in her fuming thoughts Mandy let out a deep breath in frustration and swam shakily out of the water climbing out at the steps.
Tommy and Carol had apparently walked outside during the last few minutes of him messing with her and were standing there grinning at her but didn't say anything to her. Their stupid faces said enough and she didn't care what they thought of her.
Nikki walked out remembering she had a best friend out here after seeing Billy walk into the house. She felt bad for leaving her out here hoping Mandy was okay. She had brought her a towel.
"Hey, I am so sorry I got stuck in there playing a drinking game with Alex and a few others once all the commotion died down and people went back to having a good time. I didn't get to see much either. Too many people crowded around the ones responsible. The guys made them separate into different rooms in the house to chill out. I am so sorry, Mandy."
Mandy groaned at her friends failure to keep her word and stay close by her side but she tried to smile to her friend telling her it was okay as she grabbed the towel by the pool chair to cover herself with once she got out. She was dripping wet, flustered, aggravated, and really just wanted to relax sitting with her friends so Billy couldn't torment her anymore.
"That's okay. Let's just go in and find the others okay? I don't want to be alone out here or anywhere for the rest of the night at this party."
Nikki nodded apologizing again and told her she wouldn't leave her side for the rest of the night.
Fumbling with the towel, Mandy almost dropped it, which made Tommy and Carol snicker at her softly when they came outside and saw her shaken up. Their grins told her they knew why she was a mess but she ignored them angrily and finished up with the towel. Drying off her long impossible wet hair and her body she wrapped the towel around her tying it in a knot at her hip like a makeshift skirt until she could get back into her clothes from Nikki's bag in the bathroom. They both went inside together ignoring Tommy and Carol's laughter.
It was peaceful indoors, so Nikki must have been correct that the fighting issue must have been resolved for good. Steve looked happy dancing with Nancy in the middle of the room and Tucker was seated in the living room on a big comfortable tan couch drinking next to Alex.
Mandy knew and could tell Tucker looked angry and hurt. What she didn't know was why. Why he got the most ugliest scowl on his face as soon as he saw her. It was as if all her hard work and effort at getting back into his good graces had suddenly come undone and had been for nothing.
What Mandy also didn't know was that Tucker had been watching the two of them and their interaction through the back slider door on his way to bring her something to snack on by the poolside while seeing Billy making the moves on her in the pool. That he had seen Billy look right at him in the eyes with a dominant stare as if claiming her and making the statement that he was taking her away from him.
"Not a date, huh, Mandy? Nothing at all you want to do with him, right?" He had said while glaring down at his drink after taking one last sip. She froze in front of where they were seated and frowned with slight confusion at his cold words to her.
Billy. Damnit. Tucker must have seen us. You kept going knowing while Tucker was watching, didn't you? You heartless ruthless asshole.
He looked very hurt and angry all over again and Alex and Nikki exchanged saddened glances between them. Tucker was now done with his drink having chugged the last remnants of it and although he appeared to be a little tipsy, he grabbed his keys from the key jar and took off. He wouldn't say a word to her as he stormed out of the house and out the back gate to his parked car to leave.
Her stomach dropped and she felt it was definitely impossible to please him and get their friendship back now. Billy was making it impossible for her to with the way he couldn't keep himself from being all over her.
"Tucker. I..." She tried to explain but he got up and on his way out the door to leave he had said something that would stick with her for a long time.
"Don't worry about it. I get it. I'll be okay. Do what you want because I sure as hell will."
He shut down on her and left her there in ruins over not being able to soothe or fix it denying further communication with him. It was clear he was at his limit with the whole situation and would not subject himself to be forced to sit there as a witness to Billy eyeing her all night. That is exactly what he did too while grinning seeing that Tucker took off in defeat, his point clearly made. Billy was constantly watching her everywhere she went at the party and whoever she spoke to. She was so angry with him that she mostly tried to keep to herself and her other friends in her own little corner avoiding eye contact with him as much as possible.
It was too much to bear and Mandy felt horrible for the remainder of the evening as the party raged on leaving her behind with all the fun everyone else was having. She felt she and Tucker would never get their friendship back on track at this rate thanks to Billy and his constant hounding of her.
Shortly after, Tina walked in with Carol and Tommy following her so they could meet up with a semi plastered Billy. He was drinking a lot and Mandy wondered just how long until he could no longer see straight. It almost made her worry for him but why should she? He was just playing games with her and she was fed up with it.
Tina had apparently just arrived, late to the party but looking nice for him, and she asked around looking for him. Steve pointed her in the right direction while keeping an eye on the drinking teens that flooded the house making sure they didn't go upstairs or wreck things. He looked like a frazzled babysitter watching a group of kids that couldn't control themselves.
When Tina found Billy in the crowd, he looked as if he were happy to see her, but as soon as she hugged him putting her hands all over him he looked over her shoulder at Mandy as if this wasn't really what he really wanted. He looked irritated with Tina so maybe what he said earlier about her not being his type and not wanting her was true. Mandy glared at him regardless for the awful thing he did to Tucker using her to do it and looked away letting Tina get her fill of him as she wished. He tried to get away from Tina and in turn Mandy dodged his approach to her when successful many times. In spite she would not allow it.
Deal with it. You brought this on yourself. Mandy thought bitterly.
If he had simply approached her first long ago from the beginning instead of playing games and exchanging numbers with Tina maybe he wouldn't be in this mess he was now. Like she cared. She was having fun with her friends and that was what tonight was really supposed to have been all about. His earlier groping of her in the pool did not sit well with her so now he could be groped by a girl he didn't actually desire and see exactly how it felt.
Mandy stayed with Alex and Nikki for the rest of the night ocassionally dancing with Steve and Nancy and playing the non drinking games that were offered. She was trying not to watch Billy as he drank with others, occasionally with Tina hanging all over him, and put on his mask while he had his fun as if she didn't exist to him.
Let him get good and drunk so he can forget all about me. I deserve that much and so does Tucker.
Her bitter thoughts eventually ended once she was truly having fun with her friends ignoring Billy and his steady blue gaze on her. It was a miracle Tina never caught on and left his side for it but she guessed he was just that good at playing the field and not being overly obvious about it.
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