Everyone ready for the handful of trouble that Clare is in this story? I hope so because she's up to quite a bit in this chapter.
Ch. 4 So Sweet You Must Taste Just Like Sugar
(CLARE)
"Spill Clare we want details," Bianca insists.
"Every juicy one," Tris agrees.
"Okay but swear you won't tell my brothers."
"I swear I won't tell Adam," Maya nods.
"And I swear I won't tell Drew," Bianca says.
"We won't tell anyone now spill," Jenna asserts.
"He's Anya's cousin, his name is Jeff and he kissed me. He pulled me behind a tree and kissed me," I tell them and bite my lip thinking about the kiss.
"Hot but that look wasn't just for a kiss," Bianca comments.
"While the rest of you will be making out during sunset I'll be with Jeff," I answer.
"I won't be making out at sunset," Tris pouts.
"No you'll be eating or playing volleyball with the other singles who don't pair up over sunset like I usually do," I respond.
"You're not going to be on the sand with the other couples or your brothers will kill him," Maya remarks.
"No I'm not that stupid, I'll take him up to the cliff and the cave."
"We'll make sure the boys stay busy," Bianca says and I smile. The guys might be overly protective of us but the girls are not. They understand I guess and us girls have to stick together, including Tris because he counts as one of us girls.
"Stay busy with what?" K.C. questions coming over to us and sitting next to Jenna, he puts his arm around her and they share a kiss. A few of K.C.'s bruises are still visible but they've faded to a pale green or yellow now.
"Busy with this," Jenna responds before putting her lips on his again.
K.C. gets distracted by the kiss and doesn't think to ask any more questions. At least it's easy to distract boys, well when they aren't related to you anyway, can't exactly distract my brothers by kissing them but their girlfriends can. The other boys return shortly and we walk back, it's getting close to sunset and most of the couples are staking out a spot on the sand to watch it or make out.
"Let's go down near the water to watch the sunset," Maya comments pulling Adam away.
"I think I'll go get dessert," I say walking over to the food.
I look at the food and pretend to be deciding on dessert until I'm certain that anyone who will try and stop me is occupied. Since everyone that might try to stop me is either making out or playing volleyball I know this is the time to sneak out. Jeff already made his way over to me pretending to look at the desserts so I grab his hand and we walk to the cliff. There's a path up to a ledge where there's a small cave, some time ago people built a bench in the cave out of drift wood and beach wood. It's not the most comfortable but it's in the cave which means it's hidden.
"Nice," Jeff smiles and sits on the bench pulling me into his lap.
"And private which is the most important thing," I grin grabbing his shirt and pulling it over his head.
Jeff smiles and takes my top off exposing my bra, he grins wider at the sight and his lips touch down lightly to my chest as he takes off my bra. My breasts fall free and he folds up his shirt putting it on the bench he lays me back. His lips ensnare mine, his hands gently massage my breasts, his fingers tweak my nipples softly. I moan into the kiss and my fingers comb into his hair. His hands leave my breasts and go down my body, lifting my skirt he takes off my bikini bottom. He slides it down my legs to my ankles and takes one leg out so it hangs on the other ankle. Jeff gets between my legs, going down a little and lifting me a little. His lips leave mine, briefly kissing each of my breasts, then he moves down a bit more placing my legs over his shoulders and his tongue slips into my slit.
"Ahmm," I moan arching my back and gripping him with my thighs. My hands shoot into his hair and steer his head. His tongue shoots around hitting nerve endings and making me tingle and tremble. I move his head and his tongue knows just where to go, he laps my juices and I feel the tingling tickle inside building to desperate ache. "More mm faster," I beg.
Jeff grants my request, his tongue flicks around faster and he adds a finger. This just makes the build to orgasm stronger and more desperate. Feeling like I might die if I don't reach climax soon I start rubbing my clit in circles, fast frantic circles to bring me to orgasm. My body starts trembling uncontrollably; I bite my lip release a breath and then a loud moan of blissful rapture and Jeff's name.
"That was a much better dessert than what they have on the table," Jeff grins pulling me up again. He sets me on his lap and abducts my lips while I'm still panting for breath recovering from orgasm. I inhale his breath tasting my flavor on his lips. I can feel how hard he is and I move on his lap, turning so that I straddle him. Opening his shorts just enough to get his erection free so I can stroke him. This time he moans, breaking the kiss briefly before he seizes my lips again. Since he's already very hard and dripping pre-cum it doesn't take long to get him to release. He makes a guttural groan from the back of his throat, deepens the kiss and his seed shoots over his stomach and my hand. "Guess we should clean up," he remarks looking at his stomach and I giggle.
"There are washrooms close by," I comment when he begins wiping the cum off with his shirt.
"Eh it's an old shirt anyway," he shrugs handing it to me to wipe my hand.
I wipe my hand and he leaves his shirt on the bench, we still have to go to the washroom to get the little dried bits off and I thoroughly wash my hands. It's almost dark now but not quite, Jeff puts his arm around me as we walk through the trees. He takes his arm away as soon as we're out of the trees so no one sees but everyone's preoccupied anyway. The few people not making out have started building the bonfire, Jeff walks over putting a blanket out by the fire pit and motions for me to sit so I do. He walks off and comes back to the blanket with a guitar, he sits next to me crossing his legs and starts playing guitar just as they get the bonfire going. He starts singing "I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles but in a slower tempo so that it sounds like a ballad. I smile and bite my lip listening to him sing and watching him watch me as he does.
(SPINNER)
"Hey bonfire's up," Owen comments coming up for air from Anya's lips.
"Adam stop making out with my sister," K.C. calls.
"Hey she's my girlfriend," Adam replies.
"Come on let's go sit at the bonfire I'm freezing," Paige tells me wrapping my arms around her.
"We can go somewhere more private and I can warm you up," I grin kissing her neck and Paige elbows me. "Hey knock it off you two are setting a bad example for the kids," I say poking my brother in the back with my foot since he's still making out with Bianca.
"You better not be talking about us," Adam grumbles from my side, "we're not kids anymore."
"You guys are the youngest ones here, aside from Tris anyway," I remind them still poking Drew in the back with my foot.
"Go away," he whines pinching my leg.
"Hey where is Tris?" Owen inquires as Anya walks back to the bonfire but Owen stays with us.
"He's over there with Zig and Riley," Paige says pointing.
"Adam where's Clare?" I ask just as Drew and Bianca finally break apart and get up.
"How the heck am I supposed to know?" Adam shoots back.
"You're her twin," I reply.
"Yeah we sometimes know what the other is feeling and occasionally we know what the other is thinking it doesn't mean I instantly know where she is," Adam replies sardonically.
"She's in the middle of a big orgy," Bianca quips and Drew and I growl.
"Oh relax she's right by the bonfire, Anya's cousin is singing to her," Paige points out.
"Aww how cute," Maya gushes.
Maya thinks it's cute but all I see is some guy that wants to get my sister naked and do terrible things to her. I thought Drew and I would be the worst of the troubled rebellions in the family. Never took into account that our younger twin siblings would way out do us. Drew and I are a lot alike; we're both naturally protective and athletic. Being the oldest I guess it was just natural for me to be protective of my siblings. I was protective of my friends too but not as much, at least not until Paige got raped at a party. She told Jay first but he knew I liked her and he told me. The two of us, Sean, Lucas and Johnny made sure Dean never thought about doing that again. Then Bianca was getting abused and raped and she was staying over a lot. I was just grateful my siblings had a stable home life, and then dad died.
When Adam announced that he was Adam not Gracie and he was a boy it was hard to understand at first. I get it now because the whole family has been to see therapists and doctors. Usually I don't ever remember he even was a girl anymore. No one in the family does and that includes our extended family that is our friends. Not everyone was so accepting, Adam got teased, bullied and beat up quite a bit. He still gets teased sometimes or grief when someone new finds out but most people now know if they mess with him they answer to all of us. He never really went in for the drinking or anything like a lot of the rest of us did but he rebelled and was trouble in other ways.
Drew did all the stuff I'd expect from a rebellious teenager; he got into fights, tried shrooms, and drank. Actually even when dad was alive he was never real strict on the drinking, he simply wanted us to be smart about it. He said to be safe and never ever drive and we stuck to those rules. Drew pretty much passed his rebellious stage by the time dad died, which is when Clare's seemed to explode. Not that she'd been an angel before, she'd been sneaking out since she was thirteen, first tried beer at twelve and got so sick she hasn't touched beer since. I wasn't so worried about her sneaking out, I didn't exactly like it but we know so many people in the neighborhood someone always forces her home. I wasn't worried about the drinking as long as it was somewhere we could keep an eye on her. What I worried about were boys, boys with dirty minds around my baby sister, trying to hurt my baby sister because in my mind all boys were trying to hurt my baby sister.
"I didn't even know Anya had a cousin here," Owen remarks.
"Well maybe you should have been talking to her instead of trying to suck her face off," Bianca quips.
"Bite me Bianca," Owen shoots back.
"Mmm Drew might get jealous," she grins.
"Let's get something to drink," Paige tells me pulling my hand as the others go sit at the bonfire. Paige gets a drink and some cookies and I tense up watching Anya's cousin crooning to Clare. "Spin she's not a little kid anymore and he's just singing to her," Paige admonishes.
"Yeah but I'm responsible for them, you know how guys are and what if she gets pregnant?" I grumble.
"And you're great with them, most guys are pigs but if anyone tries to hurt her they'll die and she can't get pregnant she's on birth control so relax," she tells me kissing.
"Wait a minute what do you mean she's on birth control? Since when?"
"Spin relax and enjoy the party, if he tries to kiss her then you can go over and kill him," Paige asserts kissing my cheek.
We find a place to sit near the bonfire and Paige cuddles up to me. Since Jeff isn't the only one to bring a guitar people start jamming. Some kids are dancing in the sand, Clare dances with Lucas and since he thinks of her like a little sister like the rest of our friends I'm not worried about it. We stay at the bonfire until after midnight and don't get home until after two with cleaning up and packing things back into the car. Since it's late most people come back to our house to crash. Paige sleeps with me of course and Bianca with Drew, Jenna and Maya sleep in Clare's room and K.C. and Owen sleep in Adam's room. Even Zig, Tris, Lucas and Johnny crash out in the living room. Despite going to bed at three I still wake up at seven, which is technically sleeping in. I get up and start making breakfast when Maya comes out to the kitchen looking pretty haggard.
"Trouble sleeping? Was Jenna snoring or something?" I ask as she pours herself some coffee.
"No I just couldn't sleep," she yawns.
"What's on your mind?" I question stirring the batter for pancakes.
"It's nothing," Maya shakes her head.
"Maya I've known you since you were three I know when something's bothering you now spit it out," I assert.
"Ever since the anniversary of your dad's death and hearing from Kevin I've been having dreams, nightmares really. They're always different but the same too. Sometimes Mom just dies, other times Kevin gets out and hurts her. Either way K.C. and I wind up as orphans. If anything happened to Mom we'd be sent to group homes or foster homes; he's not old enough to take care of me is he?" She asks with tears in her eyes and I stop stirring the batter to go sit by her.
"I know K.C. wouldn't let them take you from him without a fight. But you don't have to worry if something should ever happen to your mom you guys could stay here, if not here then with Owen or Jay or Lucas. What I'm saying is there's no way we'd let you guys end up in foster homes or group homes."
"Thanks Spinner," she smiles hugging me.
"What'd I miss?" Adam yawns coming to sit at the table on the other side of Maya.
"Nothing just couldn't sleep," she says letting go of me and turning to kiss Adam gently.
"Hey no making out at the breakfast table," K.C. gripes lightly smacking Adam in the back of the head.
"I don't remember that rule," Jenna says sleepily following K.C. in and he puts his arm around her.
"It only applies to little sisters," K.C. responds sitting at the table with Jenna in his lap.
"Sounds like a good rule to me," I comment and Clare sticks her tongue out at me.
"Keep it in your mouth," I tell her.
"If you have your way I'll be a virgin until I'm 35 and married," Clare huffs.
"You better believe it," I respond and Owen makes a sort of odd noise like he's strangling a comment. I look at him and he's looking away and now Clare's giggling.
"What?" Drew inquires coming in with Bianca, Paige, Lucas, Tris, Zig and Johnny.
"Nothing so what's for breakfast?" Owen questions.
"We should go to the park and play football after breakfast, I mean most of us have school or work tomorrow," Lucas remarks.
"Some of us have both," Drew speaks up.
"Call Sean and Jay see if they want to play, I'll make more pancakes," I say.
"I'll help make pancakes," Paige grins walking over and reaching around to me get a spatula, kissing my neck as she does so.
"Hey keep it as G rating there's kids in the room," Johnny teases and Clare, Adam, Maya, Tris and Zig roll up the placemats in front of them and thwack Johnny with them.
(CLARE)
"TOUCHDOWN!" Drew yells spiking the football into the ground and dancing in victory.
We've been at the park one street over from our house for a couple of hours while the guys and Bianca play football. Tris, Maya, Emma, Paige, Jenna and myself sit in the grass and cheer them on. We're cheering for both sides but that's fine we're all having a good time.
"I have to use the washroom, I'm walking home to use ours the ones here are gross," I comment to the girls as I stand up. They nod and I walk through the park and across the street. There's a little alley between a set of row houses and a little market that makes a short cut to our house.
"Hey there Pretty Eyes," Jeff's voice makes me turn around; he must have been in the market.
"Hi again, I'd like to stay and chat but I really need to get to my house to use the washroom," I tell him.
"Don't like public restrooms?" He questions as he begins walking with me.
"Not so much and definitely not the ones at the park," I reply. He comes to the house with me and I get the spare key from it's hiding spot to unlock the door.
"Now I know where the spare key is so I can sneak in to see you at night," he smiles as we go into my house.
"You could just come through my window like the other boys," I reply.
"A lot of them are there? I bet there are, crawling in for forbidden fruit and hoping they don't get caught by your brothers," Jeff comments turning me to him, putting his fingers under my chin and gently taking my lips.
"I still have to use the washroom," I remind him breaking the kiss. I start to walk away and then turn back, "If you hear other people coming there's a back door through the kitchen and I suggest you run fast."
He just winks and I go into the washroom biting my lip. Jeff is still here when I come out and everyone is still at the park.
"So which is your room? I mean I need to know where to sneak in," he comments and I smile.
"Don't you have to go home?" I question but I wave for him to follow me and show him my room.
"I drive back tonight it's only an hours drive. You have the room at the front of the house? I'd think if your brothers wanted to keep boys away you'd have the room at the back of the house," Jeff comments.
"Well this has always been my room, long before they even had to worry about boys sneaking into my room. If they knew that boys with impure thoughts were sneaking into my room they'd probably nail the window shut," I reply and then I hear someone at the front door and shove Jeff into my closet. "Stay," I command and shut the closet door.
"Clare," Bianca calls.
"Yeah?" I question as she's followed in by everyone else.
"We're going to the movies, after some of us change," Drew tells me looking down at his dirt covered t-shirt and shorts.
"I'm going to change too," I say quickly dashing back into my room. I open the closet door and let Jeff out, "We're going to the movies; you can sneak out the back when everyone's gone."
"Movies during the day?" He asks.
"It's cheaper and some of them have to work tonight," I reply.
"Which theatre are you going to?" He questions.
"Probably the one at the mall," I tell him.
"Then I'll find you there," he says stealing a quick kiss before he opens my window and sneaks out.
I quickly change into a skirt and black blouse since I told them that's what I was doing. When I open my door I'm slightly startled by the fact that Adam is standing there with his arms crossed to match the cross and curious look on his face.
"Don't be paranoid Adam," I censure my brother as I walk past him.
"It's not paranoid when I know what you're thinking," he calls after me.
"Why what's she thinking?" Spinner inquires.
"Nothing," I reply quickly before Adam can say anything. To do this I also turn around and walk backward a few steps until bump into someone start to fall but Fitz catches me.
"You alright?"
"Yes fine," I reply to Fitz straightening up to get out of his arms. I almost kiss him actually, it's rather tempting, I just don't want to give my brothers a reason to kill him, or a heart attack. "I'm going to wait in the car," I tell them making a hasty exit.
Since Jay and Lucas are ready to go Fitz and I ride with them. Fitz keeps looking at me and I keep looking away. It's not like we're dating or anything, nothing even close to that, none the less we've kissed and he stayed the night in my room. I still can't look at him, it's not as though I feel guilty exactly I just don't want him to know about Jeff, not that I really want any of the guys to know about Jeff. We park at the mall and go to the theatre, Anya works at the theatre and she's working the ticket stand today so she lets me in for free but makes the guys pay. We go in and claim seats for our whole group. Another good reason to come in the day is we'll probably have the theatre to ourselves. I watch everyone coming in but never see Jeff, the others join us and we take up two whole rows.
"I'm going to get something from the snack stand," I announce standing up when the previews start.
"I already asked if you wanted anything," Spinner scolds me.
"I know I didn't want anything when you asked," I remark and he rolls his eyes while Adam gives me a suspicious look, sometimes being a twin sucks.
"You need money?" Spinner asks.
"No I got money, I'll be right back," I reply and make my way out of the aisle. I go out and get in line for the snack stand and then an arm comes around my shoulders. I look up to see Jeff smiling at me. "Are you nuts if one of them comes out here they'll kill you. I'm not kidding Jeff I think Jay and Lucas could probably hide a body and never have it be found. Adam's already suspicious because you were in my bedroom and he could glean something from my thoughts because we're twins," I warn Jeff.
"You know you're beautiful when you're worried," he replies with a grin. I love his grin it's the kind of grin that just makes you blush every time you see it.
"I really don't want them to kill you I'd like to think I'll see you again the next time you're visiting Anya."
"You will I'll be back at Thanksgiving in the meantime get a drink and excuse yourself to the washroom in about an hour," he says now that we're at the front of the line. I order a medium drink and small popcorn which Jeff pays for then I go back to our seats. A small popcorn is really like a medium but Lucas and Fitz eat most of it anyway. When I'm nearly done with my drink I excuse myself to the washroom. I do actually use the washroom but when I come out Jeff is waiting for me. "I figure we have about fifteen minutes before they start wondering where you are," he says pulling me through a door.
"Where are we?" I inquire.
"Behind screen number two," he informs me leaning on the wall and pulling me to him by my hips. I loop my arms around his neck as our lips couple, his lips part and his tongue snakes between my lips. He actually set a timer on his phone for fifteen minutes and when it beeps he breaks the kiss. "Better get you back," he says.
We walk out and I return to the theatre getting another look from Adam but I stay in my seat for the rest of the movie. Spinner has to go to work when it ends so we all just go to The Dot. Emma has to be at work soon too but she works right across the street from The Dot.
"You know you guys take over nearly the whole café and no one's ordered anything," Spinner complains when we're all sitting down.
"I'll take a coffee to go, gotta get to work myself," Lucas comments.
"Don't get shot," I call to him.
"At my job are you kidding the most I do is chase vagrants away from trying to sleep in the garage," he says rolling his eyes.
The rest of us do order and then I see Jeff come in, I smile at him which doesn't go unnoticed and now Fitz and Drew are sort of glaring at him. As both of them are sitting on either side of me I reach over and smack them upside the head. Jeff orders from Spinner who missed the whole exchange but he's still giving him a funny look and then Jeff sits down. I finish my coffee quickly just so I can go back to the counter and get another, thereby getting closer to Jeff.
"So did you enjoy the movie?" Jeff asks while my brother makes me another latte.
"Yeah the movie was…fun," I grin and then bite my lip remembering our make-out session. I guess I was maybe thinking about it a little too much because just as Jeff opens his mouth to say something Adam hops up.
"Clare can I see you a minute," he insists grabbing my arm and pulling me behind the counter and into the back. Since our bother is the manager no one says anything of us being in the back at the employee only parts, we do it all the time. Adam takes me all the way out to the back alley where the stairs to Above the Dot are. He lets go of me and gives me a scolding look with his arms crossed again. "You were making out with him in the theatre?"
Sometimes I hate that Adam knows what I'm thinking. It's not like we always know what the other is thinking, however there are timews when we're really thinking about something it seems to be shared with the other person. We do always know when the other is in pain and can often sense what they're feeling. It's hard to explain when you aren't a twin. We have met twins who were practically the same person, dressed alike, talk alike, even talk at the same time and say the same things, it was kind of scary. We've also met twins who couldn't be more different, never knew what the other was thinking and in fact tried to avoid each other. So I guess it just depends on how close you are as twins before birth and after. As much as I do get annoyed sometimes when Adam knows what I'm thinking it is helpful when he has to be the buffer between me and Spinner or me and Drew. They never know what I'm thinking and they're have been many time I couldn't even talk to them because I couldn't express what was I feeling, but Adam knew and could translate.
"Don't give me that look Adam we didn't do anything but make-out at the theatre. I'm fifteen I can make-out with a guy. You have a girlfriend and you make-out with her all the time," I argue but can't help smiling when I think about Jeff and I in the cave at the beach.
"Yeah she's my girlfriend if he as your b…hold it what were you two doing on the beach?"
"So you're saying if he was my boyfriend then we could make-out?" I ask avoiding Adam's other question.
"I'm saying we know nothing about him other than he's Anya's cousin and you can't go around making out with random guys. Although the fact that you manage to do so with so many people closely watching you is impressive, scary but impressive."
"So I can do anything I want with a guy as long as you all know him then is that it? So then you won't get angry when you find out what I did with Owen," I state.
"No I didn't say you could do anything with a guy so long as we…what did you do with Owen?" Adam inquires stopping part way through and changing his tone.
"Never mind," I huff in annoyance and turn to go back inside but Fitz is blocking my path.
"Yeah I'd like to know too," Fitz says with one eyebrow arched just a bit, "what did you do with Owen Clare?"
Hey it's not a terrible cliffhanger. Update next Saturday picking up from around here, a little more from Jeff and Owen and Fitz oh my! Plus the kids return to school meeting a couple of new kids and Jenna learns something she'd rather not know.