CHAPTER 23: BACK TO REALITY
Jared, Dawson, Dylan and I had all had a spectacular time spending the New Year with my dad in Chicago. It was finally time for Jared, Dawson, & I to head back to my mom’s and get back into the routine of going to school. After we said our goodbyes to Sharon and Dylan, I began looking for Spencer. He was nowhere to be found. I texted Dylan about it later and found out that Sharon told him that he was no longer allowed to be around me or any of my friends any longer. Not sure what that was supposed to mean or how I should take it, but nonetheless, I wouldn’t have to be putting up with that douche!
Once we landed and got in my car, we all said our goodbyes to my dad. I found out that he wouldn’t be coming back to the lake until mid February. I was disappointed that was going to be the next time that I would see him, but he invited us to use the lake house at our pleasure. I would take him up on that!
While we were in Chicago I had talked to my mom maybe two times. That was unlike both of us for us to not be in contact with each other, especially when I was the one who was gone. So after I called her and told her that we had landed, she informed me that it has been entirely too long since she had seen Dawson, so she demanded that he come over tonight for dinner.
The night went pretty swell. Mom and Joe, my stepdad, fixed Mexican food, which consisted of Chicken and Cheese enchiladas, rice, beans, queso, chips, and sopapillas! The evening was quite nice. It was good to be having family time and just have my best friend there. There were no secrets, no hiding anything, and I will admit it, it was nice to not have Jared around. I couldn’t believe that I was actually saying that, but it was true. I loved having him around and us spending time together, but it was nice to be away from him for the time being!
The next day we had to get back to school. It was pretty boring. Nothing exciting at all going on, and especially since we were seniors, we pretty much ran the school, so we weren’t bound to get in trouble. In fact, the principal’s best friends were my step dad and Dawson’s dad, so the two of us especially ran that school!
January came and went without any commotion going on. I was kind of enjoying at how fast everything was flying by. I was just one month closer to graduation! Also in January, there were the first rounds of winter storms, so school was cancelled for a couple of days, but it was nothing like what came in February!
When February came, we were out of school for 2 straight weeks. I was pretty impressed with the timing of the weather, because that was just in time for a break that I desperately needed from school. The snow came on a Monday night. This also happened to be a Monday night that my mom and stepdad were gone to Phoenix. So I had been home alone for the weekend, and mom and Joe were expected to return on Wednesday. Well, after the meteorologists declared that we were going to get a record breaking snowfall, I wasn’t about to be home alone for God knows how long all by myself. So I invited Jared and Dawson to come over Monday night with enough clothes for a week! They did. Monday night was pretty uneventful. We all had a class that night that got out early because of the potential to have severe weather, so the three of us ended up at my house for the evening. We invited another one of our closest friends over for the “party” too! So it was me, Dawson, Jared and Kelli all at my house for the next umpteen days! I was more than happy!
Somewhere along the way, Dawson managed to get his hands on some liquor. Quite a bit actually! He had 8 bottles for the four of us. I was going to be going to bed drunk every night! Jared pulled his weight and brought some beer over. I wasn’t to keen on beer, so I was ecstatic that Dawson brought liquor. He knew me so well. In fact, mentioning about that now was making some very weird things stick out in my mind. For the last two weeks, Dawson had been making sure that I had what I wanted and when I wanted. Nothing sexually, but all the little things that you wouldn’t suspect, but they actually do add up. For instance, he always made sure that I had a Dr. Pepper or Coke at lunch, made sure that I had the seat with a cushion in the chair, had enough paper in my notebook, and was always making sure that my cell phone was charged up whenever we left to go somewhere. It wasn’t like him to go out of his way like that for me. Anybody for that matter! I had finally caught up on it and was daydreaming to myself just staring at the floor in the kitchen. I looked up at him and he was gazing at me with all smiles. Not his devilish smile, but one of his sweet and innocent smiles. Uh-oh!
It was late by the time that we got out of class, so all of us had already eaten, and the school administrators had already closed school for the next day and the day after, even though there was no snow on the ground yet. I found that very peculiar!
Mom and Joe had Netflix at the house through something on the TV. I wasn’t too sure how it worked, but knew how to order a movie. So we sat down with drinks and popcorn and proceeded to watch a movie. Jared was already sitting on the couch, so I naturally took my seat next to him and cuddled up to him. He put his arm around me and the two of us didn’t move through the entire film!
Dawson took his seat right next to me. And when I say, “right next to me,” I literally mean RIGHT NEXT TO ME. I had my leg hiked on the couch so I was sitting diagonally on the couch with my back against Jared’s stomach. I’m sure you get the picture. Dawson’s legs were touching my feet and he was literally so close to me that I could hear and feel him breathing. I’m not sure who I was closer to in this matter; Jared or Dawson! Kelli was right next to Dawson. So there were four people on a three-person couch. I laughed.
About 15 minutes into the movie, I felt a hand on my leg and snuggled into Jared some more. That’s when I saw both of his hands. Dawson had put his hand on my thigh and began caressing my thigh. I couldn’t believe that he was making this kind of move when my boyfriend was here. Actually, I couldn’t believe that he was making this move at all knowing that Jared and I were together. I decided that I would play along with it and see where this goes. I moved my feet closer to Dawson and pushed them under his ass. He smiled. I laughed.
Throughout the entire movie, Dawson and I had our own fun going and nobody but us knew what we were doing. I was getting hard. Actually I was really hard. There was a visible tent in my pajama pants and was scared that Jared would see and question why I was getting horny.
After the movie was over Kelli was so tired, and she even looked tired. I couldn’t believe that she had lasted through the entire movie. So, she said her goodnights and went up to bed. Her and Dawson would have their own bed for the length of their stay and Jared and I would sleep together in mine. So there was not any limit of beds within the house. In fact, we had a 7-bedroom 5-bath house for three people. I never grasped the concept of that, but did enjoy getting to use three of those closets all for my clothes! I loved it!
The remaining three of us sat at the bar in the kitchen and discussed some things that were going on at school. Like who was fucking who, who was cheating on who, and which teachers were having affairs with students. Not too much longer and I looked over at Jared and could tell that he was getting tired and he announced that he was going to bed. This only left me and Dawson at the table with some alcohol in us. I knew that I should go to bed. . .
