Here are the next to chapters of the story. Since there has been a delay in the posting of any other chapters, I have posted the next to chapters. Also, because they are both fairly short. I hope to have a couple more chapters posted pretty soon! Thanks for keeping with everything..
Much love!!
CHAPTER 6
Dawson was in the hospital for eight days before he was released to go home. Then, it was still a long process to get completely healed considering he had to go to physical therapy. But between his dad and I, we made sure that he got there when he was supposed to be there.
Exactly one month since Dawson’s accident, he was doing much better with all of his physical therapy stuff and was able walk a little by now and was attending lunch with me and all of my family for Sunday after church. We were just putting the dishes away and getting out a deck of cards to play a card game when my grandma got a call from her son, my uncle.
“WHAT?” She screamed into the phone, as her eyes began watering. “Alright, we will all be right there. We are leaving now.”
She turned to us and began crying, “The business building is on fire!!”
With that, I turned and looked at Joe, then to Dawson, got up and sprinted out of the front door to my car. Dawson was trailing right behind me and piled into my Escalade as we hauled down the driveway to the highway.
Now, my grandpa started a very profitable business after he retired from the medical field, and this is the building that she was talking about.
I was the first person that left the house we were at and sped the entire way there. Dawson was being very uneasy at how fast I was driving, but he knew where my heart was and that’s why I was going over 100. Not only was I the first to leave, but I was the first family member of 13 to arrive on sight, but the police department wouldn’t let me on, but I didn’t give a fuck. I charged onto the property just to see the first flame shoot through the metal roof. As I got out of my car, Dawson came over and put his arm around me to keep me from crying too much.
“They’re going to put it out, right?” I asked, doubtful.
“Yeah, babe,” He replied. “They’re going to take care of everything.”
I ran to talk to one of the firemen to see if I needed to go into the office and try and get some stuff out of it, but that was after I was scolded for speeding all the way here and ignoring an officer’s orders, but it was soon decided that if I could clear the offices, I should.
Three buildings, ten fire departments, a shit ton of tears, and three buildings later, I was still looking at the fire going strong starting on the next building. Firemen had been there in 100-degree weather, fighting a devil of a fire with no such luck. It was then determined that nobody would ever step foot into the 200,000 square foot building again and that just broke my heart. I was sad for all of the employees that needed this job, who depended on this job, and wanted this job. It was soon pushing 9 o’clock that evening and my asthma was starting to kick in from all of the smoke and ash I was breathing. I had been ignoring everyone that had been telling me to go home.
It wasn’t until I collapsed right in front of Dawson that I was in the vehicle being taken home. He wasn’t released to drive yet, but there was no way that he was going to let me drive in the emotional and physical state that I was in. Since he hadn’t gotten a car yet, we took mine and went back out to the lake for the evening.
It was the end of July, so at 10, we were getting into the lake to cool down and wash off and try to relax. I hadn’t looked at myself to see what my face actually looked like, but I had seen Dawson’s, which was half dirty from ash and dirt. He hadn’t gotten involved that much since nobody would let him, but I had been in everything and was getting in everywhere that I could to do something, so I was sure that I was covered from head to toe with soot.
Back in the house, Dawson had prepared the bed for the two of us and crawled in and opened his arm for me. Even though it was the wrong side of the bed, and he knew it, I was too exhausted to protest and was asleep before my head even hit his chest.
The next week was living hell for all of the family. There were so many decisions that we had to make, minor details that had to be adjusted, and a massive clean up project that needed to be planned. Luckily, the entire community came together as one and the family didn’t have to determine that many details. But the hardest of the days for me came three days after the fire when I was finally able to walk into the building again. It was completely gutted and there was nothing that was even noticeable. I knew where everything was supposed to be, but I was too emotional to even function, that’s when I was thankful that I had Dawson by my side.
Through his wreck and the fire, the two of us hadn’t spent much time apart; in fact, we had spent the night every night since he was released from the hospital together. I was sure that our parents were starting to pick up on it, but I didn’t care—my friend needed me and I needed my friend.
Exactly two weeks after the fire, and the week before I moved to school, Dawson, Kelli, and I were watching a movie at Dawson’s dad’s house drinking when I got a call from my mother. It was close to one in the morning and the bottle of Absolut was gone, so I almost ignored the phone, but Kelli answered it for me.
“Hello?”
“Where are you?”
“Dawson’s.”
“Alright, you need to stay there tonight.”
“Well, I was planning on it anyways. Why are you calling me this late to tell me that?”
“I’m at grandpa’s waiting on the ambulance. He’s in the floor unconscious with blood all around him. We are going to the hospital.”
“WHAT?!” I screamed a little too loudly as I began to cry.
Great, this is just what I needed. From the week vacation that mom and I took before the fire, the fire, a camp I went to, and all of Dawson’s stuff that had been going on, this was the first night that I was able to relax and now I was going to have to be worrying about all of this. Not to mention that I was supposed to be moving to school the next week.
This was finally the breaking point for me through everything that had happened, and I think that the alcohol helped, I lost it all. I cried and cried and cried for a good hour before I was finally able to get myself under control. That was when I got the call that said my grandpa was going to be taken by LifeFlight to a heart hospital because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, so I needed to get to the hospital soon if I wanted to see him.
Well, not only had Dawson and I consumed an entire bottle of Absolut, but we had also smoked a pack of cigarettes, so we smelled straight up like a bar. But here we were strolling up into the ER looking drunk as fuck, no shoes, smelling like a bar, and stumbling into the entire waiting room of my family and all of the board members of my grandpa’s company. ‘Grrrrrreat,’ I thought to myself. Dawson and I died a little inside that night.
CHAPTER 7
A week later, it was ready for me to drive out of the driveway and head to school. I was so excited to be moving to school that I could not contain my excitement. I left the night before move in and stayed with Kelli and her sister in her house in the college town, so the two of us could get there first thing in the morning to begin moving in. We got Kelli moved in on Monday and her parents came down and took us both out to lunch and dinner, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that my mom, dad, Joe, and Dawson came to move me into the fraternity house. Dawson had finally gotten a new car, a Range Rover, and was going to stay a couple of nights in town. Not only had Dawson gotten a new car, but my dad was afraid that I would not be able to handle my Escalade in such a small parking lot, that he also surprised me with a brand new car—an X5!! As soon as my parents had left for the evening, after taking us all out to lunch and dinner, Dawson and I decided that we were going to be together for the night. My roommate hadn’t moved in yet and there was nobody on my floor, so it was not a problem that Dawson could stay the night with me in the house.
After that was all finalized, I told him to go get into my car and we would go exploring the town. Thirty minutes later, we found ourselves on the outskirts of town on a kind of deserted road. I looked at him slyly and nodded for the back seat. That night, we broke in both my car and his car for the relationship that the two of us had already built. Since my room only had one other bed in it and a lock on the door, Dawson slept with me for that night and the next.
Then two days after I had gotten settled, it was time for me to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to his town and help him get moved in. As soon as he was done, we did the exact same ritual with our cars on the country roads. I was in heaven. I actually got to stay the night with him one night and had to wake up extra early the next morning to get back to school so I could go to the first cheer practice of the semester. When I told Dawson goodbye, I had no idea that it would be such a long time before we saw each other again.
Even though we lived just an hour and fifteen minutes away, neither one of us ever had a free weekend to visit the other. We were both in frats, both cheerleaders, both carrying 15 hours of college hours, so we were always busy. If I had a home game, he had an away game, and if he had a home game, mine was away. So there was literally no time for us to see each other. Not even 30 extra minutes for us to meet halfway to just say hi to one another. Ultimately, we decided that we would just be better off if we decided to call the relationship quits but remain friends. I thought that sounded childish, but somewhat of a good idea since I had a lot of people that had caught my eye since moving here, so we both decided that would be for the best.
It was still another month before the two of us saw each other again. One night after my game, I decided that I would go back home to my mom’s for the night since Dawson was home, too. That was the end of October. We hadn’t seen each other since the middle of August. Needless to say, after we saw each other, the two of us ended up going back to my dad’s house and fucked for five hours that night. It was great. Sunday came way too fast and we had to say goodbye again to each other.
School was going incredibly fast. Soon, it was time for Thanksgiving break and I knew that I would get to see Dawson again. We hadn’t seen each other since the night in October that we had fucked for five hours straight and a lot had happened since then. There was this one guy that was in my major that caught my eye the first time that I had seen him and I began fantasizing about him ever since. We spent a lot of time together studying since we had a couple of the same classes together. Chance was a little over two years older than I was and was a transfer student. He had gone to a junior college to complete his basics and was transferring her for an athletic program and our major. I was glad for his decision!
Chance and I had been spending a lot of time together. He would always let me come over to his house if I needed to since I lived in the fraternity house and he figured it was hard to concentrate in there. Well the week before Thanksgiving, I was at his house doing some homework while he was watching a movie. Both of his roommates had already gone home for the holiday since it was later in the week, so it was just the two of us.
I was sitting at his dining room table when he came over to look at what I was doing. I hated my economics class and was cussing my professor for giving me homework the weekend before Thanksgiving and an exam the next week. Chance had placed both of his hands on the table next to my computer and placed his chin on my head. I couldn’t help but smile.
“You’re making this hard to concentrate, bud,” I said to him.
I could hear the smile in his voice, “I hate to disappoint you, but that isn’t the only thing that’s hard around here.”
I laughed and kept working on my homework. I could tell that Chance wasn’t too happy with my decision. Hell, neither was I, but I had to get this done. If I was lucky, enough, I would pull a C in the class after the final. I could just hear my mom bitching at me for making a C in a class since I maintained a 4.0 in high school and was valedictorian.
Well, fifteen agonizing minutes later, I was finally completed with my assignment. Chance had not left pose with his hands on the table and chin on my head.
“Good, now maybe you can come watch this movie with me. I need some company on the couch!” He said.
Damn, this boy was pretty straightforward. I could not believe what I was hearing him say.
We were cuddled up on the couch for about ten minutes when there was a knock on the door. He asked if I could get it. While I was in the middle of my homework, Chance had ordered us pizza. To complete the greasy entrée, there was beer in the fridge to go with it. It was delicious. Once the pizza was gone and a couple beers apiece had been downed, Chance pulled me into him and cuddled me hard on his couch while staring at the television.
Chance was 22 years old, 6’2”, short brown hair and eyes, with a gorgeous straight white teethed smile, and a golden brown tan to make his eyes and smile pop even more. He was muscular, but was not as defined as anyone I had ever been with before, but he did have some good biceps on him. He was also a member of the cheerleading team, so through our intense workouts, he was defining his body more and more. Anyways, he didn’t have abs and oddly enough, I found that more attractive than anything else.
While he was holding me close, I could feel his breath on my neck and my eye caught something growing in his lap. I had finally come to my senses and admitted to myself that I was attractive, but I couldn’t believe that I could make a guy go hard with just holding me, but I saw with my own two eyes that he was growing harder and harder. The movie was finally over and Chance was still holding me like there was no tomorrow. I couldn’t believe that he had not loosened his grip on me the entire evening. I finally broke loose of his death grip on me and got us each another beer out of the fridge. He looked a little disappointed when I didn’t sit as close to him as I had been sitting.
For the next thirty minutes the two of us sat and talked about anything and everything. We talked about our pasts, family, high school, friends, future, and all of the other good stuff. I was finding Chance more and more irresistible as the minutes drug on. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and leaned into him and planted a soft kiss on his lips with no tongue action and sat back down on my feet on the couch. He looked surprised by what I had just done, but then he smiled and sat up on the couch a little more to face me even better. Chance then took his hand and touched my cheek softly and slowly leaned in to find my mouth. His lips were tender and warm against mine. I could feel him exhale through his nose on my face. After a minute or two, he finally slipped his tongue into my mouth. Out of all of the time that I had dated and kissed Jared and Dawson, this was the most passionate kiss that I had ever experienced. He was tender and accurate with every move his tongue, hands, and lips made with my body.
Not only was his hand still on my face, but his other hand was resting on my hip. We had been kissing for about ten minutes and his hands were still where they were when we started. He hadn’t tried to feel me up, get on top of me, or move this action into the bedroom. I couldn’t believe what I was experiencing with Chance. He finally broke the kiss and wrapped his arms around my body as I did the same around his neck.
“Lane, you’re the greatest kisser I have ever kissed. Wow! That was orgasmic!” He said into my neck.
I could feel myself blush but just laughed.
“I hope you don’t think badly of me, but I really like you and I don’t want to rush into anything and cover every base in one night. I want to leave you and I both wanting more, so that the next time we are together, it will be just as powerful as that kiss we just shared.”
I seriously couldn’t believe I was hearing what was being said, but I agreed with that. Even though I was quivering for his mouth to be on my dick, I needed Chance. I wanted Chance. But, in the end, I knew that I had found myself a true gentleman!