Misty Reigenborn Romance Boxed Set (201 page)

Mellenda rid herself of her clothes.  “Do you want me to do that for you too?”

“I love it when you go down on me, but I am so fucking horny right now that I’m afraid I’d come right away and I don’t want to do that yet.  I am gonna get naked though because when you are ready for me to be inside of you, I don’t want to waste any time.”

Mellenda shook her head at him, but she smiled.  “You’re a pervert.”

“Of course I am.  I want to remind you that you are so damned beautiful that I can hardly stand to look at you sometimes.”

Mellenda wrinkled her nose at him.  “Shut up and get naked.”

He grinned at her as he complied.  They agreed on a position that wouldn’t be too uncomfortable for either of them.  Mellenda closed her eyes.  She was still feeling a little high and what Jude was doing to her felt incredible.  She was on the brink of orgasm several minutes later when she felt Jude pause.

“Baby?”

She opened her eyes.  “Yes Jude?” 

“Will you keep your eyes open when you have your orgasm?  I want to see how I make you feel.”

She ran her fingers over his hair.  “You are making me feel so good right now that I can hardly stand it.  I can only imagine how good the sex is gonna be.  I’ll try to keep my eyes open but it feels weird.  I’m afraid I make stupid faces.”

“Every face you make is beautiful to me, except me when you’re giving me a dirty look or I can tell that you’re disappointed in me.  Please baby.”

“Okay.”

Jude went back to work with his fingers and his tongue.  Mellenda felt her eyes try to drift closed again, but she managed to keep them open when she came. 

Jude moved back up onto the seat.  “You were just as beautiful as you always are.  You shouldn’t be embarrassed to look at me.”

“I know.  It still feels weird though.  Do you have a condom?  My purse is in the house.”

Jude grinned as he leaned over and opened the glove box.  He showed her an economy sized box of condoms.  “I bought a brand new pack this morning.”

“You spent way too much money.”

“Baby, if I have made you half as happy today as you’ve made me, it was worth every penny.”

Mellenda hugged him.  She turned her face into his shoulder.  He’d made her so happy that she was close to tears again.  She was a little embarrassed to be feeling so sentimental.  She almost wanted to tell Jude that she loved him, but he hadn’t said it yet, even though sometimes she was almost positive that he felt it too, so she kept quiet.

He put a condom on and she lay back on the seat.  The sex was quick but it was still incredible.  Jude let out a contented sigh when he moved off of her. 

“I knew I liked sex before I had it with you, but now I really like it.”

Mellenda laughed.  “You’re a dork Jude.”

He brushed her hair out of her face.  “Seriously babe.  Do I make you feel the way that you make me feel?”

“How do I make you feel?”

“You make me feel like. . .  I can’t describe it Mellenda.  I’d sound like too big of a moron.”

“You do make me feel that way Jude.  It’s kinda scary sometimes.”

“It’s not scary-it’s fuckin’ awesome.”  Jude turned his head.  She giggled when she noticed that she had given him a hickey.  It was rather large and very noticeable too.  “What?”

“I gave you a hickey.”

Jude sat up and looked at his reflection in the side mirror of the truck.  “Damn baby.  If Brentwood wasn’t full of a bunch of morons, I’d wear it like a badge of honor and brag to everyone about who gave it to me.”

She frowned.  “Are you going to borrow your mom’s makeup and try to cover it up?”

“Mom doesn’t wear makeup. She’d walk around naked if it wasn’t illegal.”

“That’s kinda weird and you probably didn’t need to tell me that.  Who are you going to say gave you the hickey?”

Jude shrugged.  “No one really cares who I’m hanging out with besides Brendan.  He’ll give me shit about it, but he can’t give me too much shit because Shayla’s always giving him hickeys.”

“Oh.  I’m tired.  Let’s go inside.”

Jude yawned.  “I’m tired too but I want to hold you for a while.  You’re still going to prom with me aren’t you?  It will be so cool to lay beside you all night long, in a bed and everything.”

Mellenda hid a smile.  “I’ll have to talk my parents out of the money to buy a dress, but I will go with you.  Are you sure you want to do that though?  Then everyone will know that we’re going out.”

“Maybe they’ll get over their ignorance by then, since everyone knows that Tory and Tony are engaged and that Molli took off with Ricky.”

“That’s just going to make it worse Jude.  Everyone is going to give us crap because I used to go out with Tony and Ricky and you used to go out with Tory and Molli.”

“Who cares?  If they’re so stupid that they can’t find anything better to gossip about than us, they’re pathetic.  We can keep a low profile for now but after prom, it’s not going to matter.  And there’s no way I’m going to prom with anyone besides you.”

Mellenda kissed him.  “Good, because I wouldn’t have let you anyway.  You can hold me for a while, but we should probably get dressed and we definitely can’t fall asleep out here.”

“Ah, you’re no fun.  I want you naked and in my arms.  C’mon baby.  Just for a few minutes.  This seat is too damned uncomfortable for us to fall asleep on.”

Mellenda bit her lip, but she figured Jude was probably right. “Okay.  But get that blanket out.  The big one, so that it can be both underneath us and on top of us.”

“Okay.”

Jude reached behind the seat and pulled out the blanket.  They moved so that he could spread it out on the seat.  Then they lay back down, with Jude pressed against the back of the seat and Mellenda curled up against his chest.  He kissed the top of her head. 

“I hope you had a nice birthday.”

“I did.  Thank you.”

“No problem.  Mellenda I. . .”

She turned slightly so that she could see his face.  Her heart started to beat fast.  She was sure he was going to say that he loved her.  “Yes Jude?”

“Never mind.  I’m not sure you want to hear it.”

“Tell me Jude.”

“Later baby.”

Mellenda sighed.  “Okay.”

She leaned her head back against his chest.  She pulled the blanket more snugly around them and closed her eyes, telling herself that she couldn’t fall asleep.  It felt so good to be in Jude’s arms though.

Chapter 11

She awoke several hours later and blinked in the bright light of day.  She sat up and almost fell off of the seat.  Jude’s dad was standing on the porch, smoking a cigarette.  He grinned at her, and she rolled the window down some.

“Good morning Mellenda.  I assume my son’s in there with you.”

Mellenda’s face felt like it was on fire.  “Yes.”  She poked Jude.  “Wake up.  It’s morning and your dad caught us.”

Jude sat up and groaned.  “Ugh.  I think we smoked too much weed last night.  I can’t believe we fell asleep on this uncomfortable seat.”  He rolled the passenger side window all the way down and waved at his dad.  “Hey Dad.  Is Mom up?”

“She is.  She panicked when she saw that you weren’t in your bed, but then she came out here and saw you two curled up together.  She took a picture and sent it to your grandma.”

“Dad.  You’re kidding me right?”

Mr. Ashland chuckled.  “Nope.  Good thing I did your paper route today huh?”

“I’m sorry Dad.  I can’t believe I let myself fall asleep out here.”

“It’s okay.  You worked too damned hard already.  Come in when you’re ready to have breakfast.  Try to be a little slyer about it when you sneak out here with your girlfriend next time.  Between you and Seneca, you’re giving Mrs. Benson enough to gossip about for the rest of her life.”

“Sorry Dad.”

Mr. Ashland laughed.  “I was young once too.”

“Nah.  You were never young Dad.” 

“Of course not son.”  Jude’s dad shook his head, dropped his cigarette into the coffee can on the porch and then went back inside.

Jude popped a breath mint into his mouth and then handed one to Mellenda.  “I really want to kiss you but I doubt you’ll appreciate my morning breath.  I really want a cigarette too, but I think I want you even more.”

“That was almost sweet Jude.”  Mellenda rolled her eyes and put the breath mint in her mouth. 

Jude kissed her.  It turned into a lengthy kiss, which led to them making out like it usually did.  She pulled back a few minutes later, feeling breathless.  “We need to get dressed and go inside.”

Jude grinned.  “I got you horny huh?”

“I didn’t know it was possible for me to be this horny all the time until I started dating you.”

Jude’s smile widened.  “Oh Mellenda, you make me want to marry you more and more every day.”

“What if I don’t want to marry you?”

“Damn.  Such a woman.  You make my heart soar one minute and you shoot it down the next.”

“I was teasing.”

“I know baby.  We should get dressed.  My mom is going to come out here and yell at me soon if we don’t go inside.”

Jude dressed quickly and stood on the porch and smoked a cigarette while she finished dressing.  They went inside.  Jude’s mom looked at him and laughed.

“Nice mark of ownership your girlfriend put on your neck son.”

Jude grinned.  “I think it was her way of telling me that she had a really happy birthday.”

Mellenda blushed.  “I did.  Thank you.”

They ate breakfast.  Jude’s brothers and sisters returned.  They played games together until late afternoon.  Jude let Mellenda drive his truck to the old make out spot, where they made love.  Then he took her back to school. 

Mellenda asked her parents for the money to buy a prom dress.  They agreed to send it to her though they didn’t bother to ask any questions about her new boyfriend.  Mellenda wasn’t sure whether she was relieved or disappointed. 

Prom was still weeks away but there were already dresses for sale in town so Mellenda started looking right away.  She wished that she had someone that could go with her so that she could get someone’s opinion on how she looked in the dress she had picked out, but not only did she not want to let too much slip about her relationship with Jude until she had to, she didn’t trust the opinions of any of the silly, slutty girls at her school anyway. 

She thought that maybe if she’d been closer to Tory she might have asked her, but it would have felt too weird even if they were friends since she was going with Tory’s ex.  She knew that Tory was fully over Jude but she didn’t think she’d want it shoved in her face that someone was happy with her ex.  She still didn’t like to think about the fact that Ricky and Molli were married and having a baby, though it sat much easier in her mind as time went on.

She would have asked Jude his opinion on the dress, but she wanted it be a surprise.  The dress cost a lot of money but she thought it looked good on her.

It took her forever to get ready on prom night.  She applied a little more makeup than she was used to anymore but she wanted to look really good.  She wanted the night to be special for both of them.

When it was time to go she slipped out the door.  Mellenda felt silly to be dressed in a fancy dress and walking through the woods.  A couple girls had remarked that she was dressed up really fancy when she didn’t have a boyfriend anymore, but she’d told them to mind their own business and walked away.  She had a feeling that she wouldn’t be very welcome in the popular crowd anymore come Monday, but she didn’t really care.  She had fallen head over heels for Jude.  She wanted to finish out her time at Crestview and move the hell on.  Hopefully with Jude.  She knew that he liked her, and had a feeling that he was in love with her, but she thought that it might be her heart seeing what she wanted to see.

She picked up the edge of her skirt so that it wouldn’t drag on the ground and hurried through the woods.  She’d never been to prom before, and she was more excited than she wanted to admit. 

Jude’s truck was behind the old shack.  He was leaning against the side, smoking a cigarette.  He dropped his cigarette and put it out under his foot.  He let out a low whistle.  “Damn baby, you do look even better in a dress.  Will you take a picture of yourself in your uniform and send it to me?”

Mellenda rolled her eyes.  “You are so horny Jude.  Can we get out of here?  I was afraid the whole way that I was going to rip this expensive dress.”

“It was worth every penny.  It shows off your body perfectly.  Of course I think your dress will look even better when it’s on the floor beside the bed in our hotel room.  Are you sure you don’t want to skip the dance and go straight to the room?”

Mellenda shook her head.  “Control your hormones.  This is your senior prom Jude.  You can’t miss it so that we can have sex.  We’ve already had sex, and it’s not like we’re never gonna have sex again.”

“But the way you look in that dress already has me rock hard.  If I have to dance with you all night and have your hot body rubbing up against me, I’m gonna come in my shorts.”

“Gross.  You sound like such a horny teenage boy.  We’ll only dance to fast songs so my body won’t be rubbing up against yours.”

“I can’t dance to anything but slow songs.  You look so hot.  Do you wanna do it before we go to the dance?  Turn around so I can see your ass.  And look at your cleavage.  Shit I think I already came in my shorts.”

“If you don’t stop talking like that, I won’t go to the dance with you and you’ll have to spend the night with yourself in the hotel room.”

“Baby come on.  I was kidding.  You look fucking gorgeous.  I’m gonna have the best looking date in school.  I know it.”

“Uh huh.  Let’s go.  I wanna get out of this dress and not just so that we can have sex.  It’s tight around my butt and my boobs.”

Jude groaned.  “You’d better not show me your butt then, because I really will have a premature ejaculation.  Your ass looks so hot when your clothes aren’t tight that I can only imagine how good it must look right now.”

“You are a pervert.  Let’s go.”

“I am a pervert, but you do look gorgeous.  I’m really proud to be taking you to prom.  There’s nobody in the whole world that I’d rather go with.”

“Uh huh.”  She winked at him.  “Am I driving or are you?”

“You’d better drive. I might get distracted by your cleavage and kill us on the way.”

Mellenda rolled her eyes.  “Jude what am I gonna do with you?”

“Don’t get me started on thinking about that.”  He gave her a quick kiss and then opened the door for her. 

Mellenda got behind the wheel and then pulled back out onto the road once Jude had gotten in the other side of the truck and shut the door behind him.  “It’s at your school right?”

“Yep.  In the gym.”

“Okay.  Are you nervous?”

“Why would I be nervous?  I’m gonna be outta there in a few months and I will have the best looking date there.  You look like you should be on the cover of a magazine.”

“Ha ha.  I already said I was gonna have sex with you tonight Jude, so you can stop trying to butter me up.  You’ve already talked your way into my pants so give it a rest.”

“If I recall, and I’m pretty damned sure I do, because that was one of the best nights of my life so far, you seduced me the first time babe.  You were begging me for it.”

“Oh please.  You’re the one that’s always like ‘Mellenda let’s go outside so we can fool around.’  Women have so much more willpower than men do.”

“You had zero willpower that night.  Yeah, count it girl.  Zero.  You came the second I was inside of you.”

“Maybe I faked it.”

“Mellenda, you’re talking to your man.  I’ve given you an orgasm so many different ways that I think I kinda know what it feels like when you have one.  And you um, well yeah you know what I’m talking about but it’s probably better if I don’t say it out loud.  But it’s pretty obvious when you have an orgasm.”

Mellenda’s face was hot.  “No more dirty talk Jude.  You’re embarrassing me.”

“I’m sorry baby.  But I do know when you have an orgasm.”

“Shut up or I’ll make you give me a cigarette.”

Jude chuckled.  “I thought you only smoked after I’d totally blown your mind in bed.”

“Oh my god Jude, I am serious.  Shut the hell up or I will drop you off on the side of the road and drive your truck to Vegas.”

“Vegas?  What can you do in Vegas when you’re not twenty-one?  It’s not like you can marry yourself.”

“Who said I wanted to marry you?  I was using Vegas as an example.  I don’t think I’d ever want to go there.  It sounds trashy.  A town that makes its living off of making people broke.”

“You’d bankrupt yourself driving this thing to Vegas anyway.  If it made it all the way there.  I gotta get some new wheels before I go to school.”

“I need to get a car period before I go to school.”

“Why can’t you ride with me?  I thought you had an almost full scholarship.  I already got my acceptance letter and my grants look good.  Don’t tell me you’re backing out on me now.  I can’t lose you after we barely started dating.”

“Don’t be so melodramatic Jude.  You sound like a girl.   My scholarship is fine, and I’m not backing out on anything with you.”

“So you’re gonna marry me someday?”

“Now you really sound like a girl.  If things continue to go well then yeah, I’ll probably marry you someday.  But you’d better save up for a nice engagement ring.  I want one even nicer than Tory’s.”

Mellenda turned to Jude after she had parked the truck in the parking lot of Brentwood High.  She thought he looked a little pale, and had to stop herself from laughing.  “I’m kidding Jude.  I’m sure that if you decide you want to marry me someday that whatever engagement ring you pick out will be fine.”

“I knew I wanted to marry you the first time we had sex.”

“Enough.  Let’s go see if they’ve spiked the punch.  I’m in the mood to get drunk.”

“I knew that there was a reason that I loved you.”

Mellenda’s heart beat faster.  “What did you say?”

“Huh?  Oh, you mean that I loved you?  I thought that you knew that.  Don’t you love me too?  You don’t have to say it if you don’t.  I’ve never felt this way before.  I thought that I loved Tory and that I loved Molli and even this other girl three years ago, but those were just words.  With you I mean it.  So yeah, I love you Mellenda.  Now let’s go get drunk.  I’m sure they’ve already spiked the punch.”  He grinned.  “It’s a good thing that the hotel is only a few blocks away and that the school doesn’t care if kids leave their cars here all night huh?  Let me get the door for you.” 

Jude started to get out of the truck, but Mellenda stopped him.  “Jude.  Wait.  Did you really mean what you said?  Do you love me?  I mean really love me?”

“Mellenda, I feel like the luckiest guy in the whole damned world.  Even if you don’t love me the way I love you, you’ve chosen to share your life with me.  Maybe it won’t last forever, but that’s still pretty damned special.”

“Oh Jude.”

She wanted to cry.  Ricky was cultured and brilliant and looked like a man.  At nineteen, he acted more mature than she figured a lot of men twice his age acted.  Jude could be crude, he wasn’t quite as smart as Ricky, and he could be an asshole, but he was making her feel things that Ricky had never made her feel.  She was suddenly glad that Ricky had started sleeping with Molli.  She truly wished them the best for the first time since Ricky had broken up with her.

“I love you too.”

Jude grinned.  “Beautiful words from a truly beautiful woman.  Now let’s go get drunk, and dance a little so we can go back to the hotel and make a perfect end to a perfect night.”