Absolutely Unforgivable(35)

His breathing grew heavy. He pressed his forehead to mine and let out a long, slow breath. He pulled back, licked his lips, while his gaze brushed over my entire body like he was going to eat me alive.

Sexual tension hung heavy in the air as he closed the distance between our bodies. We stood still for just a moment, trading ragged breaths. He reached up and brushed a piece of hair that had fallen in my face.

Then I felt my body started to shake and a heavy hand on my arm. Someone was shaking me and softly saying my name. It was Billy. He had come out to wake me up before I got burned by the intense rays of the sun beating down on me from above.

“Hey. You better turn over before you get burned.”

I glanced down and realized where I was and that all that just happened was but a dream. I looked at my half-naked body and jumped up to grab a towel and cover myself but stopped when I saw Billy’s face. It was different. Billy had cleaned up but not shaved. He still rocking his sexy five o’clock shadow. I looked up and noticed that today he actually styled his hair upwards. That was what had changed. I hadn’t seen it like that before. I liked it.


“Heading out for the night?” I asked while checking out his new look.


“Yeah. We are playing a gig at a bar downtown.”


Jeromy called while you were ... napping,” he said as looked over at me and a grin came over his face, “and said he would be late tonight. You gonna be okay here by yourself for a while?”


“Yeah, no. I’m fine. I’ll just ...” I looked around trying to quickly think of something I could do “I’ll just watch a movie or something.”


“The girls are all going to be at the club if you want to come hang with me tonight.”


I looked down at my body, covered in baby oil. “No, I couldn’t. It would take me too long to get ready and you have to go.”


“They can’t exactly start without me, you know.”


I shook my head and started to say no thank you but Billy stood up and threw me over his shoulder. I screamed demanding he put me down. But he didn’t listen. Instead he just walked us over to the pool casually and jumped in. He submerged us both and then we I popped my head up front under the water, slapping him on the shoulder. “How could you?”


He just grinned and said, “Eh. Now we both need to get ready.”


I went upstairs to wash the mix of chlorine, baby oil and sweat off of my immensely dirty body. While I was in the shower my mind flashed to Billy and then to Jeromy. Billy really was a great friend to Jeromy. He not only took us into his home when Jeromy got his new job but here he was willing to be late for his gig so that he could take care of me. A wave of guilt washed over me. Here I was lusting after this incredibly sweet guy who was only trying to be a good friend to Jeromy. What is wrong with me?


One of the great features of my new bathroom besides the much-appreciated heated tile floors was the built in docking station for my iPhone. I plugged it in and the sound echoed loudly throughout the whole room.


Thinking I was completely alone, I turned it up and sang along with the music as I put on my makeup. I really liked a variety of music and would listen to anything from classic rock to grunge to top 40 pop. The only thing I didn’t really like was rap or maybe jazz.


This time I was playing Call me Maybe. It had a fast beat and I began dancing around the bathroom dancing and singing the song. Luckily I had gotten dressed before because standing in my door watching me dance around like a fool was Billy. I stumbled trying to quickly turn down the music.


“Don’t stop on my account,” he said with a devilish grin on his face. My entire body turned red.


He crossed his arms as he eyed me up and down carefully. “You know you really do have a great voice, Stacy.” As he sat on my bathroom counter a new song started playing. I stood in front of him and started singing along. At the chorus I broke off in a laugh.


“You are so silly, Stacy. You ready to head out?” I glanced over at the clock on the wall and saw it was nearly 4:00. I didn’t realize how long it had taken me to get ready.


I grabbed my lip gloss and threw it in my bag as we walked out the door. Jeromy had texted me while I was in the shower to let me know there was some money in the top dresser drawer and he wanted to make sure I was going to take some with me. I hated taking money like that from Jeromy but I hated being all the way downtown without any money even more, so I as Billy made his way downstairs, I quickly opened it up, grabbed a few of the twenties and made my way downstairs just behind him.