Chapter 2
LUNA
It took us a while to get to Anderson’s place because he lived outside of town. There was already a crowd of cars out front. The party had officially started. Lini managed to find a spot in front the house. People that were standing outside with beers in their hands (mostly guys) said “Hi” to us when we got out of the car. Robbie came from behind us putting his arms around both of us.
“Damn you look fine.” he said and kissed my cheek.
“Better not forget it either.” I said and kissed his cheek.
“And of course I could never forget about the lovely Lini I have standing beside me who also looks very fine this evening.” he kissed her temple and she smiled.
“And never forget it” she smiled.
“What?” he asked. “I don’t get a kiss?”
“Nope” she shook her head. “Sorry to disappoint you”
Robbie and Lini talked as we walked toward the house. I was looking around the yard when I felt somebody watching me. I let my still damp hair fall out of its braid around my body as I kept walking.
“Oh my god Luna.” Lini whispered.
I looked at her with a frown on my face. “What’s wrong Lini?”
“Your hair.” she whispered.
“What about it?” I asked.
“It’s gotten longer.”
“It has?” I asked with a frown still on my face.
“Yea, it has grown.” Robbie said.
I pulled a lock of hair and low and behold. My hair had grown. It was now three I inches below my waist. Cool.
“Let your hair down.” I told Lini.
She let her down. And as I suspected it had grown below her waist. I’m surprised I hadn't realized my hair had grown before I put it up in a French braid, which is odd.
“Your hair grew too.” I smiled.
“It has?” Lini ask excitedly. “How long is it?”
“Same as mine” I said. “Three inches”
“Cool.” She smiled as we walked into the house.
Things had already gotten pretty wild. You had people in the back of the room groping each other. People were doing the same thing on the couch. There was a thin cloud of smoke in the house. I bet half the kids in here were high. Someone had music playing. People were either dancing, talking and drinking, or making out somewhere. But over all, it looked like people everyone was having a good time. The music was pretty good. And I felt like dancing.
“Anybody wanna dance?”I asked with a smile.
“I’ll dance with you” Robbie said.
“Alright then” grabbing Robbie's hand I started pulling him out toward the dance floor. “Let’s go.” I looked over Robbie’s shoulder “Yell if you need me.”
Lini smiled. “I will, now go enjoy yourselves while I go find my own piece of meat to dance with.”
“That’s my girl.” I smiled and shouted as Robbie and I disappeared onto the dance floor and started dancing.
I didn’t recognize the song, but I like it. Robbie pulled me closer as we swayed to the beat. It was hypnotizing. My head rested on Robbie’s shoulder when the next song came on. Whoever picked the music knew what they were doing. When the song ended Robbie and I pulled apart.
“That was fun.” I laughed.
“Yea, it was.” he agreed.
He had this hungry look in his eyes that made me wanna squirm. Robbie and I were best friends, but that didn’t stop the fact that he wanted to have sex with me. I was about to say something when a woman walked up to us. I knew right away something wasn’t right about her, but I let it go. Her hair was the color of snow. It hit the middle of her back. She was shorter than me by a few inches and a little bit wider than I was. Long toned legs like mine and elfin face. Her eyes were the most beautiful thing about her. Honey golden eyes with hazel flecks. She was dressed in a tiny black shirt and tank top that said ‘lick me all over’. She looked like she was on the hunt. Her eyes told she’d found what she was looking for as they ran over Robbie. His in turn did the same. That’s when I decided to dismiss myself. I started backing away.
“TTYL Robbie.” I said over my shoulder as I walked away.
“Yea sure whatever.” was his response I as disappeared.
I moved around the dance floor for something to do and spotted Lini dancing with a really tall guy. He had a dark complexion and black shoulder length hair. It looked shiny smooth and silky. No wonder Lini had her hands in it. He was built nicely. Thick bands of muscle wrapped around his arms and legs. His hands were huge and wrapped around her waist. From what I could tell, he was the hottest guy I’d ever seen Lini with, and the tallest. Though I could tell there was something off about him though. I was happy for her. I’m proud of her for catching his eye and wished there were another one of him for me. Be careful what you wish for a voice whispered inside my head. Frowning at the thought I started walking. Just then somebody tapped me on my shoulder. I turned around to see that my wish had come true. Before I could say anything his eyes stopped me. They were golden brown with flecks of green in them. They were absolutely beautiful.
“Hi.” he said.
It took me a second to get my thoughts together so I could answer him.
“Hi.” I finally said.
“My name’s Brock” he smiled and ran his eyes over my body. “What’s yours?”
“Luna,” I said. “My name is Luna.”
“Nice name.” he complimented. “It’s a pleasure to meet you Luna.”
His hand stretched out toward me and I took it. His skin was soft and warm. His hand was huge. I had a weakness for large hands. Along with chocolate covered strawberries. Mine started tingling so I pulled it out of his.
“Thanks,” my hand was starting to sweat. “It’s nice to meet you too.”
My eyes were wondering over his body. What body this guy had. He looked like the guy Lini had her hands on. Without realizing it I looked over the spot where Lini was and found that same guy starring at me. He looked like Brock's twin. Wait a minute. He was Brock's twin. Whoa. What are the odds? I looked back at Brock.
“You have a twin brother I see.”
Brock laughed. “Yea and I’m assuming that’s your twin sister he’s making out with.”
“Yea,” I laughed too. “She is.”
“It looks like they’re getting along pretty well” he observed.
I laughed again. “Yea, it does.”
We both stopped talking after that and kind of just stood there looking at each other. Something about him wasn’t right. That fact stuck out about him like a sore thumb. Actually a lot of things about him stuck out like a sore thumb. He seemed graceful. A little too graceful if you ask me. Almost everything about him screamed something wasn’t right. I watched the way he swayed lightly to the beat of the song that was playing. Slowly my eyes ran his nicely muscled body, taking him in. the thick bands of muscle that ran down his arms and legs. He had fair skin the color of hazelnut was that soft and smooth to the touch. And then there were his hypnotizing golden brown eyes with green flecks in them. His hair was black and shoulder length. It shined beautifully and looked smooth to the touch.
Just then my friend Amber came barreling toward me.
“Woo!!” she shouted and hugged me. “Hey chica how’s it goin’?”
I hugged her back with a big smile on my face. “It’s goin’ good Amber.”
She looked at Brock and her gaze turned cold and hard. I looked at Brock and saw his face was the same way.
“And who’s this?” she asked.
“Oh,” I said. “Um, this is Brock and Brock this is one of my best friends Amber.”
“Hi” Brock said stiffly.
“Hey” Amber said in a hard voice. Then she looked at me. “Luna, can I talk to you for a moment?”
I frowned. “Why? Is it important?”
Her gaze shifted back to Brock. “Very.”
Before I could say anything to Brock Amber grabbed me by my hand and hauled me off into the kitchen. I could barely keep up.
“Whoa Amber slow down!” I laughed. “I’m tripping over myself.”
Just like that amber let go of me and turned around.
“How do you know him?” she asked.
“You mean Brock? We just met.”
“Luna, you need to stay-” before she could get the rest of her sentence out Roxas came out of nowhere and wrapped his arms around her.
“Hola chica!” he laughed.
Roxas was what you would call mischievous. He was also what you would call one of my best friends. He was your typical blonde haired blue eyed guy. He had chestnut colored skin that girls couldn’t keep their hands off. Same goes for the rest of him. And just like most of the guys at school he had a big build to him. He was tall. Nicely built, but not like most guys at school. He was a little smaller than most guys. But with Roxas, size didn’t matter. He’s a sweet guy, but not someone you wanna piss off. I’ve seen him stomp on guys three times his size. It was actually pretty cool, but back to the point. His hands were big, which seemed to be a common trait among the guys in this town. And most girls were into that kind of stuff. I know I am.
“Hey Roxas” I smiled. “Did you just get here?”
“Actually I’ve been here longer than Robbie.” he smiled devilishly. “You know me, always lookin’ for some fresh meat.”
He’s also been known as one of the biggest flirts in school.
I shook my head. “You are such a dog.”
He winked at me. “You know it baby.”
Amber was about to say something to me when a chorus of yells from the other room caught our attention. All three of us turned and headed toward the main room. When we got there everyone was dancing. I realized what song was playing. Amber squeaked and started dancing along to the sing.
“Woo!!” Roxas yelled. “Everybody do the stanky leg!”
He started dancing and so did I. Lini came dancing toward us with Brock’s brother. Then Robbie came toward us with the same girl from earlier. I thought about Brock and hoped he would show up. Lini came up to me and smiled.
“Luna,” she pushed him in front of her. “This is Bruno.”
He held his hand out to me. “Hi”
I shook his hand. “Hi, it’s nice to meet you.”
He smiled and said, “Thanks, it’s nice to meet you too.”
I got straight to the point. “What’s up with you and sister?”
Lini’s jaw dropped. That didn’t stop me. I asked him again.
“You gonna tell me what’s up with you and my sister or am I gonna have to guess.”
Bruno didn’t flinch or hesitate. “My intentions aren’t to hurt her if that’s what you’re getting at.”
“Actually no, that wasn’t what I was getting at, but thanks for clearing that up.”
“You’ll find out what my intentions are somewhere in the near future.” he smiled.
“Ok Bruno, fair enough,” I nodded thoughtfully. “But you should know that if you do anything, and I mean anything, to hurt my sister, and I’ll have your ass. Got it?”
He smiled and nodded his head. “Message received loud and clear. Then I guess I should warn you not to hurt my brother, because then I'll have your ass.”
I smiled. “Good. I like you Bruno. And my sister really seems to like you.”
“Yea” he laughed. “Tell me about it.”
“There’s one more thing you should know about Lini,” I pulled him closer. “If she sees you with another girl, she’ll kick both of your asses.”
Bruno pulled back with an eyebrow raised. “Really?” he looked excited by the idea. “Looks like I got lucky. Girls like you and Lini interest my brother and me.”
“Girls like me and Lini?” I raised an eyebrow.
“Girls who like to get rough.” Bruno licked his lips. “Girls who know what they want and aren’t afraid to do what it takes to keep what they have. It’s a real turn on for us.”
“Yea, it is.” Brock said from behind me and made me jump.
I turned around and smiled. Brock smiled too and asked, “Miss me?”
My mouth stretched into a wide smile and I said, “Well maybe just a little bit.”
He smiled and took my hand. “Do you wanna dance?”
Putting my finger thoughtfully to my chin I thought for a moment although I had already made up my mind. “Hmm, I don’t know. Can you dance?”
He winked at me. “Better than you I bet.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Are you challenging me?”
“What do you think?” he pulled me closer as the next song came on.
“I think you’re about to get served.” I poked his chest.
He smiled. “Do you know the name of this song?”
“Um, yea I do it’s Oops by Tweet.”
“Interesting song.” he commented.
“Yea,” I nodded as we start moving to the beat. “I think so.”
“Good to know.” his arms tightened around me
After that we didn’t talk much. Instead we moved against each other. His body was hard and felt warmer than usual. I liked the way it moved against mine. It felt nice. My whole body felt like it was on fire. All I wanted to do was get closer to him, as close as I could get. Our fingers twined together as I turned my back to him. His skin was soft, his hands large and warm. They felt comforting. The song ended, but we didn’t let go each other. We waited for the next song to come on. I smiled when I heard it. I felt Brock’s lips at my ear.
“What song it this?” he whispered.
“Don’t you know the name of this song?” I smiled.
“Yes but I wanna hear you say it,” he whispered as his fingers pulled away from mine. He placed my hands on the back of his neck and spread his hands along my waist. “So say it.”
The sound of his hypnotic voice made my eyes close as I whispered, “Closer”
“Closer?” he murmured.
I could feel his lips gliding along my neck.
“Yes,” my fingers pulled at the hair on the back of Brock's head as he planted small kisses on my neck. “Closer.”
“Closer.” he whispered on more time before he started sucking on my neck. Every part of my body was on fire.
“Mmm,” I sighed. “That feels good.”
“It does?” he asked.
“Yea,” I nodded slowly. “Really good.”
“Want me to make you feel even better?” his voice sounded so low and husky a cold shiver ran down my spine.
“Yea,” I nodded again. I didn’t know what he was doing, but whatever it was, was going to make me feel better than I already did. I turned around to face him. “Bring it on.”
He smiled and put his forehead to mine, closing his eyes. This searing hot wave of intense heat washed over me, making me sway in Brock's arms. He pulled his forehead from mine and pushed his lips back against my neck. My body jerked at the feel of something digging its way into my neck. My eyes rolled to the back of my head and my legs caved under me. I was higher than a kite. Brock was the only thing holding me up. My body hummed with excitement and I pushed Brock's lips harder against my neck urging him on, my hunger for him rocking through my body. Everything started getting fuzzy when all of a sudden I was yanked away from Brock.
After a few seconds my vision cleared and whatever high I had was gone. I realized it was Amber who had yanked me away from Brock. And she looked pissed.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Amber snapped.
Brock smiled at her. “You know exactly what I’m doing”
“You’re not supposed to do that unless-”
“Unless what?” Brock raised an eyebrow.
Her eyes popped wide in horror. “You didn’t” she shook her head.
“Actually yea,” his face went hard for a moment. “I did.”
Amber lunged at him but I locked arms around hers before she could get at him. And damn was she strong. It took almost everything I had to keep her still.
“Amber calm down!” I said and tightened my grip on her.
“You son of a bitch!” she said through clenched teeth. “How could you?”
Brock’s lips formed a hard line. “What’s done is done. I can’t take it back, so now we’re both stuck in this now.”
“She doesn’t even know what’s going on right now” her voice broke and she stopped fighting me. I let her go. “She never had a choice in the matter, and now she never will because of you.”
Brock didn’t miss a beat. “And now I don’t either.”
“She doesn’t even know-”
Amber never got to finish her sentence because the sound of police sirens cut her off. Everybody scrambled to their cars. I jetted out to the car. Lini was waiting for me by the car. I hopped in and started the car. Feeling somebody’s eyes on me, I gazed up to see Brock looking at me. I met his eyes evenly for a moment before ripping and running down the street. I sped past two cop cars rounding a corner. One made a 'U turn’ and began tailing me.
“Which cop do you think it is?” I asked Lini.
“Probably Romano,” Lini said. He’s always had it in for you since you gave him that scar under his left eye.”
“Yea, ever since a while back, though I don’t remember how long”
“Four years next week.” she stated.
“Has it really been that long?”
There’s a specific reason for his not liking me, but I’ll save that story for another time. Right now I need to focus on getting away from a cop who hates my guts. I veered around the next corner almost colliding with another car. I unbuckled my seatbelt and saw Lini do the same thing. Behind us I heard a cop car screech around the corner after us. I stomped down on the gas pedal and turned on to another street.
“Yes,” Lini nodded in confirmation. “It has.”
“OK,” I said. “It’s time to lose these idiots.”
Screeching around the next corner I jerked to a stop on the corner. Lini and I ducked as the cop car came speeding by sirens wailing as it passed by. Once the sound faded we both sat up and grinned at each other. Lini held up her hand.
“Gimme some skin girl”
I slapped my hand on hers and pulled out into the street with a big smile on my face saying, “c’mon, let’s get out of here.”
When I pulled up to the house mom’s car wasn’t in the driveway.
We got out of the car and went into the house. Lini closed the door behind her and locked it.
“I’m going to bed.” she announced and headed for upstairs.
“Night!” I called up to her.
“Night!” she replied and her door close.
I headed to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water from the fridge. Then I went upstairs to my room. The alarm clock on my nightstand said it was 10:25 as I set down the water bottle. I pulled off the black tank top and skirt I had on and crawled into bed. I hadn’t realized how tired I was until my head hit the pillow.
