Carly awoke Sunday morning with a cramp in her neck. ‘Ow!’ she thought as she lifted her neck. She looked over to see the source of her pain and smiled. She realized she had been sleeping with Nick’s arm underneath her for who knows how long. She had been snuggled up against him. What sweet misery, she thought. She rolled off his arm and thought, Wow, his arm is going to be sore!. As soon as she thought it, Nick stretched both arms above his head and then rolled over towards her. His eyes slowly opened as he groaned his hesitance to awaken from his slumber.
Blue eyes met brown ones as they stared at one another; heads on pillows; bodies nearly touching. Nick reached out to touch her face lovingly.
“Good morning, sweetness.”
Carly’s face lit up. God, she felt something so intense for him; words couldn’t describe it at the moment.
“Good morning.” Nick’s lips brushed hers briefly.
“I guess you’re not concerned about morning breath.” She laughed.
“Oh, do you have that? Well, yeah, now that you mention it, it’s pretty bad!” He teased, slapping a hand over his mouth.
Carly pushed him so he fell back on the bed. “Jerk!”
Nick laughed hysterically. “Man, was that the best you can do? That was pretty lame!”
Carly retaliated by pushing him off the bed.
“Hey!” Nick found himself unprepared to suddenly be sprawled on the hard floor naked.
Carly smothered a laugh. “Oh, are you going to cry like a ‘girl’?”
Touche, Nick thought and jumped onto the bed. “You’re getting it now!” He grabbed a glass of the water from the end table and threatened to pour it over her head.
“You wouldn’t! You better not!” She screamed, backing away.
“Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. But you don’t know…” Nick’s mouth was curved into an evil smile.
Carly inadvertently kicked out under the covers and hit Nick in the stomach. She watched with horror as he suddenly doubled over, spilling the water all over the bed.
“Oh, God, Nick, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean…” She rushed to hold him, seeing his grimace.
“Well, I guess I should be grateful it wasn’t my dick.” He laughed, grabbing her and pushing her back on the bed and kissing her soundly. Carly came up for air, smiling. “So, you are okay?”
“I’d say I’m more than okay.” He smiled, moving her hand under the covers to feel his hard-on. She grinned at him and this time she kissed him.
“What am I going to do with that?” She teased.
“Use your imagination. Oh and by the way I love how you cussed last night when you were coming. More of that would be fuckin’ awesome!”
Carly hid her temporary embarrassment in a kiss as she moved her hand up and down his penis and enjoyed hearing his groans of pleasure. Minutes later he was inside of her and she found her “potty” mouth emerging once again as they came together again in the most glorious union of desire and expression of the beginnings of love.
A couple hours later, they were showered (both of them showered together, making the most of the wet torrent of water raining down on them) and Carly was heading out the door in her lace skirt and camisole. Man, she couldn’t wait to go home and change, she thought.
Kissing in Nick’s entryway, he reluctantly pulled his lips from hers and said, “Carly, I don’t know how you feel, but I’m starting to feel something and I was just wondering if you and Derek…”
Carly cut him off. “I do, too, Nick. I’m going to break up with him today. It’s been over between us for a few weeks anyway and besides I would be an idiot not to want to keep having sex with you! God, Nick, it’s been the best I’ve ever had!” She said honestly. He brought out a different side in her; an honest, fun, natural side where she could really be herself and say what was on her mind.
Nick smiled almost shyly. “Cool! So, the sex is better, huh? Thanks for letting me know that.”
“Like you needed some help with your ego! I’m sure women have told you how good you are!”
“You’d be surprised at how little they say sometimes. Again, thank you.” He said sincerely.
Carly looked at him. She realized that she had assumed some things about him that she shouldn’t have; she had assumed that since he was a rock star that every woman he’d ever been with told him what a stud he was, but maybe that wasn’t always that case. Were they frickin’ idiots?! The sex was the best she had ever had and granted, she hadn’t been with a lot of men, but it was more than just sex with him; there were feelings involved and that’s what enriched the sex so much more…
Nick kissed her again and then said, “Call me afterwards, okay? And then we’ll make plans.”
Carly nodded, smiling. “I will. What are your plans today?”
“Oh, I think I’m going to go over Bri’s house and we’ll go watch a movie or play basketball or something. Call me on my cell.”
“Okay. Tell him I said hi. Hey, have a good day.” She hugged him.
“I had a really good time with you.” He said softly into her hair; inhaling it’s glorious scent.
“The best, sweetheart.” She whispered in his ear, filled with joy.
They parted, smiling at one another and Carly turned to leave. Halfway down his steps she turned to see if he was watching her. She was ecstatic when she saw that he was. He was standing there leaning against the door jamb; hair haphazardly standing on end, a crooked smile pasted on his face, no shirt; his tattoos evident against his tanned skin; his shorts loose against his awesomely muscular, strong legs. Her heart melted at the sight of him; he was the man she wanted to be with for a long, long time…
Minutes into her drive, Carly realized that she was not that far from Rinda’s house, or at least it was on her way home, so she decided to make a quick detour there before heading home to break the news to Derek. She was dreading telling him; although she suspected that a) it may not come as that big of a shock to him given their strained relationship of late and b) he may be relieved since he may have been seeking an “out”. Maybe he had been cheating on her with someone for these past few weeks and that was why he was gone so much and distant when they had seen each other. It had actually crossed her mind already and since she had met Nick, she was not that upset about the possibility. Besides, working at the police department for over two years had shown her that some of the cops were not faithful to their wives and/or girlfriends and they had either steady mistresses or one-night stands. She had chose to turn a blind eye to it all but she was aware nonetheless. She did wonder whom Derek might be involved with though. Her mind skimmed through all the possibilities at work and outside of work and she couldn’t come up with anyone conclusive. Derek had always sworn his fidelity to her so she hadn’t let her mind wander to that area too much before. And now? Well, it didn’t matter because they were about to become history anyway.
Pulling into Rinda’s driveway thirty minutes later, she noted curiously the presence of a police patrol car parked on the street a few yards away. Not thinking much of it, she looked up at the paved steps leading to Rinda’s front door. She lived in an older, Spanish style home which she had beautifully remodeled a year ago and was proud to call home. Carly peered into the window on the side of Rinda’s garage and spied her bright red BMW convertible parked inside so she knew she was home.
It would be good to see her. She could pour her heart out to her friend, tell her she was sorry for being so distant lately and enlist her advice on how to break the news to Derek. She would also confess her relationship to Nick to her and hope and pray she would forgive her. But she was ready to come clean; be honest with her and hope all their years of friendship would mean something in the long run.
The loud sound of a lawnmower starting up made Carly turned to see that Rinda’s neighbor was the cause of the racket. She sighed and walked up the steps to the front door. Knock! Knock! Once, twice, three times. Where could she be? Carly knew that the house was fairly large, so it was possible she was in the backyard by the pool or somewhere in the back of the house where she wouldn’t hear her knocking, plus who could hear anything with that damn lawnmower noise! Carly would have rang the doorbell, but Rinda had told her it was broken and she had never had it fixed, so that was not an option. Carly knew Rinda’s side gate was locked, but she also knew a trick to get over the gate. Rinda had showed her once when she accidentally locked herself out of her house. Behind some bushes, there was a large rock huddled against a small part of the fence. Once you navigated the trickiness of standing on top of the rock, you could jump up, straddle the fence and climb over.
“You really need to get rid of this, Rinda! Someone could break in!” Carly had insisted when Rinda had first shown her. “Yeah, but I have sensors and alarm system in the house, so what are they going to do? Go swim in my pool and lie out on my lounge chairs?! If that’s all they want, then I say, go for it!” Rinda had laughed it off. “Besides, you know me, I forget my key all the time and I need this!” “Yeah, but there is something called a ‘hide-a-key!’” Carly had suggested, but Rinda had pooh-poohed the idea. Carly was thankful she had now as she hiked up her skirt—God, she was glad no one could see her—carefully climbed over the fence and headed towards the backyard. ‘Oh, I guess I could have called her!’ Carly laughed at her folly and then realized that it was kind of fun to sneak around like this. This way, she could surprise Rinda.
The pool water rippled with sparkling brilliance as the bright sun reflected off of it. Carly sighed happily at the sight. Too bad she didn’t have her swimsuit. It was already 80 degrees and a dip sounded good. Swimsuit… that hadn’t stopped her and Rinda from skinny-dipping in the past. Carly smiled, but as she walked closer and the full length of the pool came into view, the smile disappeared and she stopped dead in her tracks.
She realized the lawnmower had deafened her ears to the sound that would have surely assaulted her had silence been present. There in full view was her best friend bent over the pool’s edge; naked breasts heaving; eyes closed; mouth open, crying out in ecstasy as a man—her boyfriend!—was ramming his dick into her as he clung to the metal handles of the attached railed steps. Carly watched in horror as at that precise moment, Derek pulled out his member and came all over her back just as it appeared the Rinda had only just started her descent into orgasmic bliss. So like Derek to be so selfish like that! Carly shook the thought from her mind and turned away, shocked and appalled at what she had just witnessed. She didn’t know whether to run and hide or stand there and confront them. She was too confused and stunned to know what to do so she just stood there.
She looked up as the couple exited up the pool, grabbed some nearby beach towels and wrapped them around themselves. Just as they were about to walk towards the sliding glass doors back into the house, Carly’s profile caught their attention and they slowly turned as if in slow motion to face her. Carly was still just standing there in utter amazement; a single a syllable would not escape her lips; she just stared.
“Carly! Oh my God!” Rinda was the first to speak, clutching her towel to her naked body and making her way towards her friend. Derek and Carly locked eyes and what she saw in them was fear and regret. He actually looked remorseful which added to her astonishment.
“Don’t!” Carly held up her hand as Rinda approached her.
“I’m so sorry! Oh, shit, I’m so sorry!” She was frantic and Carly let her go on as she continued to watch her boyfriend. He started to walk towards her now, too and she backed up.
“Wait! Don’t come near me! You guys make me sick!” Carly realized that she was being a hypocrite by accusing them since and she and Nick had done the same thing to them; but at the moment, that all didn’t matter. She was pissed and she would make it known that she was.
Rinda was sobbing now; tears racking her body and Carly felt compassion for her friend, but she wanted Rinda to feel guilty, if only for a moment. Carly was hurt and she didn’t want to make nice at this moment in time.
“So, I’m guessing you guys lied to me about not screwing that night we all got drunk!” Carly spat at them.
Derek looked at her sheepishly and admitted, “It was my fault, Carly. And I really regret it. I’m so sorry.” Carly noted that he genuinely sounded sorry, but she was still pissed.
“Fuck you, Derek! Do you know how bad you made me feel?! You knew how guilty I had felt about Nick and I doing it. You could have come clean and I would have forgiven you! Hell, we were all drunk off our asses that night!” Carly smiled inwardly to herself realizing that Nick would have been proud of her; allowing her true feelings to come in the form of cursing. Sometimes it just felt really damn good to say what you really felt when you were mad and not be the ‘watch what you say’ girl she always used to be.
Derek looked at her in shock; he had never really heard her talk that way before and he was seeing her in a whole new light. It was a turn-on to hear her using foul language plus she was looking so fuckin’ hot in that camisole and tight skirt.
“Plus I’m also guessing that you guys have been fucking these past few weeks! God, Rinda, I’m more pissed at you than Derek! How could you?!”
“What about you and Nick?” Rinda threw out and Carly looked at her in shock. She knew about them? But how could she?
“Yes, I’ve known about you guys.”
“But how?” Carly had to know.
“Nick told me.” She said. It was a blow to her heart as if an ax just chopped it in two. How? Why? He never said…
Suddenly a phone started ringing from inside Rinda’s house. Derek looked at the women. “I should get that. I’m on call today and I gave them this number.” He looked lost, unsure what to do.
“Go!” Carly said. She knew he needed to take it.
“So, back to what we were talking about. When did you talk to Nick?”
Rinda smiled evilly. “He just called me a few minutes ago.”
Carly frowned. “A few minutes ago you were bent over the pool receiving Derek’s dick!” She yelled.
“Yeah, it was before that, obviously.”
“What did he say?”
“He called to say that he felt guilty for not telling me before, you and he had been sleeping together for a few weeks now and even though he liked you, he really missed me and wanted to get back to together.”
Carly stared at her incredulously. “You are such a liar, Rinda! Nick wouldn’t say that!”
“Why? Do you think he’s in love with you? Please! It’s just sex for him, Car!”
Tears started forming in Carly’s eyes. How could Nick do that? And how could her friend be so mean?!
“I still don’t believe you, but if he did say that, what did you say to him?”
Rinda said casually, “I told him to fuck off, that I was in love with Derek and it was definitely over between us.”
Carly stared at her in shock. In love? How the hell did that happen? Suddenly her tear ducts had a mind of their own as they began spewing tears, which rolled down her cheeks in wet trails.
“How? Why?” Was all Carly could get out. She walked over to a patio bench and sat down. She bent over with her head in her hands and started bawling. This wasn’t happening…
“What the hell is going on?” Derek walked out onto the patio.
“Nothing. I’m going inside.” Rinda said coldly, walked by him into the house and slammed the sliding glass door behind her.
“Carly? Are you okay?” He walked over to her and sat down next to her. He was now wearing a pair of blue jeans, but no shirt.
Carly threw herself into his arms and cried against his chest. He enveloped her with his arms and let her cry. He brushed her hair gently with his hand and comforted her; waiting her to be ready to talk. It was a few minutes until she could calm herself and pull away. She finally sat up, brushing her tears away with her hands.
“Here.” Derek handed her a clean towel that was sitting on one of the patio chairs.
“Thanks.” Carly said as she dabbed her face with the towel.
“Oh, Derek, how did we get ourselves into this mess? I mean, it’s like a frickin’ soap opera!”
Derek smiled. She still looked so beautiful; she always did to him. He shook his head. “I don’t know, baby, it just happened. And again, I’m sorry that I hurt you. It wasn’t my intention.”
She looked at him. “Yeah, I know. You’re a good man.” She sighed. “Well, I can’t really blame you because I’m with Nick now; we’ve been… seeing each other off and on the past few weeks. It sounds like you have spent more time with Rinda, though.”
He sighed and nodded. “Yeah.”
“So, let me ask you this. Are you in love with her?”
He looked at her. “No. To be honest, I’m still in love with you.”
Carly looked shocked and surprised. “What?”
“Yeah. I admit, I got caught up in Rinda for the past few weeks because she was fun and exciting, but to tell you the truth, I was trying to find a way to break up with her because I realized how much I really want to settle down with you.”
Carly was stunned. “Derek, this is not what I expected to hear from you. I came over here today to talk to Rinda about how I was going to tell you that I wanted to break up.”
“You want to break up?” He looked sad.
“I can’t believe that you don’t! I mean, we’ve barely had a relationship for the past four or five weeks! Things were going downhill fast!”
“Yeah, well, you’re right, things weren’t the same, but I kept trying to find a way to break it off with Rinda and she kept luring me back. I was an idiot, a stupid male thinking with his dick, I know! But I never stopped loving you.”
Carly stood up. This was too much.
“Look, Derek, first of all, if I did still want to be with you, I don’t think I could get past your cheating on me with my best friend or should I say ex-best friend for weeks. A one-night stand is one thing, but several weeks of fucking, well, that’s just way over the top!”
Derek smiled at her.
“What are you smiling at?”
“You. Your new found desire to suddenly start cussing. I love it. It’s so, well, hot! And you look so damn good in that outfit!”
“Derek! Did you forget that I just found you here with your dick up Rinda’s ass or wherever it was a few minutes ago! I’m still pissed at both of you!”
He suddenly got solemn again. “OK, you’re right, I’m sorry. I told you I was an idiot, a jerk, an asshole, whatever you want to call me.”
“You were like all those other cops at the station who cheat on their wives and girlfriends…”
“Hey, I never cheated on you before I met Rinda. It was just after that one night, she had some kind of weird power over me—I couldn’t get enough of her and then it started to get old and I wanted out. I was planning to break up with her today…”
“Until you suddenly got horny and then that changed everything, right?”
“No, that wasn’t it. She got some phone call and seemed really upset and I couldn’t do it and then she started giving me a blow job and pulled me out here, saying she wanted to do it in the pool… you know, I fell for it.”
“Like every other male who thinks with his dick.”
“There you go again, you have to stop saying those things…” He moved toward her, wanting to kiss her.
Carly backed away. “Stop it! I haven’t told you everything. I’m with Nick now.”
“Oh. Is it serious?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“You think so?”
“No, it is. It’s just that Rinda told me something and… well, never mind. Anyway, it’s over, you and I, I mean.”
Derek looked at her sadly. “I wish it wasn’t. Just so you know, I was going to propose to you…”
“Don’t tell me that!” She turned away from him. She was so confused right now. She had started to fall in love with Nick, but now Rinda told him he had called her and wanted to get back with her—which she still didn’t believe completely, but what if it were true? She had wanted Derek to propose so badly… at least until the past month or so.
Derek walked up behind her and put his arms around her. “I love you and I want to marry you and have babies with you, Carly. Please forgive me.” He whispered. The sound of his voice sounded so sincere, she wanted to fling her arms around him and say, Yes! Yes! I will marry you! But her heart was conflicted since she still had feelings for Nick.
“I’ve got to go.” Carly said and walked back through the side yard, jumped back up over the fence, down the other side onto the rock and ran to her car. She drove away. It was time to find Nick and find out the truth or she might go out of her mind!
