Forever - Chapter 29
Friday
Matt
“Matt,” Brooklyn said and looked up at me. “I don’t want to spend our wedding behind bars.”
I laughed. “I have the principal’s permission.”
“To set his field on fire and put a bunch of holes in it from tent poles?”
“Mhm,” I said. Not exactly. But no one was watching. “I wanted to bring you here after the prom. That’s what the helicopter was for. But we got…interrupted.”
“That is the understatement of the century,” Brooklyn said.
Rob stepped in front of us. “I tried to convince Matt to kidnap you for the proposal. But he said no. And then all that happened. So this time, he trusted my judgement.” He slapped me on the back.
“Besides, it’s like a redo of prom. Which was already a redo of the prom you missed.
And now this is a redo of the proposal. But you’re already engaged…
My reasoning got lost somewhere in there, but you got it.
Surprise! Do you want a s’more?” He held up a bag of marshmallows.
“Yessie!” Jacob grabbed the marshmallows out of Rob’s hand and ran toward the fire.
Brooklyn laughed as Rob ran after him.
I pulled Brooklyn in close. “On prom night I planned it just being us here,” I said. “But I thought you might like this. All of us together.” I ran my fingers through her hair, untangling it from her time with a bag over her head.
“I love it,” she said.
I smiled down at her. “Yeah? The whole thing or…”
She lightly shoved my arm. “Fine. I guess even the kidnapping thing was a little funny.”
“You bit me,” I said. “You’re definitely going to pay for that.”
“And how exactly am I going to pay for that?” She smiled up at me.
“You’ll find out in the tent later,” I winked at her.
“Aren’t we sharing a tent with Jacob?”
“Tanner offered to look after Jacob tonight.” I looked over toward the fire pit. Everyone was already sitting around laughing and toasting marshmallows. Jacob was sitting on Tanner’s knee.
“That’s very nice of him,” Brooklyn said. “I really wish Tanner was more open to finding someone. He’d be a really good dad.”
Tanner was patiently trying to show Jacob how to roast one of the marshmallows. Jacob seemed to be listening. But then he whacked him with the stick instead of putting the marshmallow over the flame.
Brooklyn sighed. “I told Jacob to stop doing that. He’s going to hurt someone.”
I laughed. I wasn’t sure why Tanner was letting Jacob do it. But he didn’t seem to care at all. “I’m sure Tanner would tell him to stop if it hurt.”
“Jacob likes to play swords with sticks…” her voice trailed off when Jacob walloped Tanner with a sticky marshmallow. “Oh no.”
But Tanner just laughed and pulled the marshmallow off his cheek.
“See, Tanner’s fine,” I said.
“It’s like Jacob can do nothing bad in your eyes. I’m always the one that has to reprimand him.” She immediately pressed her lips together.
I saw the flash of pain cross her face. And I wondered if she used to say that to Miller. I cleared my throat. “We have hot chocolate too. Your favorite.”
She smiled up at me. “Thank you. We’re all going to be high on sugar. There’s no way anyone is going to get any sleep tonight.”
“No one has any plans of sleeping.” I leaned down and lightly bit her earlobe in retaliation for earlier.
She laughed. “Lead me to the hot chocolate, fiancé.”
“As you wish, fiancée.” I wrapped my arm around her and led her over to our friends.
I grabbed us each a cup of hot chocolate before sitting down beside her.
She smiled at me as she blew the steam from her cup.
I couldn’t wait to have those lips wrapped around my cock later.
“So about the tent situation,” Rob said. “Is it a spouse thing? Or a who we’re escorting down the aisle thing?”
Daphne lightly shoved his arm.
“I was just asking,” Rob said. “Because Bee is going to be next to Kennedy. And I’m next to Mason. So I think that means Bee and I are supposed to shack up together tonight.”
“Don’t make me kill you,” Mason said.
“James and Penny are actually paired up,” Rob said. “Which is incredibly lame if you ask me. Then Tanner with Daphne…” Robs voice trailed off. “Never mind. Let’s do the spouse thing for the tents. And maybe I can just escort Daphne down the aisle too? I think that makes more sense.”
“Afraid I’ll steal your beautiful wife away?” Tanner asked.
Daphne blushed.
“Over my dead body,” Rob said.
Tanner shrugged. “That can be arranged.”
“Don’t make me whoop your ass again.”
“Language,” Brooklyn said.
“Earmuffs, grandson,” Tanner said.
Jacob dropped his stick and threw his hands over his ears.
Tanner cleared his throat. “If you want to joust, I’ll go right now, Young Robert.”
“Joust? What century are you living in?”
“Fine, a gentlemen’s duel,” Tanner said. “Unless you don’t know your way around a pistol?”
“Shall I fetch your dueling pistols, Master Tanner?” Nigel asked. “Hair trigger? Or normal?”
“Stop it, guys,” I said.
“I will not…” Rob said, but Justin cut him off.
“Back to what you were saying earlier,” Justin said. “Does that leave me with Nigel? Because count me in.”
Nigel sighed like Justin was exhausting him. “I don’t even sleep.” He put a marshmallow on his stick and put it over the fire.
Tanner cleared his throat.
“I mean…I sleep,” Nigel said. “Just not often. Because of all the errands Master Tanner sends me on. I’m a boy with no breaks. The life of a dedicated house boy.”
No breaks? I knew that wasn’t true. Nigel rarely ever worked. He had more time off than I did. Maybe he was just trying to turn Justin down nicely.
“Why are all the hot ones so insane and so straight,” Justin said with a sigh.
Nigel smiled at the compliment. Even though only half of it was a compliment. And I still wasn’t sure that Nigel was completely straight. Because he still looked at me very provocatively. And still tried to dress me most mornings.
As if Nigel knew I was thinking about him, he smiled over at me. “Do you want me to roast your marshmallow for you?” he asked, his smile growing.
Was that some kind of weird sexual innuendo? I didn’t want him to roast my junk. “No thank you.”
Nigel pulled his marshmallow off the flame, quickly made a s’more and handed it to Jacob.
“Thank you, Mr. Nigel,” Jacob said.
“What was that, Mr. Jacob? I didn’t understand you.”
“I meant merci,” Jacob said and bit into his s’more. His eyes lit up. “This is the best s’more I’ve ever had!”
“And for you, mademoiselle,” Nigel said and handed Brooklyn a s’more.
“Thanks, Nigel.” She took a bite. “Wow, this really is the best s’more ever. What’s your secret?”
“A boy never tells his secretses.” He pointed finger guns at me.
Oh God. I grimaced as Brooklyn took another bite.
He better not have somehow snuck some jizz in there.
But I knew he hadn’t. Because he’d been in front of us the whole time.
There was no way he could have skeeted anywhere.
And now I was a little jealous that I said I didn’t want one.
Because he kept handing them out and everyone was raving about them.
“Don’t be jealous, Master Matthew. I made you one without your consent anyway,” Nigel said and handed me one too. “I know that’s how you like it.”
Without consent? Or just like…he’d made it the way I liked? I shrugged. Fuck it. I took a bite. Damn, it really was good.
“Rob, your eye is looking a lot better,” Brooklyn said.
“Are you checking me out, Sanders?”
Brooklyn rolled her eyes. “No. But…really your eye looks better.”
Daphne put her fingers under Rob’s chin to turn his face toward hers. “Brooklyn’s right. The swelling’s really gone down. It even looks a little less purple.”
“All in a day’s work,” Nigel said. “Now what should we do first? Strippers?”
“Stop it,” I said.
“But they’re on their way.”
“Here, man? Seriously?” I glanced at Jacob. He was having trouble keeping his eyes open. He’d probably be out in a couple minutes.
“I told you I was going to spend the night with all of them. So don’t pretend to be gobsmacked. And I already erected my tent. It’ll be fine. I’ll be as quiet as possible.” He waved his hand through the air. “My tent is going to be very full though. Stretched to the seams, if you know what I mean.”
Rob laughed.
“Now if you will excuse me. But here are more s’mores.” He grabbed a tray and handed it to me before sprinting toward his tent.
When had he made all these?
“He’s almost as weird as you, Tanner,” Rob said. “But in a good way.”
Tanner laughed. “The only reason you don’t like me is because you’re threatened by me.”
“Psh,” Rob said. “I have way more muscle than you.”
“Do you though?” Tanner asked. “And I’m taller than you. I feel a very threatened aura coming off of you right now.”
“You’re just asking for it,” Rob said.
“And yet you’re the one with a black eye.”
“Come on,” I said. “Let’s just get along. Let’s play a game or something.”
“We could do truth or dare again,” Mason suggested. “That went real well last time.”
Yeah because they all got to lay one on my fiancée.
“Definitely not that,” I said. I’d been a little annoyed about how that had gone down last time.
But I’d let it slide because I’d wanted to keep Brooklyn’s mind preoccupied after her kidnapping.
My girl didn’t need to be distracted right now though.
And no one else was kissing her ever again but me.
“How about spin the bottle?” Rob smiled. “That’s always a good time.”
“And definitely not that either.” Why did my friends keep trying to hook up with Brooklyn?
“I’m not opposed to either of those,” Justin said. “I feel like I missed out on something scandalous. But I have a game along those lines. How about seven minutes in heaven?”
Actually, I could get down with that one. I glanced over at Jacob again. He’d fallen asleep in Tanner’s arms. “Perfect, Justin. We’re up first,” I said.
“We are?” Justin stood up.
“Dude, I meant with Brooklyn.”
“You really should have been more specific. Come with me, Brooklyn.” He stood up and put his hand out for her.
“What? No. I’m going with Brooklyn.”