Chapter 23
Callie
It’s finally Friday, just one day to go until my new favourite person comes home and I can spend the weekend strapped to his chest, never moving more than a few centimetres away from him. I really miss him, more than I”d like to admit but the phone calls and video chats we’ve been having every day since he left just aren’t enough anymore. I need to actually touch him, to lie with him and have his huge arms wrapped around me so I can bury my face in his mind bending smell.
When I got home last night Molly practically tackled me to the living room floor and made me solemnly swear to stay home all day with her today watching romance movies and eating ice cream in our PJs. Ellen gave us a rare Friday off because our gym is being prepared for a competition tomorrow, thank fuck it’s not a competition I have to participate in. The freshman have a practice comp before the real shit starts for them next year, the poor little fish dealing with big bad Ellen on a Friday and Saturday back to back. I feel bad for them because I’ve dealt with her wrath all fucking week and she’s been in an extra bad mood so I”m even more mentally drained than usual. Molly should have known I wouldn’t need convincing, I’ve always been a PJ day kind of girl. Probably because I spend most of my life now either naked and squashed under a huge, dimple faced hockey player or sucked into a pair of way too tight gym shorts. Since I agreed to give Sean a real chance, to be his girlfriend, I feel like my lightbulb has been relit. If you’d have told me two months ago that Sean Taylor would be my boyfriend I’d have either laughed in your face or swung at you with a baseball bat. But he’s seriously been the one thing I never knew I needed, he makes every part of my life better, except when he has to go away and I”m left missing him. Like right now, he’s been gone for 13 days, due back tomorrow thank god because I need that 6-foot-4 slab of warm muscle to put a very specific part of his body inside me ASAP, before I implode.
The credits role across the screen and I lift my stiff body off the sofa and out of the sea of blankets that cocoon me, Molly and Anais. I gallop across the living room towards our tiny kitchen, my stomach is painfully tight but I can’t stop eating, maybe my period is due or something. I grab a few more snacks and fall back onto the sofa between my friends who are huddled against the cushions. Molly’s gazelle like legs tangle with mine as she spreads out and groans at the stiffness of her muscles. The three of us have barely moved since this morning and it’s almost 9pm already, we’ve ordered a takeout, eaten our body weight in ice cream and watched at least four romance movies. I’m draped in Sean”s wardrobe, his grey sweatpants swallowing me whole and his hockey hoodie reaching down to my knees as they quake from the bitter cold in here. Our dorm currently resembles a fucking ice box, the heating having been broken for the last six hours as engineers flocked into the basement to try and fix it. I personally think they should all find a new career, my toes are still frozen as I wiggle them, trying to bring them back to life.
“I miss Sean.” I huff, bringing the collar of his hoodie up over my nose and mouth. “Especially right now when I”m freezing my ass off and his body is twice the size of mine. Plus he’s always hot, he’s like my own personal hot water bottle.” I snicker and scratch at the bun that closely resembles a bird’s nest on top of my head, before yanking it out and raking my hand through my curls. When I look back up at Molly she’s smiling brightly at me, her blue eyes twinkling with something I can’t decipher. “What?” I say, my cheeks washing with pink as she gives me a knowing look.
She lets her gaze drift over my reddening cheeks before landing back on my eyes. “You grin like a Cheshire Cat when you talk about him.” My cheeks flush even more, so I look down at my lap, pulling my lip between my teeth and fiddling with a loose thread on Sean”s hoodie. “So?” “Oh my god, are you falling for him?” She gapes, sitting up straight and pulling her blonde waves over one shoulder.
A sound somewhere between a snort and a scoff falls from my lips. “No,” I”m not even convincing myself with that half arsed lie.
Anais jumps up from the sofa and squeals, Molly joining her like they’re a pair of teenagers at a Justin Bieber concert.
“Oh my fucking god you”re really falling for him!” Molly shrieks and I grab the nearest empty ice cream container and throw it lazily at her and Anais. Before I have chance to fight back the two of them grab my ankles and pull me onto the living room carpet, landing on top of my painfully full stomach and bear hugging me so I can no longer breathe. Anais squeals, “You’re in love! This is so great!”
I wriggle under them and they finally relent, pulling me up to sit cross legged with them on the carpeted floor.
“I’m not in love, I”m in like.” I grumble, pulling Sean”s hood up and tugging on the strings, making the material close in on my face. Molly lifts a sculpted brow at me. “That’s not a thing, especially not for you Miss all or nothing,”
I wish she wasn’t right, I’d love if she wasn’t right, but I”m pretty sure the bitch is right.
By 11pm the three of us are like blocks of ice, huddled on the sofa together finishing our last movie of the night before heading to bed. Anais and I have been roped into going to the gym to help the freshmen tomorrow in preparation for their practice competition so I need my sleep, especially if I”m expected to handle Ellen and her ferocity again. There’s a light tap on our door and our heads all swivel simultaneously, our foreheads creasing in confusion. I stand up, cracking my back as I go and shuffling across the room in my two sizes too big socks.
“Did you order more food Mol?” I say and she shakes her blonde head. “At 11pm? No,”
I pull on the doorknob, rubbing my tired eyes and hauling the front door open. Sean’s beautiful smile greets me, his dimples deep in his cheeks and the grin he flashes me blinding. And his smell, oh my god it”s everywhere, in every pore of my body the second I open the door. His huge frame makes me feel tiny as I stutter, looking for the words I don’t know if I can find.
“What…what are you doing here?” I gasp, blinking way too many times and holding onto the doorframe to stop my knees from giving up on me. Sean’s smile cracks open wider. “I couldn’t wait until tomorrow, I hope that’s ok.” He hauls me into him, lifting me to his waist as my legs circle his hard torso.
“It’s more than ok,” I breathe into his neck, inhaling every drop of his woodsy smell and crushing myself to him as hard as possible. He cups my ass in his hand and tightens the other one around my back, holding my body against his.
“I missed you.” I whisper, pressing soft, sleepy kisses against his neck. He sighs. “God, I missed you baby.” He prises me off him, placing me to my feet and letting his caramel eyes trail down my body. I look like a jumble sale threw up on me, nothing I”m wearing fits and the size of his clothes is dragging me down, making me look even smaller than usual. His eyebrow rises up his face and his expression shifts into a shit eating grin. “Are you wearing my clothes?”
“Yeah, it’s fucking freezing in here… and I like the way you smell.” I smile, burying the tint of pink coating my cheeks behind my loose curls. Sean’s hand moves to bracket my jaw, tucking my hair behind my ear and pressing his warm lips to mine. The heat spreads down from my lips, lighting a fire through my chest all the way down to my frostbitten toes. I shiver when his arms snake around my waist as his tongue swipes lightly over my bottom lip. Molly clears her throat and I suddenly remember that we’re not alone.
“Get a room please.” She laughs, nudging Anais into joining her taunting. I snap my head around to face her, keeping my palms flat on Sean”s chest. “Fine, we will.” I throw her a sarcastic smirk and lace my fingers through Sean”s, guiding him into my dorm and kicking the door shut behind us. He’s bobbing up and down like a puppy, letting me pull him towards my bedroom, he knows what’s coming, we both do.
“Keep the noise down!” Molly yells after us, earning a muted snicker from us both as we reach my bedroom door.
Sean yells back, “Not a chance! She”s going to be screaming my name all night long!”
I grab the back of his jacket and yank him inside, dragging it down his shoulders and undressing him like a ken doll. He’s fumbling with his hoodie that’s draped over my body, pulling it over my head and throwing it to the ground as he steps out of his jeans. He dives on me, making me squeal as he whips my sweatpants off in one smooth motion, nipping at my inner thighs as he makes his way up.
“I’m not gonna last long Cal, you know that right?” His tongue presses against my hot skin, just under the aching bud that’s been craving him for two weeks. “I dreamed of this every night I was away, just being able to touch you, feel you, taste you.” His rough hands run up my thighs and he looks up at me through thick lashes, his warm tongue lightly flickering against my clit, making me squirm. “We’re going to take it slow tonight, I just want to feel every little bit of you.” He climbs back up my body and kisses me, his lips warm and hungry.
He really does take it slow, sliding inside me and thrusting cautiously, feeling every inch like he said. And I feel every inch of him too, when he eventually flips me back onto the mattress, my back sinking into it, he lets his face hover over mine. I can see in his eyes that there are words floating behind them that he doesn’t quite know how to say yet, but that’s ok, I can drink them in just by looking at him. His sharp jaw, his tight, rippled stomach, his fucking dimples. God, I”m in so deep with him I don’t think there’s any chance of me climbing back out now.
“I really fucking like you Callie, like I don’t know what to do with myself when I”m away from you. Am I supposed to tell you that?” He groans, rubbing the nape of his neck anxiously. His cock is still inside me as I chuckle back at him, cupping his chin in my hand.
“Yeah, you can tell me that. I really like you too, I missed you so much whilst you were away.” I wrap my legs around his hips and tug him to me, pushing him deeper inside me and cursing with pleasure as he begins thrusting again. He’s hungry, starving for me and me for him. He trails sloppy kisses up my neck and across my jaw as I come undone around him, arching my back and sinking my nails into his taut biceps. “Oh shit, I”m gonna come. Can I…can I come inside you?” He brings his face back to mine, brown eyes flickering with uncertainty. I nod and he exhales deeply, sucking my lips between his and letting his tongue explore my mouth as he comes, my name leaving his lips on a pained groan. He’s never come inside me before, he’s never asked to, he just always pulls out but I”m on the pill so I don’t see a reason to deny us both.
As we lay there sweaty and panting, Sean scoops me up with his arm and hauls me into his side, smacking a kiss to my temple as our bodies stick together.
“There’s a party at your house tomorrow right?” I say, tipping my face up to look at him.
He leaves a tiny kiss on my nose and nods. “Yeah, you’re coming aren’t you?” He cups my cheek, thumb tracing my freckles. “If you don’t want to then I”ll come here and we can spend some time alone.”
“Of course I”m coming, I’d never miss a party Taylor, do you know me at all?”
He flashes me a bright smile and pulls me closer, bumping our noses together affectionately.
He sighs. “You’re never going to get rid of me you know that? Like there’s no fucking way I”m ever leaving you alone now.”
I purse my lips, trying to halt the smile that’s taking over my face. “Does that mean you’re staying here tonight?”
He nods and pulls my body on top of his, his firm torso surprisingly comfortable to lie on. “I’m thinking about just moving in.”
I bark a laugh. “You barely fit in my bed, you monster.” I roll away from him to the other side of the bed, intending to get dressed but Sean’s huge hands grab hold of my bare hips and pull me right back to him. “Oh no you don’t.” He murmurs, his palm closing over my collarbone as he plants wet kisses on the back of my shoulders and neck, his arms enclosing me to his chest. “You’re staying here with me until tomorrow morning.”
That’s fine with me. I’ve decided, there’s no place I”d rather be than right here.