Chapter 24 The Strategic Confinement
The Strategic Confinement
Eli
Same shit, different day. Tonight the party is at the head cheerleader’s house, Sidney Brown. We’ve fucked around with her group of girls for years. I’m confident they believe they’re in a holding pattern. Waiting for us to take Harper’s virginity and then everything will go back to normal.
Because I don’t want them to traumatize our girl, I haven’t disillusioned them. Yet. Besides, it’s not like they don’t have other guys they hook up with. None of us have been exclusive with anyone since we became sexually active.
We’re sitting on the couches in the corner of Sidney’s living room. Dance music pounds out of speakers on either side of the room. The furniture is along the walls, and the lights are low, with a few colored lights spinning from the ceiling like a fucking disco.
Luke, Caden, Jack, and I are putting in our appearance, making our presence known. Caden thinks someone who wants to get back at us is targeting our girl, but I don’t know anyone with big enough balls for that.
To go against the four of us without fear of retribution?
I haven’t met a guy like that in our school. A few get their panties in a twist when we humiliate them or Caden beats them up, but they fall in line. Like good little ducks.
Some senior girls are dancing together in front of us, rubbing up on each other like that’s going to do it for us. A couple girls look like the hangers-on who followed Harper to our table the other day.
Ashley Kim, Emma Garcia, and Hannah Wilson work their way through the crowd to us.
The only one missing is their boss bitch, Sidney.
Ashley has black hair and dark eyes. She’s Korean and tall.
We’ve hit it quite a few times. She likes me being rough with her.
Emma Garcia is a Latina with long brown hair and dark eyes.
She’s sweet on Jack, but I know that she’s played with both Jack and Caden together.
Hannah is possessive of Caden and his cock.
If Emma were just with Caden, Hannah would probably rip her a new one.
Both Hannah and Emma are tiny things but strong.
Hannah is black with naturally tight curly hair and hazel eyes that stand out.
I’d buy tickets to see a drag-out, end-of-the-world catfight between Emma and Hannah.
I lean back and cross my ankle over my knee so Ashley can’t climb on my lap like she tends to do. Possessive little things. The other guys do the same.
“Can we help you, ladies?” Luke tips his beer back and takes a long drink.
“Where’s your new pet?” Ashley looks around the room like Harper will magically appear. “Why isn’t she here playing with you?”
“Did you already grow bored with your new toy?” Hannah asks with a fake-ass pout.
“Or can the virgin not come out to play?” Emma cocks an eyebrow at us.
“We gave her the weekend off for good behavior,” I say with a smirk. These girls bore me. They keep trying to claim us, but we aren’t down for that.
“Does that mean you all are free and clear to party?” Emma sticks her tits out and grins at Jack.
“Not tonight, ladies.” Luke rises. “We’ve got a pressing issue to attend to.”
“Like what?” Hannah crosses her arms and narrows her eyes.
“Nothing you’d like.” Caden chucks her under her chin. “Find yourself your own virgin to toy with. I’m sure there are plenty of guys out there who would love a four-way with you all.”
“We prefer our men experienced.” Ashley grabs my arm as I stand to join Luke.
I look down at her hand. She just smiles at me like she doesn’t know she’s irritating me.
“Is that what you want, Eli?” Ashley presses in closer. “All three of us worshipping your body?”
I grab her chin hard. “I don’t have the patience to deal with all your egos.” I pry her hand off my arm and drop it. “We’re leaving.”
Caden and Jack follow me and Luke through the crowd. We stop and talk with some guys on the team. When a group of girls tries to stop us to chat, we skirt around them with apologetic smiles.
“Text her,” Luke says as we walk out into the cool night air.
Me:
Status update, kitten
Harper:
Another one? You guys are worse than my mother
Me:
Ticktock
Harper:
All clear. Mom is home, and we’re watching a movie. She wonders who I keep getting texts from
Me:
Tell her it’s your boyfriend
Harper:
Hahaha. No
Me:
Is she against or for you having a boyfriend?
Harper:
For, but not four of them
Me:
Any incidents?
Harper:
None
“She’s fine,” I tell the others as we pile into Caden’s car. “But she’s watching a movie with her mom.”
“We can hang out at my house. I downloaded the game that released last week.” Caden drives toward his house where we all parked earlier.
What I really want to do is play with Harper. I’m fairly certain the guys would agree with me.
“How long are we going to let this ‘grounding’ go on?” I ask.
“If it helps the girl adjust, I’m fine with it staying.” Caden shrugs as he pulls into his driveway.
“Yeah, I don’t see the harm,” Jack adds. “Though it would be fun to play with her in real life, I think we might push her too far too fast if we had full access.”
“Agreed. It sucks, but she seems to be getting more comfortable with us.” Luke steps out of the car.
“Of course you would say that. You got to sleep with her last night.” I can’t keep the bitterness from my voice. “You took one of her firsts.”
Luke laughs as we round the corner to the back of Caden’s house. Luke opens the door and we head into the rec room. “I’m sure that’s exactly the first you would have wanted.”
“It doesn’t matter if I wanted it. We agreed to take them all together. And that one we could have shared.” I grab a controller and sit on the couch.
Caden stops at the fridge in the corner and grabs us all beers. “Wait. How does that even work? We all sleep together in one room or one bed? Because I don’t want to wake up with someone cuddling me with raging morning wood.”
“I wouldn’t mind that.” Jack winks at Caden, who just snorts a laugh. “I’m guessing Eli means your bed, as the rest of us have normal-sized beds.”
“Exactly. No touching required, except Harper, of course.” I bring up the game and start setting up my player.
Luke takes a swig of his beer. He doesn’t seem very forthcoming about sleeping with Harper, but what can he say? It’s done. Over with.
“No more alone time with our girl until she’s no longer a virgin.” I take a swig of beer as Caden sets up his character. “And all her virginity is gone. I think that would keep things fair.”
“What about pickups and drop-offs?” Jack asks. He keeps flipping back and forth between choosing a male or female character. Mostly because of the chick’s boobs and the guy’s abs.
“It would be better if we stick with the current plan on rides,” Luke states. “It’s not like there’s enough time to do anything with her besides get her to school or home. Her mom’s schedule will change next week, so she might be home in the mornings.”
“What about on camera?” Caden asks. His eyes meet each of ours. “I think our girl appreciated having Luke there when we stripped her bare.”
“Give her a few more days, and then we’ll decide whether she gets to keep her grounding through next weekend or if we’re done waiting.” Luke hits start on the game. “We can stick to kissing and grab ass until then.”
Harper
My phone buzzes again. Mom glances over at me as she pauses the movie again.
WAR (Caden):
Status update
“Why don’t you just go hang out with whoever is texting you?” Mom sets the popcorn bowl on the coffee table. “Not that I don’t love having movie night with you, but someone obviously wants your attention more.”
“It’s nothing important. No one wants me to meet them anywhere.” I lift my phone. Besides, with the way they’ve been at school, I’m thinking they’ll push those boundaries Luke talked about last night. I don’t know how comfortable I am with that.
Though I do like the kissing.
Me:
Same as previously
“What about that guy who dropped you off?” Mom sips her hot chocolate while eyeing me over the rim.
“You mean the one you bought me two boxes of condoms for?” I set my phone down and widen my eyes innocently. “You want me to hang out with him?”
More like with them, and they’d probably be more than happy if I said I could come out tonight. Though they’ve already said no condoms required. I cross my legs. Still not on board with that.
“Hmm, you make a very compelling argument.” Mom turns back to the TV.
Penny, Vicky, Izzy, and Nat have all sent me pics from the party tonight at Sidney Brown’s house.
The guys all look good in their party duds, sitting on a couch, holding court.
Penny even sent a pic of a group of girls talking to them.
Of course, she got the back of the girls and it’s dark, so I’m not sure who they are, but they might be some cheerleaders.
Eli texted me shortly after Penny sent her last update. So I’m pretty sure the guys are keeping it in their pants tonight. They assured me they could wait for me, which means I’m not getting out of this through that technicality.
The movie Mom and I have been meaning to watch is a zombie movie. But with the guys interrupting it, I’m losing some of the tension. Though I got into the movie over the past hour when no one texted to see if I was okay.
The guys are taking the prank from last night a little too seriously. It’s kind of sweet, but a bit much at the same time. I’m home safe and sound with my mom. What else could they want? Besides me there with them to torment?
This time, my phone goes off a few times before settling down. I look down and see they’re all from the group chat.
I lift my phone and don’t bother reading what they sent.
Me:
15 fucking minutes left in my movie. 15
After that, I’m all yours
PESTILENCE (Eli):
Promises, promises
My insides squeeze at his text. I set my phone on the coffee table face down and clutch a couch pillow to my chest. “No more interruptions. Let’s watch the end of this.”
Mom chuckles as she clicks Play again. The movie wraps up nicely. At least, some characters survived. After, I help Mom clean up our dishes.
“Go chat with whoever kept pulling your attention away from the movie.” Mom shoos me out of the kitchen.
“Fine, but I’m not using the condoms,” I throw over my shoulder as I grab my phone and head upstairs to my room.
“That’s not what they’re used for. Do I need to demonstrate on a banana?” Mom calls after me.
“No, please don’t ruin bananas for me.”
Her wicked laugh makes me smile.
When I open my bedroom door, I hear their voices. They wanted me to leave the webcam on even though they were all away. I step in and close the door behind me. They can’t see me yet, but they all pause talking at the click. I lean against the door and pull up their group chat from before.
FAMINE (Jack):
Come play with us, sweetheart
WAR (Caden):
My new game sucks *frowny face emoji*
DEATH (Luke):
We require entertainment
PESTILENCE (Eli):
Come dance for us
FAMINE (Jack):
I have the perfect song
WAR (Caden):
Do it naked
Then my texts came through, and they didn’t text me afterward. I grin as I reply to them now.
Me:
No on the naked dancing
I’m not something you only want to do when you’re bored
I’m sorry your game sucks
It sounds like you guys are entertaining yourselves
“Are you going to show yourself, kitten?” Eli’s deep voice wraps around me like smooth satin. A small shiver works through me and I take a breath.