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I’d never heard her giggle before, laugh yes, but a real girly giggle made me fall for her even harder.
She slipped off to the bathroom then, while Dustin also slipped off to the main bathroom. I waited for my turn while I reflected on what had just happened.
It had been so fucking hot, it was difficult to remember everything. It seemed to happen so fast, and yet it didn’t. I could remember every nuance of it and wished it had lasted longer, but hell, I could barely keep my eyes open.
I felt spent, in a good way, but it had been a long fucking day.
As soon as Dustin walked back in the room, I was up and out of there, heading for the bathroom to clean up.
As I made my way through the cabin, I truly didn’t understand what the hell was happening to me, and why so fast. It usually took me several months or at least several weeks to have all this emotion for a woman. Why her? Why now? What was different?
I stepped into the bathroom, turned on the light, and washed up, still pondering the questions that seemed to plague me. Dustin just accepted things the way they were. Probably why he’d been able to have sex with Natalie for a couple of weeks, teaching her, as he had liked to say, and never allowed his emotions to take over.
Me? I was different. My emotions always took over, so much so that I ended up staying in bad relationships longer than I should have.
Not Dustin. He was in and out as soon as things took a side road. He was the type of guy who could see the fork in the road long before it became obvious and took the right steps to guard himself. Me? I couldn’t see it until someone pointed it out, and even then, I’d hang around until I got shit on. Then I took action.
Pathetic.
Was this lust for this woman so strong because Cody had talked about her so much that I already felt as if I knew her? Why was I desperate to fuck her, to call her mine? I didn’t understand any of it; all I knew was that I didn’t want to be without her. Not after tonight. After the first time, I might’ve been able to walk away, even if I hadn’t wanted to. But now… impossible.
She had a rope tied around my heart, pulling me in faster than a cowboy roping a steer at a rodeo. The good thing in all of this was that she seemed like she truly wanted to learn our music and be a part of our band. If that were true, we’d be fucking our way across America in a couple of plush motor homes that were made to accommodate just about anything. Hell, there were even motor homes made with bunk beds for kids.
This could work and work well.
Only one bug in the ointment. We still didn’t have a full commitment from Cody, but from the way he’d been looking at her today, I didn’t think that would be a problem. In truth, I wasn’t sure why he hadn’t joined us tonight, but then he’d gotten up much earlier than we had, trying to find his sister and Bernard a way out. He’d fallen asleep in one of those massive recliners well before Emily even mentioned that she wanted to crawl back to her cabin.
Once I was back in bed again, I leaned back, shoved a pillow under my head, and slipped under the covers, with Emily between us, wearing some sort of plaid shirt. I thought about how I liked this and how I’d like this to continue for as long as possible.
Thing was, all we had now was the next few days. It was up to all that woo-woo stuff if we’d make it any longer than that. Either way, it felt nice to have one of her legs wrap around mine under the covers while the storm dealt its blow to some other community down the road.
EVERYTHING CHANGED THE next morning.
“Most of the roads are open again, and the electricity is back on,” Cody said into my ear while I tried to clear the thick cobwebs cluttering my brain. It had taken me a while to even recognize that my phone was ringing.
“And you’re calling to tell me all of this because…?”
“Because I brought bagels and donuts to Dirty Coyote. It’s almost ten o’clock. The whole band is here, and we need to practice for our first show tonight. We have two full hour-long sets, and we want to be ready.”
“But we are ready. We know our music backwards and forwards,” I told him, wanting desperately to disconnect and fall back to sleep nestled next to my girl. I felt around for her and realized she wasn’t there, and neither was Dustin.
Were they already at the dance hall?
“Where is everybody?”
“If you’re asking about Nat and Bernard, they’re on their way to the airport with my mom and dad. If you mean Tammy and Jimmy, they’re here at Dirty Coyote helping to clean up the parking lot and driveway from all the debris the storm left.”
“And what about my brother and Emily?” I asked, sitting up in bed and resting my back on the wooden headboard.
“They brought the bagels.”
I yawned, and my eyes watered. “Why didn’t anyone wake me up?”
I heard him repeat my question to someone else. Then Emily spoke, “We did, but you rolled over and kept right on sleeping.”
“You should’ve kicked me out of bed.”
“Dustin wanted to do that, but I wouldn’t let him,” she said. Obviously, Cody had put me on speaker. “I figured you must’ve needed some extra sleep, but now it’s time to get your ass down here.”
