I walked hand-in-hand with Tami back to the Charger. Leaning against it was Kylie. I gave Tami the keys so I could talk to Kylie.
“They both called me and apologized. I just don’t know if I can forgive them,” she told me.
“Someday you will. You’re not ready right now. I think you’ll find that you’ll forgive them for yourself, not for them. I know it’s hard to believe, and I’m not asking you to ever forget what happened.”
She just nodded and walked away. I hoped she was going to be okay. I noticed Emma wasn’t far away and was watching her every move. I knew the girls would take care of Kylie.
WE GOT BACK TO MY PLACE and went straight up to the apartment. Tami was naked in a flash. I scooped her up and put her on the bed. I covered her body and kissed her. I felt all the old feelings rushing into me. This was the woman I loved, the one-and-only. All the work I had done to tamp down those feelings over the last year was destroyed in only a moment. I would think I’d be worried about that, but I was fine, more than fine. This just felt right.
She reached between us and pushed down my swim trunks enough to free my member. As soon as I was no longer covered, she guided me to her opening and we were joined. Our joining was all about pent-up lust. We hadn’t been together in over a year. Our bodies seemed to sense the rightness of this.
There were no fancy moves, nor a slow buildup. We just made like rabbits. Tami was always very athletic, but I could tell that over the last year she hadn’t been exercising enough because she was breathing way too hard. I would get her back in shape if we had to do this every day until she went back to school. I’d give it my best effort, or at least until my manhood fell off!
Tami wrapped her legs around my waist and crossed her ankles over my butt. I wasn’t getting away.
“Yes, Yes! YES! Harder, Faster, Harder, Faster, YES!” Tami chanted.
I hadn’t had sex this hard in a long time. I felt the uncontrollable urge to climax overwhelm me. I began to pump deep inside my lover. I collapsed on her and tried to catch my breath. She pushed me to the side so I wouldn’t smother her, and we laid side-by-side, still joined. I looked deep into her eyes.
“I hope we didn’t just make a big mistake,” I worried.
“No. How could sex that good be wrong? No one else will ever compare to you,” Tami said.
Damn.
Damn, Damn, Damn!
This had just been a hookup for her. I knew this would be a mistake, and I was right. She just meant too much to me for me to be casual. I was so stupid! I pulled out of her and went to the bathroom so I could be alone. How could I have let this happen? I stepped into the shower to clean up and suddenly felt dizzy. I leaned against the wall, then sagged against it and slid down onto my butt. I put my head in my hands as I began to cry.
Tami found me and reached for me to give me comfort.
“Please, no. Please leave,” I begged.
She did as I asked. Ten minutes later, Duke found me and licked my face. My mom looked in the shower. I stood up and wrapped her in my arms and sobbed. She held me until I wound down.
“Take a shower,” Mom said.
I did as ordered. When I came out of the bathroom, Tami was on the bed, dressed, and she was rubbing Duke’s ears.
“David, I’m sorry. I know you said you didn’t want to have sex with me. I can see now, by your reaction, it was a mistake. Dang it, David, what we just did sure as hell didn’t feel like a mistake. While we were doing it, I felt the love we had rekindle. I’m not ready to commit to you, but you don’t need to push me away.
“I love you, David Allen Dawson. You can’t make me stop loving you. You need to be strong for me. I want to live before we get married. I know it will be hard on you, but I have to date and make my mistakes. We’re still only teenagers. We both need time to enjoy our teen years.
“I have a plan. You knew I would have,” she smiled. “My plan is that at the end of our junior year of college we get serious. By that time, you better have had all the girls you plan on because after that you’re mine. I think if we have a plan this will be easier for you, and I know it will be for me.
“I want to be clear, you’ve nothing to prove to me. You’re man enough, you’re smart enough, and you have the ability to earn lots of money. I have no doubts about you. It’s simply not our time yet. What I do expect, though, is you become more. I don’t want you to stop or become complacent. I plan on marrying the best possible version of you that I can.
“I expect you to go to the Elite 11 tournament and show them who the Alpha Male is,” she teased me.
I wrapped her in my arms.
“I think your plan sucks. I want you now,” I said.
“I think you told Sarah this: any time, any place. I hope you didn’t think we wouldn’t be having sex until we were juniors in college. I plan on having sex with you as much as possible this summer and then every chance we get after that. I want you to remember who you’re marrying.”
“What happens if you meet someone and fall in love?” I worried.
“I’m sure I will. I know you will. We have a plan, though. No one will ever replace you in my heart.”
“So, I’m free to ask Pam to be my girlfriend?” I asked.
Her lips got thin. I wanted her to face the reality of what we were talking about.
“Pam would be a good choice for you. She’s here, and you two could date for the next couple of years.”
“I’ll go along with this as long as we each have veto power. If we start to get serious about someone, we have to introduce them. If we get a bad vibe or don’t like them, they’re gone. No questions.”
She gave me a hard look.
“You can’t just veto a guy because you think I’ll like him,” she said.
“I would have vetoed both Trevor and Simon.”
“What?!”
“Before you get mad, listen to me. I talked to the Wesleyan girls about Trevor. His parents would never have let you into the inner circle, let alone get serious with him. I think you knew that. Simon would have been gone as soon as he pitted you against your mother.”
She thought about it for a moment.
“So, if you were to, say, hook up with Lisa Felton, I could call a stop to it?” Tami asked.
“Been there, done that, and it gets worse. We’re somewhat related.”
“What?”
“My Great Grandpa Felton had two sons. Lisa is from the other son’s branch of the family tree,” I explained.
“But your Grandpa Felton wasn’t your biological grandfather.”
“Is there such a thing as step-incest?” I asked.
“I don’t think so.”
“Good. I was getting a West Virginia backwoods vibe. I feel better now.”
“Don’t get too comfortable because she’s my first official veto.”
“Can you do me a favor, and put Cassidy and Angie on the list?”
“Yeah, I’ll put them on the list. Anyone I should know about on my list?” she asked.
“Mike. I see how you check him out,” I teased.
“Okay, fair enough. I think I can live with that one. Do I have to tell Cassidy and Angie they’re on my list?” she teased me.
I hadn’t thought of that. I knew Tami was my friend.
“Yep. I’ll tell Mike ‘hands off’ for you.”
“I’m sure Gina will be relieved. Are you better now?” she asked.
“Sort of. You’re the one person who can mess me up in a heartbeat. All my old feelings for you came flooding back. I love you more than you know. I heard what we had just done was just a hookup and all my old feelings overwhelmed me. I doubt I’ll ever be okay with you dating other guys. So please don’t try and force me to like them. I’ll tolerate it, for you, but you can’t make me feel differently.”
“I understand. I see where I tried to force Trevor on you and the way I explained our relationship wasn’t clear. It’s a two-way street. I sometimes get jealous feelings when you’re with other women. I think you saw that when we went to San Francisco.