The Ring - Bargain
INtrinSicliValud
“Goddamnit, Leah! You’ve been teasing me this whole time.” Davey had the cutest southern drawl. And the way he whined only made it—so much more amusing.
As I giggled, my tiny cones shook under the dark red swimsuit top. Beneath the taut material, my tightening nipples ached. Another cool breeze helped tamp the torrid summer heat as I lay on the towel beside the murky greenish blue lake. Since its still waters were now reflecting a lowering sun, most other bathers had already packed up to head home. Only a few kids our age clustered under a blanket in the distance, smoking weed, drinking, and making out.
“I’m not kidding,” Davey added with a scowl.
As he sat beside me, his brown eyes were glossy beneath his furled brow. This time when I smiled through my swirling auburn tresses at the slim, blond-haired boy, I not only chortled, I raked my crimson fingernails across his trunks. Even as he thrust into my fingertips, I lifted them away to drag my nails up his heaving chest.
“Evil,” he hissed before gulping when I pressed my nails into the skin over his breastbone. “Pure…. Oh, fuck. You’re pure evil.”
After pulling my hand from him, one more giggle slipped from me. With a sigh, I lay back and stretched to give him an eyeful before closing my eyes. It’d been such a fun day. Rum and coke were warm in my flat belly. In silence, he guzzled another swig before sighing. He could’ve taken me. But he didn’t. As much as every part of me hungered. Instead, he dropped away to collapse on his towel with a final slurp. The empty bottle thumped to the sand between us.
After a lengthier sigh, I stretched further, shaking my hands and feet, letting the last rays of the sun fight over my skin with the chillier breeze. Since Dave would be no fun, I let my mind wander. We’d only just arrived in town. Out in the fucking country. Bumfuck, Texas. And “town” was being generous. After my dad was killed, my mom decided to take us home, even though she hadn’t been here in…. Well, I was eighteen, so eighteen years and nine months. Or five months. Whenever she’d first started to show.