fingers into my hair and tug, tug, tug. We were at that stage where just about anything he did to me got me all hot and bothered, but I wasn’t confident enough to make the first move, usually—”
Teresa laughed. So did Simone. She rolled onto her back to do some pelvic thrusts.
“It’s true!”
“I have known you since we were twelve years old. I don’t think you’ve ever been not confident to do anything,” Teresa said.
Simone smiled, but it quirked a little. “Yeah. Well. I’m not always.”
She thought of Elliott telling her he didn’t want to see her again. It had taken confidence to go to his office, and look where it got her. She frowned, wriggling halfheartedly on the mat.
“Screw that Elliott guy,” Teresa said, knowing Simone well enough, as always, to figure out what she was thinking. “He’s not worth it.”
“Ugh.”
“Hey! I mean it! If he can’t appreciate how lucky he was that you even ever gave him the time of day, he’s not worth it.” Teresa shook her head.
Simone laughed. “Yeah, he’s really suffering without me.”
“I bet he is .” Teresa gave her a knowing look.
Simone had seen him in the lobby a couple times since that day, but she’d ignored him so fiercely there’d been no way to tell if he had been even looking her way. She wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction, even if by denying him she’d also denied herself. She’d even rearranged her office to face her desk a different way so she wouldn’t be tempted to spy on him in his office.
“So. Jeremy,” Teresa prompted.
That was the way of conversation with good friends. It went around and around in a circle until you ended up at least somewhere close to where you’d started, even if it took a damned long time to get there.
Simone laughed and shook her head, letting herself get lost in the pleasantly sexy memories. It had become so much a part of her that she hadn’t thought about it in a long time, this desire for pain. She and Tree, sweet Tree who’d been with the same man since eleventh grade, had never discussed it. Tree knew Simone was kinky the way she knew Simone had dark hair … it was a part of her.
“He’d pull my hair and let his fingers run along the back of my neck. Over my shoulders. Touching me all over, you know? Driving me crazy. And so this one day, we’re at his place, all his roommates are there, they’re all playing video games, right? And their girlfriends are either hanging around trying to get their attention or in the kitchen making food, which you know, is so not me.”
Teresa laughed. “It probably wasn’t really them, either.”
“Anyway, I’m playing along with the guys, and to give them credit, most of them aren’t giant dickbags about it. Jeremy’s touching me all over, but totally sneaky about it. Pulling my hair. Tweaking my nipple. Sliding his hand between my legs every so often, you know? Getting me off right there in the middle of everyone, but nobody knew it.” Simone shifted, glad for the thick sports bra that hid the fact her nipples were hard from the memories.
“I bet someone knew it.” Teresa chuckled.
So did Simone, but the time to be embarrassed about it had long past. “Anyway, the soft little touches were driving me crazy, but it was the pinching that was making me lose my mind. Every time he did it, it was like a little spark got lit inside me, all of them gathering and making me hotter and hotter, until I thought I was going to explode. So then he tugs my hand, right? To get me to go with him into the bedroom, and we have to be fast because he shares that room with two other guys, right, and none of them have any concept of privacy. So we’re in there and he’s got his hands in my panties and he’s fingering the hell out of me, and he’s twisting my nipples, and I keep saying ‘more, more, more,’ and so he keeps going harder and harder. And then all of a sudden, just on the edge, I’m about to go over, and he…”
Simone