Melody of the Heart (9 page)

I laughed nervously. “You can say that now because we haven’t done anything yet.”

She smiled. “It doesn’t matter.” Dropping her gaze from mine, she then took in the tree house. “Oh my God…” she murmured.

I winced. “I’m sorry that it’s not what you were thinking it would be.”

Shaking her head furiously, Lily replied, “It’s so amazingly beautiful. And the fact that you did it to make it better for us, well, that makes it even more special.”

“You really like it?”

“Yeah, I do.”

A broad smile curved on my lips. “I’m so glad to hear that.”

We then stood around rather awkwardly. Neither one of us sure who was supposed to make the first move or what that first move should be. “Uh, I brought my CD player with me. Let me put on some music,” I said, before I went over to the rickety table by the mattress. Thankfully, I’d remembered the batteries or we would have been out of luck. I switched on the mix CD I had made for the occasion, and U2’s
All I Want Is You
came out of the speakers. I turned back to smile at Lily before I went back over to her.

“Want to dance?” I asked.

“Sure,” she said, softly.

I drew her to me, wrapping my arms around her waist as her arms went around my neck. We swayed back and forth to the music for a few moments before Lily started giggling uncontrollably. “What’s so funny?” I asked.

“I was just thinking how everything was so romantic except I’m here in a T-shirt and my sweatpants.”

I laughed. “Well, you had to have a get-away outfit. It wasn’t like you could come here naked under a trench coat.”

She cocked her head at me. “Is that what you would have wanted?”

“No, I mean, it would have been cool if you had, but you look great just as you are.”

She gave me a teasing smile. “I have on something underneath this—something I thought you might like.”

My brows shot up so far they probably disappeared into my hairline. “You do?”

“You want to see it?”

Considering my mouth had run dry, I could only nod my head. Lily stepped back from me. Her hand hesitated at the hem of her shirt, so I reached forward to gently pull it over her head. I got an eye-full of her breasts that were pushed up by some lacy, white number. It was like what women back in the day wore. A corset or something.

Lily kicked out of her shoes and shimmied her sweatpants down her legs. When she stepped out of them, my heart shuddered to a stop and then restarted at the sight of her. White lace stockings came up her legs and stopped mid-thigh. Above them a pair of frilly, white panties met the corset. I don’t how long I stood there staring at her.

“I guess you like it, huh?”

“I-It’s amazing.” I swallowed hard. “You’re amazing.”

Her cheeks flushed, and she ducked her head. “I asked my sister, Melanie, to help me with something to wear. You know, for my first time and for your birthday.”

“She won’t tell on you, will she?”

Lily shook her head. “No, our secret is safe.”

I smiled. “Good.”

“Now it’s your turn,” Lily said, as she stepped forward. Her fingers gripped the hem of my Georgia Tech T-shirt and then lifted it over my head. Her hands then smoothed over my chest. I closed my eyes at the feel of her touch. I sucked in a breath as her fingers went to waistband of my sweatpants. She dropped down onto her knees as she tugged them down. I wasn’t wearing any underwear, so my aching hard on sprang free.

Taking me in her hand, Lily stroked me up and down before sliding me into her warm mouth. It was probably only the third or fourth time she’d given me a blow job, but fuck, she was so good at it. She seemed to pick up a new move to drive me wild, each and every time. Just as I got carried away, I gently tried to push her away. But unlike all the other times, she didn’t let me go. Instead, she kept bobbing up and down my length. “Lils, if you keep that up, I’m going to come,” I groaned.

She still didn’t let up at my warning. I gritted my teeth and jerked my hips forward, as I came into her mouth. That was certainly a first since I had pulled out all the other times, but Lily didn’t seem to mind. When I finally finished convulsing, she rose off her knees. “Why did you keep going?” I asked, my mind still hazy from the amazing blowjob.

She gave me a shy smile. “Melanie said it would be better if you…well, you know, if you came once before we started to do it. Like it would help you last longer when we were together.”

Crossing my arms over my chest, I asked, “You told you sister I was a virgin, didn’t you?”

“Maybe.” When I huffed in exasperation, she reached out to cup my cheek. “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you. Her first time was with a guy who was a virgin, too. Well, that guy is her husband now, but that’s another story. She just thought the tip would help.”

Deep down, I knew it was stupid to care if Melanie knew I was a virgin. I already owed her one for getting Lily the sexy-as-hell lingerie, and I’d probably owe her more in the morning. “I’m sorry for being stupid about it.”

“It’s okay. You were just being a guy.”

I laughed. “An over-sensitive guy about my virginity, right?”

She smiled. “Maybe.”

Pulling her to me, I kissed her lips. “Now it’s your turn. I think you need to come before we get started to.”

“Okay,” she replied.

Easing us down on the mattress, I stared into Lily’s blue eyes. “You are so beautiful.”

“Thank you,” she whispered.

I pushed her onto her back. Then I bent my head to kiss around the frilly lace where her stocking ended on her thigh. I eased one down her leg and off her foot, and then I went to the other one. Lily kept her eyes on me the entire time.

My hands came to her top. I couldn’t help saying a silent prayer of thanks that it was laced up, rather than me having to work with the clasps like on her bras. Gently, I untied the ribbon, and then tugged it through the holes. The sides came apart, revealing Lily’s gorgeous tits. I couldn’t keep my hands or mouth off of them for one more moment. I took one breast in my hand while I began to suck on the other. Lily’s fingers came to run through my hair. Taking my time, I went back and forth between her breasts. I knew I had to get her ready to take me.

Skimming my hand down over her abdomen and between her legs, I began to stroke her over her frilly panties and then under. Panting, Lily opened her legs wider. When she did, I slipped a finger inside her already wet walls. Damn, she felt so good and so tight. If her mouth around my cock had been enough to make me come so quickly, I couldn’t imagine what being inside her hot walls was going to be like. I was already hard just thinking about it. Shit. My lips came to hers, and I flicked my tongue inside her mouth the same as I did the finger inside her.

Usually she came easily when I touched her, but I knew she was nervous. So I abandoned her mouth to trail kissed down her chin, her neck, over her breasts and stomach, and then between her legs. I eased her panties down over her thighs and then down her legs. Tenderly, I kissed up her legs and thighs until I once again reached her pussy.

My tongue lapped long strokes up and down her wet slit. With her legs trembling, Lily began to raise her hips against my mouth, her fingers gripping the sheets. When my tongue began to thrust rhythmically inside her, she came apart, calling out my name.

Wiping my mouth, I then kissed a trail back up her stomach and over breasts. “Feel okay?” I asked.

She gave me a lazy smile. “I feel amazing.”

I grinned. “I’m glad I could help.”

I brought my lips to hers. After kissing her passionately for a few minutes, I pulled away, surveying her expression. “Are you ready?”

“Yes. Make love to me, Brayden,” she urged.

I didn’t need any further persuading. Instead, I reached for the packet of condoms I had placed on the nightstand. Taking one, I tore into the foil. I didn’t dare tell Lily that I had practiced putting one on, so I wouldn’t look like an idiot tonight.

After slipping the condom on, I positioned myself between her legs. As I stared into her beautiful blue eyes, I couldn’t believe this was actually happening. Both of our chests rose and fell with heavy breaths, and our bodies both trembled with nerves and need.

Slowly, I began to slide into her. “Are you okay?” I whispered.

“I’m fine,” she murmured.

When I pushed all the way in, she sucked in a harsh breath. “Still okay?”

She nodded. “Just a little sting…a little pressure.”

I furrowed my brows. “I thought it was supposed to be horrible for a girl.”

With a grin, Lily replied, “Would you rather I be screaming and clawing at you to get off of me?”

“No, no, of course not. I guess, I was just afraid I was doing something wrong.”

“Oh, babe, you’re doing just fine. Athletic girls like me usually have easier times. Something about the stretching or something.”

“Really?”

“Yes, really.” She raised her head to give me a kiss while one of her hands slid down my back to my ass. She gripped my cheek, urging me on.  I didn’t stop to check on her anymore. Instead, I began to pump in and out of her. It was instinctual, and I simply couldn’t help the need to thrust inside her. Her warmth and wetness – it was so inviting. Pinching my eyes shut from pleasure, I concentrated on the flexing of my hips. She felt so fucking good, so warm and tight around my dick. I could see now why Melanie thought I should come before. I wouldn’t have lasted a second inside Lily had I not come before.

“Mmm, Brayden,” Lily panted, her hands gripping my shoulders. With her words spurring me on, I thrust harder and faster. Even though I wanted it to last forever, I felt myself tightening up.

And I then with a mumbling of “Fuck yeahs!”, I came. Collapsing onto Lily, I buried my face in her sweet smelling hair. We lay there panting hard, our bodies even a little sweaty in the cold. “That was amazing,” Lily murmured.

“You really think so?” I asked, when I pulled my head up to look at her.

She grinned. “Oh yeah.”

“I thought it was pretty amazing, too.” Nuzzling my head against her neck, I added, “I can’t wait until we can do it again.”

Lily’s laughter warmed my heart. “You’re insatiable, huh?”

“Oh yeah.”

“We’ll have to see when I’m able to go again.”

“Think you’ll be too sore?”

“Maybe.”

When I slid out of her, Lily winced. “Okay, maybe we need to wait until tomorrow.”

“I don’t mind.” I kissed her cheek. “I don’t want to do anything to hurt you.”

“My Prince Charming and Knight-in-Shining-Armor,” she mused.

“Whatever,” I muttered, although I did kinda like being referred to so highly. When Lily gave a resigned sigh, I asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I probably should get going.”

“Can’t you stay a little while longer?” Even though we weren’t going to have sex again, I still wanted to be with her, to hold her in my arms.

“I guess so. I just don’t want to get caught.” Her brow did the cute little wrinkle she always did when she was really worried about something.

“Okay, we’ll get you dressed and back. Don’t want you turning into a pumpkin, Cinderella.”

Lily laughed and rose up off the mattress. As she grabbed for her clothes, I couldn’t help watching her a little longer in the candlelight. When she started to pull on her shirt, she glanced at me over her shoulder. “What?”

I shrugged. “Nothing. I just couldn’t help looking at you.”

“I would have thought you would have gotten your fill of finally seeing me fully naked,” she mused, as she pulled her shirt on and started for her sweatpants.

“I could never get enough of seeing you.”

With a smile, she came over to give me a kiss. “I’m going to leave the lingerie here, if that’s okay?”

“It’s fine. We can use it next time.”

She laughed. “We’ll just see about that.”

After one last, lingering kiss, she started down the ladder. I followed after her and walked her to the edge of the woods. “I love you, Lily,” I said.

“I love you, too,” she replied.

Part of me felt completed by making love to Lily, but as she hurried down the hillside to her house, it felt as though she was taking a little piece of me with her, too.

BRAYDEN

                                                                  
 
THE PRESENT

“Babe, come on. It isn’t that mortifying,” I said, as I tried to coax Lily to stop hiding her face in her hands.

“I just talked about making out in the backseat of your car and how we lost our virginity. I would say that was pretty embarrassing,” came her muffled reply.

Giovanni chuckled. “I’m sorry I needed some details about that first time in the tree house.”

His statement caused Lily to jerk her head up. “Thankfully, they were just the bare minimum.”

Wagging my eyebrows at Lily, I said, “Maybe for him, but trust me, I was reliving them in all their glory.”

“You’re terrible,” she replied, although the corners of her lips did turn up a little.

After clearing his throat and shuffling his notes, Giovanni said, “So, to do a little recap. The original question was what was the most romantic thing Lily ever did for you. I believe you were setting up the importance of this car and how it might play into the most romantic thing?”

“Yes, that was the point of that story,” I replied, with a laugh.

“A ‘68 Challenger was a pretty impressive car to have as a teenage boy.”

“Oh hell yeah, it was. That baby was my pride and joy.”

“Did your parents give it to you?”

I snorted. “No, my parents believed in you getting a job and earning the money for a car. Thankfully, my mom’s dad came through for me. See, she was an only child, and I was the only grandson. He had several old cars he had collected over the years, so when I turned sixteen, he gave it to me.”

Givoanni’s brows shot up. “He must’ve been a special man to entrust such a special car to a teenager.”

“Yeah, he was. When I was just thirteen, I used to go over and wash it for him, put special oil on the leather seats. He taught me a lot about cars.” I sighed. “It’s sad to say, but I was glad he had passed away when I had to sell it.”

“Why was that?”

“Even though in my eyes, it was for a good cause, I know it would have broken his heart.”

“So why did you sell it?”

“To get the cash we needed to fund Runaway Train’s first album.”

Giovanni’s eyes bulged in surprise. “I had no idea that you weren’t with a studio the first go around.”

Shaking my head, I replied, “No, the one that got us the attention we needed to get that first real record deal was from the Challenger.”

Lily reached over and squeezed my thigh. “I really didn’t know if he was going to make it those first few weeks after he sold it. Whenever he would have to go get in the older Honda he’d bought, there would be tears in his eyes.”

I swatted her hand away with a laugh. “That’s not true.”

She grinned. “Yeah, it is.”

Rolling my eyes, I countered, “One time. I cried one time about that car, and she wouldn’t let me forget it.”

Giovanni’s brows lined in confusion. “So if you sold the car when you were twenty one, how does it figure into being the most romantic thing Lily ever did?”

“Well, that’s because my wife is really good at surprises.”

BRAYDEN

The Past

“Are we there yet?” I asked for probably the hundredth time in the last ten minutes.

Lily groaned. “Would you stop? Jeez, I never realized you were so impatient.”

I turned toward the sound of her voice. I couldn’t see anything since she had insisted on blindfolding me. Today was our first wedding anniversary. I’d managed to get a night off the road to fly back home, so we could celebrate. While I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her, Lily had other plans when she picked me up at the airport.

I’d missed her more than just physically. She had only been able to come out two weekends this month to be with me. Whenever she wasn’t with me, I felt lost. But between her job and the pregnancy, she was worn thin. Regardless of how much I wanted her with me, I wouldn’t allow her to do anything to jeopardize her health or our baby’s.

When the car started slowing down, I sat up straighter in the seat. “Is this it?”

Lily giggled. “I bet you used to drive your parents crazy.”

“No comment.”

The car came to a stop, and I held my breath until Lily put it in park. “Okay, I’ll come around to get you.” When she opened her door, I was tempted to jerk off the blindfold. As if she anticipated me, she said, “No peeking, or you don’t get your gift.”

“Fine, fine,” I grumbled.

Tapping my foot, I waited for her to come around the car. She opened my door and undid my seatbelt. Taking me by the hand, she led me out of the car. We took a few steps and then she let go of my hand. “Are you ready?”

“Yes, dammit, I’ve been ready the last thirty minutes.”

She laughed and then pulled off the blindfold. I was momentarily disappointed to see that we were just in our driveway. But then when I saw what was in front of me, I dropped onto my knees, which earned me another laugh from Lily. “Oh. My. God.”

It was a black, 68’ Challenger just like I’d had gotten when I was sixteen. Just like the one I’d sold to fund our first record deal. Staggering back to my feet, I said, “I can’t believe you found another one.”

Lily slid her arm around my waist. “I didn’t find another one. I found the
one
.” When I stared at her in shock, she said, “That’s your old Challenger, babe.”

I was speechless. She had literally stunned me speechless. “But how?”

“I ran the VIN number through some collectors, tracked it down, then explained to them the story behind the car.” With a teasing grin, she winked at me. “I might have used my feminine wiles a little bit to sway them to sell it.”

“Please tell me you didn’t show them your boobs?”

She smacked my arm. “Honestly, Brayden. I merely tossed my hair, gave them lots of smiles, and then maybe I turned the waterworks on about my dad and the baby.”

I threw back my head and laughed. “You’re terrible.”

“It got you the car, didn’t it?”

“Yeah, it did.” I pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her. “Baby, this is the most amazing gift I think I could ever receive.” Feeling her tiny bump brush against me, I quickly corrected myself. “The most amazing gift until our baby is born.”

“Good save, Vanderburg,” she murmured, her lips hovering over mine.

“Glad you thought so.” I kissed her deeply, plunging my tongue into her mouth. When I finished we were both breathless.

She smiled up at me. “Wanna take the car for a spin?”

“Fuck yeah. But considering I’m hard as a rock, I think I would rather take you for a spin.”

Lily pulled away from me. Swaying her hips, she walked over to the car and opened the backseat door. “Wanna fuck me in here like old times?”

Glancing around, I tried to gage if any of the neighbors were home to see us. When I thought the coast was clear, I hurried to her side.

Not taking her eyes off of mine, Lily lay back on the seat, opening her legs invitingly. “You want to know why this car is special to me?” she asked.

Licking my lips, I asked, “Because I love it so much?”

She tsked at me. “No silly.” She then whipped her shirt over her head. “Because I had my first orgasm with a guy in this backseat.”

I grinned. “I was happy to oblige you with that one.”

As she slid off her jeans, she said, “I almost lost my virginity in here.”

“Yeah, not the most romantic place to lose it.”

Cocking her brows at me, said, “Lose the pants, Vanderburg.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Not caring about the neighbors, I unzipped my jeans and tugged them down.

“Going commando, are we?”

With a laugh, I replied, “I ran out of clean underwear.”

Lily giggled. “Heaven forbid you have to do some laundry.”

“You got that right.”

The leather seat warmed my bare ass as I sat down. Once I closed the door, I covered Lily’s body with my own. She brought her hands up to grip my shoulders. “You want to know the number one reason why I love this car?”

“Mmm,” I muttered, as my hands came to her breasts.

“Because it was the place where you first said you loved me.”

My fingers stilled their movements. “I remember that,” I replied.

“In that moment, I didn’t think I could love you more, but I had no idea.” She cupped my face in her hands. “My love for you grows each and every day.”

“As does mine.” I brought my lips to hers for a tender kiss. When I pulled away, my heart did a funny flip-flop in my chest like the first time I ever saw her or kissed her or made love to her. We were coming full circle from the horny teenagers who had romped in the backseat to a married couple with a baby on the way.