The Beginning of Us (71 page)

I can see Luke struggling with something.  He wants to say something to me, but pulls back.  I don’t know if
it's because Talon is his friend and he's trying to decide what to say or what is going on with him.

Talon looks at Luke and says “Don’t worry. I won’t hurt her.”

Luke frowns and says “I guess I should be glad you didn’t decide to sit with Taron back here.  I would physically remove you from this bed myself.” 

“The fact that Taron usually sits here, makes me want to physically remove myself.” Both guys laugh at me.

I scoot back and enjoy the rest of the ride.  I decide
to twist open the little window so the wind is blowing on my face and through my hair. I look over and notice that Talon is resting his head on the wall behind us and
the wind is hitting him as well. 
It's a perfect cool breeze that is very refreshing after the heated moments of tonight.

After we make a couple of stops to let some people out, we get to the Walker
house.  I can tell there has been some female influence on the décor in their house.  Talon is showing me around.  They have a decent sized kitchen with an island in the middle.  There is a small table on one side of it.  Their living room has a giant TV with large speakers on each side.  I also notice game controllers sprawled out on the floor in front of it.  There are three couches lining the walls in this room.  I notice everyone is going to the backyard and decide I need to find Ivy. 

“I should probably find Ivy.”
  I say, thinking the tour has ended.

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Talon

“I guess I'll
show you my bedroom later then.”  I want to spend more time with Eaven. 
She's
gorgeous and I miss spending time with a girl.  I want to feel more of her softness against my skin.

“Let’s find Ivy first and then I would love for you to show me your room.” She seems nervous and intrigued at the same time.

“She's
probably out back with everyone else. 
I'll
show you the way.”  I grab her hand in mine and le
ad her to the backyard.

“OH MY GOD,
Ev, they have a hot tub!”  Ivy squeals at Eaven when she sees her.

“Are you doing alright,
Ivy?”  Eaven says as we close in on
her.

“Yes” she replies
slowly.  I can tell Ivy is curious.

“I'm
going to spend time with Talon in his room for a bit.  Will you be ok out here?”  Ivy is smiling at us.  I can tell
she's
a fan of whatever it is we have going on.  

“Don’t you dare worry about me!
  You go and enjoy yourself. 
I'll be just fine out here.”

“I'm
sorry you got stuck with Taron on the bus.”  Eaven seems genuinely sorry for making her friend sit by my brother, who if I remember right, Ivy slipped away with at the club.  What is up with that?

“Don’t be.  I rather enjoyed
Holden
putting Taron in his place every time he got out of line. 
I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.”

“Sounds good.” Eaven says as I pull her hand toward me. We start back into the house and Luke gives me the glare down. I nod to let him know that his message was received.

We enter my room and I close the door.  She seems a little timid. 
It's
taking everything I have not to rip her clothes off of her. 
I'm
positive it wouldn’t take much for me to see her tits.  I want to feel every inch of her body.

“You have a drum set in your bedroom!” Eaven says pulling m
e away from my savage thoughts. 
“You'll have to teach me to play sometime.”

“I can give you a little lesson right now if you want.” I smile because I have a vision of her sitting on my lap as I guide her through the movements.

“Ok.”

I take a seat on my stool and pat my leg for her to sit.  She smiles at me and slowly encourages herself to sit on my lap.  Now if I could just get her to turn around and straddle me this would be even better.  I lean in and inhale.  Damn.  Her hair smells good. 
She's
undoing me. 
I'm already getting hard and we haven’t even started.

“Our first lesson will be the bass drums. My kit has two so you are learning to play double
time.  Use the footplates on the floor to control the beaters that will strike each of the drums.  Place your feet on those pedals.  Push up and down when you want to strike the drums.”  She does what I say and she starts beating the drums uncontrollably.  Talk about chaos. 
I'm
thinking this is not going to be near as hot as I first imagined. 

“Hold up. 
It's the rhythm for the entire band. Imagine counting.”

“She slows to a one, two beat.”

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

“It sounds like a heartbeat!” She sounds excited. I freeze.

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

Thump Thump

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Eaven

This is fun. 
I'm
sitting on his lap and pretending to play the drums.  I have managed to make him stop me because the sounds were so out of rhythm and hectic.  Now that
I'm
making the sound of a heartbeat, he has stiffened beneath me.  I stop and look over my shoulder and see his pain again.  What did I do wrong?

“I'm
so sorry.”  I whisper and frown.

He says softly into my ear “You have done nothing to be sorry about. 
I'm sorry that I'm
not better company tonight.  This is just a bad time for me.” 

“You can teach me more another time.” I stand and turn to face
him.  His hands grab mine and he pulls me toward him.  He wraps his arms around my waist and hugs my stomach.  I stand there for a while before I realize he has a tear running down his face.  I wish he would tell me what is going on. 
I'm
confused, but the one thing I know for sure is that this guy is hurting very badly.  If I can do anything to ease his pain then that is what
I'm
going to do. 

“Talon.  Come lay down with me on your bed.”  I turn away and try not to let him notice that I have seen
a
tear.  I go to the far side of the bed and sit down.     

He turns off the light and sits on the side of the bed closest to the door. I decide to kick off my shoes and crawl over to the side he's
on.  I lie on the pillow and reach for him.  He crawls over me and lays his head on my chest and collapses his body on the bed next to m
e
.  He wraps his arm around my hips and we lay there in
complete silence
.     

~Chapter Three~

Talon

Seven months ago

Taron: Where are you?

Talon:  At the club. 

Taron: Dude, your girl is at the river near the bridge.

Talon: What? Are you with her?

Taron: No I was driving by and saw her.

Talon: Go back and find her, I’m on my way.

I'm
driving like a lunatic to the bridge.  Nicole has been very depressed lately.  She told me that she couldn’t go through with the pregnancy.  She said having a baby now will ruin her life.  I begged her to reconsider and told her I would take care of it with her.  She didn’t want any part of that.  I got so pissed at her that I couldn’t even look at her.  How could she think about ending the life of our child after she saw the heart beating on the monitor?  We heard the swooshing sound that proved the baby was alive and well.  How could she consider doing anything to stop that heart
from
beating? 

I just stormed out on her not that long ago at her apartment after she told me she wanted an abortion. What is she doing out at the river?

My headlights shine on the bridge and I see that she's
on the outside of the rail hanging on.  Taron is talking to her and trying to hang on to her from the inside of the rail.  I run to where Taron is standing and freeze because I hear Nicole sobbing and talking to Taron.

“I can’t go through with this.  My life is over if I have a baby. 
I'll
never be able to finish college.  I don’t even love him anymore.  Leave me alone Taron.  Let me do this.”

“I'm
not letting you do this to my brother.  He loves you and this baby.”

“What the hell do you know about love?” She mumbles to Taron.

“Just that my brother is more capable of it than I am and that you are his everything.”

“He left me today.”   

“I'm sure it's
just a misunderstanding.”  Taron tries to reassure her.

“Nicole, what are you doing?” I ask her.

“Talon, I told you that I'm
not having this baby.  You won’t listen to me and I feel like
I'm losing control of my life.”

“I'll
listen to you, just get off the ledge and we will talk.  I promise you that
I'll
be here for everything.  Please Nicole.  Please get off the ledge.” 

Taron is still holding on to Nicole. 
She's
sobbing uncontrollably and no longer holding onto the railing.  Taron manages to grab her in a bear hug and falls backwards onto the road with her in his arms.  I grab her up into my arms and hug her as tight as I can.  She scared the shit out of me and
I'm
afraid to let her go. 
She's
not hugging me back. 
She's
standing there lifeless in my arms.  “Why did you come here?”  I whisper to her.

“I'm
done Talon.  I hate my life.  I don’t want to be with you anymore.  I don’t want this baby and you are pressuring me to keep it.”

“Let’s go and talk about this together somewhere.” I notice Taron is standing nearby. He has always been there for me and now he's here when I need him the most.

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, let go of me.”  Nicole is getting pissed off.  I release her.  She takes a step back from me and just looks at me.  She has a look in her eyes that I have never seen before. 

“I'm
going to have an abortion.  You can’t stop me. 
I'm
not in love with you Talon.”  She says
,
and turns to start to walk away from me. 
I'm standing there and I feel like my heart has been ripped out of my chest.

“How can you kill something that we created? How can you expect me to stand by and let you do that? I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t try to stop you.”

“I knew you wouldn’t listen to me. We both want different things.”

“This is new for me too,
Nicole.  Life will throw us curve balls and we have to learn to deal with them.  I want to keep our baby. 
I'll
raise it myself.  Don’t have the abortion.  Please listen to me. 
You'll never have to deal with it after it's
born.  My family will help me raise it. 
I'll dedicate my whole life to giving it everything it needs.”

“Talon I'm
already with someone else.”  I hear this and
I'm instantly full of rage and anger.

“What are you talking about Nicole? Who else have you been fucking?”

“I just needed some pills.  He told me that the only way he would give them to me is if I had sex with him.” 

I can’t even think right now. 
I'm
so pissed that my mind won’t focus on words to say to her.  “Who fucking ‘gave’ you pills Nicole?”