His eyes were on her as he stood with Donnie.
Girls were already orbiting around him, but he wasn’t paying them attention.
Her confidence got a boost when he moved a girls’ hand that was starting to stray towards him.
The noise of the party increased in volume as the drinks were consumed. Those getting tipsy began to sing loudly to the music.
Others had begun to bounce on the mattresses and started to fight with the pillows.
They were having fun, even getting tipsy themselves and danced wildly to the music.
Raven’s shirt fell off her shoulder exposing her black bra strap. She adjusted it, and looked up in time to see Beck staring daggers at some young juniors who were eyeing up her and her friends.
What’s his problem? He’s not got any right to do that!
Raven turned her back on Beck, only to wiggle her hips as she danced along to The Vamps ‘Last Night'. A song fitting for the theme.
Ava had pointed out that Beck had been watching her the whole time.
“He can watch all he wants,” Raven lifted her arms up; knowing the boxers would be on show. “He’s not going to have this piece of ass!” she slapped her own ass cheek and Ava threw her head back and laughed.
“You go girl!”
The next song came on, ‘Don’t wake me up’ by Chris Brown, and most of the crowd threw their hands in the air to the beat, including Raven.
She felt a pair of hands grip her hips, and they weren’t a pair she recognized.
“You’re hot,” Bobby’s voice rasped in her ear. “How about we get out of here?”
“What?” Raven jerked and grabbed his wrists to pull his hands away.
Instead of releasing, he gripped harder.
“Let go, Bobby,” she said, pulling at him again. He pushed his hips into her behind.
“Come on, sexy, let’s have some fu.. Whoa!”
Raven turned to see Bobby being yanked away by the back of his vest.
“What the fuck, Beck?” he asked, his hands out to the side.
“She told you to let go. That means get the fuck off,” Beck snarled, looking dangerous.
He towered over Bobby, and Raven thought he was going to tear him apart.
“I was just playing with her, man, come on!”
“Raven is not a toy,” Beck growled.
“Whatever,” Bobby threw his hands up, rolled his eyes and walked away.
Beck turned back to Raven, fire still in his eyes as he looked down to her.
“Are you ok?” he asked, his expression softening.
Raven stared.
“If I’m not a toy, then why do
you
play with me so much?” she asked, wanting to know the answer to that question.
He said nothing.
“Let’s go get another dri-ink,” Ava sang, linking Raven’s arm and leading her over to the bar.
Kerry and Leila joined them, and they moved over to the other side of the room where the mattresses were thrown about on the floor.
The different colored streamers, for the morning, hung like drapes from the ceiling.
Pillows were all over the place from fighting, and throwing.
Taking off their slippers and putting them to the side, the girls jumped all over the mattresses, laughing and screaming as they fell about.
Raven lost her footing and fell in a heap, into the soft pillows. As she was lying on her back, she moved her hair out of her face, rolling on to her stomach.
A movement caught her eye and she looked up; into a pair of gray eyes.
“Yes?” she asked, giggling. The shots were having more of an effect on her and her head was spinning a little.
“Is that how it looks?” he asked, licking his lips.
“How what looks?”
“You. In bed. Rolling around.”
The image of Beck in bed appeared in her mind, making her angry. She didn’t want to imagine something that was an impossibility. If she gave into her body’s wants, then she’d just be like the other girls; used.
“Not to you,” she spat, with more venom than she intended.
Instead of Beck getting angry like she expected, he looked amused, confusing the hell out of her.
“Goodbye, Raven,” he said, leaning forward a fraction as if making sure he had her full attention.
Beck stood, kissed the air in her direction, then left.
“I don’t care what you say, Ray, that’s fucking hot,” Kerry stared at her.
“Please tell me you’re tempted to go after him and just…grrr.” She bunched her hands in front of her as if about to rip somebody’s clothes off.
“Gah!” Raven yelled, screaming into the pillow she pulled over her face.
“He’s gone now, so let’s go dance!” Leila jumped off the mattress and headed to the makeshift dance floor, the girls following behind.
The girls enjoyed a couple more drinks and a few more songs before they felt they’d had enough. They were going back to their dorms.
“Our slippers are gone,” Raven said, looking round. “They were right there.” She pointed to the ground where they’d left them.
“Oh no,” Ava laughed, throwing her head back. “Well it was our fault for leaving them; it’s no problem.”
The girls nodded their heads, slightly swaying as they stood.
“Lessgo girlies!” Raven said, slightly slurring, and pointed to the door in an exaggerated motion. “I need to go to bed.”
*****
“My head hurts!” Ava groaned from the bed across the room.
Raven also felt a little worse for wear and had trouble opening her eyes.
“I’ll get us some Tylenol,” she said, forcing herself to get out of bed.
The girls were wearing the same clothes they wore to the party. No sense in getting changed if you were already dressed for bed, right?
Raven collected the pills from her drawer and opened some bottled water. They both took the medication, and she climbed back into bed.
“That party was so much fun,” Ava said, covering her eyes with her arm. “I couldn’t believe how good it was considering what happened.”
“Did I miss something?”
“No. I meant with Bobby and Beck.”
“Oh.”
Raven remembered Beck removing Bobby from behind her, and the look on his face as he told him to move away.
“I really thought he was going to hit that kid. I don’t know why Bobby thought he could behave like that, especially in his first week; and with a senior!”
“Yeah. He came on a bit strong, I guess,” Raven said, her voice almost a whisper.
“What’s wrong, Ray?”
“It’s nothing, forget it,” she said, plastering a fake smile on her face. “I’m starving, lets get breakfast.”
Kerry and Leila didn’t look too good either. They all wore sunglasses to hide their hungover eyes.
They left the dorm building and walked towards the main hall for breakfast.
They sat at one of the wooden tables near the back. The last thing they wanted was to be in the center of the noise filled room with their heads feeling as though they were going to explode.
They sat rubbing their aching temples for a while.
Raven’s started to subside a little so she got up to get drinks, asking the girls what they wanted.
“Coffee,” they said in unison.
“Be right back.”
Raven made her way to the coffee cart, and poured four cups.
She knew he was there before he opened his mouth.
He smelled like soap and…man.
“Good morning, Beck,” she said, swallowing the saliva in her mouth. She reacted without even laying her eyes on him.
“How did you know I was behind you?” he asked, his voice playful.
“I could smell you.” Raven cringed, screwing her eyes shut as soon as the words left her mouth.
“You could smell me?” That’s new,” he chuckled. “What do I smell like?”
“I don’t know,” she squeaked.
She felt him move closer to her back, the heat from his body against hers. It took all her strength not lean back onto him.
“Why don’t you take a good sniff?”
“Ah!” Raven jumped when his lips were next to her ear, making him chuckle; again.
She’d had it with him. It was too early in the morning, she was too sensitive to him and she couldn’t possibly cope with his game in her state.
“Beck, please. I’m not in the mood, and I have a huge headache.”
“I know a cure for that,” he rasped. Letting his mouth linger next to her ear far longer than necessary.
“So do I. It’s called leaving me the fuck alone.”
Raven gathered all of the tiny ounce of courage she could muster and threw her hips back, letting her ass connect with his front.
She smiled when she heard Beck take a sharp breath, but she wasn’t going to stick around for his comeback. She walked as fast as her hangover would let her, and sat at the table.
“Ok, even I don’t have the strength for him today, and it’s not even me he’s chasing,” Ava grumbled, then picked up her coffee.
“Agreed,” Kerry and Leila said, lifting their cups.
Raven watched as Beck ran his hands through his hair, and wondered what it would feel like to run her fingers through it. He looked as though he hadn’t shaved and had a light stubble on his jaw. She imagined what that’d feel like grazing over her skin, the tip of his tongue licking up her throat, his fingertips stroking down from her neck, to her breasts, then further until he was following the path to the promised land.
The strong pulsing between her thighs brought her back down to earth.
She squirmed in her seat, and took deep breaths to calm herself down. The scent of him was still lingering in her nostrils, and she couldn’t breathe properly without inhaling him again.
Beck looked over to her, and she knew he’d seen her watching him. If anything, she could just make the excuse that she was making sure he wasn’t going to go over to their table.
Truthfully, she was definitely eye-fucking him that time.
“Raven Valiente!” A male voice shouted over the crowd.
The whole room turned to the man standing there with a huge bouquet of flowers.
Oh ground open up and swallow me whole!
“She’s here!” Ava called out, pointing to Raven.
The guy walked over, he was wearing a florist's delivery uniform, and held out a clipboard for Raven to sign. She took the pen and scribbled her name quickly.
“Here you go, have a nice day,” the guy said, looking at her for longer than she liked.
“Who are they from?” Leila said excitedly, bouncing in her seat.
The hangovers seemed to have been cured with the delivery of the most beautiful flowers Raven had ever seen.
Mixtures of pink curcumas, pink calla lilies, blue hyacinths, pink lisianthus, and white Roses.
Raven sniffed the flowers and then reached in to get the card.
She read the beautiful note and smiled.
“Oh that’s so sweet!” Ava gushed. “The man in your life sends you flowers to campus,” she said a little too loudly.
Raven felt her stand on her foot under the table. She knew immediately what Ava was doing.
“Yeah, he’s the best,” Raven sighed.
She sneaked a glance to Beck.
Big mistake.
She couldn’t decipher the look on his face, but he wasn’t happy.
It was no secret that Beck didn’t like to mess around with girls already ‘taken’; he’d insisted on it.
If a girl was seeing somebody and came to him, he wouldn’t entertain them. No matter what he’d done, he refused to be the ‘other guy’, even for just the one time.
“I’m not interested,” he said bluntly.
The girl who’d flirted with him had been attempting to tease him for the past hour.
“Why not? It’s a no-strings-one off, just like you said. It’s not like I’m asking you to cuddle me afterwards, Beck.”
“You have a boyfriend, Lita, I don’t touch taken girls.”
Beck sounded bored. He made a move to leave, but Lita stepped in front of him and lifted her hand to put it on his chest.
Beck’s reflexes were too quick, and he grabbed her wrist.
“Lita, I said no.”
He dropped her hand and walked away, shaking his head.
Raven felt embarrassed for the girl. She’d practically begged Beck to have sex with her.
There was something else there too, though. She knew Beck didn’t want any attachment, but the way Lita spoke to him was like Beck was just something she just wanted to use for her own pleasure.
He wasn’t a person to her. He was just a dildo with a pulse.
That’s all he was wanted for.
He knew it too.
Raven felt awful for him.
“So, who are they from?”
Donnie asked, as he walked by their table. He’d been walking in when Raven had taken delivery of the flowers.
“Her main man,” Kerry gushed, batting her eyes and holding her hands to her chest in a sigh.
“He’s older; mature,” Leila added for good measure. “I bet he’s really great.”
“He’s amazing, and I love him,” Raven said, smiling up at Donnie. She knew she looked convincing; she
was
telling the truth after all.
She got out her phone and sent a thank you text.
“Huh,” Donnie grunted, narrowing his eyes. He glanced between the smiling faces at the table before walking over to Beck.
When he got there, they exchanged words, but Raven couldn’t make out what they were saying. Whatever it was, it wasn’t good.
Oh shit.
“Let’s take these up to my room,” Raven whispered.
The girls nodded, and they hurried out of the hall.
“Did you see his face?” Ava had a guilty expression when she spoke first. “I think we pushed it a little too far, there.”
“What? Like he doesn’t push Ray too far?” Kerry asked. “He does everything but enter her when he gets going.”
“God, Kerry!” Raven shrieked. “He doesn’t get anywhere near that close.”
“He gets closer with you than other girls,” Leila pointed out.
“I think inside is as close as you can get.”
“Not when it comes to Beck, Ray-Ray. You know that.” Ava put her arm around Raven’s shoulders as they walked.
“I do feel bad. He must hate himself right now.”
“He should,” Kerry spoke up. “Serves him right.”