She got in wearing a pink tank top and a pair of denim shorts and I drove us back to my house, I would be moving out tomorrow so this would be our last day to hang out there. When we got in the house she walked ahead of me into my room, then she walked right back out to me in the hallway.
“Rei, there’s a Lucas in your bed.” I looked into the room. Luke was asleep on my bed, snoring lightly, I doubt that he was wearing clothes under the covers.
“Oh,” I laughed, “He’s probably resting up before work.”She seemed surprised at how calm I was acting.
“Why?!”
“Because,” I walked over to kiss Luke lightly, so that I wouldn’t wake him, he was so cute when he slept. “I’m marrying him.”
“Wait a sec! Luke is who you’ve been telling me about?”
“Yeah. And now that you know, I need to update my relationship status and change Luke’s as well. Care to join me?”
********Three Days Later********
“You don’t even know how wrong that looks Rei.” Joe laughed, watching me from the couch.
“Well excuse me for getting my body in shape Jonathan.” I retorted. “I’m getting bored, can you flip on the TV?” He got up and stood in front of me.
“Here, I’ll entertain your eyes with my body.” I laughed and aimed the Shakeweight I was using at his stomach, hoping I’d hit him eventually.
“My arms are burning! Can I stop?” I laughed.
“Hell no, you wanted to do this, so keep goin’.” John said back.
“WHAT THE FUCK?!” I turned my head, Luke was standing over on the stairs, and his face was beet red, it was scary.
“Luke, darling, what’s wrong?” I asked.
“What are yous doing right now?” He yelled.
I turned around and held my arm up. “Shakeweight.” He came up, examining the scene.
“Well why was John in front of you?”
“He was helping me keep going. I don’t see why you’re freaking out so bad…” Then it hit me. “Oh…” Luke raised an eyebrow.
“Whoa, hold on, you thought Rei was jerking me off? EW! GROSS!” John exclaimed.
“Hurtful.” I said in a high pitched voice. At that point Luke turned away and headed back to the basement. I followed after him. “Luke, baby, wait.” He walked into our room, which was nearly empty. We’d be out of here within the month, we’d already found and bought a house a few blocks away and we began setting everything up. Diane encouraged us to get it because she wasn’t ready to lose us just yet.
I strolled in after him, “Hey, how could you think I was doing anything with John? You know my love and body belong to you.”
“Cut the shit Rei. I seen the way you look at him, like you just wanna fuck his brains out.” My mouth dropped open. I had been checking John out a bit from time to time, but that’s only because on those few occasions he looked like Luke to me. They were built the same pretty much, long and lean body, traces of abs, to die for eyes, and the same tan skin tone and chocolate brown hair color. The only difference is that Luke is taller than Joe, standing at 6’3’’, while John was just 6’0’’.
“Luke, I have zero feelings for John. I’m in love with y-o-fucking-u. Ever since eighth grade I’ve wanted you in the worst ways possible. A month ago when you asked me to marry you, I was going to call bullshit because I knew you had to be joking. Now that I know you love me, I never wanna lose you, I want you for the rest of my friggen life!”
“Don’t lie to me Rei. I know you like him, I can see it in your eyes, and I know when you’re lying. That first sentence was complete bullshit, I saw you fidget. You always fidget when you lie, I know ‘because every time you say you’re okay with me smoking, you move around. So two things: one, I’m going to quit. And two, please, just leave. I wanna be alone for a bit.” I teared up, Luke lay on our bed, in our room, which he was kicking me out of. My heart dropped to my ass and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I ran out to my truck and drove straight to Tanya’s. When she opened the door, she just knew. We went to her room and she held me in her arms while I cried. For over an hour and a half I cried nonstop. When I finally calmed down enough to stop, she asked,
“Are you gonna stay tonight?” I sniffled and wiped my nose.
“No, I’m gonna go home. I won’t be driven away!”
***************************
I got into the house around nine that night and went straight down to the basement, and then to mine and Luke’s room. Luke was there, just listening to the radio. I tried to kiss him, but he dodged it. I stared at him, shocked.
“Well then, fuck you too.” I went to the dresser and got out a pair of purple shorts and a pink top that had “LMFAO” written on the front in purple, then I stripped right in front of Luke. I turned around, still undressed, I could tell that he was trying beyond hard to not look at me. Finally I pulled on my pajamas. Climbing on top of Luke, I asked, “Do I get to sleep in the bed tonight?”
He smiled and told me to stand. He then bent down to scoop me up into his arms, he kissed me and I figured that he was finally giving in. I hadn’t even realized that he had moved until he dumped me onto the couch on the far left side of the basement. I hit the soft cushion and thought he was going to sit with me, instead he turned and walked back to the room. I watched in shocked silence and my first and only, my soon-to-be husband walked away from me.
“Lucas!” I yelled. He didn’t come back out. John, who’d been on the computer and seen the whole thing watched as I cried out and yelled over and over. I stood and went to pound on the door. “Luke it’s only gonna be so frigging long till you’re gonna want it, and guess what! I ain’t puttin’ out! Have fun jerking off!” I went back to the couch and plopped on it.