This is a contribution to the Summer Lovin' contest 2019. Please remember to vote at the end and thanks for taking the time to read. I hope you'll enjoy this short story.
A special thanks goes to ThisNameIsntTakenYet for providing excellent help with both grammar and content.
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Copyright (c) 2019 Ada Stuart, All Rights Reserved.
This work may not be published whether for fee or free without this copyright.
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Caravan park by the lake
Sometimes even the best-laid plans failed miserably.
This was definitely one of those occasions, Tia thought, as she looked at the man of her dreams snoring beside her. The plan had worked perfectly; a beach party by the lake, a group of friends in their mid-twenties, and the man she'd always wanted among them.
Some alcohol, some dancing, and as the evening progressed, he had kissed her and tried to persuade her to join him in bed. He had been drunk, but she had thought that would work in her favour - not against her. Allowing him to forget that he wasn't interested in the boring brunette that was more a friend than a sexual conquest.
But as he continued drinking, her appeal had increased. Up to the point where she was the only one he wanted. She should have left him hours ago, but since she'd secretly been in love with him for a long time, she hadn't been able to leave. Tonight, she would finally be granted her wish and spend the night with him. Just one memorable night.
But destiny was not always kind to those that loved.
They had entered the caravan she had borrowed from her parents, and just after they had undressed, he fell asleep on her bed. Her body was so aroused that she was tempted to rape the sleeping man. But she hadn't foreseen that the beer would also reduce his ability to perform. Both man and manhood were lying limp on her bed.
There was nothing else to do but cover him with a blanket and let him sleep it off. Once he was awake, she would kick him out of her caravan and out of her life. After this, there was no chance that they could ever return to being just friends and she had a feeling that it was the alcohol that made him bed her, not something else.
***
Next morning, Jason awoke with a killer headache. The rest of his body hurt as well and he tried to recollect what had happened last night. Where was he? He briefly opened his eye and stared at an unfamiliar ceiling. This didn't resemble the tent he slept in. Or had he moved? He couldn't remember just now, and the light hurt his eyes.
He closed them immediately. All he could remember was that he'd gotten really friendly with Tia, but that could not be the case. Tia always ignored his advances. Only treated him as a friend and since that was all she seemed to want from him, he had settled for that. Nothing more.
But right now, he had an uncertain recollection that he had kissed her. Or had it only been a dream? Suddenly he realised that there was someone else lying beside her. Oh god, what had he done now?
He had been so nervous around Tia that he had drunk a lot more than he usually did, thinking that it would help him to talk to her in a worldly manner. But somewhere along the way he seemed to have lost his memory.
Oh god, which one of the bimbos had he ended up in bed with? After this blunder Tia would never speak to him again. He had blown every possibility of them ever getting together and he would be stuck being her friend. If he was lucky. Most likely he would never be able to repair their relationship.
He sighed. He really didn't want to know who the bimbo was. He moved his legs and discovered that he was naked.
Oh no, then he must have fucked her as well. Damnit. He was never going to drink again. Ever. Fearing the result, he turned to the side and opened his eyes to look at who the woman was.
***
"Tia?"
Tia woke with a start as a loud voice practically screamed her name into her ear.
"What?" she mumbled as she looked around herself in shock. Was there a fire somewhere?
"Tia?"
It was a man's voice and he sounded so shocked that he could barely speak. Great, Mr Loverboy had finally come to. Now what?
After the disaster last night, she had thought about getting dressed and sleep somewhere else. But she could not resist to lie down beside him for a little while. It was too tempting, and it was all she would ever get from him. They were part of the same group of friends, but it didn't seem that they would ever be more than that.
Still, she had longed to be near him, and she could remember that she had lay down beside him in the bed and just took in his familiar scent, imagining that he would always lie beside her. It was just a silly dream and a dream that would surely end as soon as he realised who she was.
She must have fallen asleep beside him. She couldn't remember. All she realised was that she had slept like a log. It had felt good to have a large and strong man in her bed. It had been a long time since that had happened to her. She had always been the mousy, shy one among their group.
Always standing on the outskirt of the action and the happenings. It was simply a coincident that she had joined them at all, but her best friend was seeing one of Jason's friends so after a while Tia had been invited too. They had been nice to her and she had begun to enjoy spending time with them.
After a while she had started to talk with Jason and discovered that he was actually an intelligent man in addition to his good looks. It had not seemed fair at all, that a man could have both looks and brains at the same time. In the beginning she had thought that he had to be terribly stupid but good enough as eye candy. Oh boy, had that assumption been wrong.
His athletic body and outgoing personality had made him very popular and she had soon realised that he was way out of her league. The only thing she could hope for was to be his friend. And since she didn't chase after him all the time, he probably considered her a safe haven and a woman that he could be himself with and not try to bed.
He seemed to relax in her presence, probably because she managed to repress every want and need that flew through her body whenever he was near her. Instead she had tried to be the friend that he wanted and not display any interest in him. And it had worked well.
Until last night when he had kissed her, and she had returned it with longing, allowing her desires to come to the surface and touch him like she'd always wanted to do. She had been almost sober, but he hadn't. She doubted he knew who he had been with. She should have left him, so that he didn't knew it was her.
Just like Cinderella had left the Prince and made him long for more. He would probably have figured it out once he discovered which caravan he was sleeping in, but that might have spared her the humiliation of seeing his desires turn into revulsion.
Damn, why had she fallen asleep beside him? And wasted a friendship at the same time. She wiggled her half-asleep body and suddenly realised that she was still completely naked. As her legs touched his, she realised that he was naked too.
Great. Just fucking great. Could this day get any worse? Now she would have to spend a lot of time getting dressed before she could run away. How to deal with this?
"Tia, what happened?" he asked.
Could this nightmare become any worse? He couldn't even remember that he had wanted to bed her. Just great. Well, attack was the best form of defence, wasn't it?
Besides, she was royally pissed with him. Angry that he could not remember who he was bedding and even more angry that he hadn't fucked her when he had the chance.
"Have you forgotten so soon?" she flung out.
"Ahm, yes," he admitted. "God, I'm sorry, Tia."
"About what?"
"Did I use a condom?"
She wanted to laugh. Could this situation become even more humiliating?
"Nope," she muttered.
"Shit. Are you very angry?"
"What do you think?" she flung at him.
"Fuck. I will make it up to you. Did you come?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"I seriously messed up. Fucking great," he said as he lay back down. "I'll make it up to you when I'm sober," he groaned.
"No, you won't."
"Why not?"
"You're not coming near me ever again!" she said with conviction.
She didn't want a pity-fuck. That was even worse than when he was drunk.
"Sure I will. You might be carrying my child right now," he pointed to her flat stomach.
She cringed. She didn't want another reminder of the dream he had shattered.
"Not a chance."
"There's always a risk."
"No, there isn't," she said while she sighed. "You have to come inside of me first, and you never did."
She turned away from him and started to crawl away from the bed. His hands shot out and caught her arm.
"Tell me what happened."
"Nothing happened."
"Then why are we both naked?"
"You were too drunk to care who you went home with last night. And then you passed out."
"Ugh."
"Yes, that's it."
"So, I didn't rape you or anything?"
"You wouldn't have been able to," she said icily.
"That bad, eh?"
"Yes. Floppy like a pancake."
He physically winced. Right now, she didn't care if she hurt his feelings. Her own felt so raw that she wanted him to feel just a little of the hurt that was threatening to make her tears come bursting. She needed to hang on to her anger to avoid making an even bigger fool of herself.
"Shit," he said.
She moved away from him and he let her out of his grasp without hesitation. She found her clothes and pulled on a few items, covering her naked body.
"I'm going to the service building to take a shower. As soon as you're able I want you to leave," she said without looking at him.
She didn't want the picture of him laying naked in her bed to trouble her for the rest of her life.
He groaned. "That will take a few hours. My head is killing me."
"As soon as possible," she reminded him, before she grabbed her toilet bag and towel and retreated to a safer territory.
***
Tia took a long and warm shower, making sure to soap up her hair at least twice, before adding the conditioner. She didn't want to meet him. Never again. And she did not want to see him lying around in her bed as if he belonged there.