"Can you just suck it tonight?" Elijah begs me.
He has me cornered on the railing. Both of his hands on either side, holding onto it, as I lean against the metal bars. I continue to look down at my phone. I am trying my best to act like I'm not paying attention to him. My finger keeps flicking up, scrolling my instagram.
I can hear my friends, Abrielle and Natalia flirting with a few of his other friends nearby in front of the parking lot.
"No," I say. I try my best to sound nonchalant.
"C'mon," Elijah pleads. He sounds so antsy and pressed. I internally roll my eyes to myself.
He leans in closer. I can feel his forehead touching mine. It's hot and a little sweaty from the humid, summer night weather. But to be honest...it feels good. I can't even stop it when my heart starts to beat a little faster. My finger even falters for a minute and I break my concentration in trying to ignore him.
I can't help it.
I look up from my phone. Our eyes meet. His face is literally inches away from my mouth. My heart is quickening it's blood flow through my system.
"Just suck it for a little bit," He whispers. His dark eyes not breaking contact with me. And he gives me a little smirk.
My heart skips a total, full beat. And I can feel myself start to tingle like I've been struck by lightning on this damn beach. Even though we're nowhere near the water now and there's not a single lighting bolt in the sky.
So, what was that? Fucking Cupid aiming his arrow through my pussy? I kick myself mentally for having such a reaction to him literally just staring at me.
I shouldn't be eating this up. Any of it. I mean, what kind of girl would I be if I did?
"Just a little bit," He repeats again. His slow smile spreads across his brown face. He feels it, too...THE RESISTANCE going on in my mind.
Dammit.
But I won't be defeated.
I reach out and push his chest with a hand, forcing him to back up.
"No." I say adamantly again, "Get someone else to suck your little dick."
I emphasize LITTLE.
But he only just grins.
Which just makes me angry. So, I push past him. Literally, I shoulder check him from cornering me on the railing and saunter towards my car. I'm so proud of myself for saying "no" and I'm pretty sure I even managed to look good while doing it. Because I can feel a pep in my step and my curls bouncing as I walk away.
"Abrielle! Nat!" I turn towards my girls and shout at them, signaling towards the car, "Let's gooooo."
I'm nearly whining.
I can see on Abrielle's face that she's in lala land talking to one of Elijah's friends. I can tell just by the way it takes her almost three seconds to rip her eyes away from his face to look at me.
Great.
I might lose one tonight.
Now Nat. Nat is a whole different story. She's got this shit on LOCK. I eyed her earlier, flirting with nearly every single one of the boys. She was not giving any of them any particular special attention. But she also wasn't ignoring them or making them think they didn't have a chance, either.
I couldn't help but smile watching her run up and down the beach like a loose puppy, wrapping every single guy who met us out here around her finger. And even some other guys who saw her on the beach, too. My other friends and I joke that she's a master at getting attention.
But that's exactly all she wants: attention. Nat's too smart to give anything up or give anything more. But the guys don't know that.
I'm still mad that it's just us as the last three girls out here, though. I wish I would have gone home sooner when the first wave of our friends left the beach. But...my unfortunate choice of a best friend just happens to be Abrielle.
And Abrielle is boy crazy. Sadly for me.
She wouldn't leave. So, I got stuck carpooling for both of the worst of our friend group: the Pick Me and the Flirt. Neither girl was going to leave any time soon. They were going to make sure they got EVERY drop of male attention they could get.
Which is why I am still stuck here on the beach at night. Even though it is damn near about to be a new morning.
"Ok! Ok!" Natalia, to my surprise, smiles and yells back at me.
I watch in awe as she shakes her admirers. Giving each of the guys who obviously stayed behind just to get her attention, a beaming dimpled smile, some sort of joke, and a shake of her long, dark hair as she waves them goodnight.
Ok.
One down.
We're doing good.
We might just get out of here altogether.
But then I see Abrielle's face for a split second when she looks at me again. I know that face. Fuck.
She frowns at me.
No.
No.
No.
Abrielle. Don't do this to me. I can't help but think this in my head and mentally kick myself.
I watch as she says something to the guy she has been talking to this entire day. Then she slowly follows Nat to walk over to me and my car. Abrielle's face looks like she is a sour grape as we finally all are convened at my Toyota.
I know what's coming before she even confronts me.
"Michaela, what the fuck are you doing?! Why are we leaving?!" Abrielle hisses.
Nat bursts out laughing at her statement.
I sigh.
"Come on, Abrielle," I say, "Let's just go. You can talk to him another time."
I can't help but glance over at the guy she's interested in again. This new one that she desperately wants attention from. He's a redhead and sort of gangly. I don't get the attraction, but I've stopped trying to understand Abrielle's taste in men when I realized her taste was just that: MEN.
"No, I can't!" Abrielle hisses, "Micah leaves tomorrow! He's only here for a week before he goes back home to Alabama!"
"Oh great. You found yourself such a catch," I say sarcastically.
Natalia cackles at my quip.
Abrielle gives me another sour look.
She crosses her arms.
"You guys can go, but I'm not leaving," She says.
For a split second I think about wringing her neck when I hear that!
"I'm not leaving you here alone with these guys!" I say incredulously.