Welcome back to the story! I'd tell you to check the previous chapters if you haven't already read them, but you're smart enough to figure that out, and I believe in you. Everyone doing sex in the story is eighteen or older.
Many thanks to icedragonmo3 for excellent beta-reading and proofing. Any mistakes are mine, because I just can't leave it alone.
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I Was a Teenaged Metahuman
Chapter 3
Centered
Max was getting antsy. He had places to be, and Sunday dinner was eating up the clock. The rules were clear, though. He was not to leave the table without permission, and it would not be granted today. His mother was going over the day's sermon, something about the parable of the talents being a condemnation of Variants.
There was only one option left to him.
"May I be excused?" he asked.
"Why ever for?" She always acted so surprised when he did something she didn't like.
"I want to go talk to Rhonda."
Mother's face went blank. Her fork clattered onto her plate. She nodded, slightly, and Max got out of there before she could change her mind.
Max wrinkled his nose at the dust in his sister's room. It was lit by a single, pale sunbeam.
"Why are you in my room?" she asked in her accusatory way.
"I needed to get away from the dinner table. You know how she gets when I say I want to talk to you."
"You won't be able to use that one much longer," his sister warned. "So what's her name?"
"Am I that obvious?"
"You know you are. Who is she?"
"Which one?"
"You've got two?"
He grimaced. "No."
"Three!?"
"It's getting worse. These women, they're getting more and more aggressive. The longer I spend around any of them, the more... excited they get."
"Sounds like you got a real problem."
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Screamin
Max kept his phone off when he was at home, the better to keep his home life from bleeding over into the real world. As he drove away, texts from Felice began to roll in. Mostly, they were lips emoji positioned next to eggplant emoji, interspersed with requests for him to come over or meet her somewhere. He took a deep breath and reminded himself of the consequences of succumbing, and that got him through the temptation.
He should have ignored her, but the truth was, since Felice had come into his life, his social circle had increased by fifty percent, and unlike his other two friends, she didn't spend all her time with a significant other. He texted back a quick
hey phone was off cuz parental unit how r u?
He was refueling his road boat when another message came in. It was a close-up of Felice's red-painted lips, moist and slightly parted, with the tip of her tongue poking out between them and the caption
thinking of you.
His youth group leader had warned him about loose women. Max now understood what Mister Toby and his trendy beard were talking about.
She sent,
where r u?
An honest answer might be what he needed to get her to... Whoa.
He was trying to push a girl into the friend zone. What had his life become? He hung up the pump handle and got in the car, replying,
killing time b4 my d8.
There, that should put things in perspective for her.
Right away she beamed,
come over.
He leaned his head back and stared at the ceiling of his car. The events of the last time he'd been at her house replayed themselves in his head. He scrubbed his face with his hands and sighed. Hopefully she'd go for this,
meet for coffee 10min at Screamin Beans.
She replied,
5 min.
Felice was already there when he arrived. He supposed it would be okay with the youth group leaders of the world if he admired her in her cutoffs and midriff-baring camisole top. Her hair was in a ponytail and her makeup was minimal but for red lipstick.
He started toward her but a quick shake of her head stopped him. She got her iced coffee from the counter and texted him,
secret meet upstairs.
The coffee shop was a two-story affair retrofitted into an older building. In an out-of-the-way booth upstairs, she awaited him.
He sat across from her. "How long have you got?" she asked without preamble.
"Almost an hour."
"Mmm, lovely. Do you love this girl you're dating?"
"I... that's quite a question, Felice. I might one day, I don't know. This'll be our second meeting."
She nodded, satisfied. "Are you going to..." He sensed images tumbling through her head, Max in flagrante with various girls from school.
"I'm not going to have sex with her," he said, almost defensively. He should print that on business cards.
Felice smiled, "You look nice," she said. Her eyes on him felt thrillingly indecent. "She's a lucky girl."
"You, uh, you're really beautiful." Why had he said that? Was it because he wanted to or because she complimented him? Her desires were so strong they were hard to distinguish from his own.
She squirmed in her seat excitedly, anticipating something big. The last time he'd felt anything like that from someone was when Valerie had lain on her bed and spread her legs... Welp, he was hard now.
At this time of day, the place wasn't busy. Felice looked around and, seeing no one else in view, slid around to his side.
He couldn't have sex with her, but there was no way he could resist a kiss. It immediately got away from him. She held him tightly until she'd pillaged his mouth to her satisfaction. His lips were tingling and he realized he loved every second of it.
"Let's get you ready for your date," she purred. Her hand settled on his groin, under the table.
"You don't... Really."
"Live a little, Altar Boy. Now let's get you hard first." She squeezed his shaft as she kissed him again.
He pulled back from the kiss. "I am hard," he replied, scandalized.
He could tell that cooled her enthusiasm somewhat, and she altered her plan. She licked up the side of his neck and chewed his earlobe as she deftly unbuttoned his slacks. He tried to stop her but was greatly hindered by that low, primitive, selfish part of him that desperately wanted this.
He directed a concerned look at his lap, where she was undoing his zipper, and asked, "Are you going to do what I think you're going to do?"
"Shh. Don't make a scene."
"Hey, Felice? You don't have to do this."
"Nervous, Churchie?" she teased.
"No, I—well yes, actually. But I mean I'll—I like having you as a friend."
Her fingers wrapped around his erection and he was momentarily unable to breathe. As a debate tactic, that move was second to none. Felice now had the floor for a long as she wanted it. "Don't make it weird. I'm horny, you're horny. I'm just helping you," her eyes danced with mirth, "take the edge off before your date."
In between hot breaths in his ear and spine-tingling process with her tongue, she said, "We're still friends."
"But Fel—aieeee!" She was sliding her hand down his shaft. He'd never felt anything quite so good.
"Shh!" she chuckled. Her hand quickly reached his base and reversed motion and when that made him gape at her in shock, she smiled and gave him an encouragingly sexy look. He wished this was as much fun for him as it was for her.
He felt his defenses crumbling. The fact that this was only a second or third base activity made it so easy to rationalize. Her hand stroked him slowly and easily, but was gradually picking up speed.
"That feels so good," he murmured, and kissed her in his sin and depravity. Encouraged, she stroked faster.
A noise made her abruptly stop. From behind a stack of burlap sacks, an employee emerged from a staff door and slouched toward the stairs. The couple's indiscretion wasn't visible, but no matter, the guy didn't even look around. Max wondered if he looked like that when he smoked weed. If so, he needed to stop.
She stilled her hand, but Max's body betrayed him by rocking his hips so his shaft would slide back and forth in her hand. She leaned close and whispered, "That's it, fuck my hand."
"Felice, please," he groaned when she started stroking him again.
He bit his lip to stifle a groan. She varied her grip and stroked counterpoint to his motions. "This is so hot," she grinned, and laughed at the expression on his face.
Footsteps nearby made them stop. A pair of middle-aged women carrying huge cappuccino bowls saw the booth they'd been headed for was occupied by the two teens and began the process of turning around. Max nodded to them politely, which made his penis flex in Felice's hand.
"Good afternoon," greeted Felice. To Max's enduring horror, she massaged his penis while she exchanged empty pleasantries with the two ladies.
"You think they suspected?" she asked when they departed.