When I awoke the next morning, I was alone. I sat up and pulled down the sheets to find a bloody mess. My entire crotch was incrusted in blood and the sheets were soaked. My cock was a mass of shredded flesh. Part of the blood was surely mine, but not all of it, I was certain.
I slid my jeans and shirt on and stripped the bed. I grabbed the bedding and my shoes and walked down the hall. I tossed the mess on the bathroom floor and took a shower.
After my shower I put on some fresh clothes, picked up the ruined bedding and trod downstairs. There was Paige, sitting at the kitchen table, with a cup of coffee, reading a People magazine. She wore winter pajamas, that covered her legs and her arms. This was a girl that didn't like to cover up unless it was cold. It wasn't cold at all that morning. It made her all the more alluring to me. She sat there, head down, her hair hanging down in her face, all covered up in flannel.
"Hi," Paige said, in a tiny sheepish tone. She barely glanced up at me.
"Morning," I replied, as I walked past. I went straight to the laundry room with the sheets. Once I got to the laundry room, I decided to trash the whole thing, and chucked it all in the garbage, and went back to the kitchen.
Paige looked up as I walked in and I smiled at her. She gave me the tiniest smile, but it seemed to light up the room. Her green eyes shined through the hair hanging across her face.
I turned to pour myself a cup of coffee and soon felt Paige's little hands on my ribs. She slid her arms around me, and held me close. I pivoted to face her, lifted her up and she wrapped her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist. I brushed the hair from her face and kissed her softly. Her hair smelled like blueberries and her mouth tasted like coffee, with cream and sugar. She laid her head on my shoulder and let it rest there. There were no tears, no sobs, just the warmest embrace I had ever known. We stood there entangled that way until our coffee grew cold.
Finally she said, "I hate you, mother fucker," without looking up or loosening her grip on me. "I hate the way you make me love you, even when I don't want to."
"You don't want to love me?"
"Sometimes I don't. But I can't help it. Do you really love me or not?"
"I do, Paige. I love you more than life itself."
"Now that just sounds like a load of shit."
"Paige, I've never loved anyone the way I love you."
"You've got a fucked up way of showin' a girl that you love her."
"I know, Baby. I've been a real mess lately. I want to take care of you. I want to do the right thing."
"There you go again, talkin' in cliches. I don't need you to take care of me. And do you have the slightest idea of what the 'right thing' to do is in this situation?"
"Who does? Let's just do what needs to be done and I'll be right at your side. I want to marry you, but we can't do that. So we have to figure out the next best thing."
"Would you really marry me?"
"I would. I swear. I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
"Are you going to send me to Aunt Beth's?"
"Hell no! It's you me and from now on."
"I want to sell the house."
"I know."
"I mean right away."
"OK."
"I want to sell everything in it. Right now."
"We'll have an estate sale."
"Good. Right now, I have to go see Megan."
"Right now?"
"It's important."
She ran off, got dressed and she was gone. I called the realtor and the lawyer and made arrangements for the estate sale. Paige had me take care of all the important matters. She should have been more involved, but I was glad that she trusted me. I told everyone that she was too distraught to deal with the details. Truth was she didn't want to be bothered. All she did was sign the papers. Looking back, I realize that I could really taken advantage of her. I loved her and did what she wanted and what I thought was best for her.
It was a busy day. Paige came home at about six and was very moody. Those were strange times. Paige had yet to mourn the loss of her parents in what might be considered an appropriate fashion. I whipped up a light dinner and we ate in near silence.
We slept in Paige's bed that night. It seemed a little odd, but it was wonderful just to hold her and anticipate making love to my sweet little lover. She had stripped her room of a lot of the things that had made it seem so childish, just a couple of weeks before. It seemed a little sparse.
Paige slipped into bed beside me, wearing a set of cute little pajamas. I wore just my shorts. She wrapped her arms around me and we kissed. Her kisses were the best I'd ever known. "I have some confessions to make," she said.
"What is it?"
"About boys. You weren't my first. I lied to you. I did it with my old boyfriend five times."
"You don't have to tell me all this. I don't care. It's OK."
"No it's not. I lied to you. I didn't let him cum in me though. That part's true. And no boy ever made me cum,'til you."