Dylan

It has been a week since Luke, Arlo, and I moved in with Riley and Sapphire.  I am unsure what happened, but Sapphire has been distant all week.  My eyes damn near popped out of my head when I walked into the kitchen and saw her standing in the kitchen wearing those tiny little shorts and a tank top.  All that silky, lightly tanned skin was on display, and before I knew it, I was standing behind her with my hands on her hips.  The sparks flowing through my hands when I touched her made me shiver.  I smirked when I felt her shiver in my hands.  I was about to slide my hands around her perfect waist when I heard the others making their way to the kitchen.  I stepped back from her as the others walked into the kitchen.  

“Will you get your head back into practice?”  Chance yells.

“Piss off!”  I yell back.

I hear Keegan laughing like the hyena he is as I skate toward Riley.  Riley had a smile on his face as I stopped beside him.  I am about to say something when our coach yells at us to get our asses in gear. 

“You okay?”  Riley asks.

“Yes, I just have a lot on my mind.”  I reply.

It isn’t a total lie.  Between classes, practice, and whatever happens with Sapphire, I have had a shit ton on my mind.  I still can’t figure out what happened to cause Sapphire to distance herself from me.  I have no idea if Luke or Riley have noticed, and I don’t care.  I pull a shirt over my head and slip my feet into my flip-flops.  We exit the rink, and most guys head toward their vehicles or the house.  Luke, Riley, Arlo, and I make out way back to our house.  I smile when I see a familiar head of blue hair sitting on the couch.  I shake my head when a paper ball flies towards the tele as Sapphire lets out a few Aussie swear words.  She has picked up a lot of our slang, but I know she still gets confused when she hears a few of us talk.

“I see you have picked up the more colorful Aussie slang.”  Riley comments.

“Piss off, Riley.  I fucking hate this class.  I don’t understand any of this, and if I don’t pass this final, then I won’t pass this class.”  Sapphire states.

I sit down and look at what she is doing.  She has papers and other shit for her math class strewn all over the large table in front of the couch.  I would offer to help her, but math is not my strong suit.  Arle peeks over to see what she is doing and starts laughing.  If looks could kill, Arlo would be dead.  I watch them as Arlo tells her that he is a math genius, which is accurate, and that he will help her.  I cringe when she lets out a scream and jumps into his arms.  She lets out another squeal when some of her papers, which I am guessing are notes from her math class, fly around the table.  She lunges for them and puts them back in order.  I smile as I watch her reorganize the stack of papers and books.  Arlo tells her he will return as he heads to his room to grab something.  I lean back in the chair, and my breath catches when her sapphire blue eyes connect with mine.  I am graced with a small smile as Arlo walks back into the room.  I stand up when Arlo starts explaining something that makes no sense in my brain.

“Mum wanted me to invite you to our barbie this Sunday.  She told me to tell all of you that you had better come or else.”  I tell them.

Riley and Luke start laughing.  The guys know how my Mum is, and she isn’t joking when she says she will come here and drag them to the barbie herself.  My Mum is not someone to piss off. I shake my head as I step into my room.  I could tell that Sapphire was not sure about the invite, but I wanted no one more than her to come.  I have been telling Mum about her and would love for them to meet. 

“What the hell is going on between you and Sapphire?”  Luke asks.

“Nothing, why?”  I say.

“Has she said something to the two of you?”  I ask.

“No, but she seems to keep her distance from you.  I thought that maybe the two of you had a fight.”  Riley states.

“We didn’t fight.  I have no idea why she has been somewhat avoiding me.  It started a day or two after moving in here.  I can’t think of anything I did to make her act like this.”  I tell them. 

“She is the girl you were talking about when you told us at brekky that morning that you were pursuing.”  Riley comments.

“Yes, I wasn’t hiding anything from you if that is what you were wondering about.”  I reply.

I explain how something in me snapped when her gorgeous sapphire blue eyes locked with mine that night in the pub.  Riley doesn’t say anything, which I am not sure if that is a good thing or not.  We continue to eat our lunch.  We split up, heading off to our afternoon classes.  I see Karli out of the corner of my eye.  She is wrapped around one of the guys from our La Cross team.  I have heard recently that she has been hopping from bed to bed, trying to make me jealous.  I could care less about her.  If she wants to be a whore then that is her choice.  I feel sorry for the guys that fall for her shit.  I thought we had told all the guys on all the teams to avoid her after what she pulled last year.

“Hey Dylan.”  Chuck says.

“Hey, I see that one of your guys didn’t listen when we told all the guys about Karli and her bunch of whores.”  I comment. 

Chuck and I look across the way to where Karli is making out with the guy.  I hear Chuck grunt.  I look at him and see he is highly irritated with the guy.  He explains that the guy just transferred to our campus. He probably gets a pass, then.  He doesn’t know how Karli is.  Chuck and the rest of the team will enlighten him about her and her followers.  I open the door to the building where my class is. 

I lean against the wall in my shower.  Our practice was brutal, and our coach ran us hard.  I can feel my muscles loosen as the hot water runs down my body.  I groaned when I moved too quickly, and one of my muscles decided to remind me that it was not relaxed.  I turn the shower off when the water starts to turn cool.  Wrapping a towel around my waist, I walk into the kitchen to find Sapphire standing there.  Damn, her ass in those cut short makes my cock twitch.  I smile as she turns around to find me standing there.  Her eyes wander the lenght of my body which causes my cock to twitch again.  I pull open the fridge and watch her out of the corner of my eye.  She tries to make her escape, but I wrap an arm around her waist, pulling her against me.  I hear her breath catch as her back is pressed against my chest.  

“And where are you off to, my precious jewel?”  I whisper in her ear.

“I was going to go to the gym.”  She answers. 

Fuck, she smells good.  I can’t help but run the tip of my nose along her neck inhaling her intoxicating scent.  I can’t control the smirk when she tilts her head to the side, giving me more room to explore her soft skin.  She sucks in a breath when I kiss lightly just under her ear.  Her entire body melts into mine as I drop feather-light kisses down her neck.  My cock wakes up when a quiet moan escapes as I kiss the spot at the base of her neck.  My hands have made their way up and just under the edge of her shirt on her stomach.  Fuck, her skin is silky soft, begging for my hands to explore every inch of her perfect body.  She jumps out of my arms when the lock on the front clicks.  I hear Luke talking to someone, but I don’t hear another voice.  I am guessing he is on his phone.  Riley won’t be home till later.  He is off trying to convince the girl he is into that he isn’t an asshole or a player.  I watch as she quickly leaves the kitchen.

“Are you really walking around in a towel?”  Luke asks.

“Yes, I just got out of the shower.”  I tell him.

He rolls his eyes and walks to his room.  He has the other upstairs room.  Arlo took the other room downstairs.  Thankfully his room is on the other side of the house from Riley.  I am sure that Riley doesn’t want to hear Arlo and Lina fuck.  Our rooms upstairs are spread out too.  Luke’s is at the opposite end of the hall, mine is in the middle, and Sapphire’s is at the other end.  I pull on a pair of boxers, then some shorts. 

“Who were you talking to?”  I ask.

“Chance and Walt want to hit some club tonight, and they wanted to know if I was interested.  They asked about you and Riley, but I told them I wasn’t sure but would ask if the two of you wanted to join.”  Luke tells me. 

He tells us what club it is, and I know that Riley has mentioned it a few times.  We have been meaning to check it out.  I heard Riley’s voice as Luke talked with him.  I smirked when Riley asked if he could bring someone.  I knew Riley had been seeing someone, but he had not brought her around.  I wonder if his bringing her around now had anything to do with Sapphire.  I heard Luke laugh, telling him he could bring a friend.  

“Where is Sapphire?”  I asked.

“She left while you were getting dressed.  I asked where she was going, and she told me that she was going to see Lina.”  Luke stated with a shrug. 

I didn’t like that she practically ran out the door after what happened between us.  She was still acting weird, and I still couldn’t figure out why.  I have racked my brain trying to figure out what happened to cause her to act this way towards me, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what I did or said.  I catch her looking at me, but I let her think I don’t know.  We don’t have a game this weekend, and our coach let us have this weekend off of practice. 

“This place is lit.”  Riley yells.

“Where is your friend?” I ask.

“She should be here soon.  Please, for the love of god, behave yourselves.”  He begs. 

He glares at us as we laugh until a woman walks up.  She is a stunning Sheila.  She is around 5’9” with shoulder-length black and pink braided hair and stunning hazel green eyes that pop against her dark chocolate skin.  Her baby pink dress has a neckline that ends at her waist showing off her ample cleavage as it ends mid-thigh.  The dress itself is just tight enough to show off her luscious curves.  She is beautiful but doesn’t hold a candle to my precious jewel. 

“Guys, this is Janessya.”  Riley says.

“Welcome to the pack.”  Keegan screams.

“Thanks.”  Janessya replies. 

I admit Janessya is cool to hang with.  We had been at the club for about an hour when Janessya headed off to use the dunny.  We had watched her walk away but then got lost in our conversation.  I asked Riley where she was, which caused us to start looking around. 

“What are you guys looking for?”  Janessya asks.

“You, we were looking for you.  You wondered off to the dunny a while ago, and we were concerned that something happened.”  Riley tells her. 

“Sorry, I ran into a friend of mine, and we talked.  I didn’t realise I was gone that long.”  Janessya explains.

She tells us about her friend, who does sound very interesting.  She tells us that she and a couple of other girls are here having a girls' night out.

“Emmy, Lina, and Sapphire are here having fun.”  Janessya states.

I whip my head around when she says Sapphire’s name.  I knew she would see Lina, but I had no idea they were coming here.  With the look on Arlo’s face, I don’t think he knew that Lina was coming here tonight, either.  We follow Janessya to where she saw them at.  My breath catches when I lay eyes on my precious jewel.  Her hair has been curled and is flowing freely down her bare back.  The shimmering silver dress drapes her body perfectly and is backless.  It stops mid-thigh.  The killer heels she has on makes her legs look fucking long, and my hands twitch to touch them.  Riley walks over to her, and I can tell she is surprised to see us.  I see the look of surprise when she sees me standing there. This night just became more interesting.